Adding Life to the Cities!

[Aver]

I thought of the same thing too when I saw the battlewarden standing there SIGHING while we fought.

At least cheer us on or something.

[Kailok]

I thought of the same thing too when I saw the battlewarden standing there SIGHING while we fought.

At least cheer us on or something.

Lol right? I remember the good ol' Campaign days where there was all-out war going on. You would see a badass Allied Named "Hero" NPC come in and start destroying everything. I want to see more NPCs, ESPECIALLY if an army is about to take the helm in all of the cities. You gotta do it, SE! D:

[Vackashken]

The easiest way to add life to the cities is to get rid of the market wards and the RIDICULOUS fail-leve system in place that so many breeder LSes abuse. If an AH opens and is linked (between the cities) the populace won't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah. If Ul Dah didn't have the best leves to abuse and fail religiously the populace wouldn't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah.

Only after that will the cities come to life. You can fancy up LL and Grid all you want but there is zero reason to go there until those two fundamental fails in the environment design are addressed.

[Kailok]

The easiest way to add life to the cities is to get rid of the market wards and the RIDICULOUS fail-leve system in place that so many breeder LSes abuse. If an AH opens and is linked (between the cities) the populace won't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah. If Ul Dah didn't have the best leves to abuse and fail religiously the populace wouldn't be pigeon-holed in Ul Dah.

Only after that will the cities come to life. You can fancy up LL and Grid all you want but there is zero reason to go there until those two fundamental fails in the environment design are addressed.

I respectully disagree. We're pretty much almost sure they won't be adding an Auction House at this point because I remember in one of the dev posts that they stated they don't have plans to implement one but it's being "looked into". But an AH isn't going to bring a city back to life. People will see it for a couple minutes, get bored and just realize that it's just a more organized MW. You can only entertain people so much with an AH. We need life in the cities. NPCs. EVERYWHERES.

And to be honest, the only reason I picked Ul'Dah in the first place is because it felt more like a city than the other two. I kind of hate Ul'Dah's scenery, a complete barren wasteland right outside. I don't stay and do Ul'Dah's leves because they're exploitable, I do them because they're honestly the more interesting ones. I actually like the area around LL better.

[Morticous]

I don't see them taking it away either, I guess at this point your idea is the best we've got, but thats ok because I like that idea.

[Dreadnought]

i have to say i also kind of liked most shops were closed at night, there was usually one shop open at all times somewhere but if you knew what you were doing getting there wasnt much of a pain, so to me, the immersion was there.

[Rinsui]

Don't pull out the "it's not possible" etc.etc. card.
Look at games like The Witcher. In that game all NPCs move around, leave their houses, work outside during daytime, eat lunch, breakfast and supper, wash their laundry, hide unter a roof when it starts to rain, chat with each other in the streets, flee from monsters or band up to drive them out, go to sleep in their houses at night...

...and the complete game, from start to finish, is fully, completely 100% covered by (excellent) voice-acting in English, German, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish and Rumanian. Produced by a small-scale independent studio (at the time).

So don't excuse SE's lazyness. They had by faaaaar more resources and did by faaaaar a worse job. Cities are a SHAME. Even when compared to FFXIV.

[Morticous]

+1232384768265817647 to Rinsui's post.

I completely agree. at this point ,they could have shifted current developers on other projects as well as hiring more developers to get more stuff done better and quicker (Development emergency catchup plan).. changes are coming in too slow for a game that should have been 50 times better then it already is. Releases twice a month are useless if all its gonna be is little fixes.... release something real... No more little miss events either please.

Current FFXIV NPCs are just emtpy cells.. they just stand there and do nothing unless engaged with.. this game is a sorry excuse for a "today's MMOs". I like Final Fantasy games so I'm trying my hardest to not give up but if this game doesn't pick up by the time they start charging a monthly fee, I'm ditching it, I'm not wasting anymore money for this louzy joke of a game. Laziness IS the word to describe SE on FFXIV at this point! I'll go back to FFXI, hit lvl 99 and finish the rest of the game XD. Then after that I'll go back to the old tried and true FF games who's replay value is currently 1million times better then this games first time play value.

Sorry for the rant, I blame Rinsui for getting me started .

[Kennedy]

Heck, they did it with Zelda Majora's Mask 11 years ago...

[Kailok]

I don't mind the amount of time it's taking..well, let me rephrase that. I'm being EXTREMELY patient. I would rather them take time and fix the game the right way rather than have half-assed updates every week for a year. Kind of like how every Version Update (most anyway) of FFXI was usually pretty awesome, but they only did 3 per year. I'm kind of looking at this the same way.