Chocobos, Teleportation, Airships, and your feet. A Travel Thread

[Sephr]

Uh, where? This community is sick. I mean, where people prefer time sink instead of a insta teleport?
try to travel from limsa to coerthas, cut 50% of time (what a normal mount is) and return here saying: we don't want teleport.

what do I want? gimme 15 mins cooldown and infinite anima.
what about chocobos? hmmm I need new recipes for cooking... or you can use them for some hidden place (they can jump for example) or use special roads, or simply for exploring. Really, it's only a fat chicken. A symbol, so I would like to see it, but I don't wanna sacrifice time for it. Zero, nothing. The game is already so sloooooow.

15 minutes is too short, it essentially removes the need for alternative transport and that just kills something that's been a major part FF games in the past. They want this to feel like a full MMO world, not a few camps that you zip between as and when you need to. Furthermore, it's an mmorpg, these things aren't known for their lack of preparation time and I think that's part of what people like about them in some ways.

I agree Anima should be there as a sort of quick method of meeting friends or something, but I think it needs to be kept away from being the best mode of transport. Perhaps once chocobos etc are implemented it should work on a 3-charge system, where you get 3 at the start of the day that can be used whenever. This would give casuals a way of getting to where they want quickly (they wouldnt care so much about using them within an hour or two period), whereas people wanting to do more would have to make use of alternative methods (assuming that the time it takes to get around is reasonable)?
3-charge might be too stingy, but you know, just speculating here.

EDIT: Also, god no to riding 'mechas'. What's the point in adventuring when you can get a pair of mechanical legs and drop kick those dodos in the face?