Should Airship travel be instanced or non-instanced?

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Considering the state of the game/engine all considered, I think it would be much wiser to wish for an instanced version done right as opposed to a half bottomed open world system.

Yeah lol

Imagine the epicness of the airship having to go through those "loading tunnels" between zones, and also we have to load between each area so might as well make it instanced.

[giftforce]

Yeah lol

Imagine the epicness of the airship having to go through those "loading tunnels" between zones, and also we have to load between each area so might as well make it instanced.

Well I showed the video of TERA to show how they eliminate the need for a loading screen by masking it with that magical portal.

Perhaps in FFXIV, instead of flying through a magical portal, you could fly into a storm cloud. You wuold be surrounded by clouds for a few seconds while the other zone is loaded in (the cloud coverage would be related to how fast your processor was).

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Well I showed the video of TERA to show how they eliminate the need for a loading screen by masking it with that magical portal.

Perhaps in FFXIV, instead of flying through a magical portal, you could fly into a storm cloud. You wuold be surrounded by clouds for a few seconds while the other zone is loaded in (the cloud coverage would be related to how fast your processor was).

Yeah maybe they can work around it somehow. If they can still make events happen even when non-instanced than sure, but i'd rather have it instanced with random events than non-instanced and just sitting there and watch the scenery.

[giftforce]

Yeah maybe they can work around it somehow. If they can still make events happen even when non-instanced than sure, but i'd rather have it instanced with random events than non-instanced and just sitting there and watch the scenery.

Events can still happen if it's non-instanced because the Airship would obviously still be on a flight path. (It is way too much to ask that we be allowed to fly the airships anywhere we want ourselves, considering the engine.) So along this path, there could be random spawns of hostile airships or dragons or whatnot.

In my head it sounds really plausible!