Letter from the Producer, XVII (09/01/2011)

[Jynx]

It enrages me to no end how people are so lazy and would seriously love unlimited anima and fast travel. For the love of all things holy there needs to be some sort of restrictions on transportation.

Otherwise we might as well strap jetpacks to everyone and explain thats how they can warp to any <pos> on the map. because...you know it's more convient that way.

[Coombah]

Just add 100 gil to the price of the ride for people want to get their faster or something... I want to see the world from above when i fly on a airship.. but I can also see where some people want to get there bc of short play time for the day or what not

[Velhart]

That's what your Anima is for.

Not necessarily. Even with airships instantly taking you to the next city, anima is still the fastest method of travel. So why put more time on airship travel? Ultimately Anima is the fastest route, but at a cost.

I only look at Anima as a way to join the party quickly. I always try to stay within a certain amount used a week. What I say is, if you are not in a rush to get there, don't use your anima. If you are at Ul'Dah, and your party is at Camp Iron Lake in LL and you need to catch up quick, yes Anima is convenient.

[Libtech]

Thanks dev team for all your hard work. I appreciate the long hours and work on the weekends. The game is shaping up nicely, and will only get better over time.

/thumbs up

[Alise]

Job system delay from patch 1.20 into 1.21 yay!... T_T *sad*

[Archadius]

It enrages me to no end how people are so lazy and would seriously love unlimited anima and fast travel. For the love of all things holy there needs to be some sort of restrictions on transportation.

Otherwise we might as well strap jetpacks to everyone and explain thats how they can warp to any <pos> on the map. because...you know it's more convient that way.

Exactly. People have no patience these days. That's why anima was a bad idea to implement as the first (and only) mode of transportation for so long. Now everyone is so brainwashed into thinking "anima speed or gtfo" that no NEW transport system will ever work as intended.

[elreed]

well maybe they'll add the trip after releasing more zones and when they repair the server, i liked from XI to see the whole trip but well, the thing i really wanted to have was jobs for 1.20 and wont be until 1.21 at least they wont rush stuff anymore, thats the good thing

[Cendres]

Whatevs, we get chocobos and airships!!! SWEET! I'd take a hit in anima any day for that trade off.... As for the travel thing, yes it's nice to see where you are going however it took a while in XI and eventually most stopped using the airship as soon as they could warp other places.

I personally like the long travels, but cutscenes are fine too.

[Starlord]

Job system delay from patch 1.20 into 1.21 yay!... T_T *sad*

They never said "Job system in 1.20" they said at the earliest it will be in 1.20. 1.21 is being very generous, they could wait to patch 1.22 which would be Spring 2012... :P

[Tsukino]

Although I'm disappointed I won't get to look around the airships as they fly the first two times, I'm not sure they did it to cut corners.

After a while, with various other transportation methods working together to become more convenient in FFXI, people stopped taking airships at all. Every once in a while it would happen if you were out of items that teleported, needed to get back to a specific one of the cities, and had an extra 15 minutes to burn while AFK. Usually your destination wasn't a city, and even if it was it was faster to teleport to an outpost and ride your chocobo, or you could use one of the many event items that teleported you directly to a city. Eventually they had the moogles that would do it on a lucky week.

I think the near-instant travel, while boring at first, will make it so airship travel is still viable in the future of FFXIV.