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

[mbncd]

How about allowing turn-in style levequests for gathering using existing materials and not 'quest materials'? A leve that maybe calls for 30-99 oak logs as an example. Something you can go out and gather for a couple hours, and come back and get some bonus xp and/or gil.

Please, no. People already buy their way through crafting leves, crafting quests and gathering quests. Please make them actually work through gathering leves themselves... I really think all crafting/gathering quests and leves should use quest items that can't be traded but we really shouldn't lose the one bit of effort left in these things.

As for a question...

Will we ever get searchable crafting/gathering logs?

With the introduction of some 300 crafting recipes (and probably new gatherable items needed too) for housing, it will be an absolute nightmare finding the class and then the 5 level range that that recipe is in before we can find the recipe itself. We shouldn't have to memorise what level every recipe is just to be able to make this stuff (especially when it's gotta be approaching 500 recipes if you include the old stuff). It makes much more sense to learn the ingredients and techniques for HQ'ing items, which most people already do. If you add level knowledge to that, you'll just be driving people to outside resources (such as fan made database sites), which goes against the concept behind adding recipe books to the game in the first place.

Even if the answer is a resounding "no," I'd still like to know if this aspect was even considered when looking at those 300 new items that would be crafted by players who had to navigate those usually blessed but sometimes accursed crafting logs.

[Marius]

There seem to be only two areas towards the later levels that people do FATEs to either grind out exp to get to 50 or Grand Company Seals. Will there be any change in frequency of FATEs in other areas of the world with similar level ranges? Having only two viable options for FATEs means many people will stay in those areas so either it becomes really laggy, or many people just do not get to do the FATEs and benefit from them.

[Marius]

Currently as it stands right now there really isn't any reason to redo some of the old dungeons and or Guildhests after doing them once for either story elements or first time bonus exp bonus. Will you add any type of elements to make these more attractive to do like say having the exp bonuses of Guildhests reset when the levetimer does, or adding a large type of exp bonus for dungeons upon completion of them that can reset daily as well? Something more attractive then the first time bonus to get more people to do them and get more people to use the duty finder. Say like having exp scale with level and or a decent amount of exp or tomes for redoing old dungeons for players at 50.

[Michelasso]

Are you going to do anything about the Diremite Webs overpriced? It is pretty clear that all those vendors with huge quantities are acquiring them with bots. Get a rid of them or at least put some stocks of the overpriced items at a regular price so you kill them with competition.

[Valleo]

Re: Housing.

Would you consider allowing players the ability to have their characters (as well as minions, companions, retainers) show up in their FC or personal housing when they are logged off?

This could be used to make the housing area's a place to visit, as perhaps an "adventurers board" could be set up where people could post personal quests.

For example, if I want fleece I could create a quest where I will give a reward of gil or items (up to a max number of items or gil), in exchange for a turn in of fleece, and the game could reward the other player with some exp, based on the reward offered to avoid exploiting the system at the same time. It would encourage housing area traffic, the economy and provide repeatable quests that aren't dependants on leves.

I realize that much of this could also be done via a retainer NPC shop, but that would not include the quest/exp aspect, or the option to allow people to interact with your character when you aren't online.

[Redsock]

Are there any plans to allow people to enter a dungeon without using Duty Finder? In other MMO's, I like soloing low level dungeons and running alts through them. Currently, I can not do this as the Duty Finder syncs my level.

[Sorensin]

-Will our retainers move to our house and be an NPC merchant selling our wares on the side of the house? If someone opts to find the item they want on the duty board they can then go find the house and buy it directly so as to avoid extra fees/taxes?
-Will there be new gear set drops in the Crystal Tower?
-How much gil do we need to save to get our Free Company a mansion??!?!

Thank you!

[Vies]

A general question about classes/jobs:

When new jobs are eventually added to the game, will there be situations similar to Summoner/Scholar, where each job requires a different primary stat? And if so, will we be given the ability to reset our stat points(or perhaps be able to set stat points independently based on which job we have equipped)?

[TrystWildkey]

It was mentioned previously that Free Companies can ally themselves with other Free Companies.

What is the status on this? And would they then share a chat channel?

[Xayoc]

The community is aware of PVP having exclusive skills, will current skill trees no longer be used? Specifically will PvP have an entirely separate skill tree from PvE or will there simply be additional skills usable in PvP but not outside of that arena?