Release a 16 person 4 hour long dungeon

[Murugan]

How about this kind of dungeon:

- no timer
- not instanced
- monsters respawn
- different floors
- you have to kill a nm on each floor to gain access to the next floor
- on floor 3, you'll get a key for a special door on floor 1, so you have to go back to this floor (so different parties will meet each other but wont steal nm kills)
- you can "save progress" like every 4 floors

And finally, it's not really a dungeon, but a tower.... and its name: crystal tower

Make at least the upper levels balanced for an alliance and you have a deal.

Besides you don't have to save progress with phasing or anything stupid, just have an elevator you get a key or key item to access, Vanguard managed this with APW, and they had worse client/server structure than FFXIV by far.

[Mychael]

Besides you don't have to save progress with phasing or anything stupid, just have an elevator you get a key or key item to access, Vanguard managed this with APW, and they had worse client/server structure than FFXIV by far.

SE has actually done this before in several games, already. Some examples I can think of without trying are elevators in Augusta Tower (XIII-2), Pharos at Ridorana (XII), Delkfutt's Tower and Pso'xja (XI)... so we know they'd be capable of it. Personally, I wish the elevators in Ul'dah and LL were part of the maps too (i.e. no "zoning" screen, no cutscene, able to run in circles while elevator is in motion).