Sightseeing...

[Nalien]

As for real life site seeing if I go to the Eiffel tower and it starts raining I'm not going to set there and wait for the time/weather to be right. I'm going to go see/do other things until the time/weather is right.

A more accurate description of what's going on with this is, you go to the National History Museum, but it's not cloudy outside so you're not allowed to see the exhibits.

Personally I didn't wait around in one stop for very long, because that is boring as hell. Instead I went off to other spots, but each of them was the same; "Come back later, the weather isn't right".

That simply isn't how sightseeing works. There is a case for Rain/Fog voiding the sightseeing (although some places can look amazing in such conditions), but a sight not counting because there is apparently a meaningful difference between Cloudy/Fair/Clear? It's laughable.

When people go sightseeing, it's an event for them. The weather isn't perfect? Too bad, you still get to see the sights though. Just because it's raining when you go up the Empire State Building doesn't mean you didn't go up the Empire State Building. What the game is doing is effectively closing off the sights until the weather is perfect, when at worst it should be doing the reverse (closing the sights off if the weather is terrible). This is a game though, if you log on and you want to go through your Sightseeing Log, you should be able to. You shouldn't be stopped at every single step and told to come back later because the sky is the wrong colour. It's a game, the system is called Sightseeing. If you want to go sightseeing you should be able to. Instead you're waiting for weather one way or another (just because you've gone somewhere else doesn't mean you're not waiting for it to be cloudy in the Leatherworkers Guild). I propose they change it to the Cloudwaiting Log if they intend to keep it this way, it's a more accurate description of what players have to do to clear anything in the log.

Seriously, the Leatherworking Guild is absolutely inexcusable. The worst thing is, it's probably the first place you'll go; it's the first log for a Gridania area, and you finish the quest in Gridania. Certainly the first one I went to do, and it's just cripplingly stupid.



In no sense is this a well implemented system. You are not sightseeing with this, you are waiting for 20 different weather/time patterns to go sightseeing. Like I said in the OP, they could have just given us a cutscene of the location with the right weather/time, they needn't even do that, just a postcard of the proper scene that might make some players go "I want to come back here when it's like that for a screenshot". I really do not get why people are against something like that, how would it be anything but an improvement to the system? It's less frustrating and more rewarding. What is so worthwhile about the current set up that its worth defending? Is it really just another case of "SE made it this way, and SE can do no wrong!"?

[KoujiMoreno]

In no sense is this a well implemented system. You are not sightseeing with this, you are waiting for 20 different weather/time patterns to go sightseeing. Like I said in the OP, they could have just given us a cutscene of the location with the right weather/time, they needn't even do that, just a postcard of the proper scene that might make some players go "I want to come back here when it's like that for a screenshot". I really do not get why people are against something like that, how would it be anything but an improvement to the system? It's less frustrating and more rewarding. What is so worthwhile about the current set up that its worth defending? Is it really just another case of "SE made it this way, and SE can do no wrong!"?

Now you're getting it.