Quote Originally Posted by Seif View Post
In XIV they want you to spend time in the copy/paste hell of the wards...
I can get behind this statement.

People like to claim that all the environments in the game are the result of nothing but rabid copy/pasting, but that can be solved by placing a few huts here and there, maybe some downed trees, some farming fields, etc.

However there is no copy/paste culprit greater than the market wards in my mind. The floorboards and ceilings may be different, but the layout, the lighting, the atmosphere... It's all pretty terrible IMO. Make the market wards open air. The only wards that make partial sense to be indoors would be the Ul'dan wards and MAYBE(and that's a stretch) the Lominsan wards. Let me feel like I'm in a real market plaza. If having just one big zone for everyone causes lag issues, then let me switch "streets" or "lanes" in a fashion similar to what we have now. Give the market wards some real flair.

I can't promise that this would make everyone love the wards all of a sudden, but I'm willing to bet that it might make the experience much more enjoyable if you saw stone fountains and seagulls flying around different southern islands dotting the background of the Lominsan wards.