Island Sanctuary feels intentionally slow and inefficient.

[Bacent]

i didn't see a point to the gardening. You can't grow the onions and chocobo food like you could at a house plot. it looks like you can only plant seeds from the island itself.
There doesn't seem to be any reward for feeding your animals as well.
I only liked the island explorer's shorts from the vendors. I hope they add more features to the island because right now it feels a bit boring.

You make them happy. I'm assuming that higher happiness means higher chance for rare materials from them when you collect their Leavings. Collecting a leaving gives you 50 island EXP per animal you have there. I have 10 so that's an extra 500 island EXP a day. Doesn't sound like much but it's the same as crafting 50 times or gathering from 50 nodes.

Which by the way Leavings can sell for blue shells too, but are also used in the 6 hour crafting things you can assign for even more blue shells. If you have enough materials you could make them craft for you for up to two weeks (seasons) and get island EXP/blue shells that way with minimal effort

[Deveryn]

You make them happy. I'm assuming that higher happiness means higher chance for rare materials from them when you collect their Leavings. Collecting a leaving gives you 50 island EXP per animal you have there. I have 10 so that's an extra 500 island EXP a day. Doesn't sound like much but it's the same as crafting 50 times or gathering from 50 nodes.

Your assumption is correct. I've reached partly sunny on my animals and I'm getting bonus items.

[aveyond-dreams]

I just wished they gave us instanced housing instead of whatever this is supposed to be. After hearing and seeing enough evidence to make my own mind up about this content, I have decided it isn't worth engaging with me for nor do I think it should have taken the place of...well any number of things really.

A restoration, a relic zone, and most importantly housing for all players. Instead the only unique features are in Island Sanctuary are minions who say things like "this is Thancred" and a bath house.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I just wished they gave us instanced housing instead of whatever this is supposed to be. After hearing and seeing enough evidence to make my own mind up about this content, I have decided it isn't worth engaging with me for nor do I think it should have taken the place of...well any number of things really.

A restoration, a relic zone, and most importantly housing for all players. Instead the only unique features are in Island Sanctuary are minions who say things like "this is Thancred" and a bath house.

Question, was it stated this content was replacing anything?

[KageTokage]

It really isn't designed to be grinded out.

You get a substantial chunk of EXP from having your mammets do a full day of workshop crafts and you can get the stuff needed for such in maybe 10-15 minutes.

[DiaDeem]

Question, was it stated this content was replacing anything?

No, but people usually think "If this came, then it means that got cancelled/delayed" but that's not how game development works.
Also, if it was another relic zone, people would be complaining. "Oh it's the same recycled thing again" or something like that.

Also, if they ever make instanced housing, mark my words: People will still complain.

[Deveryn]

I just wished they gave us instanced housing instead of whatever this is supposed to be. After hearing and seeing enough evidence to make my own mind up about this content, I have decided it isn't worth engaging with me for nor do I think it should have taken the place of...well any number of things really.

A restoration, a relic zone, and most importantly housing for all players. Instead the only unique features are in Island Sanctuary are minions who say things like "this is Thancred" and a bath house.

You know... enough already. We know your wishes. We argued for months over what Island Sanctuary could be and what it would be. In the end, I was right all along and they delivered exactly what they promised and nothing more. Go be bitter about the story or something.

[Kranel_San]

I've hit rank 8 as of this morning, and I've got a few things I want to say about this new piece of content. Aside from the fact that It should be more connected to the actual game and not so isolated as a piece of content, I can't believe how slow the progression is.

I have gathered enough to reach high end material gathering and I feel like time-gating rewards and being capped at 10 exp per gathering node is something that was decided upon without consideration for the player's time. It actually feels like the game doesn't respect my time or enjoyment. If I wanted to bite down on a burger but a restaurant didn't let me finish the other half I would be very upset. This is essentially what is happening.

I just want to enjoy this game, but the game doesn't want to let me by time-gating this much. I know I am not alone as I have seen very many posts and comments on how badly designed this content is. What changes would you like to see done to improve the experience?

Personally, I think it should take nowhere near a full day for the workshop to finish, and I don't appreciate crops taking so long, either. The last thing I would like is a bigger island. It really honestly doesn't feel as big as it was advertised at all. Only 2 underwater zones and such a limited amount of animals to raise.

What sort of content is meant to be cleared as soon as possible and developed as such? Slice of life content is the last thing you develop with the mindset of a speedrunner or "Players should be able to finish everything on Day 1"

[VelKallor]

I just wished they gave us instanced housing instead of whatever this is supposed to be

You were told what this is meant to be. Months ago.

After hearing and seeing enough evidence to make my own mind up about this content, I have decided it isn't worth engaging with me

So you havent even tried it. Uh huh...

for nor do I think it should have taken the place of...well any number of things really.

How do you know it took the place of ANYTHING?

Instead the only unique features are in Island Sanctuary are minions who say things like "this is Thancred" and a bath house.

You DO know this is just the beginning, and that more content is to come?

But Ill bet you havent even been there.

Your loss.

[Raoabolic]

You know... enough already. We know your wishes. We argued for months over what Island Sanctuary could be and what it would be. In the end, I was right all along and they delivered exactly what they promised and nothing more. Go be bitter about the story or something.

What DID they promise with IS? From what I heard they were tight lipped for a while and then went "It's not player housing, pls don't get mad. ;_;" when people started asking about it after 6.0.