gathering in nature

[Holland]

The Q&A's are definitely not working, even though were yet to see the questions from the other regions. I'll go with the idea presented a few posts behind. Have the developers provide the information themselves for what is ready and they have plans of implementing. We know per Yoshida's policy, promises that can't be kept wont be made anyway.

I still get the feeling that, even if Yoshida indicated several times the teams are working in parallel, is simply not showing.

[Armok]

They can't be serious - Q = "Why can we can fish in the fountain in town, but we can't fish in natural water sources like Sorrel Haven?" A = "We'll take it into consideration." LMAO

[Reika]

The animations are already made using motion capture...

hah...

Im surprised no one asked if higher tiers of Lay of the Land etc would work for lower grade areas like Prospect etc do.

[Kiote]

I do not understand this..

What is the point of holding a Q&A if the answer to every question is no? SE would have done better just to post in this thread...

"There are no plans to make any adjustments to the Gathering Classes at any time in the foreseeable future."

I mean, No Grade Six Node, No Plans to Balance SP, No Plans to Incorporate us into the New Content, No Plans to let us play socially..

Why did they waste our time/get our hopes up with this? Holding a Q&A implies that you have plans to make changes to the topic at hand does it not?

I think SE needs to add a dislike button to these forums so they can see how bad this Q&A is..

[Len]

Square Enix sure does love the non-answer.

[Radaghast]

Get your fishing up while you can.

[Len]

Get your fishing up while you can.

Q. Currently the highest node a Botanist/Miner can gather from is Grade 5 while Fishers have Grade 10s, giving them a huge advantage over Miners/Botanists for skilling up. Will we be seeing a balance to this in the future?

A. In regards to fishing, we have been looking into lowering fishing spots Grade 6 and above to Grade 1.

Given the amount of time the developers take to do nearly anything, I'd say we have a few months.

[Lienn]

Well, I disagree that they didn't provide any answers. But I can think of a couple of reasons that players should prefer Q&As over blog entries.

First, it's a good way for SE to gauge player interest in certain issues. SE isn't a company of mind-readers. This is a good way for players to let SE know how we feel about certain issues, and what's important enough to fix first.

Second, blog posts/letters tend to focus on what they've definitely got planned, and ignore everything else. That's just good PR. Here, we got plenty of "We're not planning to do that" and "We're thinking about that, but not sure" responses. So we get responses on a wider variety of topics than you'd get from a blog post/letter.

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

I agree! ^^ They answered what ppl asked. More specific questions had more specific answers...generic questions got generic answers.

I didn't like the answers at all because it seems the way the current dev team see DoL/H is different from the original vision of Tanaka team, giving them much less importance than the battle-related classes, but i support the will from dev team and the community reps in making these Q&A!

Would be nice we even have this kind of topic as sticky at each sub-forum...this way people can leave their questions there and from time to time reps generate a Q&A and remove all posts prior to that Q&A so all questions there are up to date. ^^

[Viridiana]

I do not understand this..

What is the point of holding a Q&A if the answer to every question is no? SE would have done better just to post in this thread...

"There are no plans to make any adjustments to the Gathering Classes at any time in the foreseeable future."

I mean, No Grade Six Node, No Plans to Balance SP, No Plans to Incorporate us into the New Content, No Plans to let us play socially..

Why did they waste our time/get our hopes up with this? Holding a Q&A implies that you have plans to make changes to the topic at hand does it not?

I think SE needs to add a dislike button to these forums so they can see how bad this Q&A is..

Wait, you mean like how he specifically said "We've been planning to balance SP gains"? Or howabout "We're looking into adding rare items to be gathered"? Or "We're looking into adding higher-rank gear (just not tools)"?

ETA: Or the part about considering separating battle leves from gathering leves. . . /edit

Honestly, your selective memory is kinda depressing. . .

[Roaran]

I don't think there are many other gatherers out there, but thank you very much! And I'm beggining to really like these new Q/A's~