Would this fall more in lines with WvWvW? I would honestly kind of like to see something like that implemented. Maybe make a zone the size of Diadem for a control match or something with structural objectives and such but instead of the free company barrier, its just server vs server vs server.
It may be true that diadem might be the only thing we'll get closest to an open world activity simulator, which may or may not be in 3.5 or later. But honestly, I think it would work quite nicely in the long run since you'll be able to interact with other people from other servers in a massive area. Lets just hope the diadem changes are truly objective focuses, like maybe adding structures and other types of mobs. There were caves and such in diadem so it would be nice to explore those and actually fighting through hordes of mobs to reach this underground boss that spawns every 15 minutes or something.
Very true. I think many people felt XI was like a sandbox since you could honestly engage in quite of bit of content from that game at early levels without having to be capped on a single classes. It would definitely be nice to have 1-2 persistent elements that people of various levels can participate in and benefit people of various levels instead of waiting for everyone to be capped. I also agree that PotD has the potential to be a type of content like that depending on what they decide to add on to it in future patches. At the very least for now, it provides people with a decent enough alternative to leveling jobs people do not feel like gearing or wanted to try out, so in that regard I do not feel it will go 'dead' any time soon.
As for airships, are you and dinnertime kind of referring to having stations and such in the airship and multiple people operate? I suppose the only comparison I can speak of first hand to utilize as an example is Archeage, where you had multiple stations that could be operated by people to take on huge creatures in the sea. So you had a navigator, someone steering the ship, and people operating the canons, then you have people doing repairs as well. If you are referring to something like that, that would be very interesting and would draw a lot of attention. At the very least it would be a great thing to do with FCs. Maybe even add a pvp element in their like airship battles that might've been suggested earlier in the thread.
I am definitely with this idea, or at the very least allow us to leave and re-enter dungeons incase we do need to repair or forgot something like games such as WoW and Rift allow players to do.
Referring to an oni race, I could be mistaken but I do believe their is a race with horns in the game or at the very least there are 2 npcs for sure I know of that have small horns, which are the conjurer main quest npc (forgot his name) and the one that was added near the PotD entrance npc in Quarrymill. I'm not sure if the horns they have are like 'real' but I did notice them (even though they kind of just look like elezens with horns) but it would be nice to have an oni race none-the-less. Maybe more horns on their body and such.
Thanks a lot for all of you that have posted so far. There are definitely a lot of good ideas and QoL things that I would personally like to see that have been suggested so far. Can't wait to see what other ideas will be posted.