Town Airships are completely useless, Inns semi useless

[Rocl]

Don't you think it's something they could have expanded upon, though? Plus there was also the Hildibrand quest that started from waking up in the Inn IIRC...

Granted, I don't think that should be Inn exclusive... I'd love a reason to log out in my Private Rooms bed as well... But they could easily add more cutscenes in the same manner... Cleared Tam Tara Hard Mode? Enjoy logging in to some Edda themed nightmare fuel. Done some recent death centric quests? Enjoy waking up to some feels.

Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with the idea of having cinematic dreams when logging in after logging out in a bed or even finding the boiled egg / biscuits under your pillow--my intent was to remind people it really wasn't this huge recurring theme in 1.0; there was only one cutscene. (If what you say is right about Hildibrand, two, but I don't personally recall so!) It was a very memorable moment and well done (and something I wouldn't be opposed to them repeating) but it was just that-- a singular moment.

[Nalien]

(If what you say is right about Hildibrand, two, but I don't personally recall so!)

Here's the cutscene in question. I seem to remember it being a case of getting to a point in the quest, logging out at the bed, logging back in to that cutscene. If that wasn't the case... Well, it should have been... That's a really great way to shake up the same tired quest chain template...

The main difficulty with such a mechanic is that it relies on people logging out at beds anyway, which... Isn't the case anymore... If this was how 3.3 Hildibrand quests kicked off, it would be a case of people looking up how to start it and potentially being annoyed by it. If we were all already logging out at the bed for reasons though? We'd log back in on 3.3 for a nice surprise from Hildibrand, and it would be a great surprise. If we had a reason to log out at beds this would potentially work, but then run into another problem... There is no reason Inns should have some innate bonus over player homes in that regard, but for Hildibrand to surprise us in the morning? That is a cutscene that likely cannot work in player homes, because they're completely customizable... A nightmare works well enough because it doesn't need to take place in your room, but Hildibrand would have to be in the static Inn rooms, and someone with their own private home is unlikely to ever use them... They could preface the quest with "Stick around this Inn and I'll get back to you" but that somewhat takes away from the surprise...

Now that I think about it, Hildibrand was originally introduced with the Inn rooms, wasn't he? Didn't those early quests involve them as well? I seem to remember the Limsa one being about a weapons thief at the Inn there?