Bring in factions.

[AmpelioB]

You know what, I'll hold this L. Was a pretty assholish move bringing real-life colonialism (a genuine problem) into silly video game discussion. Hadn't eaten my wheaties at that point in the morning.

it's okay, I understand, I only cited resource exploration because it's the only recorded thing we have from the New world and the only things I can remember are from the Blue Questline and i'm not very fond of blue mage at all. But I would gladly take better takes into the subject.

like this

cleretic has a good view on the subject so I'd gladly take what approach you would take this.

[Videra]

it's okay, I understand, I only cited resource exploration because it's the only recorded thing we have from the New world and the only things I can remember are from the Blue Questline and I'm not very fond of blue mage at all. But I would gladly take better takes into the subject.

To be honest, I think an exploration of the parts of The New World we don't know about would be pleasant. Namely, the Mamool-Ja kingdoms that we only have loose descriptions of, and more lore on the Whalaqee. And, if there had to be a form of conflict to drive the story, I'd be really interested in seeing tension between the Mamool-Ja and Whalaqee in particular. You could spin that in a lot of ways, and maybe some bullheaded dickery from outsider nations trying to butt into problems that aren't their own. Just to spitball a few ideas.

This is something of a crack desire, but I'd really like to see SE do something 'different' with one of the left-over ascians. Namely, Deudalaphon, Halmarut, and Altima. While I understand many players would like to see them conceptually gone from the story, they are loose ends. And I think exploring what they're now doing with their freedom to self-govern could make for some genuinely great storylines. Especially seeing as we have had no baseline interactions with those ascians in particular.