What was all that about making ships and big cakes? (Translated with Q/A from rep)

[Coombah]

They stated that PLAYER ran Companies are still going to be implemented, So why not have a fleet of ships, shops, and guild / LS hall for your company ? Battling these so called pirates that we never see , help to protect trade routes. Particapte in the ship race for admiral by helping the person you support or w/e . Able to make your own LS buildings airships and boats to adventure with your LS / Company..This was one of the aspects that got me excited about the game . I hope they find a way to implement it .

[Bluebun]

It took them this long to make a couple of Raid dungeons, how long do you think it would take them to create player custom ships, sea battles, and pvp areas?

[normalforce]

It took them this long to make a couple of Raid dungeons, how long do you think it would take them to create player custom ships, sea battles, and pvp areas?

Would you want a ship battle where you destroy the other ship, or just bring your opponent's ship HP — for lack of a better word — down to 10% and force the other ship to sail back home, battered and beaten? I am curious as to what people would want in a high seas fight?

[darkstarpoet1]

Weren't companies supposed to be like a LS but so much more, more like a guild? And player run to boot.

that was my impression of it. ls's would be part of a larger company to do things that they could not do by themselves in a partnership.

[AlexiaKidd]

I honestly believe LS's weren't even supposed to be in the game and that they were supposed to be player run Companies that is why they have been so slow to implement basic features. The Companies system was never supposed to take this long to implement and they have been holding off on it for a long time. It is my hope that it has been ready to go for a while now and they have been holding it back while the new battle system was developed and hopefully it will be implemented in all it's glory very soon.

[Reinheart]

Maybe if Ise Kouichi was still here he would of made a better server for XIV.
He's the guy who did XI's server engineer, left SE in 2005 to work for Livedoor.

http://www.marubeni-sys.com/infinite...nix/index.html (JP article about him)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%...B9%B8%E4%B8%80 (JP Wiki article about him)

use google translate or something, not gonna translate all that lol

I think once the base server program is functioning a lot better SE's dev's can make something good which we all want... but until they fix the damn servers I'm starting to doubt more and more that all our efforts trying to tell the devs will just end up in the "We'll look into it" loop.

[Ashthra]

Boats would be neat. Haircuts would be neat. Cake? Yeah, I wouldn't put that in, either. It may look pretty, but if it doesn't act as some sort of group food buff (click on it to eat a la fish feasts in WoW), then it would be 100% pointless and not worth adding.

I mean, really. Cake.

[zaviermhigo]

Boats would be neat. Haircuts would be neat. Cake? Yeah, I wouldn't put that in, either. It may look pretty, but if it doesn't act as some sort of group food buff (click on it to eat a la fish feasts in WoW), then it would be 100% pointless and not worth adding.

I mean, really. Cake.

Did you see the Ebisu video? We're just commenting on something SE showed us in a video and also went through the trouble of creating a video for. Who cares about its "usefulness" in the game when this video came out in September of last year before the game came out and it was an "EXPECTATION" of the game. You don't show people a video a couple of weeks before the game comes out and then suddenly bam the game was no different than the open beta except a level cap increase to 50. They told us the open beta was gonna be 30% of the game. Kinda of a lie there. So after a while the "the cake is a lie" and little things start to stack up cause we've been lied or phibbed to w/e i'm not acting like a serious victim here. Go check the main xiv website so many unimplemented things. Its not that we think making cakes together is awesome, its just another unimplemented lie at this point.

[Molly_Millions]

Would you want a ship battle where you destroy the other ship, or just bring your opponent's ship HP — for lack of a better word — down to 10% and force the other ship to sail back home, battered and beaten? I am curious as to what people would want in a high seas fight?

PVP with player made ships, damage to 100% and you'd lose the ship. Lets introduce some risk (and a gil sink) into this game. :P

[Kinseykinz]

LOL, everyone's picking on the cake. Cake COULD be an event.

1.Maybe someone super-important is getting married and the orginal cook who needed to cook it had something horrible happen to them. Then we'd need to make it right?
2. Or our characters could get married in ffxi... I don't know how often people actually did that, but the cooks on the server could make them their cake.
3.Or we could make cakes for peoples 'character's in-game b-day'...you know those dates we all had to pick and gods we all chose that have no purpose yet?
4. Maybe there's a beastmen tribe that will attack the town UNLESS we make them a cake every in game year. Sylphs seem like silly cake-eaters.
5. Maybe the towns run out of bread and a silly king's wife declares 'Let them eat Cake' and we have to keep making them or we loose our heads.

I'm a cook, I say, keep the cake, it could be fun.