One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

[Gunghir]

This thread really nails it. Siobu and others, you guys have got this figured out and I admire your initiative towards tackling this problem so strongly.

A personal hope that I have, is that by the time they add Chocobos there is a large plain zone with rolling green hills. It would be way too much fun to take in the view up and down the hills.

-Keep up the awesome posts guys, hope the community reps take a look see at this on Monday.

[Calevr]

I want to see a region like this!
http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.com/wallpapers/3/2887.jpg

[Rentahamster]

And if there are any good English Japanese translators here It would be awesome if you can translate this topic over to the Japanese boards to renew it over there more or less.

The JPN side already has similar topics.

The unique thing about this thread are the user-created visual graphics examples, so that would need to be translated differently. Like, they would need to create a copy of the graphic with no text for someone else to fill in the translated words.

[Zenval]

What an amazing thread. I have never seen a community of my fellow adventurer's come together and unite to have their voices heard. Everything i have read here is so very true. The copypasta, the lack of landmarks, the lack of progression, the levels of mobs 1-99, it doesnt just seem wrong it feels wrong. The reason is because of the leve system.

The leves arent the reason behind the copypasta or the landmarks or range of mobs all contained in one "zone". They are however the reason we dont feel like adventurer's. The leves give us everything we need. They are the reason the mass of players dont venture out of the starting areas. The leves give us our daily dose of SP. They give us our gil and our rewards of gear and faction points. Every 36 hours we log in and we go to a desk and we recieve our "quests". They are in fact quests if you read the background of each one. They say such and such stole this, some mob is doing something bad, or some person needs these items. When the game launched not a single npc gave us something to go do outside of class missions. Every leve reset we gather our fellow ls mates, we scroll through our friend list, we do a few shouts in town and teleport to a camp and do leve links. We do this because its the most efficient means to level our classes. In two or three hours we can achieve 40-80k and be content with our days work. Theres no reason to go out and find the "camps" or the group of mobs that fits the sweet spot of sp for our current rank. Theres no reason to actually go adventure.

SE has made this game to cater to the casual person. The casual player posts are even in this thread. The ones that say they like how the game is. The endgame oriented players that most of us are are not content with the way the world is because our content hasnt been introduced yet. I do not mean to try and derail this glorious thread. I completely agree with the majority of every single response contained herein. I am a veteran FF player. I played XI for 6 years and have played almost every other FF title to completion. I have immense hope that XIV can become what all of us want it to be. Maybe my post here doesnt belong. Maybe it should be in some leve thread but when i read about how all of us feel about a lack of progression of a lack of adventure this is the reason.

[EdenArchangel]

Zenval, thank you for providing another perspective and more insight---
Your post definitely belongs, because it fits in perfectly with the lack of adventure mentioned in the OP, which has multiple causes.

[Dimo]

really awesome topic here, and great work in it as well. I completely agree. Just today, I got to experience Mor Dhona for the first time and everything from the music to scenery was epic. I can only hope they add much much more and make it so that leveling actually takes place in these areas.

[giftforce]

I want to see a region like this!
http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.com/wallpapers/3/2887.jpg

Why would you want to see a region like that made with Crystal Tools engine?

All that water would be a flat, moving tile with no reflective properties. You can't make a zone like that with Crystal Tools, sorry.

Here is a video that ONE guy made using the CryEngine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVs4p...embedded#at=19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-m31...el_video_title

[Zahak]

I want to see a region like this!
http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.com/wallpapers/3/2887.jpg

I am a little skeptical myself about how SE would handle this beautiful region. I hope they can pull it off!

[CrstyCaptin]

Why would you want to see a region like that made with Crystal Tools engine?

All that water would be a flat, moving tile with no reflective properties. You can't make a zone like that with Crystal Tools, sorry.

Here is a video that ONE guy made using the CryEngine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVs4p...embedded#at=19

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-m31...el_video_title

Holy shit. SE needs to replace their team with this guy. It's far better than what we have now!

[Mack]

Holy shit. SE needs to replace their team with this guy. It's far better than what we have now!

Its not about lack of talent but always about limitations. SE decided to go with top of the line graphics and considering its multiplatform that's a bad choice because of PS3 limitations...hell most of us had to go all out on a computer just to play the game today. I think they had their priorities wrong.