Make Airship/Train feel more "alive"

[BozoBlanco]

First of all i apologize if this has been discussed before...

Personally i didn't like the way airships felt in 1.0. It seems that in 2.0 they will be implementing trains as well, and i would really like that instead of getting a cutscene every time you board the airship/train (which you only see once because most of the times you are going to skip it anyway), you get to travel all the way and get to see and enjoy the world around.

[Tibian]

First of all i apologize if this has been discussed before...

Personally i didn't like the way airships felt in 1.0. It seems that in 2.0 they will be implementing trains as well, and i would really like that instead of getting a cutscene every time you board the airship/train (which you only see once because most of the times you are going to skip it anyway), you get to travel all the way and get to see and enjoy the world around.

Supported.

I think it would be great if airships and trains had optional things to do. Like make them the "gold saucer" of the game.

Of course, I also don't want to be held back if I need to instantly teleport to go do something.

As always, make it optional.

[Enma]

I think that Airship or Train as means of transportation are useless. Because we have Teleport and we need it to be fast in our movements. But Yoshi-P could introduce New Areas accessible only via Airship/Ship/Train.
This is the solution! Goodbye!

[Klefth]

Agreed. Also, your name should be Barba Blanca instead. :P

[Naria]

One of the things I like in XIV vs other MMOs I've played (particularly XI) is the ease of transportation, so I'd prefer that there were not areas that can only be accessed via trains/airships/boats. I did still use Airships and chocobos sometimes amount to save on anima. Although I may be mistaken but I thought there was something about taking a boat to get the PvP zone in the live letter? So there seems to be plans to have exclusive transport to some areas.

[Shougun]

Everyone has their prefrence, but I prefer short but existing travel times. I dislike the free teleport system. Though dont get me wrong I didnt like 40 min walk times either.

"oh ho ho But Shouga Yoshida is trying to make the mmo appeal to broader audience so dont get all hardcore rpgy crap on me" ok thats fine, WoW which has many fold the subscriptions of GW 1 and 2, uses short sweet travel times so.. yeah..

Give us short but sweet travels thanks.. ! lol

From an interview btw for peoples information anima is gone and you use gil instead, so you have limitless teleports but at the cost of gil (limited by your pocket).

Also it appears Yoshida has changed rented chocobos into a flight path (ground) system similar to WoW, if I read it right at least.

[KiriA500]

I think that Airship or Train as means of transportation are useless. Because we have Teleport and we need it to be fast in our movements. But Yoshi-P could introduce New Areas accessible only via Airship/Ship/Train.
This is the solution! Goodbye!

Warrior is useless, because Monk already hits stuff and Paladin tanks stuff! Impossible to have multiple things that serve the same purpose!

[Twiddle]

13 min boat ride from A to B
26 min to get from A to B if you miss boat by 1 step
I am starting to debate if i want the "more alive" thing here... It's fun the first few times, but then it grinds you to death.

[fusional]

depends entirely on the length of transit and how long you have to wait for it in the first place. if anything, just give players an option to choose the scenic route. but forcing every single person into an awful FFXI-style 20-30 minute affair every time they want transportation is a quick way to lose a huge chunk of player interest

[Shougun]

13 min boat ride from A to B
26 min to get from A to B if you miss boat by 1 step
I am starting to debate if i want the "more alive" thing here... It's fun the first few times, but then it grinds you to death.

You can mess with the times you know - without completely wiping the system. (Like comparing WoW to FFXI, both use very similar transportation methods - one is greatly faster then the other)