Island Sanctuary - Please include summoning bell, orchestration, mail box, telecrysta

[Gararr]

the place wasn't made for you to afk and live in, so all those things (minus the orchestrion which is already there) are not necessary.

This remains one of the worst arguments. People don't want to live in there. But its nonsensical and inconvenient to the player experience to have to stop in the middle of what you're doing to Teleport to Limsa for the basic action of checking retainers.

While I would prefer a Retainer bell on the island, I'd be fine with one on the Drydocks too. If this is meant to be casual fun content (once you hit rank 10 it's more a weekly to check set & forget) then having simple access to a few other basic systems is beneficial to the player experience. Not Having a bell in there won't stop someone from no lifeing the sanctuary. But it WOULD be a fantastic convenience if I could check retainers on the way to my weekly checks.

[Shibi]

I wouldn't expect them to add those things to the island itself, but a retainer bell in Moraby would be nice. (And one in Quarrymill for PotD too.) There are bells in Mor Dhona so they're not functionally restricted to being in large cities.

That's a smarter idea. +1

[Deveryn]

Island Sanctuary - Please include summoning bell, orchestration, mail box, telecrystal, and
auction house.

Teleporting to one area to npc warp to next area seems like a waste. I'm sure your trying to maintain the rpg element, but really? If there were the case all teleporting would be eliminated and only chocobo travel allowed.

This also goes for bozjan, elemental, etc.

Market boards are limited to actual markets, so that's out.
Mail... why? How much correspondence are you going through regularly?
Orchestrion is there, though it could be a little less muted away from the cabin.
Bell... eh.

All of these things are so easy to get to. What's the harm in teleporting out? Just go to Kugane. They even have a company chest.

Teleport... Bozja and Eureka are basically duty instances, so you'll never be able to teleport directly. The Island is no different from going to a house, where you first teleport to that plot before you go in.

[Oizen]

Excuse me this is the "island of your dreams"

why didn't you dream of these things on your island before you built it? checkmate

[Packetdancer]

You don't need to be a dev to know the reasoning why these things will never be added to Islands.

Island instances are limited and on a timer. The last thing they will ever consider is adding summoning bells or anything that will encourage players to fill the server for as long as possible.

Seconding this; we know the instance servers are limited, the last thing they're going to want is reasons for people to just idle on the island and never leave, eating up instance slots.

That said, the ability to teleport to the island is also probably a technical limitation; the teleportation system seemingly cannot teleport you into dynamically instanced areas. There are a whole slew of technical reasons this limitation might exist; for once, I am going to spare you all some three-page analysis of How MMOs Work Behind the Scenes and just point out that the limitation does exist; you cannot teleport inside of a house, you cannot teleport directly into a Bozja or Eureka instance... in all those cases, you need to speak to an NPC (or use a door, which functions akin to an NPC in this scenario) which then can check "does an instance exist that I can put this person in, or do I need to create one first."

I'm actually shocked that you can go into an instanced duty from your island sanctuary and come back to it afterwards. Though, watching closely, it appears to actually drop you at the Moraby Drydocks when you return from your instanced duty and then basically automatically speaks to the NPC to try to get you to your island. Which, if that's accurate, is one of the most hackish, duct-tape-and-paperclips solutions I think I've ever seen, but... I mean, I guess it works?

But I cannot imagine trying to set up the teleportation system to do that.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Oh god I have to get out too once in a while xD Don’t trap me in there forever lmao!!

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'm actually shocked that you can go into an instanced duty from your island sanctuary and come back to it afterwards. Though, watching closely, it appears to actually drop you at the Moraby Drydocks when you return from your instanced duty and then basically automatically speaks to the NPC to try to get you to your island. Which, if that's accurate, is one of the most hackish, duct-tape-and-paperclips solutions I think I've ever seen, but... I mean, I guess it works?

But I cannot imagine trying to set up the teleportation system to do that.

That might explain why the area around the cottage seems to have a couple of specific spots to load you back into when returning from a duty. The game doesn't remember where you actually were, so it just puts you in a "close enough" preset position.

[Seera1024]

I'm actually shocked that you can go into an instanced duty from your island sanctuary and come back to it afterwards. Though, watching closely, it appears to actually drop you at the Moraby Drydocks when you return from your instanced duty and then basically automatically speaks to the NPC to try to get you to your island. Which, if that's accurate, is one of the most hackish, duct-tape-and-paperclips solutions I think I've ever seen, but... I mean, I guess it works?

It does take you to Moraby Drydocks first.

My system is slow enough at the transition points that I've had chat from players hanging out in Moraby pop up in between my Trust dungeon runs and landing back in Island Sanctuary.

[HanWenqing]

the place wasn't made for you to afk and live in, so all those things (minus the orchestrion which is already there) are not necessary.

Who are you to decide how we play? Don't we pay a monthly subscription?

Really this lack of respect, you pay and they tell you how to play...

If the game is in this state it's mainly because of this policy to save the huge profits of ff14
It's enough to make the players guilty when the fault is SE and the dev team...

[Deveryn]

Who are you to decide how we play? Don't we pay a monthly subscription?

Really this lack of respect, you pay and they tell you how to play...

If the game is in this state it's mainly because of this policy to save the huge profits of ff14
It's enough to make the players guilty when the fault is SE and the dev team...

If you're being serious, maybe you need a longer break from the forums. Relax dude.