I am so happy the airship ride is short!!!

[Alaltus]

The airships in FF11 look about 150 feet long, the airships in FF14 look about 1/3 of XI's. I was just making sure that no one thought that the airships were going to be the size of a rowboat. (^_^)

Why yes... im imagining a peddle powered rowboat with helicopter propellers and you steer with the oars. Sounds like a pleasant trip =D

[Ilean]

hope Yoshida has better sense than to listen to the kind of loonies who want travel between towns to come with a 10 minutes wait. This game is troubled enough without wasting people's time.

IMO they will keep instatravel as an option for people who only want to get to the other town.

[Holland]

hope Yoshida has better sense than to listen to the kind of loonies who want travel between towns to come with a 10 minutes wait. This game is troubled enough without wasting people's time.

IMO they will keep instatravel as an option for people who only want to get to the other town.

This is what I dont understand. Instant travel "for people who only want to get to the other town" is already implemented in the game since release. It is a burden now only because there is nothing else to balance it out, we either teleport or we walk... everyone that has no time will always teleport out efectively reducing anima to zero most of the times on extended play sessions through out the week.

Having other method of transportation will even out all these issues we have. We will have options provided to us, instant travel (anima), travel between cities by airship (like the ferry? 5 mins travel maybe?) and faster than walking travel (chocobo). There is no need for two instant travel methods in the game, in my opinion.

[AlphaDragoon]

This is what I dont understand. Instant travel "for people who only want to get to the other town" is already implemented in the game since release. It is a burden now only because there is nothing else to balance it out, we either teleport or we walk... everyone that has no time will always teleport out efectively reducing anima to zero most of the times on extended play sessions through out the week.

Having other method of transportation will even out all these issues we have. We will have options provided to us, instant travel (anima), travel between cities by airship (like the ferry? 5 mins travel maybe?) and faster than walking travel (chocobo). There is no need for two instant travel methods in the game, in my opinion.

Problem is, people who want to instantly get where they're going aren't going to use the "other options" because they take 9 million years to get somewhere. So in effect, it's like they aren't even adding other options, it's either Anima or taking a long time to go somewhere, unless Chocobos happen to be quick.

Of course, if Chocobos are fast they actually will outdo Airships with their archaic 10 minute ferry-esque travel times. I imagine someone with Quick/Quickstride could probably outrun a 10 minute wait from say, Ul'dah to Gridania, let alone a Chocobo.

[Gramul]

Short?
It's virtually nonexistant.

[Ilean]

I think town-to-town should be a special case of instatravel since the multiclass design of the game pretty much results in we having business in more than one town.

[Sontawila]

I like this but then again i don't that 20min is like a break to go get something to eat and get stuff done. So i'm all for having it 20min.

You know you can do that at ANY FRICKING time you choose to?! You dont need to be actually forced to waste 10~20 min getting somewhere to have a "break".

[Ilean]

You know you can do that at ANY FRICKING time you choose to?! You dont need to be actually forced to waste 10~20 min getting somewhere to have a "break".

Sad part is he might need it, no eating or WCing unless the game says so!

[Alise]

Since it is airship, it should be fast. I don't think it should be longer than 5 min, even after patch 1.21

[zaviermhigo]

In XI I liked that if you left a little earlier than the rest of your party for Kazhaam, you had a good 5 mins to take a break. No airship was over 10 mins long in XI, if I remember they were all closer to 5. Boat rides were longer like aht ughan boat ride is 15 mins, but you had that little break to set up crap, grab some food, do whatever. If time is a concern for you, you will be using anima, they said chocobos and airships are really just for to alleviate anima stress, casual/short time players will use anima and its an instant. Why complain?