So I got the IS motorcycle and am island level 10.... Now what?

[Reimmi]

Get the achievements, keep the island maintaned to make gil from the dyes, or stockpile currency for the next update (they said it'll continue to be updated) or stop doing it til next update, whichever you prefer.

[Darthgummibear]

Wait you can't convert your cowries to materia to gil? Sounds like a weird bug.

Also people describing the feedback to island as overwhelmingly negative don't even live in reality. I'm not even saying it's like the best thing ever but pretty fucking sure outside the English forum the reception been fine to nice. Like yes even on this forum if you go outside the rage baby crying daycare that is the English forum you'd be hard pressed to find overwhelming negativity about it in the JP part of it.

And again personally I thought the content was lacking but I'm also not a clown that conflates their own opinions with what the majority thinks.

Show me on the doll where someone's opinion hurt you.

[Iscah]

Also you're free to search the JP side of this forum or look around the net for that "overwhelming" negativity to see how clowny it is trying to claim there is overwhelming negativity on islands.

For what it's worth, my understanding is that negativity on the JP forums won't look anything like it does here, with our multiple threads and loads of comments. They'll keep it organised in a single thread and express it mostly through liking existing posts.

I can't read Japanese so cant look for myself. Is there positivity there regarding the island? Or just a lack of overt negativity?

[Darthgummibear]

Nice deflect from how you can't show receipts on claiming bullshit where I come from when you see people inventing things calling them out is quite normal but you do you xD. Also you're free to search the JP side of this forum or look around the net for that "overwhelming" negativity to see how clowny it is trying to claim there is overwhelming negativity on islands. Like again I'm no fan of islands myself but it takes some gigantic amount of delusion to come to that take. Like literally go anywhere balance discord island channel, ff14 reddit, ff14 discussion reddit, youtube videos about it and the comments, nowhere can this "overwhelming" negativity be found.

Sorry though if I hurt you with a dose of reality .

Oh shoot I guess only on the English forums is where you can find it touché. xD

You sound like a really angry person. Do you need a hug?

[Adeacia]

My island has been rank 10 for a couple of weeks. I visit my island every day. I take care of my animals and my crops myself. I need a ton of cowries to get the various things you can buy with them. I don't try to optimize my workshop because that isn't the point. Heck, my workshop hasn't done a thing all last week othet than one day for the challenge log.

No reason to rush everything to try to get it done ASAP. That's the problem people have. They try to get anything and everything done as soon as conceivably possible, then complain they ran out of things to do. I'm taking it slow, like it's designed. I'll get all the stuff, I'm just not in a rush to do it.

[ForteNightshade]

No reason to rush everything to try to get it done ASAP. That's the problem people have. They try to get anything and everything done as soon as conceivably possible, then complain they ran out of things to do. I'm taking it slow, like it's designed. I'll get all the stuff, I'm just not in a rush to do it.

I've never understood this argument. You arbitrarily deciding to take it slow doesn't suddenly mean there's more content. It isn't as though I take long on my Island either. Even with an optimal setup, I spend maybe an hour or so over the whole week now to collect everything and make any sort of adjustments.

Saying it was "designed to be taken slow," is a dev copout when they know the content has very little longevity.

[Mimilu]

I congratulate anyone who has the patience to deal with IS to get its prizes. I personally found the experience boring and haven't touched it since getting to rank 5. I even started to play Animal Crossing New Horizons again because I kept thinking about it while trying to get material. （*´▽｀*）

[Toutatis]

My Island lies abandoned since the end of last week. I have everything upgraded and somewhere between 50-60k cowries and only bought the minion as I don’t care for the prizes. Not a fan of motorcycles in FFXIV and the veggies look weird as mounts.

[UkcsAlias]

Saying it was "designed to be taken slow," is a dev copout when they know the content has very little longevity.

Which can be deliberate. If there is too much to be done, it makes casual players less likely to catch up when an update hits. The grinders can finish it quickly then, and as result they just get punished for that by 'having no content'. This is the same as the MSQ approach in which you simply cant continue.

Enforcing slow downs could be done by simply making it time gated even harder, but time gating usualy isnt a good thing to do. Especialy since for those who grind, the rewards can at least still be increased versus a casual (which very likely doesnt care about all rewards anyway).

It is lacking content, but other than that. The 30mins per week to spend on it realy are making it a very casual thing which can give nice rewards.

The other problem is that you dont want to instantly have 100 levels, since the next patch, either you instantly would unlock everything since lvl 11-20 are added (which is bad), or the patch starts at 101 (which makes it a massive grind for casuals). Sure, some levels purely for enabling the purchase of additional cosmetics could have been done, but that also means you need a lot more cosmetic content locked behind this (and that can be another issue).

I think IS is currently fine as it sets a base system, but it definitely will need quite a bunch more content in the upcoming patches to make it worth it. If this is all we ever get, its horrible.

[Adeacia]

I've never understood this argument. You arbitrarily deciding to take it slow doesn't suddenly mean there's more content. It isn't as though I take long on my Island either. Even with an optimal setup, I spend maybe an hour or so over the whole week now to collect everything and make any sort of adjustments.

Saying it was "designed to be taken slow," is a dev copout when they know the content has very little longevity.

It doesn't make more content, but it extends the life of the content there actually is. It's not possible for any dev team to make content faster than players can finish it. What takes months to develop, players can finish in a day or 2, and anything they do to make it take longer, players just complain about because they want it done NOW.