Abolishing Anima

[XooZQ]

What trend? Everyone living in a small space, ignoring everything outside it?

You must like living in of the many cities with millions of citizens living in a small space, ignoring everyone except themselves, avoiding interaction with anyone except their friends (friends that they came to know through the interaction the community forced on them; kindergarten, school and work). ATM machines and automatic services that make everything oh so convenient and remove the human aspect completely.

Yes, I'd love for that trend to continue here. Especially when I see how better off this world is because of it.

Now lets introduce teleporting to whereever you want whenever you want and I'm certain that we will be even happier with this added convenience.

Are you proposing that running to a particular place builds friendships?

[Firon]

can we just stop responding to this thread SE is not gonna change it so let them talk among each other. They adjusted anima about 2 times and i don't think it will be changed again. Use to cost like 24 or 16 anima to port to certain places that was far away be glad its the way it is now.

instead of making it free a good suggestion would have been to ask for to pay for anima recharge:

10,000g for 10 charges

30,000g for 30 charges

50,000g for 50 charges

100,000g for 100 charges

[XooZQ]

can we just stop responding to this thread SE is not gonna change it so let them talk among each other. They adjusted anima about 2 times and i don't think it will be changed again. Use to cost like 24 or 16 anima to port to certain places that was far away be glad its the way it is now.

instead of making it free a good suggestion would have been to ask for to pay for anima recharge:

10,000g for 10 charges

30,000g for 30 charges

50,000g for 50 charges

100,000g for 100 charges

And if you're out of money? Doesn't that make you stuck as well?

[Fixy]

pay 20 dollars for another account and hitch rides, when they run out of fuel delete them.

[XooZQ]

pay 20 dollars for another account and hitch rides, when they run out of fuel delete them.

Don't you mean $20.00 + computer to provide the luxury? Pretty steep!

[Firon]

And if you're out of money? Doesn't that make you stuck as well?

I knew you was gonna bring that up but that's an fail reason cause you can get a free 30-60k a day in this game so no.

You gotta always have game balance in mind and free porting isn't one of them in XI every port besides whm tele's cost gil or points.

[Betelgeuzah]

Are you proposing that running to a particular place builds friendships?

No, there are two different concepts that share similarities.

Being forced to interact with other people builds friendships.

Being forced to travel helps to retain the sense and scale of the world. If you could simply teleport to whereever you wanted you would lose that sense of a large world, effectively making everything outside those hubs meaningless. Teleport to work, teleport to shop (inconvenience- lets order food from home instead), teleport home, teleport to Bahamas, teleport to the doctor. If you think nothing is lost when you start living like this, or that not being forced to interact with others has no disadvantages, all I can say is that I disagree. It's a horrible future. There is no world left; only the small hubs.

The game world is a mere copy of our own, but the same concepts apply. It may be inconvenient, but I like the trade-off (to a certain degree).

[XooZQ]

No, there are two different concepts that share similarities.

Being forced to interact with other people builds friendships.

Being forced to travel helps to retain the sense and scale of the world. If you could simply teleport to whereever you wanted you would lose that sense of a large world, effectively making everything outside those hubs meaningless. Teleport to work, teleport to shop (inconvenience- lets order food from home instead), teleport home, teleport to Bahamas, teleport to the doctor. If you think nothing is lost when you start living like this, or that not being forced to interact with others has no disadvantages, all I can say is that I disagree. It's a horrible future. There is no world left; only the small hubs.

The game world is a mere copy of our own, but the same concepts apply. It may be inconvenient, but I like the trade-off (to a certain degree).

I sort of see what you're saying, but when you reference real life scenarios, do you like paying for fuel in your car (overpriced as it is!)? Do you like rush-hour traffic? I don't know about you, but the only reason I travel at all is because I can't teleport to where I need to be.

EDIT: If you have the anima to go someplace, do you use it or run?

[Firon]

hmmmmmm..........

[XooZQ]

I knew you was gonna bring that up but that's an fail reason cause you can get a free 30-60k a day in this game so no.

You gotta always have game balance in mind and free porting isn't one of them in XI every port besides whm tele's cost gil or points.

Screams RMT foothold to me!