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.

[TirionCrey]

Non instanced. It's just better and gives you a better feel for the world around you.

[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).

[Cendres]

does not take much to please the mmo crowd these days apparently.

Pardon me for not playing the game exactly the way you do. I love online worlds for their immersion factor. I don't need pew pew fricking conflict at every singe corner of my play time, sometimes it's nice to just sit back and enjoy the ride, the scenery, the atmosphere. This is why I'll always be a big supporter of housing, pets, crafting, controllable mounts/airships and so on.

Combat is everywhere you look.

[Evangela]

like FF12

Zoooooooom!! and you have arrived

[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.

[Nexxus]

To answer to the OP, i really don't care as long as we're not going to see any difference, but if it was instanced they could put some more effect, like bird flying around or be totally in the clouds or even more (Dragon NM pop on the boat ?!).

Maybe Cid could appear to make some event also <<< Cid teeth (FFXI)

[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!

[Richard]

Pardon me for not playing the game exactly the way you do. I love online worlds for their immersion factor. I don't need pew pew fricking conflict at every singe corner of my play time, sometimes it's nice to just sit back and enjoy the ride, the scenery, the atmosphere. This is why I'll always be a big supporter of housing, pets, crafting, controllable mounts/airships and so on.

Combat is everywhere you look.

If you're going to play the "I don't play the way you do" card please realize it works both ways. This is also the joy of what we call RANDOM BATTLES. It worked the same way in XI. Don't care to have your pew pew fricking conflicts at every single corner? Sit yourself below deck and don't worry about it. Those of us who like a sense of adventure and danger in our oh so immersive game world will be above deck.

at the moment relaxation is everywhere you look.

[Eekiki]

Airship travel should be. That is all.