Abolishing Anima

[XooZQ]

If you're not going to bother to read and understand it, please move on.

Although there isn't a whole lot I absolutely cannot tolerate about this game anymore, there is still one thing that doesn't make much sense to me: Anima. Every day I log in now and I start forming a group to go grind with, which is usually shy of a Full PT by a few members, and as we grind, we wait for others who might like to join us. As much as they would like to, a few of them decline simply because they do not have what it takes to get to camp in a reasonable amount of time.

My question is, how does limiting the most practical mode of transportation to a finite resource conducive to community play? The psychological effect that perhaps inhibits a person from even logging in could be the fact that they know that they are low on anima and there is no reliable alternative to allow them the basic joys of playing. It is a defeat no one should suffer simply because they move about often ingame.

Chocobos are coming, but it seems their only availability will be from city-states. How long, and what will it take to get yourself from Limsa to Camp Nine Ivies on short notice? You could try to shout for a gil offering if you are low/out of Anima, but generally that's to no avail since it's consumable, and at this point is almost priceless.

[Jobeto-Rin]

XooZQ

I'm curious, What is it you disagree about with Teleporting only at aetherytes.

[syntaxlies]

since your other thread got closed ill just repeat myself, lol. I wouldn't mind a temp gain in anima but would like the system to be rebalanced after all forms of locomotion are ingame.

[XooZQ]

I do not disagree with teleporting. I do not disagree with running and/or the labor of running. What I do disagree with is having little to no option of getting where you need to be across the map in a short amount of time or at little notice. There is no class to rank up to a required level, there are no quests to complete to gain this ability.. there is nothing.

[syntaxlies]

I do not disagree with teleporting. I do not disagree with running and/or the labor of running. What I do disagree with is having little to no option of getting where you need to be across the map in a short amount of time or at little notice.

it would be nice if you could teleport for a gil fee from each of the major cities to another major city.

[Eekiki]

/facepalm

Let me answer AGAIN.

Anima is fine the way it is right now, and it should be reduced after chocobos and airships are introduced. I rarely get below 50 anima because I don't abuse it to go places that I have time to walk to. I save it for those occasions where I need to get to a waiting party right away.

If you don't have time to run to where you want to go, then you don't have enough time to play anyway.

at this point i am expecting a dev to jump in so would a dev please elaborate on SE's stance on people running multiple accounts at the same time to use dif characters anima on their main character and people having their mules tag along on quest, leves, and behest for extra gil rewards then transferring the gil to their main account. If SE can confirm this is legitimate game play then i will say it is not cheating.

this is a copy/paste from another thread aimed at dev team. the thread got locked but they didnt answer the question.

Because it was off-topic. Post this question in a new thread if it's that important to you.

[Jobeto-Rin]

Situation.

No anima, but you can run to any aetheryte and then from there you can teleport to anyone that you have touched at all...

No anima-recharge, options to teleport still there.

What say you?

Edit:

My stance has always been the over convenience of teleporting. I really hate to say "forcing" us to run would amount to a better experience but thats what I believe. That's why I suggested that.

[XooZQ]

Situation.

No anima, but you can run to any aetheryte and then from there you can teleport to anyone that you have touched at all...

No anima-recharge, options to teleport still there.

What say you?

Sounds okay. But maybe to make things just a bit more interesting, do away with the Aetherytes outside the city and use the city's aetherytes for low-rank leves.

[Fated]

Are you intentionally misspelling "abolishing"?

[syntaxlies]

/facepalm

Let me answer AGAIN.

Anima is fine the way it is right now, and it should be reduced after chocobos and airships are introduced. I rarely get below 50 anima because I don't abuse it to go places that I have time to walk to. I save it for those occasions where I need to get to a waiting party right away.

If you don't have time to run to where you want to go, then you don't have enough time to play anyway.



Because it was off-topic. Post this question in a new thread if it's that important to you.

it was on topic, it had to do with anima abuse and the topic was on anima.