QUICK! Bring back chocobo escort and hamlet defense!

[ChiefCurrahee]

With the mess that the hunt system is currently in, other forms of open world content with similar rewards should be introduced. namely Chocobo Escort quests and Hamlet Defense.

The biggest problem with the hunts is that currently it is the only form of content that rewards allied seals, and over rewards myth and soldiery. This leads to the zerging of elite marks and all the drama that comes with it.

If there were other forms of content that rewarded allied seals, and BALANCED myth/soldiery rewards players wouldn't gravitate to one form of content over the other.

Escorts could be on scheduled timers (staggered by zone) and hamlet defense could be either dynamic or timer dependent for spawn, but let them over lap with hunt spawn timers.

Present players with a choice over multiple forms of content that gives similar BALANCED rewards.

[Dannythm]

I will ignore the rant about Hunts (I think they are cool), and focus on the other matters of the thread.

Chocobo escort is already in the game in the form of FATE, and Hamlet defense somehow too, but if I recall correctly it was stated that they were reworking the Hamlet to introduce it in the game again, so that might happen in a future patch or expansion.

Also, I think with the current amount of players, having each chocobo escort limited to just 8 people like it was back then, would cause even more grief and drama than what hunts actually cause, as it already caused drama when they were introduced. You had to be freaking fast to click on the NPC on time or you would lose your spot on one run, then you had to wait 15 mins for the next caravan and another chance to click it.

I'd love to see hamlet return and see crafters, gatherers and fighters working together again to defend a position from an attack, but I don't know how would work with the current direction Yoshi is taking the game.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I should edit my original post but...

Make both Hamlet defence and chocobo escort work like FATE, difficulty is dynamic based on how maybe people currently occupy the "bubble" don't place resitrctions on participation.

And screw 1.0 hamlet defense. That was the worst, even more so than the cluster that in the hunt.

Just make waves of mobs after mob attack with a large boss at the end. none of that crafter crud.

[Enkidoh]

There are already FATEs like that as Dannythm mentioned - Attack on Highbridge springs to mind. And there are plenty of 'escort the npc from point to another' FATEs around as well - in fact, they're also found in Battlecraft levequests too. Really, your ideas are already in the game, you just have to look for them to find them.

[Tupsi]

There are already FATEs like that as Dannythm mentioned - Attack on Highbridge springs to mind. And there are plenty of 'escort the npc from point to another' FATEs around as well - in fact, they're also found in Battlecraft levequests too. Really, your ideas are already in the game, you just have to look for them to find them.

None of them are specialized systems though, nor really offer you...anything. The "Hamlet Defense" one doesn't let me participate as my DoH/DOL like it did in 1.x.

[Phyllo]

There are already FATEs like that as Dannythm mentioned - Attack on Highbridge springs to mind. And there are plenty of 'escort the npc from point to another' FATEs around as well - in fact, they're also found in Battlecraft levequests too. Really, your ideas are already in the game, you just have to look for them to find them.

Indeed the content is in, but his point is not that the content exist but to make more content have this reward; the infamous allied seals so that people stop zerging hunts, some dont even like doing hunts, they just do so because they want their sands/oil, which is kind of sad.

so yes, the content exist, but the reward does not.

on a side note, the title of this thread is somewhat misleading.

[Malzian]

Yes, because every MMO needs more 'escort' content.... >.<

[HumsterMKX]

I should edit my original post but...

Make both Hamlet defence and chocobo escort work like FATE, difficulty is dynamic based on how maybe people currently occupy the "bubble" don't place resitrctions on participation.

And screw 1.0 hamlet defense. That was the worst, even more so than the cluster that in the hunt.

Just make waves of mobs after mob attack with a large boss at the end. none of that crafter crud.

Actually.... they are the FATE in some of the places. Upper La Norsea is one of the places.

[Beetle]

Hamlet defense would work out very well if it was designed very large scale. Like 24 player hamlet. 1 Party DPS, 1 Party DoH, 1 Party DoL.
Also cant make it a fate or becomes unbalanced. Better yet could make a new frontlines zone where DoL & DoH could try to gather/craft and buff there team.

[3Jane]

Skirmish is what I would like to see again