So, how is Pagos?

[Souljacker]

I could be wrong about the total time - I thought that the pirate event would extend the time on the ferry. It's been a long time. they were definitely at least 15+ minutes though minimum just for the ride - which is 15 minutes longer than any other game took to get from point A to point B. And yes, you *could* fish off it if you wanted to - as I recall Nebimonite was good fishing there - but you had to have an interest in fishing and not just getting to your next destination to do whatever cool thing you wanted to do. Otherwise you were AFK below decks or (more often and more safely) afk next to the NPC at the wheel topside. I think that Sea Monk mob would sometimes aggro through the floor. Anyway, it just wasn't all that awesome once the novelty wore off.

Am I glad it's still there as an option? Yea. Dat Nostalgia. It's nice to hop on the airship and watch Vana'diel from above or take a ride on the manaclipper. They were cool ideas. You and I are in agreement in that XI was SE's crowning achievement and nothing they did before or since has been as epic (and I hope that you didn't take this one criticism of the game as some kind of indication that I think XI was bad).

But that doesn't mean that this particular bit was forward-thinking. The game should always give us incentive to play it. Content that lets or worse, encourages (Eureka) you to afk and do something else is not content at all. You are no longer playing the game you paid for. You are paying to have your character wait around for something interesting to happen. Remember, the ferry ride wasn't the only travel option that took x amount of minutes for no other reason than it *could*.

The days where I was tolerant to that kind of stuff were left long behind, and even XI's team eventually realized that stuff like AFK while traveling is not really content.