With airships and chocobos take away teleporting!

[Malakhim]

Because you love lore and travel more than fun and battle? So I don't matter? Can't you just let me have the choice you have, and tele or walk of my own regard?

Obviously not, because why the hell should anyone worry about how anyone else wants to play? I mean really, guys. Options? It's my way or the highway, fools.

What you "hardcore" gentlemen should do is strap yourselves to a guillotine and every time you die in-game, have it slice of one of your fingers starting from the pinky. You want that feeling of danger being ever present, right?

I can already picture the fanfest meet-ups.

[Jobeto-Rin]

What you "hardcore" gentlemen should do is strap yourselves to a guillotine and every time you die in-game, have it slice of one of your fingers starting from the pinky. You want that feeling of danger being ever present, right?

Nice way to jump to the extreme there fella.

Because you love lore and travel more than fun and battle? So I don't matter? Can't you just let me have the choice you have, and tele or walk of my own regard?

No, maybe I like a game that is challenging in every aspect?
So that it's harder to beat?
Last longer?
Feels good when I overcame it?

Sorry if I don't like freebies, easy tasks and rushing through stuff.

I bet your girls are unsatisified with you.
rushing through to get your nut in, just so you can hurry and get some sleep.

[mikefmc]

i agree with the removal or reduction of anima. my input. no flame please. thanks

[Molly_Millions]

Reduction of anima? Not just no, but HELL NO! I'm continuously in the single digits for anima already, I'd say we don't get enough anima as it is.

[Morticous]

I like all my girls easy.. so me and my friends can get the job done quick!!!!!

[Renshi]

See it implemented,
Judge on the removal of Animas,
Judge EVEN MORE on the removal of Animas,
Remove Animas.

Just wait for when you'll have transportations. Then you'll be able to judge by yourself and do another thread about this.

[Defmetal]

Teleporting really breaks the emersion you get from a video game. Why would you need an airship when you can instantly teleport somewhere?

I think restricting the locations you can teleport to will help - Why is there a boat from Limsa to Ul'dah (sort of) if you can warp between them - anyone?

Now that we're so used to teleporting, perhaps the trick is one of these options: (or a combination thereof)
Restrict teleporting to be a class ability, perhaps of a Conjurer (they are conjuring a teleportation portal or something)
Make NPCs or Aetherytes the activation method for teleporting rather than at-will.
Add a DELAY between teleports. Like a warp cudgel in FFXI, a 1 to 2 hour delay between activating your own teleport will either force your party to share teleports, or cause you to be more conservative.
Make the cost of the teleport depending on factors such as the level range of the area - including making new characters start out with between 0 and 10 anima rather than 100. For example, Blackbrush would cost 4 if your in the region, or 6 if your in another region. Ok that's fine, what about Broken Water? Make that cost 6 if your in the region and 8 otherwise. What about Mor'dhona ? 10 and 12, Coerthas 8-10. Still halved if its your favorite.
Restrict teleportation to areas you haven't been to yet.


That would limit but not remove your ability to teleport quickly, and make you more conscious about your spending.
Yeah it slows the game down but it brings a need for things like Chocobos and Airships.
Right now why would I spend 200 gil, wait 15 minutes for the airship to show up, take a 5 minute ride, talk to door attendants, etc, when I could just spend 3 anima instead? 3 anima vs 20 minutes.


I like the teleports I just don't like how it's taken travel out of the game.

Also in the future, all they have to do is add areas that don't have aether nodes. They can also deactivate certain nodes based on conditions.
Heres an example: Conquest in FFXI. If the beastmen hordes are too strong in that area, the node is disabled.

[thenewzero]

I don't understand why people would want to remove teleports. If you don't like them, don't use them. If you want to walk around so you can enjoy your precious 'immersion', do it. No one is stopping you. Why do I have to be punished because you like to RP?

Anima doesn't even last all that long anyway. But it's great if you don't feel like taking 30 minutes to get to another city. That was one of the things about XI that drove a lot of my friends away from it. The fact that getting *anywhere* took around an hour. When half your gaming time is spent merely moving from point A to point B, especially when you've already been to both points many times, it really ruins the experience.

If you want 'realism', go play a shooter or a sports game. Long travel time isn't challenging in the least bit. It's merely an artificial means of extending playtime without actually having content. It was a method old MMOs used because they didn't have anything else for you to do.

[weeble]

out of your minds, why would u want to run anywhere, why take 10mins from playing afk on a boat, why chocobo for 10mins instead of instant ports. the mobs should take you to those places, the leves, the quests the missions, the content, the endgames. you shouldn't have to run for more then 5mins at a time without killing something.

ports should be free not cost anima, or at least make it a npc that charges gils, ill pay my left testy to not have to run around. anima i think was to fix the problem where depending on people to port was becoming hard to get teleports in ffxi. how many times a day did u guys use teleport in ffxi? like 10-20-30 easy a day, hopin from endgames, to grinds, to quests, to farming, to 5mins here or 10mins there, whatever. adding boats don't really help, less they are instant they waist your time. choco's yes please but to get from places inbetween crystals not in place of them, i don't plan on ever running with choco from a city to say iron lake, ehh i'll take a month off (not paying) and wait for my anima to get back up.

[VydarrTyr]

Nice way to jump to the extreme there fella.

Have you read any of Morticous's posts? That guy's whole schtick is to jump to the absurd extreme. Why haven't you jumped on any of his posts?

No, maybe I like a game that is challenging in every aspect?
So that it's harder to beat?
Last longer?
Feels good when I overcame it?

Sorry if I don't like freebies, easy tasks and rushing through stuff.

Maybe this is the fundamental disagreement here. I don't think that running for 30 minutes makes a task more challenging. It just increases the time required to complete it.

Ideally, the challenge would be from difficult battles and mobs. Not from fighting through the boredom of pressing auto-run, and then occasionally turning, for 30 minutes.

I bet your girls are unsatisified with you.
rushing through to get your nut in, just so you can hurry and get some sleep.

[insert joke about yo momma being satisfied]