Retention of Anima System!

[Arcell]

hey want to come do a dungeon

sure!!

oh your there already, i don't have anima

...who wants to help me at skull valley real quick i need kill somethings

...cricket ..cricket i don't have anima's ..run? yeah right, right?

omg we get back dkp and open world nm's like we did at one time? (lol doubt it but still)

omg leaders don't have extra accounts to mule us around? what everyone needs to save there anima for this?

...exp grind camp blah blah 7/8

..oh you already started i don't have anima and time i get there i don't want risk you disbanding on me in 20mins.

oh we need players for grind or dungeon, gah i need to port all way to uldah and shout cause no one replaces themselves and our search function is void still. after one or 2 of these happening back to back, meh time to disband instead cause i have no anima. it should not be this way.

anima system = a punishment system, yes it's faster and easier then the one we had in ffxi only cause you don't depend on players to port. but it was a totally free system, putting a limitation on things are punishments, people who use there rested exp usually log out or stop exp'ing. people who run out of anima just stop doing things that involve long runs or are counting on others to have the ports. the average player would be at the least twice as active in the game if not for the limitations on anima. stretch out the crystals a little in distance, give a tiny bit less exp, don't cap how much you can use or get, it just says to people stop. and it shouldn't be that way.

Rules for using Anima wisely:

1. Group up for a teleport from a city before departing for an event. People can even cycle teleports that way.

2. Don't be late so you don't miss the teleport from the city mentioned above.

3. Conserve anima once in a while. If time is not of the absolute essence, run a little bit.

4. Use the airship between cities, costs no anima. Also if you move to the general region for the teleport you need, it costs less.

5. Set up your favored locations wisely. These generally change between patches or with what your LS is doing.

6. If you don't conserve your anima, suck it up and make the run out there or stop complaining.

[Ryuko]

Ah yes, I forgot to mention 'favored' places. That's a really good point. I tend to set them for instances that my LS does often. Before the last patch, it was Crimson Bark (for Moogle), Broken Water (for Ifrit) and Dragonhead (for SB). Now that everyone's doing Cutter's and Aurum Vale, I may dump Broken Water and Crimson Bark in lieu of those... etc.

[Nuru]

Take away anima and you have an inconveniency of perhaps no more than 10 minutes added to get to your destination. What comes next? Make Airship rides longer? Make Chocobos slower?

Do you want this game to have a bigger player-base or not?

[weeble]

only reason they don't fix the problems with anima is cause they want to eventually sell mounts that run faster lol. other then that dont' want to make the content of raising faster choco's and faster gear on choco's irelevent maybe. but with that being said that just means they still plan on making things faster with a little cash or content.

[yialee]

If anima is bad, than dont use it than run your ass round

[Thanos]

Rules for using Anima wisely:

1. Group up for a teleport from a city before departing for an event. People can even cycle teleports that way.

2. Don't be late so you don't miss the teleport from the city mentioned above.

3. Conserve anima once in a while. If time is not of the absolute essence, run a little bit.

4. Use the airship between cities, costs no anima. Also if you move to the general region for the teleport you need, it costs less.

5. Set up your favored locations wisely. These generally change between patches or with what your LS is doing.

6. If you don't conserve your anima, suck it up and make the run out there or stop complaining.

7. Also dont say anything or move your character when someone in the party asks who is porting. Wait 15 seconds or so and someone will give in

[Firon]

7. Also dont say anything or move your character when someone in the party asks who is porting. Wait 15 seconds or so and someone will give in

lol
/10char

[Belial]

Anima is good.
Anima is great.
We should keep Anima as it is.

I thought you were leading off with a rhyme, or catchy limerick. I am leaving this thread disappointed.

[Nuru]

I thought you were leading off with a rhyme, or catchy limerick. I am leaving this thread disappointed.

lmao any Anima thread is disappoint.

[Belial]

lmao any Anima thread is disappoint.

After the lackluster OP I didn't even have the heart to read any post in the thread, so who knows, maybe there's some entertaining bickering in there somewhere.