The Doman Restoration was a good inventory/retainer clean up excuse

[Rowde]

Ahh... I didn't realize that was an error that stopped allowing me to donate stuff to them. I finished the restoration on the first week it was available, and then was denied the ability to donate at all the following week... so I haven't tried to trade anything else to them since.

I've been stocking up for the next iteration though, so I'll just wait til the system gets expanded and further restorations are possible.

[Jojoya]

At least Idyllshire and More Dounuts were alive and busy with players, had vendors everywhere, was a main endgame hub. I'm still doing it because it costs me nothing to pop in once a week and unload my junk but I really see no point to it. I cant even select which part of it I want to put my efforts towards and the extremely minimal story you get is really dull, after I completed the stalls(?) i didnt even watch further cutscenes.

QUESTION TO ANYONE:

Can you tell me what you enjoy most out of the Doman restoration? What excites you about it and why do you return each week to complete the task?

(I'm asking that honestly)

It's an interesting side story that helps the game world feel more like a real world that's changing and evolving (mostly) independent of the player character. It's rare for a game to take us back to one of the villages we've saved so we can see how the residents have recovered from whatever problem they had faced and we had solved for them. The Doman reconstruction is letting us watch that happen with minimal input from us as we go about saving the world in other places.

Personally I'm looking forward to the next chapter. It will be interesting to see how it further develops without the Warrior of Light having to step in to solve their problems for them. They never fully addressed the housing issue other than a mention of diverting resources from The Yard. There was a veiled hint at possible racial tension in the last cinematic with a group of Domans shunning a Lupin and also talk of how they need to make the enclave look like a place where business people will want to do business. The Aetheryte plaza looks nearly as bad as what had been a vacant lot by my parent's house when I was growing up so certainly that's something that will have to be addressed before it's all done.

If you're not enjoying it then don't do it. Nothing about the reconstruction is tied to character progression. At most you miss out on the novelty items on the vendor, which are primarily geared toward housing fanatics, and getting 20k gil for 11k gil worth of vendor trash each week.

[SendohJin]

At least Idyllshire and More Dounuts were alive and busy with players, had vendors everywhere, was a main endgame hub. I'm still doing it because it costs me nothing to pop in once a week and unload my junk but I really see no point to it. I cant even select which part of it I want to put my efforts towards and the extremely minimal story you get is really dull, after I completed the stalls(?) i didnt even watch further cutscenes.

QUESTION TO ANYONE:

Can you tell me what you enjoy most out of the Doman restoration? What excites you about it and why do you return each week to complete the task?

(I'm asking that honestly)

i like that there's a quest line that introduces new characters and lets us revisit old ones. i wish there was something like this in the Steppes since those characters are more interesting.

there's no reason to go back after all the cutscenes end. i like Squadron too but there's no real reason to go back to it every week until the next rank up.

they did screw up the Doman Reconstruction in two ways
- didn't start it right away (should've been around at launch of x.1 at the latest)
- didn't put any end game NPCs there, some combination of Tomestone or Scrip vendors here at the start would make the place more active. they could've had the princess come here for Custom Deliveries and relevant scrip NPCs.

[DrWho2010]

they couldn't start doman reconstruction right away because of the story. the exchange had to happen first for the doman people to come home.

[KisaiTenshi]

On the other hand, the older cities’ developments are completely lost on new players. I arrived in both towns fully constructed and didn’t even know they had changed over time until I read about it here.

Mor Dhona evolved, but it evolved as necessary since the 2.x Crystal Braves story required an entire extra building, plus Rowena's stuff evolved significantly due to needing multiple vendors to deal with what in later patches are ex-primals vendors, and raid vendors that Rowena's building area just comes with room eight vendors. Plus there's three other NPC's not in her shop, but located nearby in Idylleshire for how crafting evolved, and a relic weapon step.

The Doman Enclave however is not Ralghar's Reach. But since the storyline takes place in two separate areas, two separate headquarters need to exist. Rhalgar's Reach has two versions, of which you can only see one version during the MSQ, but otherwise is just a re-skin of it, as you can see players standing near things that exist during the normal version. The Doman Enclave also works that way, where as other players who haven't done it, do not see the new buildings or vendor. So it's likely to stay a permanent thing that you'll eventually have to do to unlock additional vendors during the remaining 4.x patches, but those additional vendors might only deal with upgrades to existing "relic" crafting gear or something.

[kikix12]

It very well may become a HUB just like Idyllshire or Revenants Toll...Who said it won't?!

You can say all you want that it's an optional content and what not, but there's nothing stopping them from putting in several relevant characters and have their generic speech bubbles say something like "I hope they will start rebuilding soon." or the like if a person didn't progress in it yet. Have these special vendors (like Rowena) bring in just the core stuff, with their inventories increasing as the rebuilding progresses ("As the warehouses are rebuilt, merchants have space to store more wares.").

Though...not like it really matters to me. It doesn't need to be any more relevant than Namai or Tamamizu, both of which are just yer average towns with nothing in them (sans Kojin in case of Tamamizu). You'll go there for some main quests, some side quests (which can be added to the Enclave as the reconstruction progresses as well!). If a town have beast tribes then that...Otherwise it's just going to be an aetheryte location...And in case of the Enclave, you actually see it being built which gives that much enjoyment.
I mean...this is an RPG game with a rich story. So yeah...I really do the enclave for the story. I don't care about the gil or the stuff being sold in the vendors. I just care about the vendors appearing, even if they sell the same things every other town does.

[SendohJin]

they couldn't start doman reconstruction right away because of the story. the exchange had to happen first for the doman people to come home.

They should've written the story better.

I can write it better to make it happen. First patch after expansion, Rowena goes to Yugiri and Hien and offers to start it off, boom done. now we have tomestone vendors there.

[DrWho2010]

right i'm sure Micheal Christopher Koji-Fox, Banri Oda and Yoshi-P are banging on your door right now just salivating at the thought of hiring you.

[SendohJin]

right i'm sure Micheal Christopher Koji-Fox, Banri Oda and Yoshi-P are banging on your door right now just salivating at the thought of hiring you.

is that what i posted? why can't you just comment on what was posted.

[alimdia]

is that what i posted? why can't you just comment on what was posted.

You did post that you can write it better than them, that means you think yourself a better writer than them. From that to the thought that you should be hired in their stead is just a small step.