Zone types you want to see in the future.

[Aillith]

I always thought a completely vertical map would be cool. Like the side of a steep and giant cliff face that people have built narrow pathways into or things to climb up, and small shacks as outposts. Its more up and down rather than horizontal.

A big town with levels. Like midgar. Shops on different levels upwards. Not just zones next to each other.

A forest you can get lost in. The ones we have have clear and open pathways So don't feel quite as forresty.

A place where the forrest meets the sand?

I dunno. The areas we do have, although varied, do feel kind of small?

[Shori]

I would like something inbetween costa del sol and ruby sea. calm and sunny but lots of places to dive.
Would also love it if they could expand on the outer la noscea area.

For idea of an area not currently in the game? I'd like a flying ship area as an actual city, something big enough for guilds and shops.

[Hitsuzen]

PVP zones /10chars

[Saiah]

Forgive me but I cant help but draw inspiration from another MMO ive enjoyed for quite sometime. world of warcraft. One zone with an atmosphere I was especially fond of was Duskwood. A gothic styled gloomy forest full of nocturnal creatures and abandoned farms. And a massive graveyard crawling with the undead.

I would like to see a zone like this. Imagine Haukke manor or tamtara's voidsent outbreak has spread and infected an entire area of the black shroud. We still have to see the west shroud, although if I recall correctly, the lore describes that place as being utterly destroyed by the calamity. And the cloest we got to it was the second binding coil.

[Tracewood]

PVP zones /10chars

Really wish they'd let us wander around Cartenau. Ruined, desolate areas really are cool to explore (or mainly because I was BIG into Bethesda RPGs). Heck, I'd like them to make West Shroud into a zone, it's wrecked beyond repair but I'm sure some creative writing things could change.

[Astyrah]

+1 to indoor zones or if we even go to garlemald, like some urban/tech zone.

i'd also like a bigger sea, i mean ruby sea is a big map but being just 1 zone, it feels small for a "sea". i feel the same with azim steppes and the sagoli desert in south thana. they are big maps (not for sagoli) yet they feel small for what they try to depict. so i hope we get like 2 or so maps of all desert/sea/plains

[Shouko]

Somewhere that will be relevant after the expac is long done?

[sarehptar]

I would love to be able to explore some of the 24 man raid cities as actual open areas we could check out, be able to go in directions other than where the raid funnels us. Like the other parts of Rabanastre or Mhach.

This. They created some really pretty instances for the raids, and then... we go there once a week and blow through them and almost never stop to enjoy the scenery. Mhach and Dun Scaith would be so much fun to explore as actual zones, especially Dun Scaith's creepy Alice in Wonderland-type garden area. The assets are partially there. Useeee them Square! D;

And speaking of another asset: I would love, love, love a zone based on the aesthetic of the lowest levels of Palace of the Dead. That eerie but also really beautiful stillness would be so amazing to explore more of.