[devs] or [Yoshi] Please give us some more information on Airships

[Culfinrandir]

Heaven forbid you should choose to not join a FC. 3.0 should have been titled "FFXIV - FC Edition".

What happens when the higher ranked FC members decide to have an airship that's completely useless to members other than them (e.g. Battle Class if you're a gatherer)? I see a complete breakdown of the current situation unless they've held back that each FC member can send a ship on individual missions.

[KisaiTenshi]

Heaven forbid you should choose to not join a FC. 3.0 should have been titled "FFXIV - FC Edition".

What happens when the higher ranked FC members decide to have an airship that's completely useless to members other than them (e.g. Battle Class if you're a gatherer)? I see a complete breakdown of the current situation unless they've held back that each FC member can send a ship on individual missions.

I think the intent was to get people into FC's.

However there will always be people who do not want to be in any FC because they are anti-social, or have had plenty of bad experiences from this game or other game's versions of guilds to last a lifetime.

Here's the thing, go look at Sword Art Online and then go look at Log Horizon. The former presents the "solo player in a world of guilds who are in competition with each other" while the latter presents "guilds working together"

Now if everyone could get along, most MMORPG's wouldn't need 10,000 guilds per server, only maybe 20. One per major job/class. Everyone wants to be the king of their own castle, so to speak. And many people in FFXIV did this just so they could get a house all to themselves initially.

So now we're presented with a case where only FC's can build airships. (Because presumably they will require "specialist" crafters to make the parts, and you can't specialize in every part needed, and the parts likely have to be created on-location.)

If you remember how much effort goes into making the Ixali airship, and it's pretty tiny, now multiply this by a ship that can carry dozens of people. We do not yet know how big such ships are going to be.