If there was a world event in game, that destroys all Aetherctye...

[Naberrie]

I would love this. Though, to be honest, I rarely use Aetherytes anyway. I prefer to airship and take my mount. This wouldn't change things for me in the slightest. But I would love to see more open world events and something catastrophic that the players have to come together to fix. I love that idea.

[Gwaeron]

we are looking into more content focused on getting players out and about.
You can imagine that Treasure Maps were created as the first idea in this vein and we're currently thinking about how to expand on that idea!

Please bring back faction leves and caravan. They were open world and didn't suck, why were they even removed?

[Enkidoh]

Caravan escort technically still is in the game, it's just been modified into escort levequests and escort type FATEs. Faction leves on the other hand, I agree would be nice to have back, if just for lore padding - I miss seeing the 'Horn and Hand' and 'Azeyma's Shields' notation at the bottom of each leve description.

[Theplatter]

Please bring back faction leves and caravan. They were open world and didn't suck, why were they even removed?

Wow, I completely forgot about Faction leves. Would be a means to introduce some terrific popped NM's or other challenges, as well as some horizontal-progression gear.

[Sunarie]

I get that some people are explorer types, and that's what they find fun in the game. Running from place to place, uncovering cool scenery and taking in the art. I do this sometimes myself, with the teleporting as is. What I don't really understand is this community's insistence upon shoving what they deem fun down other's throats.

There is nothing stopping you from running from point A to point B and not teleporting. If that's what you truly enjoy, you can do it now. Not having that option would literally ruin the game for some folks, and cause a lot of frustration for lots more. There's no need to force what you consider fun upon the populace with really no reason other than telling them they should enjoy it because that's what you enjoy (which is not a good reason).

[JimEatsFood]

This idea sounds like an anime called "Log Horizon". after a certain calamity happened, all the teleporters are down and the adventurers are forced to travel by foot or by Flying mounts. The flying mounts also had stamina and once depleted could not be used for 24 hours. Enough about that though.

For the malfunction of the Aetheryte Crystals to work, the world really would need to be bigger. Not just the world itself, but the areas in general. As someone else said, the loading screen every 45 seconds is pretty lame.

[JimEatsFood]

I get that some people are explorer types, and that's what they find fun in the game. What I don't really understand is this community's insistence upon shoving what they deem fun down other's throats.

There is nothing stopping you from running from point A to point B and not teleporting. If that's what you truly enjoy, you can do it now. Not having that option would literally ruin the game for some folks, and cause a lot of frustration for lots more.

Right, but what this guy is saying is to have a community event to where teleporting is temporarily halted until the community can figure out how to get the power back on. If you think about it, this idea has the potential to get more people to get to know eachother. what if certain characters at certain levels are the only ones who can discover clues

[Nova_Dresden]

So it totally takes teleporting off the table.

We are thrown back into the stone ages of travel. Chocobo... Gobbue..... unicorn...

Would you be ok with that ? Maybe a large world sized community quest to get them up and running again

YAY ?/ NAY ??

Nay.
I have no interest in running from one place to another on a mount or on foot over and over. The airships would alleviate that some, but I have no interest in my gameplay being consumed in the act of traveling. This isn't any different than the "What if we remove flying mounts?" discussions all the time on WoW in order to kick-start world PvP. If I want to explore the world, I will. If you remove teleportation and force me out into the world just to be able to function I'm not going to be a happy camper.

Right, but what this guy is saying is to have a community event to where teleporting is temporarily halted until the community can figure out how to get the power back on. If you think about it, this idea has the potential to get more people to get to know eachother. what if certain characters at certain levels are the only ones who can discover clues

Still not interested. Is the event temporary and timed, or will it be off indefinitely until the event is completed? Also what happens if everyone is level 50 and you need a level 35. Who's switching classes (provided they have something below 50) to level up to complete this event.

[Sunarie]

Right, but what this guy is saying is to have a community event to where teleporting is temporarily halted until the community can figure out how to get the power back on. If you think about it, this idea has the potential to get more people to get to know eachother. what if certain characters at certain levels are the only ones who can discover clues

It does, but I tend to dislike things that try and force community upon people by making another aspect completely inconvenient. Also, the way I read it the OP threw the whole event thing in as an afterthought, and the point was more to disable teleporting and less-so about an event (I could be wrong). There are a lot of community events that could be implemented without the need to render a portion of the game completely frustrating in order to get people to attend. People should be attending the events not out of obligation (to get back a feature they once had an enjoyed) and more because the event itself is fun. If SE needs to take away something people enjoy and dangle it as a reward for event completion in order to get people to attend, maybe they ought to re-think the event itself instead.

[Kurosawa]

We definitely need areas where travel is restricted. Like an area with only one entrance to it and that's the ONLY place an aetheryte is. If you want to reach somewhere on the map, you're huffing it on foot or via mount. There's plenty of monsters and dangers to make doing so challenging, meaning you'll need a hand to do it. What this will do is create an area you MUST explore. You can't just pop through to a spot, get what you want, and pop back out. I DO NOT want the travel system we have changed. I like being able to get somewhere quickly to assist FC mates. I absolutely hated the stupid system FFXI had of doing a day-long quest just to travel via airship, and having to wait forever for the boat or airship, THEN wait forever to transport to the new area. I didn't hop on the boat to talk or hangout, I hopped on because my friends are over in the destination area and I want to game with them. With the current system, I can be there in a couple minutes tops, not 45 to an hour.