Adding a political system

[Kallera]

But that's not your ideas isn't it? Exactly. All I had was the basic idea, and left it to someone else in the forums to add to it and make it deeper. That is called brainstorming. You were out of line for calling me "lazy" and expecting me to present the whole entire thing by myself. Even her ideas can still be expanded on by someone else, but it cannot be done with a bunch of negative nancies who all they do is say "no" all day.

how can we know what you are proposing to the game if it isn't clear what it is? I could ask for tonberries to be included but there are many ways how. Beastman tribe with Seraph as its primal, tour guides traveling to new dungeons to pawn serivces, popular plush dolls in Ishgard...

[Shyd]

OP made me laugh~

[Amineri]

I hate the idea of any individual influencing my gameplay. I'm sure many others feel the same way.

I completely understand where you are coming from. Unfortunately, the reality is that there are individuals that influence your game play, whether you like it or not. For one, Yoshi-P (the man!) is an individual that certainly has a big influence on our gameplay. Matsui is another. Perhaps that's not what you meant, however.

For my part, I'm more comfortable with designers having a bigger influence, because the designers goal is to create a game that makes money -- ideally this comes about by making the game fun for the players, so their motivations line up nicely with mine. The issue I generally have with player control is that another player generally does NOT have the goal of making others' play experience better, but to have fun in their own right. And when their idea of fun is "mess with" other players ... well, that's when things tend to get ugly.

[Amineri]

While it sounds nice and all the game wasn't really built for that lol.

I agree. While it is kind of an interesting thought experiment, there would have to be a lot of steps in-between now and any sort of player-influenced political system. And the level of effort may well not be worth the risk or investment by SE and the design team.

Probably what it will boil down to is this : how many players can enjoy a political system? By definition, not very many, so it would intrinsically be content designed for the few. Adding the risk that it could harm the play of quite a few, and that it is a "sandbox-style" mechanic, it likely won't ever show in FFXIV.

Dyne, you might check out Wakfu, one of the other SE MMO titles in development. They have multiple nations, player-elected governors, and laws that are set by the elected players. Might be your cup of tea.

[Verecund]

good luck...

[Raistlin]

no thanks, how many people will try to become "president"? 1/3 of eorzea? how many publicity u will see? around 1000? and in the end, will win who have more friends or the biggest linkshell. I dont want a kid with nosense of economy to raise or down taxes, or decide about me.

I am agree with idea of different NPC rulers (3 or 5) and we deciding who of them can rule every 3 months or something like it, every one with diferent taxs values, diferent systems to implement (a system to players vote what we want in the game)

For example: Dev team want to know if we want Linkshell Houses/castles, 3 new dungeons, Personal Boats (and a huge sea map) to travel between citys or fishing in open sea, or to declare open war to Empire (with content for it) Each NPC could have one system, chocobo taxes and more attached to him, and players to vote their best choice.

Then dev team can work on that system and start to implement it before 3 months. That much better than a kid being ruler of us coz he have larger LS supporting him.

[Req]

The only problem I have with this system is the fact that if it was implemented I would be the leader of my server every voting cycle, even if I don't want to be. That is a lot of pressure and all I really want to do is play the game without that burden. I guess thats just the downside of having such an amazing personality.

[Visch]

This isn't wokfu... -_- No thanks to any of this nonsense.

[Synthesis]

And I want to be a ruler of a world and be rich as hell. No thank you, I found this mispleasing in other mmorpgs I played. Just work hard as the others do.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

So TERA announces a political system and you're suggesting it for FFXIV before their system is presented to the players? That'll work. Forget a political system. I want drug rings where players smuggle in gysahl greens, erm.... that players "feed to chocobos" *wink wink*! Or introduce the Eorzea mafia. They'll need to implement gun first though.