Intra-city travel

[Orophin]

I think I'm more confused by:

Lominsan Aetherpass Key Item A writ of permission issued by the Maelstrom, granting its bearer aetherial passage within Limsa Lominsa.

Didn't some dev response a long time ago say that anyone was going to be able to move around any town? Once you've joined a GC you can't buy another's items to the best of my knowledge. And each of these items require Private First Class. /scratches head

[Chardrizard]

Lol so instead of saying "OH my bad I was wrong for complaining about something I know NOTHING about", you say that that discussion has no room in here for that when YOU brought it up.

TSK TSK TSK again

Its Rokien. You expect anything more from his thread?

[BrusselSprout]

Its Rokien. You expect anything more from his thread?

Lulz. I expect lulz.

In any case, patch notes seem to be saying that you can only teleport around one town anyways. I'm an Adder so it's not like I'll be getting much use out of this system. Actually there are only like 3 immortal flames in my whole LS, so I doubt many people will.

[Platinumstorm]

I don't think it's unreasonable for them to have added this into the game. The towns are quite large, there's a lot of running through nothing but unused spaces [one run that I used to do frequently in Ul'dah was to the alchemist guild, and there's absolutely nothing between the two points except for stone walls; it's being done as a reward format so that people are familiar with the town layouts, hopefully, prior to gaining this ability.

The teleporting systems are in place because Square didn't have good means of transportation to and from each location, and many people simply don't have the additional time to devote to such blasé tasks. The anima system does cross a line as far as immersion is concerned, however I don't think the game would be playable without it. Maybe in 2.0 systems will be developed to encourage quick travel that don't break immersion nor make every place easily accessible, similar to World of Warcraft's tremendously received flight paths.

[KoujiGeki]

i Hate walking around cities, in fact i want SE to add this for me and all i have to do i hit a button and it ports me there.




pssst (relax tis a joke!)

[Mychael]

Glad I'm a Twin Adder. It would seem Gridania is hospitable now... although I am very angry that I don't see Stillglade Fern in that list... ¬_¬

[Michu_Saroo]

will be quitting the game and most my LS will be to if they add this.

Yes because nothing is more fun than hoofing it? Doesn't even make sense.

[casker]

I'm just thinking of the intra-city travel as a public transit service. Like taking a train or bus would be. Didn't FFXII have something like this in it too? It's not that bad. Actually it could be pretty cool if they execute it right.

As a newly returned player, with the amount of quests they have that send you running around all over the place it gets kind of tedious tracking everyone down, where entire quests can consist of like 15-30 minutes of running. This is a good addition and I think quality of life will be much better for players without somehow destroying the scope of cities or something. The cities are still there, just like if you take a train somewhere.

[fusional]

man, this game's community is awesome

[Morticous]

Everybody whines about not having anything to do and they did everything already bla bla b la.. well the easier they make things like traveling the quicker it is finishing the latest content... who needs airships when you can port yourself everywhere?