An underwater city ? possible new expansion zone ideas

[Gordita]

I've been saying for a long time that we should have a city built over the water, similar to furni from legend of Dragoon. If you're unfamiliar with it, give it a quick Google search and check it out. (It's from '98 so don't expect super high quality pics lol) furni has people using a little rowboat / canoe to get around town for the most part, and residents/shops have docks in the lower part of the buildings, with several floors above that. If xiv took this idea, along with yours, and made it look something like the city in the very beginning of thaleia it would be a great vibe for sure.

[Kaurhz]

I've been saying for a long time that we should have a city built over the water, similar to furni from legend of Dragoon. If you're unfamiliar with it, give it a quick Google search and check it out. (It's from '98 so don't expect super high quality pics lol) furni has people using a little rowboat / canoe to get around town for the most part, and residents/shops have docks in the lower part of the buildings, with several floors above that. If xiv took this idea, along with yours, and made it look something like the city in the very beginning of thaleia it would be a great vibe for sure.

I could get behind this, a city built on water would be amazing if done right.

[Enkidoh]

I've been saying for a long time that we should have a city built over the water, similar to furni from legend of Dragoon. If you're unfamiliar with it, give it a quick Google search and check it out. (It's from '98 so don't expect super high quality pics lol) furni has people using a little rowboat / canoe to get around town for the most part, and residents/shops have docks in the lower part of the buildings, with several floors above that. If xiv took this idea, along with yours, and made it look something like the city in the very beginning of thaleia it would be a great vibe for sure.

Uh.... Limsa Lominsa? (Really, what you just described is quite literally Limsa Lominsa).

[Jeeqbit]

Uh.... Limsa Lominsa? (Really, what you just described is quite literally Limsa Lominsa).

Il Mheg as well. I think the difference is what they referenced has water partially inside the bottom floor of the building and it seems to overall be built on shallow water rather than an ocean.

[Absurdity]

They actually said that, because of the graphics update, they will be able to add more objects to the environment. So it is a limitation of the Minimum and Recommend specs that they confine themselves to. By increasing those self-imposed limitations, they will be able to place more things on the screen.

Somewhat looking forward to that at least, the ARR zones are still my gold standard for zone design in this game. Because they were smaller in scale they just had a lot more small details added to them, for example houses not just being big blocks with wallpaper doors on them.

Considering this game's absolute refusal to allow any sort of verticality at all in fights, I cant see swimming combat ever being a thing as thats essentially the same thing.

I somehow doubt the game can even deal with the Z-axis when it comes to combat. It only kinda worked in E4S because Titan was a giant static wall boss.

[Hanayumi]

Im guessing... they mean a grand civilization sitting in water rather than under, so like merfolk? Otherwise yeah weve already seen "underwater" places tons of times. Feel like a big issue with a major zones in water would be the lack of combat.

[Windfire]

If it'd be anything like IS underwater areas HECK NO, hurts my eyes AND makes me sick.

[Gordita]

Uh.... Limsa Lominsa? (Really, what you just described is quite literally Limsa Lominsa).

I figured someone would say this but I was unable to edit my post as I'd used my daily limit for posts lol
The idea I have is not like limsa , but more of a city that is built out in the middle of open water, not accessible by land. With both underwater aspects as the op suggested and a city built on the surface of the water, using little rowboats in place of aetheryte shards to get around town. Could be a pretty neat idea to expand on , and could make for a really pretty water city

[HeyMcFly]

hello, how are u? Im under de water, pls help me

-bubble noises-