Keeping us busy.

[Jynx]

It's become painfully obvious that even though the developers are working to make the game more fun and more balanced. The sheer lack of content is punishing to many players who want more to do in the game.

The downside is that it's hard to implement content such as raids, new zones, level cap increases and so forth when the battle system is currently in the process of becoming something totally new.

The solution? Implement something that is not dependant on the current game and wont change much even in the most dramatic UI and Networking updates.

[SIZE=5]Tripple Triad!

[/SIZE][SIZE=5]One could say it would be a quick way to give the players something to do while not relying on something you would need to change and balance and overtly care for while you are pushing out more important updates.

Allow players to get a "Starter deck" with some basic cards and then start handing out cards as either drops from the mobs themselves or better yet make them quest rewards because we all know right now a pair of lvl 5 leather trousers really gets everyone excited to do a quest.

What if each quest had some kind of rare card reward? even the lower ones have nice rare "maybe not powerfull" cards to collect. Give us a reason to do all the quests, rewarding us with something not obtainable any other way is the perfect way to drag us into playing all the content you layed out for us. We will get double the fun the rush of getting a new card and the story that come along with the quest!

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What do you guys think? Would even something simple like a ported version of Tripple Triad be at least something that we could do in our spare time to take our minds off the current state of the game?

hell it doesn't have to be TT it could be any sort of collectable game or collectable mission, something for us to collect and be able to show off. Nothing is more cool than saying "Man take a look at this Diabolos card I just got!" Or crushing another player even though he has a vastly superior deck to yours.

hell even just having items to show off that took time and effort to aquire is a great way to keep players busy. The main point of the post is to come up with ideas that you think would be not only easy to implement, but keep us busy while the game shapes up.

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Original discussion of tripple triad: [/SIZE]http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=tripple+triad

[Xatsh]

I would love a minigame in some form.

I say expand on the existing lore of the game.

Uldah is about gambling/battles/ect... Open a casino and like a small Fighting Arena, let us gamble away all that gil that is piling up in the community by unbalanced reward systems with a complete lack of gil sinks.

I want me a casino >.>

Fighting area is there at the Glad Guild and There is a elevator with Dice on it near the Pug Guild... not sure what that is... but make it a casino >.>

[Joeking]

I want this in ul'dah. I love having Max money and losing it all.

[Seif]

I'd love a system like IX had where most NPCs could play that game with you and they usually had a line or two of dialoque along with it too.

The sad part is that the whole card game has more depth than the entire game design of XIV combined. It probably isn't "casual" enough and would have to be dumbed down for the am... I mean more simple players.

[Wynn]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=tripple+triad

Just to link the old discussion from a few months ago. It would certainly be an entertaining diversion. I know I'd enjoy it.

[Jynx]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=tripple+triad

Just to link the old discussion from a few months ago. It would certainly be an entertaining diversion. I know I'd enjoy it.

Thanks I'll add that link to the OP~