I quite like the Shared Fate idea, hope to see it expand, and perhaps go to ARR/HW/SB

[Shougun]

As a counter point to "if you don't like it, don't do it" you do have to conciser that if it was accidentally made the most powerful source of exp or some other resource then not doing it would put you at a disadvantage.

Sometimes you have to do parts of the game you dislike if you want the advantage they give you. The relic grind typically is an example of that.

Though all that has to be done is that would have to be taken into account.

Now, the other, other side.

Yes, it's a nice idea, but it's not going to happen. In order to do it, they would basically need to take every fate out of the entire game (other then the 5.0+ stuff) and rewrite them in the new format. That would be as much work as was ever done on fates, all at once. That's the downside of these "new" systems, they are just new code balanced on top of old, a horrible jenga tower mess...

In short, in order to update JUST 2.0 would take as long as 2.0 took. In order to remake the entire game to 5.0 standards, would take as long as the game has existed, though you could probably do it in a single crunch... of two years, instead of the next expansion.

Thus, TLR be careful what you wish for, you might not like the price.

Counter point, we don't know their systems or how much work something will take only what it might take.

And in OP and else where in post I add the stipulation if it's going to mess up content (like drop our MSQ quality) via high resource costs then they probably shouldn't do it (or at least I'm not ready for that cost).

So I guess my tl;dr- I don't think we should play their planners, or accountants. We don't /know/ what it'll take, what resources they have, who can do what, who wants to do what, what feedback they're looking for (for systems they're getting ready to do themselves), and so on, though we might have a good idea of what a cost may be (people learning about a field/industry is not beyond forum posters lol).

Even then, even if it was expensive there are people who might be passionate about it and do it as a side project and not part of their regular activities (for example the Hrothgar and Viera headgear was done outside of Yoshida's request, and of course thank you team for doing that ).

Damn mobile not allowing edits.
And yeah tie maps and hunts into this as well as well as other overworld/open world content, if things feed into each other like that. Could really make these old zones shine again for a while and make the places feel alive.

On a lot of browsers you can request desktop websites, from that you can then use the edit features while on mobile .