Small things you wished carried over from XI

[Seif]

It's so wrong to use these forums to diss on XI you know most of the good things in XI are stuff carried over from XI?

Also what is it about the term "inspired by" that people don't understand and think it's the same as "copied from"?!

If this game was copied from XI we'd be fighting the Shadowlord while talking to Shantotto and other memorable NPCs.

No this game already IS inspired by XI and the FF series and thus we have stuff like Chocobos, airships, FF-spells skill points multiple gear slots and so on.

XI is a GREAT game we should be lucky if at least a fraction of that quality can be seen in XIV some day.

[Altanas]

- Level sync or optional Level caps for dungeons

- Coffers/Keys

- When you check people, you can see gear, title and bazaar message

- Teleport spells to certain landmarks in each region (would help save on anima...). Would lead to teleport scroll quests etc. Linked to this idea would be warps from landmarks to another landmark (think going from crag to sky via the porter in 11).

- Add party loot to a main pool like in 11. We have to pass around loot to see if we even want it lol. Makes the last minute of dungeons more stressful than the bosses XD

- Dynamis-Uldah ! Dyamis-Limsa ! Dynamis-Gridania !

- To help emphasise guildleves as solo content, and to make sure people dont just disregard them completely, allow players to summon their npc helper if they are running leves solo. Allow the npc's to be ranked up only through leves. This would be more or less taking the NPC Linkpearl idea from 11 and planting it over Guildleves.

- Allow us to annotate maps like in 11 (but grant us more annotation points and longer text in each annotation)

- XP Chains, No-hassle-skillchains&magicbursts

- also adjust the code that makes mobs retreat back to their spawn point. Allow mobs to be pulled a fair distance for safer soloing or partying camps.

- Just implement an AH. the item search function is like 2 steps backwards (you cant search gear by job or sort it by level). And Centralise the wards to global wards. Add delivery boxes as well.

- player/linkshell housing

- Expand the Alfgar/Garlean invastion event into fully fledged Besieged. Have legions of Garleans or Beastmen across the field working their way to the cities. On that note, make the world more dangerous with dynamis Beastmen and Garlean spawns. At the same time, why not add dynamis wildlife spawns and dynamic npc spawns who need protection from attack.

- Battlefields (BCNM etc)

- More NMs

- More "currencies"/"tabs"/exchanges. Example: 1) Let people trade in a stack of completed guildleves for anima foregoing the bonus to trading for a new leve. 2) Let Behest award behest-tabs which can be used to buy various items from Camps. etc, basically when some form of collecting scheme is added, players tend to get the "gotta catch em all" mentality. That can only help SE.

- More Lore and Story from both the nation's aspect but also from the beastmen aspect. Add questlines from beastmen so we can see their side of the story more.

- Add more connections and short cuts around the world. Why not add a sewer system to Uldah and when you exit you are down by Nophica? Why not add sprawling open world dungeons with more exits to the field. So instead of for example going into Cass Hollow by bloodshore there would be an entrance down by Cedarwood. This was sort of in 11 (Sandy had a sewer linked to ronfare, windy had a canal linked to ruins linked to sarutabaruta, bastok had at least exists to north and south zones and did have a mine that led to a tunnel that led to another region) But dont make them one way please!

- Last of all, what I dont want from 11 are perma locked doors or sections of cities! I want to explore everything! Imagine how nice Uldah would be if the plot of land it sits on took up the whole of central thanalan and each building inside was expanded upon and detailed? You can already see the difference in design between say Uldah which is more designed I would say on a macro level whereas the dungeons such as totorak with its attention to minor details such as each jail cell is designed on a micro level. Cities are a disappointment and feel like a rushed job. Especially where the guild rooms all have the same layout, and the warp to the markets/the merchants ward/company hall have no outside building in the world.

[Dreamer]

Totally agree, lets steal everything WoW has , including gearscore addons etc.... lol

N O T

Half the current player base thats activly playing are old FFXI players themselves,
obviously the people that got happy about the FFXIV annoucement were FFXI players.
I doubt WoW players were jumping for joy.

So in order for this game ever to start floating again is to make simmilarties to what
we are use to in terms of gameplay and functions.

If not and you want a completely diffrent game then you have to exchange the majority of the player base and.... my best guess would be that it would kill the game instantly.

I said better games...WoW isn't really what comes to mind.

Instead of grabbing things en masse from FFXI, why not choose from the best?

City of Heroes' badge system.
Aion's pet and title systems.
LotRO's book-based main questline setup.
EQ2's housing and collection systems.

Just because they're not from FFXI doesn't mean they can't have a FF flavor. There ARE other FF games besides FFXI, and the developers have already said that they want to bring more of that feeling to FFXIV.

[TheVedis]

I wants ballista

[Jennestia]

I said better games...WoW isn't really what comes to mind.

Instead of grabbing things en masse from FFXI, why not choose from the best?

City of Heroes' badge system.
Aion's pet and title systems.
LotRO's book-based main questline setup.
EQ2's housing and collection systems.

Just because they're not from FFXI doesn't mean they can't have a FF flavor. There ARE other FF games besides FFXI, and the developers have already said that they want to bring more of that feeling to FFXIV.

If you can explain what's wrong with grabbing from your company's other games it would make your point a lot more understandable, otherwise it seems like you just don't want them to pull from a game YOU hate.

Fyi, Aion's title system is basically what XI does as well, however it was mainly put into affect through Abyssea Atma acquisition, which is basically giving stats for titles you earned. Though in all of your "FFXI = bad!" posts when the subject comes up, you still never explain why it's a sin for them to pull from their own game series.

I'm guessing you also believe Blizzard didn't pull from Warcraft when they created World of Warcraft, nor did they pull from Starcraft when they created Starcraft II and Diablo III certainly won't have any Diablo or Diablo 2 elements.

[Laughlyn]

I said better games...WoW isn't really what comes to mind.

Instead of grabbing things en masse from FFXI, why not choose from the best?

City of Heroes' badge system.
Aion's pet and title systems.
LotRO's book-based main questline setup.
EQ2's housing and collection systems.

Just because they're not from FFXI doesn't mean they can't have a FF flavor. There ARE other FF games besides FFXI, and the developers have already said that they want to bring more of that feeling to FFXIV.

I want chocobos, Black Mage, Beastmaster, High-Potions & they're not FFXI
exclusive i should know...i played every single FF game since they were released.

And dont think for one second that Aion, City of Heroes etc havent copied games
such as WoW & FFXI... cuz they bloody well have in many ways.

Besides the only way to turn this game into FFXI-2, is by remaking everything
just like FFXI, same plot, same ares, same everything.

But that isnt whats happening, we are asking for the same ground base functions,
we arnt asking for same lore, story, monsters, raids (such as dynamis etc) no,
we want something simmilar but yet diffrent.

These damn arguments seems like an endless freakin deja vu now...

SE & the Dev Team asked us for help, because they realized it was an utterly disaster at release.
They got it, in more ways than i think they realised.

[GhostInfinity]

Mog house with player made furn/deco and buffs
chocobos you can breed yourself
auction house instead of a retainer system pretending to be an auction house
a mail system
airships
job specific quests for gear/weaponskills
coffers and keys
map notes
level sync
a pet class BST SMN PUP or whatever
.....just off the top of my head

[Chain]

1. A useful companion that you can summon anywhere

2. Tonberries

3. Chocobos (I know this is coming but why the heck wasn't this is from day one?)

[Jennestia]

1. A useful companion that you can summon anywhere

2. Tonberries

3. Chocobos (I know this is coming but why the heck wasn't this is from day one?)

3. Because the original idea for chocobos was to be used as something different that didn't pan out.

[Xaimera]

Auction House, Mog house, delivery service or mailbox, sub jobs, 200k+ people willing to pay to play and lots of other things but those were just off the top of my head.

i do kinda miss a mog house i loved decorating it a lot XD especially with event stuff lol. delivery service is a must >< i kinda hate hanging onto things for other people who never log on. AH i can live without the wards are not that bad i think they are almost like an AH anyways just missing some things. Speaking of fighting stuff on boats would be cool if we actually get to see some pirates in the middle of the ocean! and i mean real pirates the ones that LL's people always talk about lol.