Thematic issues. Why all the sci fi.

[Gwenkatsu]

...but MAGITEK (fusion of magic and futuristic science) as always been a FF thing and if you don't like it you should just play something else and stop trying to change FF into something it isn't.

So a sci-fi cyberpunk mega city with neon ads and Starbucks is now considered Magitek?
Thanks for clearing that up.

[hydralus]

So a sci-fi cyberpunk mega city with neon ads and Starbucks is now considered Magitek?
Thanks for clearing that up.

The cyberpunk mega city fueled by magical rocks, yes.

[VeyaAkemi]

So a sci-fi cyberpunk mega city with neon ads and Starbucks is now considered Magitek?
Thanks for clearing that up.

It... factually is, this is very thoroughly explained, all their technology is fueled by Electrope, which is a material that serves as a catalyst for aether conversion, Solution Nine is a city absolutely brimming with magical energy.

[CalvinDescoles]

So a sci-fi cyberpunk mega city with neon ads and Starbucks is now considered Magitek?
Thanks for clearing that up.

you are right, should be call "Electroptek"

[Hallarem]

Magitek is a very specific thing of reverse engineered allagan tek.
But they can just fart out a full Star Wars rip off insert for all I care. Doesnt mean I need to laud it as logical worldbuilding or good writing.

Solution 9 is a clear insert of cyberpunk. My main issue is still how they are using Sharlayan and the loporrits to fart out tek since Endwalker. Dawntrail might be a crap story, but Endwalker sowed the seeds for all of this with how they rushed.q

[hydralus]

It's funny seeing people complain about tech when there's a giant mecha steam punk time machine with transforming robots and fighter jets hanging out in HW.

[Ath192]

It's funny seeing people complain about tech when there's a giant mecha steam punk time machine with transforming robots and fighter jets hanging out in HW.

Alexander's design is much more preferable and blends in better to the fantasy world than solution 9/cosmic exploration/loporrit tech does. Not to mention they don't have cars and motorcycles just sitting around as props. Like someone here said, sure you can make an excuse to bring those designs into the world, but that doesn't mean it blends in well or that its good.

Wuk Lamat could discover a relic her dad was storing in the back of the palace that she uses to power herself up and challenge you to a duel and beat you in front of everyone despite the fact you're the WOL. And when it does your only dialogue option could be to congratulate her and tell her she's become the greatest hero the star has seen. It CAN happen, it just wouldn't be a good addition to the game.

[hydralus]

Alexander's design is much more preferable and blends in better to the fantasy world than solution 9/cosmic exploration/loporrit tech does. Not to mention they don't have cars and motorcycles just sitting around as props. Like someone here said, sure you can make an excuse to bring those designs into the world, but that doesn't mean it blends in well or that its good.

Wuk Lamat could discover a relic her dad was storing in the back of the palace that she uses to power herself up and challenge you to a duel and beat you in front of everyone despite the fact you're the WOL. And when it does your only dialogue option could be to congratulate her and tell her she's become the greatest hero the star has seen. It CAN happen, it just wouldn't be a good addition to the game.

I disagree that it blends in better. Alexander sticks out like a sore thumb. It's ugly and bland and looks obscenely out of place in the otherwise beautiful area that you find it. It's almost like it came from a different game or something (haha). It also introduced time travel which I consider to be one of the worst plot devices ever conceived, right next to "They're not actually dead".

Now I don't actually care about any of that because I think it's silly. However it's the exact same sort of rhetoric shared in this thread. If you thought the above was silly, congratulations, because that's YOU.

[CalvinDescoles]

Magitek is a very specific thing of reverse engineered allagan tek.
But they can just fart out a full Star Wars rip off insert for all I care. Doesnt mean I need to laud it as logical worldbuilding or good writing.

Solution 9 is a clear insert of cyberpunk. My main issue is still how they are using Sharlayan and the loporrits to fart out tek since Endwalker. Dawntrail might be a crap story, but Endwalker sowed the seeds for all of this with how they rushed.q

Dalamud was just a hecking huge industrial source of magick and a prison in space and in endwalker we had a Moon being a spaceship. Fact is both were almost design by ancient. Nothing very... farfetch here.

Solution 9 being a cyberpunk city is not so stupid and w/o any sens. Electricty is a source of power, if you look at us a civilisation, since electricity is a thing we are taking the "same step" (as an image of course...) they were just faster than us and have good electricity storage device (what we do lack of thos). There is sens in Solution 9 imo