We need to go deeper.

[Hart]

Everyone is probably going to hate this idea, but....

Personally, I would like to see some more optional grindy content. We have all the Grand Company accessories and shields and we have the chocobo mask and the butcher's crown, that is a step in the right direction. I would like to see something like vanity pieces from hitting certain milestones

(example: killing five thousand spriggan nets you a dapper spriggan coat)

Or maybe the bestiary would take killing a set amount of a certain mob to completely fill an entry. Then upon entry completion you would gain a resistance to said mob or do extra damage to it.

(example: killing 100 marlboros would complete your bestiary entry and give you 10% resistance to bad breath or +5% damage to marbol types)

Merits are a good example of grindy content too.

Optional grindy content would give (for a lack of a better term) hardcore players something to do and would only help them marginally.

• Card games

Tetra Master implemented in the actual game would be great too.

[Ingolf]

I agree with grinding mobs to complete a bestiary entry, though the reward should be cosmetic.

[Keith_Dragoon]

Still would like to see BRD allow you to create music that you can play. Mabinogi has a music system where you can write, play, and trade music, and it was always one of my favorite things to do in the game. Using different instruments, you could even get together with other players and form a little 'band' to play more complex music. I'd love to see something like that in this game.

I'd die of happiness if they did this!

[Nuru]

You have killed 1/5000 Spriggans... on Motorcycles! I mean, Magitek. ;D

[Galliano]

I'm extremely for the use of data books; specifically if they're implemented in a manner that's both aesthetically pleasing and informative.
For example, if i were to imagine opening a book cataloging the various flora and fauna in a given location, I am wont to visualizing a charmingly rustic tome with quaint depictions of whatever i was searching for, with perhaps a paragraph or more detailing said item.

I imagine something like this, with some scribbled text next to it and as you skip through the pages of the book turn.



Hell they could just use the concept art images, that would save them a heap of time!

[GinTama]

YES! i would very like more such content! a little more side things like gardening and maybe a place where you can gather and just do something alone or together. i believe gold saucer will be such a place^^

[Technyze]

Thats what she said.

Im sure someone else beat me too, to lazy to read the thread.

[Shougun]

Not a fan of the vanity system but otherwise would die to see the other features implemented (on OP list).

Liked the pond (w/ fish) idea mentioned in here, would like to see aquariums in houses (or with the garden idea you can have those zen ponds/fountains often found with koi).

When the sea and sky expansions hit I'd like to see boats and airships craftable with a housing like system made for the insides.

More accessories would be fun like trophies in the witcher but not limited to beast body parts dangling from the belt (could be better related to the title system so that most titles are actually visual in some manor).

[Preypacer]

I agree with grinding mobs to complete a bestiary entry, though the reward should be cosmetic.

Agree with ya on that. I was thinking that giving someone a stat boost of some kind, be it defense, offense or what-have-you, kinda moves the achievement from the "optional" column over to the "necessary" one. Min-Maxers would especially be all over that, I'd imagine.

Cosmetic, or even just a title. Titles are always fun. I liked the ones they had in XI.

I do like the overall idea behind the OP, though. I've always felt that in MMOs, "more is more".

[Colvin]

I know the system doesnt really support it and we have KIND of done it in the social aspect, but I would like to see some real-life equivalent competition stuff like:

1. Cook-offs (make your own recipe?)
2. Top Chef
3. Iron man Marathon (composed of running, chocobo riding, and gathering/crafting events)
4. RL connected activities (eg: start a charity where people can sign up to marathon craft for donation money)
5. House building for others (crafters can get together and actually build the house for others)
6. community centers
7. collaborative research centers for magic or potions
8. matchbox racing (give people as a team the ability to take various components and add them together and see how the races go)
9. boardgames (places you can meet to place chess or something similar that you would do online)
10. Sports (could be PvP based, but where you can go to view the "game" with friends, maybe bet?)
11. Ability to craft, gather, sell via mobile devices
12. Ability to start not just a store, but several stores in various choice locations that all connect to a central item stock that you own
13. Automated MOVING sales carts

I could seriously go on for ever