Letter from the Producer, XVI (08/15/2011)

[Keith_Dragoon]

So much for "End of Summer!"

Well "Summer" is viewed diferently depending on the region. Western view summer is ending the weekend of Labor Day in Sept so they won't be TOO far off that mark if there is no delays.

Hey! XIII's Chocobo theme was awesome! xD Almost made me stand up and start dancing in front of my tv. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwAN90MKTo

Ranked number 1 of my favorite chocobo music, XIV's coming in second mainly because of the way it sounded at the Distant Worlds concert from a full orchestra.

[Volsung]

couple things of note:

Choco escort - cool, hope it gives sp

no hamlet defense until later /sad

looks like job system being put off a bit longer (I say this cause it was only mentioned in red notes and nowhere else)

redoing sp for field fights and adding chain system - I hope they arent nerfing exp and making us rely on chains. I was really hoping chains would have more unique effects and make partying different, not just an entire XI clone, but we wont know for sure until the time comes

adding lots of stuff to companies and company leves. I hope company leves wont tie into the limit on normal leves

new raids - I REALLY hope they drop the specific number of player rules

reworking regimen -yay - suspending it until fixed - boo

[Starlord]

I would suggest you read the letter again... Because Airships were mentioned. -_-

I'm talking about the Other Letter that had the "list of Changes coming this summer letter" not this Letter Thats what the converstaion was about anyhow, How The List of changes wont all be there by " this summer's end patch"

[Visch]

new raids - I REALLY hope they drop the specific number of player rules

GREAT IDEA. MAKE THE GAME MORE EASY DURRHURRHURHURHURRR!

[Zion_Cross]

Obviously the SE translators have succumbed to the will of Princess Celestia. Soon you will too.

N.o. e.s.c.a.p.e.!
You can't escape
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide

l m a o XD

[Zanfire]

^ hey just need to start calling them something other then raids...it makes them feel...cliche. Anyways as long as they keep doing some open world and instanced stuff and not making it stupidly easy im all for it.

[Esk]

Woot a Nice looking patch!
Shame they take so long but I guess reworking core systems is harder then just adding content in many ways, hopefully things will start to speed up once Jobs are out the way.
And as listing the good parts would just make this a wall of text, I'll just rant about a couple .

- at different claim system!
It cant be worse then the isolation system we have atm, but we need more detail as said before by many people. (i agree about it having issues in some areas but there are easy fix's imo to them, No more static NM's!)

- Ok I'm still a little worried we might get locked into one grand company in some way, and that each one will have different classes gear and them not even fitting with the guilds in that city.

- And I'm curious how simple the new recipes will be, when we 1st started they seemed so complex, but now I don't really think they do need dumbing down much at all. (not a huge thing for me cos I got bored of crafting anyway lol)

- Excellent news on chocobos and airships, one question would be at some point will we be able to raise/breed them? or are they simply going to stay rented/rewarded?
(yes I am aware we don't have a huge amount on that and it could be this way from the grand companys anyway, just saying)

- Hmm...Bonus XP on chained mobs, seems like a ok idea but i really would hate to see a move to a FFXI system (you can play FFXI for that) were I can almost fall asleep cos were just standing on one spot killing mobs over and over again..
Its the main reason i though F'it in the end. fun >> monotony.

- But mainly BEAST STRONGHOLD AND NEW CONTENT !
(As long as we keep a good balance between instanced and open world (Dynamic not static open world i mean by that, more imperial attacks!) its all good)

[Deadlysynn]

i hope they will start to make more gear availible in store for a reasonable prices because people are price gouging and the vendors are a lil gil happy the gil sellers are or will have a field day with this from people just starting out.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

I notice the different size of the 3 chocobo, it seem the chocobo is scale depend on the race , wouldnt it better if Hyur, miqote and lalafel share the same size of chocobo (size of hyur), Elezen and Roegadyn share the same size (larger chocobo because they are taler than the other 3) ? or maybe same size with all race ? it ll look silly with different mount size and the little one is cuter and have same speed as the large one, my opinion


And 1 addiction note in the letter:



it wound like it will be a reward and you re force to play a combat class to beable to get personal chocobo

note: I use word "force" in here because I plan to play crafter and skift combat but it seem not to be possible anymore, but I hope SE will add crafter quest into grand companies soon

I think that this (in bold) is for DoH/DoL, sounds like it anyways.

Patch Planned Current Tasks Notes
1.19 Introduction of the Grand Companies Implementation of command centers in the three city-states (complete as of 1.18) -
-NEW-
Addition of Grand Company ranks and exchangeable items -
-NEW-
Implementation of supply and replenishment objectives -

[Hubert]

May have missed it since I have to be off to work soon but was there no mention of the UI change that would show bonuses from buffs and food?