So.. the Animal Corssing-esc. Island Sanctuaries... thoughts and wishes

[SenorPatty]

You hit that bullseye, now the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards.

Checkmate

You

You did that on purpose, didnt ya?

Nice lol

[Jandor]

Is Futurama really that old a show?

[kaynide]

I hope what everyone else does.

I expect something along the lines of Doma reconstruction.

[Hanayumi]

What we know so far...
1) Any job will be able to participate
2) Minions are involved (not just to roam around but possibly help you out)
3) NOT true instance housing but will involve house/houses (some indication well have a small town to work with) with an entirely new system (hoping well at least be able to use current furniture)
4) Some manner of exploration (Sea, Mountain, etc.)
5) Gardening/Farming (still dunno if well be able to use current seeds)
6) Farm animals/Ranch

[IdowhatIwant]

I will guarantee what people are expecting, and what we are getting are two completely different things. I also would not be surprised if this some how tied into the relic.

[AnimaAnimus]

While I would love an actual farm simulator type of thing, I think it's going to lean more into being an upgraded version of monstrosity from ffxi

[RobynDaBank]

I've had a Eureka moment. For any Pokémon Generation 7 players: you might remember Poké Pelago. Pokémon in your boxes wandered in this island, and there was a massive tree that gave Pokébeans to increase Affection and develop the island. Putting beans in the crate could attract Wild Pokémon - OFC some were locked to being obtainable only through that. Perhaps the sanctuaries would be that but with minions.

[Beytran70]

honestly, I suspect it'll be just a place where you click on nodes a few times a day with only the bare minimum of customization :/

...of course, I will be delighted if it ends up actually good :P

So basically WoW garrisons? I really hope the devs will iterate on this concept a bit more and add much more customization and interactivity, especially since they supposedly are going to be adding content to it for multiple patches. If not, it might end up being yet another system that gets abandoned like Grand Companies more or less are.

I personally would like to see it as a form of player housing everyone gets access to, even if it isn't quite as custom as decorating a normal house or apartment is. Being able to play around with options outdoors would help in this. I am cautiously optimistic, but at the same time I'm used to things like this turning out mediocre despite developers knowing full well what the players actually want.

[Connor]

I bet it’ll be a copy of Ishgard Restoration except you can place minions in a small, fixed ‘pen’.

Do we even know if it’s actually instanced? I get the feeling it’s not going to be much of a ‘sanctuary’ with 400000 players standing on top of the minion roaming area

I hope I’m wrong because it’d be pretty amazing if they done it right. But I have little faith tbh

[Shriv]

I personally don’t expect anything out of that system. I suppose it's the best way of not being disappointed with it. Will it be a brief diversion or a chore? Don’t know!
I just hope it will not be like some other systems we had in the past that got implemented and let go with no other future than been mostly unused and forgotten (Ocean Fishing is a good example of such)