Anima defeats the purpose of a seamless world.

[Alfortis]

Hello everyone and thank you for reading.

Before I type the point of this thread I would like to note some things.
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I am aware of the One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP thread and fully support it along with 99% of the other players.

I do not know much when it comes to servers and engine programming so please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.

I'm a average gamer that loves the Final Fantasy series, so i'm not a very nit picky person when it comes to MMORPGs.

I'm not complaining, this is something that I think will benefit us and the development team.
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Well if you keep yourself updated with the forums you would know that the development team is or will be working on a revamp of the areas and i'm really excited about this. The thing is, I wish they would just go back to a separate individual zoned area instead of a giant seamless world. One of the my main reasons why I think they should do this is because of the use of anima.

Due to the lack of transportation (which is coming soon) most of us have to use anima to warp to a different area on the map, say black brush to horizon. Well since we are warping around there is still a loading screen even though our destination is on the same map. IMO this defeats the purpose of a giant zone since we still have to face a loading screen, unless a player wants to make a run across maps which most of us don't want to since its a far stretch. I understand that the loading screen isn't that long, but hear me out.

I believe if the development team uses a zone to zone area it would be a bit easier on them and even us. It seems easier to manage zones and in theory they will be able to add more detail's to a single zone along with decorations which is something we all want and the game really needs. Since this might take awhile to do, I don't think they should just delete the current maps, but instead cut them into zones and give it a good redecoration (besides the gridania area just redo that).

Edit: There seems to be some confusion, I do not want to get rid of anima. I think Anima is the best thing ever because It's like a portable outpost warp. Just use small zones instead of one big map.

I really hope everyone else feels the same way about this.

[Dev] If any of you read this, it's not about the redecoration, I'm just suggesting that the development team uses zones in the future updates.

TL;DR: Using anima defeats the purpose of a seamless world because we are still experiencing a loading screen to get to a location on the same map, lets try to encourage the development team to cut the area's and use single zones instead.