Island Sanctuary Suggestion Megathread

[Zer0ofTime]

This feature sucks, haven't gotten to try it. All I ever get is "due to extreme server load...."

[Linadae]

Customizable housing, of course is a huge one. What's the point of 'building the island sanctuary of your dreams' if you can't build and decorate the kind of house you want? There's also really no point in allowing visitation if everyone's islands pretty much look exactly the same anyway. Also, this will make a HUGE reduction in demand for private housing.

Also, let people visit even if they haven't unlocked island sanctuary.

If possible, allow players to pick from different island biomes. This would allow for not only further customization with the generic buildings (warehouses/granaries) but even allow for different tamable animals. Which could be expanded into allowing friends to trade tamed animals with one another once special biome specific pastures are built.

Some biomes could be the current tropical, someone earlier wanted a desert (I'm guessing similar to Rabanastre), I personally would like to see a temperate forest island similar to what you'd see along the east coast of America.

[Terin]

So I'm just installing the update now, so I'm only going off what I've seen/heard from friends.

But... I feel like maybe a way to customize the music there (if there isn't already) might be cool, and maybe some way of changing the climate? I LOVE the tropical flair, but I could see where it might be cool to have an autumnal makeover instead, with reds and oranges and yellows everywhere, or of course a cozy winter sort of vibe as well.

Also, I'm hoping that perhaps over time, we might get some TALL building options to choose from? So you can make your place feel like a bustling little city-square, or get kind of a nice view from a rooftop area.

I suppose letting your mounts roam free might also be kind of cool eventually, too. But I think that's probably pie-in-the-sky type stuff.

[SassyAssassin]

I had hoped we could do more. Waiting for blue seashells makes it feel very underwhelming. Crops take FOREVER.
I want to live there, cant if Im bored.

I also want more sparkles. Elpis flowers please.

[SassyAssassin]

I would also love it if we could help our FC with gathering/feeding etc.
Nothing stays with us as soon as we leave the island, we just help, everything goes in their inventory.

[Didimiaou]

So I stated this in another thread but maybe it is better to say it here. It is just feedbacks, but maybe we can discuss around it in order to pull something from this.

First, I would like to say that I REALY like the Island ! Any feedbacks I will make could seems harsh, but please do not take them that hard. My overall satisfaction is good. Feel free to discuss around these points ! Maybe you have some ideas I would love to read too !

What I liked:

1. The mood / ambiance. The music is perfectly themed with the activity. I like to be in a place stressless of any fight content, doing my tasks how I want, when I want. I never feel in a hurry to complete something, and I am not bored of chilling around either.
2. The overall game design: The concept is great, farming in order to make your settlment better. Definitly an animal crossing vibe. I like the way to make you Isle evolve and the leveling system. I am seeing forward to see the automatisation with our litle robot friends. I like the way things can grow up during I am disconnected (the fields of pumpkin for exemple). And I enjoy just putting a bit on water on them time to time.
3. The tamming mode: I realy liked to be able to "hunt" then to take care of my karakul
4. The selling: I like the way to gather azure token with the craft and sell part. It is a real management part when you have to think how to get the good ressources in order to maximize profit.
5. The size of the island: It is big enough and not too big to cross. I feel it is a perfect size for a playground
6. Being able to queue for something without being kicked out. Same for /whispers available ♥

[Didimiaou]

What I do not like / what I feel can be improved

1. The fact that I cannot play this content with friends. Yes you can invite or join your playmates, but to do what ? We cannot gather together, we cannot improve buildings together, we cannot share items... I feel lonely and I would have loved to do this with my best mate in order to build our island. More, every player have the same Island (except the buildings site choice or the 2 or 3 option of decoration), so I do not feel the joining/ inviting usefull for now. But I would love to help a friend or to recieve help and work together in the future.
2. The lack of gamification: Someone said it before, one click, one result. My feelings are splitted on this point. In one way, I like to have, just like animal crossing, no pressure on doing stuff. Is is never possible to fail and it feel great. But in another way, it can feel boring or cluncky maybe ? In A.C. you have some event like the gift you have to shoot in the sky, the fishing wich can escape, the bees that can fall from the trees when you shake them... Maybe it could be something to have that kind of "happy failure" sometimes
3. The sprint: Someone said it before, we can spam our sprint action like a dumb machine, it is just odd that we do not have a on/off switch, because it can definitly be on forever.
4. No fishing (yet ?)
5. The lack of housing: I know, Yoshida said it during a live letter, BUT, it could realy be something if the customisation was like the housing. For meany reasons. The first one is that it can solve the actual state of housing problem. Everybody can have their island and friend can visit. That's awesome. More, everyone could have a more unique Island and you could have another purpose that just farm tokens and unlock new buildings. For now we can just customise roofs and roads, and it feel not enough for me. I do not know if it is technically possible, but I'd love to be able to place items where I want in my settlement (even if there are only Island limited items)
6. We cannot go in some of the buildings: how to go on the floors of you mill ? Feels sad not being able to do so
7. Understanding the market: It feels a bit complicated at first to understand what is the best to make and to sell. You have to open many windows to check the requirement and result and it feels a bit too hardcore for that kind of content I guess
8. The tokens: For now, green tokens do not feel very usefull. And I am a bit frustrated that to unlock new terrains we have to spen the same token than those for the mount for exemple. We have to make the choice between glamour or playground, and in a way I do not like it.
9. Timers: Maybe i just miss this one, but I would like to know when my plantations or my karakyl are going to be up. A timer which shows the approximative time of growth could be awesome
10. Naming our Island ?
11. An aetheryte to go on our Island ?
12. No orchestrion playlist ?
    

[hynaku]

I want a cozy cabin with enclosed walls that is not open and to be able to gather more than one item at a time. Be nice if the nodes was like the other gathering nodes where they can have a bonus to them.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

1. More animals, srsly I want a regular looking cow and chicken plz
2. Breeding of said animals! Lets breed some baby chocos and sheepies
3. Fishing
4. Instanced house somewhere down the road
5. Let us set a tracker for buildings we are gathering for
6. Much more customisations of the buildings to fit different themes
7. Let us make some handicrafts ourselves so we can be more active on the island if we so choose. Old style crafting using work tables etc.
8. A nursery for fish

[fmonkey13]

Make it where we can have our retainers roam the island like our minions. Maybe even assign them tasks on the island.