Why not improve the 3 initial city-states?

[Catwho]

I'd love to see them fix up the damaged parts of Ishgard as well.

This in particular is one where we have the tech to make the map appear differently depending on where you are in MSQ or in a specific questline scenario (think Doma restoration.) Just The Brume would need to be cleaned up, and I could see that being contingent upon reading the end of a 7.55 with "okay we finished the housing area and all those Firmanent resources got put to use on the damaged outside areas" - with a disclaimer that more resources are still needed at the Firmament for additional repairs in the middle zones of the city, and eventually for the abandoned hamlets on the other side of Griffin's Crossing, so there are reasons for people to keep doing Firmament.

They don't understand it either, they just want to complain so they mindlessly parrot what they've seen other people saying. Any time you see "small indie company" just take it as "I have no idea what I'm talking about."

The larger organization I work for has ~15,000 employees.

My software development team has 9 employees.

It means that procurement, accounting, HR, and all that other stuff isn't handled by anyone in our team, it's handled at the higher levels. We can reach out to other departments for assistance sometimes (because we only do software dev, any time we need networking help that's a different department) but 90% of the work we do is work only we can do. And while we definitely want to hire more help, hiring another person right now isn't going to make our software development go any faster. It'll just slow it down because we have to train them.

[Veritas-Ancora]

I would like additional zones to the city-states, instead of rebuilding from scratch.

[Daralii]

And while we definitely want to hire more help, hiring another person right now isn't going to make our software development go any faster. It'll just slow it down because we have to train them.

But CS3 is hiring, and Yoshida was even advertising that during live letters in ShB and EW. They can't get applicants because SE doesn't pay well among Japanese game companies, they would need to live in a specific part of Tokyo, and they would need to be fluent in Japanese. It isn't good for a resume either given that the genre is largely considered dead and experience with the game's lobotomized chimera of an engine isn't applicable anywhere else.

[VeyaAkemi]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

[Darkshade]

Firebomb Limsa, Redwings style

[LukaRoselia]

No chance this ever happens unfortunately. Remember how much of a 144p blob Limsa used to look like and even then that was only fixed because it was in the background of a trial. That's nothing akin to a full rework of the cities but it would be something I'd like all the same though as you said, most of Dawntrails cityspace feels empty as hell so all we'd really be getting is the seamless zone and no 2 instances like it is now.

[Brandr]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

This is... Beautiful... Just so beautiful...

[BlisteringFrost]

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Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

Works for me. But something about "Our server space can't handle it...." ringing in the distance. Followed by "Sorry."

[Infindox]

Wanna know how to improve the city states by 1000%? here:




Include some lore blurb that a lot of people feel it's awkward placing, but it was a common demand from adventurers, so the cities folded, and bam, perfect.

While I agree with this, I'd like to see the MB in the "end game cities" (Mor Dhona, Idylshire, Rhalger's, etc).

[JMadFour]

as long as the improvements include doing something about the weirdo with 5 million naked roegadyn bots posted at the Limsa Aetheryte 24/7.