Abolish Anima - Implementation of Airships and Chocobos

[Spuffin]

Now that we have Chocobo and Airships I feel that we have no need for anima. Anima completely takes away from the purpose of these two methods of travel. It takes away from "immer...".

Add teleporation to a job class. the ability to teleport to 1 sepcific area within each region just like the teleports in FF11. That still made chocbos of great use and it also gave purpose and responsibility to another class. Each teleport crystal also took part in the games story line leading into CoP missions.

There are so many ways to add extra lore and content just by removing anima without making the game 100% accessible in all areas with 4 different ways of transpiration and 1 of them completely negating the existence of the other 3. Why not just add unlimited anima... Why not just make the game entirely instanced like Vindictus and many others.

Why even call it an Open World MMO at this point? Why even add Chocobo and Airships? I do not understand.

[Konachibi]

YOU SAID THE 'I' WORD!!!

This threads gonna go on for 50 pages at least...

Never.Say.The.I.Word.

[HiirNoivl]

Why do Chocos and Airships have to be our only mode of transport? I don't get that.

[Spuffin]

YOU SAID THE 'I' WORD!!!

This threads gonna go on for 50 pages at least...

Never.Say.The.I.Word.

Haha yup, I figured that.

[Spuffin]

Why do Chocos and Airships have to be our only mode of transport? I don't get that.

Why make the game open world?

[HiirNoivl]

Because it is...

I don't understand why FFXIV has to be like FFXI or Vindictus either.

[neizero]

... No.

[Gennosuke]

I agree with you.
Airships are instant teleports from one city to another.
Chocobos are fast transportation through the wilderness and have a 2nd tier speed when owning your own which is easy enough.
Anymore than this is spoiling the game and the players imo.

Though I agree there would still be a need for teleportation, just not through anima. Perhaps a teleportation spell in some classes/jobs so people still have ways of getting to specific areas quick enough and this will encourage people to deal with each other moreso, requesting teles etc.

[Zantetsuken]

Anima is necessary for casual play.

It's not going anywhere.

However, I would prefer it if you could only travel BETWEEN aetheryte with it.

It would add a degree of immer....

[Anonymoose]

The entire game is not going to be local trips and city runs. Someday, probably endgame, we're going to need to go instantly from a city to an open field aether across the world and we're gonna need to get there in time to claim an NM or not hold up our linkshell.

The whole abolish anima argument is so embarrassingly short sighted.

Frankly, nobody's going to give a flying f**k about immersion when there's claim, loot, placement, entry, and 7+ other people's time on the line.