Theres a thing called anima

[kwestro]

These "immersion" people just don't get it. CONTENT DEFINES WHAT IS WORTHWHILE. Give me an overflowing abundance of randomized content on an airship, and I'll gladly watch the cut scene and enjoy the ride. The same goes for walking: Give me hundreds of content, random instances, random NMs, random NPCs, and etc. between the cities. I'll be more than happy to walk after that. Until there's boatloads of spontaneous content, keep everything instant.

[Charismatic]

These "immersion" people just don't get it. CONTENT DEFINES WHAT IS WORTHWHILE. Give me an overflowing abundance of randomized content on an airship, and I'll gladly watch the cut scene and enjoy the ride. The same goes for walking: Give me hundreds of content, random instances, random NMs, random NPCs, and etc. between the cities. I'll be more than happy to walk after that. Until there's boatloads of spontaneous content, keep everything instant.

I can certainly agree with that, I'm feeling nearly the same on this issue.

[Jaber]

Just make the airship work like the fairy, then add a 'sleep through the trip' option :U

Personally, I'm not going to be playing this game for the thrill of navigating ridiculous menus or the excitement of waiting around for ten minutes while my character idles on a boat for the twentieth time.

[weeble]

they said first they would add the boat after..as in first the cutsceen only. then they said sorry we meant we will add boat latter but u will still have choice to skip the boat. from what i understand.... that is where we stand.

WE WILL BE ABLE TO SKIP THE BOAT. YAAAAY.

truthfully i still don't get what the big deal is, it's a boat ride to the city, the cities needed instant travel between the 3, the reason the cities are all empty is cause they take to long to run too. this will unite them better. outside this everyone still has option later to jump on the boat to fish, and do the content they add on it. u act like no one is gonna ride the boat, everyone will when there is reason too, people will stop riding it when it's pointless and they would of afk the whole ride anyway. 2min ..10min ...so what why would u want to force people that don't want to watch u emote the whole ride to do so.

it really doesn't take anything away from the game, i played ffxi for 700days of gameplay, i plan on playing this one just as much if it don't fail. i want it to be as punishing on content and grind as possible, but the whole boat ride thing is just ..... its just ..... i don't get what it is to you lol. is just a waist of time to me like any run longer then 5mins. i did looooooooots of running in ffxi, but it didn't feel punishing, taking them long runs to boyda were the longest runs, my fav probably still running to and threw dunes from crystal... 5mins? fun but a reason for it, u was running to camps. all running is for reason, not for repetition all day long. can't say this enough times. i want just as much a big world ...nothing handed to me, but the boat ride? come on. ...we don't even have content yet and we do enough running. in another 6-8months forget it, u'll be waisting 1-3hrs a day on running and boat rides if u play all day and are enjoying all of the content, and not being worried about doing things for 30mins here an 30mins there an not feel like your screwed on time, anima and aggravation.

[Jynx]

Jynx's post with the loading screens and all that is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in this thread thus far, especially since unless there is mandatory content on the airship rides it'd essentially be a long loading screen for most players anyway!

When did I suggest they be long loading screens? I insisted they be instant loading screens because the cities are apparantly seconds away from eachother.

I'm saying whats the point of having them span distances to get to on foot when it takes mere moments to get their even without precious anima. I want a world where such shortcuts are laughed at, not work-arounds for the issues that are currently here.

[Etienn]

I think it's about time I shut my trololololol mode off.

[Altano]

When did I suggest they be long loading screens? I insisted they be instant loading screens because the cities are apparantly seconds away from eachother.

I'm saying whats the point of having them span distances to get to on foot when it takes mere moments to get their even without precious anima. I want a world where such shortcuts are laughed at, not work-arounds for the issues that are currently here.

Exactly. Is there even a point to having 3 main cities and a fourth coming? Is there a point to an expansive world? Apparently there isn't. I move to add a zoneline connecting the adventurers guild of every city. After all, we wouldn't want people to have to sit around waiting for the instantaneous airship to arrive either. In fact, we probably wouldn't even want to have people walk through the city to the airship docks. I make an official motion for the merging of the 3 cities into Limsa Ul'dania!

[Kirith]

Is this still going on? There's no logical way to define what is better in cases like these. Many like anima, many others dislike it. It's in cases like these that a rep should be allowed to make a poll to see the proportion of people in favor and those against it, so the devs can work accordingly and there isn't so much conflict trying to push one subjective opinion over the opposing one.

[Seo]

Proposal, random events on the airships/ships, you ride the ships like any other day and boom cannon fire, a imperial ship is attacking hold them off till you reach port where other ships can assist. Pirates Arrrr~

[Rokien]

That would be awesome Seo, I have a feeling they are going to do something like that.