Eureka: What we know and what we want to know

[Vahlnir]

so far I'm liking the concept, but I have a bad feeling about implementation. What I've seen of the video suggest open world mobs, and with the amount of people pouring in when it's released I'm expecting them to vanish pretty quickly, (usual salt will ensue, of course) Add to that the typical problems with hunts/big fates, plus some crashing and emergency maintenance.... I hope it all goes smoothly, but I'm not really expecting it.

At first it's going to be a real nightmare, I think. That goes for accessing or even just trying to do things there. But...hopefully they'll stabilize it after emergency maintenance #5 or 6, possibly 7. I also hope that they accounted for the zerg mentality, otherwise it's going to be bad. Really bad. This will probably be the first thing I do once the servers come back up, despite that little voice in my head telling me not to because of said issues that will no doubt occur. I've been waiting for this since SB launch so...really, really looking forward to getting in there and seeing what's what.

[Airget]

so far I'm liking the concept, but I have a bad feeling about implementation. What I've seen of the video suggest open world mobs, and with the amount of people pouring in when it's released I'm expecting them to vanish pretty quickly, (usual salt will ensue, of course) Add to that the typical problems with hunts/big fates, plus some crashing and emergency maintenance.... I hope it all goes smoothly, but I'm not really expecting it.

Depends the Rules they use for the instance. In Diadem it was I think a 9 party limit. so 9-72 players were allowed in a single instance because the instance didn't allow past 9 "parties" in which a single person counted as it's own party.

With Eureka they have said the limit is based on people this time rather than a party limit so it could extend to 200 or extend to 72. However it would be an awful idea to do 72 since it would get messy trying to get people into the same instance especially in the case of those that have more than 8.

Granted their logic may be this content is only designed for 1/4/8 parties so they won't put much effort into allowing bigger parties/FC an opportunity to work together in Eureka with ease.

[Musashidon]

Depends the Rules they use for the instance.

the only thing i know for a fact is 128 people will be per instance.

the only confusing part is the prompter said 128 while the quote in the summary said 144.

so the instance is either 128 or 144 no clue which.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4573624

[MageBlack]

Depending on how this works, this should have just been the overworld in general. Death penalty, scary monsters, good rewards, a reason to be in it aside from the quests you complete once and they are done.

[TristanBlane]

I hope we get some cute glamours with the patch tomorrow.....

[Squintina]

Depending on how this works, this should have just been the overworld in general. Death penalty, scary monsters, good rewards, a reason to be in it aside from the quests you complete once and they are done.

Part of me wishes that "Eureka" would have been a revamp of the existing overworld rather than its own special area.

Or that at the very least they'll consider expanding the things people end up liking about Eureka into the overworld content, essentially turning Eureka into a live beta test of overworld ideas.

[ElazulHP]

omg omg omg omg omg... I need this!

[NovaLevossida]

omg omg omg omg omg... I need this!

It's nice, but I need this to not be another Diadem to get excited. Hopefully we'll find out more when the NA notes go up. Not long to wait for the patch regardless.

[Remedi]

What? a T-rex? Finally I can have a T-REX? FOR REAL?

(The t-rex world boss on wow only dropped a triceratops......)