Maps redesing for 2.0... cities too?!

[bobbygunz]

Do you really have a problem with copy/paste going on in cities?

Isn't that what people do?
I thought the main problem was believing that natural terrain would be copied exactly every few feet....

But a city... a man made city is going to be copy pasted... thats actually one of the key elements of a city...

Where is there copy paste in the cities, anyway? I never noticed it.

[Elexia]

Where is there copy paste in the cities, anyway? I never noticed it.

Uh...I'm guessing probably the same texture used somewhere more than once..............the cities were one of the things that didn't repeat itself over and over for 700 yalms.

[Duuude007]

Ishgard is being redesigned to have a front gate that actually opens, lol.

[Jinko]

I cannot follow your reasoning regarding these cities needing to be segmented into zones. A loading screen would just make navigation slower. lol.

Agreed, there is no reason why a city can't be designed to fit within the PS3's memory in it's entirety.

[Zyph]

They still have to open up areas on the city maps that you cant go to, like the Lotus Wards.

[Onidemon]

I think they said the cities will be remade as well.

Hopefully we will get an actually AH instead on an empty wall of air to trade with.
Hopefully we will get an actual building for the grand companies.
Hopefully the Airship docks in Ul'dah and Limsa will be part of the same zone as the city and not require loading.

They might not re-do the cities and instead just add buildings for these above. Who knows...

[Onidemon]

They don't need much at all, in my opinion. Gridania could use some work though. But Uldah and Limsa are pretty amazing. Oh, and obviously less emphasis on the market-ward entrance wouldn't be remiss.

Grandia needs to be more like in the original artwork and less like what it is now.

this is what's scary about the 2.0 artwork. It looks amazing but so did the initial XIV artwork and look what we got in the end....

[Onidemon]

Yes but why would a city be zoned? This game can already handle a city + enormous map without any zone lines. So I don't follow your reasoning, unless it's to intentionally slow people down with unnecessary loading times.

It's happening tho'. All maps will go back to zones like in XI with loading screens, that's what they calim in the 2.0 documents at least. They said it's to have more diverse and dynamic maps, yet other MMO got that and they got seemless maps too..... I guess it's a graphics thing, other mmos are not on the same graphical level as XIV.

[Rane]

According to 2.0 PDF's:
"Campaign of battles against the dragon horde in the defense of Ishgard, with participation possible as any of the four Disciplines."

So I hope that means we can enter Ishgard by then! Unless they just let you do everything outside Ishgard like dragoon quests <_<

I get the feeling that the Dragoon quest NPC will be located INSIDE Ishgard in version 2.0, though I could be wrong.

[Rydin]

Where is there copy paste in the cities, anyway? I never noticed it.

I don't really think they are bad.. I was just saying if anyone does think they are copy pasted... is that such a bad thing?