Spawning on the ship deck

[Jennestia]

Because there are more important things to fix right now over a useless cosmetic change.

It's not a cosmetic change honestly, it's actually a system change overall.

Things to do on FFXI's Ferry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIRH32lIag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4v_T...eature=related
(Along with fishing)

Things that are done with FFXI's Airships:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsEPakmsvA
(aside just taking in scenery from city to city)

XIV's airship won't have..anything (confirmed) at initial implementation, so there are indeed important things to do first, but it's not a mere cosmetic change, the ferry is pretty...underutilized and done all around.

[Petori]

Waiting for: "But ferry is free at the moment so don't complain!!".

[Chinook]

Unless the "new" maps are remade and have a use for a ferry, that airships do not cover the travel route and anima system changes, I don't see them re-working the ferry anytime soon.

Even more since there are more important matters that make people quit this game at the moment.

[Shikaree]

Moko Grass?! Hahaha, that's kids stuff...

It's all about the Shriekshrooms... @.@

Whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm not that crazy to possibly send myself to the mental ward!

About airships, I'm curious to how they're going to be planned out. I can't remember where I saw a post about it (cookie if anyone knows and finds what I'm talking about), but it was discussing how airships weren't going to be a black in and out zone and at the same time said something about it wasn't going to be in it's own area when traversing.

I remember taking boat rides as a lower level in FFXI, I would be afraid to walk up top if I wasn't with someone I knew that had raise. Heck I was also afraid someone would aggro something outside the start room, drag it inside, and then die and have the thing unleash hell on everyone else in that cabin room.

[Capita]

I remember taking boat rides as a lower level in FFXI, I would be afraid to walk up top if I wasn't with someone I knew that had raise.

I loved that feeling. Felt like I was a weak little traveler cowering below deck and hoping one day to become strong enough to venture out into the open and breathe in the fresh sea breeze without fear.

I also loved the feeling of being one of the earlier high levels in our AF and having the lower levels peek out of the cabin and gaze at us in awe, because they felt safer with hardened warriors around them.

Felt more immersive.

[Kaizlu]

I loved that feeling. Felt like I was a weak little traveler cowering below deck and hoping one day to become strong enough to venture out into the open and breathe in the fresh sea breeze without fear.

I also loved the feeling of being one of the earlier high levels in our AF and having the lower levels peek out of the cabin and gaze at us in awe, because they felt safer with hardened warriors around them.

Felt more immersive.

I never played XI, but that sounds awesome. Sadly, seeing how things are going right now I doubt that we'll get that feeling anytime soon in XIV.

Mobs, events, aliens, anything would make the ferry better.

[Catapult]

Is it just me or am I seeing things?

When I watch the cutscene video of boarding the ship at Vesper Bay, I can see my character walking up to the upper deck while the guy on the cliff waves farewell to us. So of course I'm on the upper deck rather than below.

[Req]

It's not a cosmetic change honestly, it's actually a system change overall.

Things to do on FFXI's Ferry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIRH32lIag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4v_T...eature=related
(Along with fishing)

Things that are done with FFXI's Airships:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsEPakmsvA
(aside just taking in scenery from city to city)

XIV's airship won't have..anything (confirmed) at initial implementation, so there are indeed important things to do first, but it's not a mere cosmetic change, the ferry is pretty...underutilized and done all around.

As awesome as the ultima/omega and tenzen fights were I hardly think you can include that in things that were done on an airship because they were so out of the norm. Unless you failed those missions you never fought on an airship again, and even then they were story quests that took about 100+ hours of playtime doing previous missions to get to. Any other airship ride was about the same as the boat rides are now, except they only lasted like 4 minutes.