give the current players a time sink....Post your ideas for what SE could implement

[Sypherblade]

Ok i'm sure this post is premature considering the pact is just days away but my gut tells me even the ifrit battle won't hold the current player base's attention for more than a month or two considering how many players have already devoted this past year into obtaining the best gear and leveling multiple 50 classes.

A "quick fix" solution to sooth the not so casual players who have a good amount of time to put into the game would be to introduce a decent time sink system.

Time Sink: Something that takes a considerably lengthy amount of time to complete and occupies players in a attempt for the developers to "bide their time."

Remember, I'm not saying for SE to not make more fun content and make everything a time sink. When they update a new feature everyone will still dog pile all over it and try it out. This is just ideas for people to keep doing after they have "finished" the majority of the "newer content" and have grown "board again." A distraction if you would call it.

Nothing that is so good that is becomes required to do in the game. Like god gear. We don't want something that could later be the reason your not invited to parties or linkshells because you don't have a massive amount of free time.

Ideas:

*Collectable Cosmetic Gear
- Like the Swimsuit gear
- Rank 50 gear that matches current best gear in the game, but looks different. So its not better, but looks different.

* A randomly generated maze or labyrinth to complete that yields rewards and resets with leves to keep things fresh.

* A card game to play and collect with others. Tetra Master (FF9/FF11) or Triple Triad (FF8)

* Earning Fame or Reputation with certain factions.
- Doing quests or killing certain monsters to raise fame with a certain group.
- Fame will gain access to certain items in the game.
- Get a gil discount on a certain items they sell based on your fame.

*NMs with a really low drop rate of about 1%
- Farm items that increase the drop rate stacking them to increase the drop rate to 35%-50% ish

* Coliseum battles
- PvP one on one
- PVE group of players battle against random group of monsters. Random chance of a NM

*Chocobo Races
- Gambling

*Chocobo hot and cold game. (FF9)

[Wolfie]

How about they make fun things to fill out the game's content instead of trying to artificially inflate it with boring time sinks?

[Sypherblade]

Think your missing the point of the post. While they are working on making the "fun" part of the game which takes a considerable amount of time they can just give the current players who have the mind set of "I have nothing much to do except level yet another class to 50, and I'm tired of leveling" something to do while they make the actual real content for the game.

[Sypherblade]

Supposed to just be "tossing a bone" to the beta players without rolling out the red carpet.

[Wolfie]

Think your missing the point of the post. While they are working on making the "fun" part of the game which takes a considerable amount of time they can just give the current players who have the mind set of "I have nothing much to do except level yet another class to 50, and I'm tired of leveling" something to do while they make the actual real content for the game.

No, I completely understand it. And it's a stupid point, because it's damaging to the game.

[Alexis_Arteme]

I'd love for this game to have more random drops and general randomness.

Also epic underwear.

[Konachibi]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ture-Class-Job

This. I'd spend hours and hours a day just doing this

[Sypherblade]

I'd love for this game to have more random drops and general randomness.

Also epic underwear.

lol epic underwear... like the swimsuits? something cosmetic with no stats what so ever.

Collectable cosmetic gear.

[Sypherblade]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ture-Class-Job

This. I'd spend hours and hours a day just doing this

Yes i love your class idea posts you put up Konachibi, but that would be more the "fun content" that i was talking about that would require countless hours for SE to do. Not the distraction the beta players need while they create wonderful features like your choco breeding class

[Pyrix]

I agree with Wolfie your idea is terrible and is everything that is wrong with the older MMOs. Nothing should feel like painful, unfun work. Have work, yes, but make that work fun.