Please let us *really* ride airships

[Enthy]

Wow!!! I knew someone was gonna bitch about the short airship ride like an asshat........ get over it! The long airship/boat rides in ff11 were a cute novelty at first, but after a while NO ONE would ride them. They became obsolete once you could teleport yourself.

Please SE!!!! Don't make 15 min wait time for ships to dock and 8 min wait time for the ride. I deal with this shit enough IRL when I have to wait for the bus to get to work..............

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Totally would love if they took Renshi's idea. : D

Heya!

I bet this is a cool feature and has to be enjoyed, but I'd like to see how the Cutscenes will occupy our time.
Also, like this it will be possible to have air pirates attacks in a random factor, so the Cutscenes will change and when the enemy is defeated we'll see another cutscene, and then we land.

Without Enemies:
Depart Cutscene -> Landing Cutscene

With Enemies:
Depart Cutscene -> Incoming Enemies Cutscene -> No More Enemies Cutscene -> Landing Cutscene

What do you think about it?

See ya!

[Fensfield]

To quote myself in the Producer Letter discussion thread:

Also, we were given warning aaaages ago that at first they were just adding it this way without the 'middle' section of the flight. We knew about it.

Even so, I'm going to join the ranks of those 'complaining' about it.

For one, I'm still disappointed anyway.

For another, I'd rather the reaction to the lack of an actual airship ride (as opposed to a glorified teleporter) be as loud as possible, even knowing they warned us before. At least then, hopefully, the developers will keep it and accompanying content in mind for the future, rather than thinking 'meh, nobody wanted it anyway' and not bother to expand it at some point down the road.

Besides, it'd also have the knock-on effect of subtly warning them against just quietly deleting the ferry's sea voyage and all, rather than iterating on it and putting some content in there.


Can't hurt to say it again, after all.

[weeble]

didn't know about this, i'd have to disagree with the op though. i think it is a great idea to get ride of the boat ride for transportation. like most games it is a simple cutsceen to load to zone and that is all and it is all it should be, sitting on boat is a waist of time, most people if like me went afk and grab some food or drink on it and that is all.

yes sea horror and skellies was pretty fun at start but they shouldn't dismiss boats for battle and content. they should have tons of boat rides that involve fighting on them and fishing/crafting on them, make it specific content that u go to for the point of fighting what's on them, for mission battles, for nm's for even regular party grinds. this would be cool party grind on boats that keep pulling up hoards of mobs on it heck yes.

but the 2 need to be seperated, travel and content. sitting afk for no reason no thanks though, i apreciate the graphics in game but i don't stare at it one bit and i don't want to role play on it or sit on it and emote and have convo's or whatever else there is to do while waiting. point A to B would be my choice in option.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

If they plan on adding it in later then I'm completely fine with it. I want the airship views and passing landscape to look stunning. Take your time, SE.

[PrettyPrincess]

If they plan on adding it in later then I'm completely fine with it. I want the airship views and passing landscape to look stunning. Take your time, SE.

Pretty much this ^

[Kiote]

The Team working on this game don't know the meaning of temporary. Please Complain about this repeatedly until they say when and how they will fix it. If you do not push this issue they will be lazy about it and consider it to be fine. I work for a Game Studio and I can promise you Game Developers will cut every possible corner. If they do not see push back from the community over this issue they will see it as passive acceptance. Instant Travel Airships are a disgrace to this games name sake and should not be aloud to stay in this game.

[PrettyPrincess]

The Team working on this game don't know the meaning of temporary. Please Complain about this repeatedly until they say when and how they will fix it. If you do not push this issue they will be lazy about it and consider it to be fine. I work for a Game Studio and I can promise you Game Developers will cut every possible corner. If they do not see push back from the community over this issue they will see it as passive acceptance. Instant Travel Airships are a disgrace to this games name sake and should not be aloud to stay in this game.

But...they've already said they'd be adding the actual travel part later. They've also mentioned they want things like airship/ferry battles, so this also confirms they're going to continue with what they said. I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing.

[Kiote]

But...they've already said they'd be adding the actual travel part later. They've also mentioned they want things like airship/ferry battles, so this also confirms they're going to continue with what they said. I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing.

They Promise a lot of things, but until they give at least a general time table I will assume it will go the way of the Surplus XP. It's the same as Cutting Guild Support and Mark Abilities without announcing a replacement use. If we dont push them about it we will get..

Sorry we couldn't figure it out so it has been cut.

[PrettyPrincess]

I dont assume things.

[Verecund]

To this I say, let us ride Lalafells.

No, no... let us ride cake.