Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX!

[ZakarnRosewood]

Gardening, when can we expect it?

[d0m1n1c]

Is there any plan to implement traditional final fantasy mini games? for example, Tetra master, blitz ball, chocobo treasure hunting, chocobo racing, etc...

[Delorean]

There have been a lot of questions regarding WAR's role in a group, detailing how it stacks up against PLD and while the meaning behind communication is usually lost after trying to merriam-webster online dictionary video game jargon due to not understanding a term like "viability" on the same level, many feel that it is accurate to say that using WAR is unconventional.

There has been a lot of discussion in the English Tank Roles forum about how WAR is not everything it was envisioned to be.

What plans do you have to address these concerns?

I do not feel like anyone is asking for WAR to become the same as PLD because homogenization is icky, but I feel like a great number of the class' abilities are uninteresting, underwhelming, or nigh useless.

[Blacklore]

I don't know whether or not this was answered in a previous thread or letter from the producer, but... Will the housing areas in Gridania and Ul'Dah be ready for patch 2.1? I remember that the Limsa Lominsa housing area was tested in beta test phase 4, but the others were unavailable. I'd prefer to have my home in Ul'Dah, so I'd very much like to know.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Please give me reasons to see people in Free Company Housing!

I would love to see bonus incentives, like automatic well-fed bonuses, for logging out in our Free Company housing. It would be really nice to see our guild members sign out and the area not be empty. With so many aetheryte points, I don't see that many people actually wanting to go back and being there. I'm afraid it will be a ghost town!

A free Teleport area to all the major cities, for example, would be a great incentive for people to log out in their Free Company and make it their dedicated Home Point. If you can afford hundreds of thousands of gil for housing, you shouldn't have to pay full price for teleports any more. Or maybe a personal airship free-of-charge airship for the Free Company? :-) :-)

[ddl]

I saw the housing video and the new furniture is cute, but will there be more "normal" options for players who don't want their houses to look cartoon-y? Will the furniture we've seen in game already at places like the inns be available?

[jovination]

Is there any plans to fix the general problem with the server communications?
(called "instance lag" by many people). Based on my understanding it comes from the fact that the server uses its understanding of character position rather then the clients. This leads to in higher lag situations that when there is very limited time to move sometimes the player needs to have a reaction time barely higher then the average human reaction time. Witch eliminates skill from the equation and is purely based on the internet connection. The fix for this is to just cross reference the clients position with the servers position to calculate if the attack should hit or not. I have had many times where i can be far from the attack and confident I dodged but get hit anyway without even being near the animation.

[jovination]

Part 2

Is the game going to be optimized more for casual players?
Although I like the game I find that the game targets only hardcore MMO players. The difficulty of most of the content is well beyond a casual players level. Hearing a higher difficulty of primals on my way makes me think that the game does not care about the people who just want to have fun, and only the elitist who are currently in the game. The leveling is good for casual players and fast for hardcore players, witch is good. However that is not kept in end game and instead almost purely targets hardcore players.

[jovination]

Part 3

Will there be adjustments to duty finder to create a party makeup for the specific instance?
Many fights do not need 2 tanks 2 healers and the rest dps, and some depend on having at least one member on a specific job. This has led to the duty finders automatic feature being used less and less in favor of manual party creation as with the difficulty of the current content, it is useless.

[guardin]

how many hours of story progression after 50 will we get every 3 months?