Sightseeing...

[Addicted]

I agree completely. The riddles are great and having to find the places instead of them being marked on the map is too, but having to rely on a random factor you have no control over is idiotic. I was expecting dumbed down GW2 jumping puzzles but I didn't even get that.
Concept is nice, execution is awful.

[Ashgarth]

I started doing this as soon as i managed to log in, now after 5 tries to get a single vista in whatever weather/hour the designer decided i''ve given up.

[fixitman]

Yet another great idea that was half-arsed by SE. They could have used the resources they wasted on this, for something more useful.... like Chocobo AI.

[Sprinks]

NOTHING will come between me and my baby apkallu!! It just might end up taking forever if is as bad as you guys all say...

[Bluevann]

Hopefully with the introduction of weather forecast NPCs, this will be a more laid-back activity than it is now. Personally, I am enjoying the breaks to look around.

[Nalien]

Personally, I am enjoying the breaks to look around.

I would be, if when I figured out the clue and got to my location, the game didn't go "NOPE! ITS NOT SUNNY ENOUGH!". I'm currently getting all the pleasure of finding the locations, with none of the rewards. It's ridiculous.

After finding a location, and finding out its not the right time/weather/position relative to the moon, I don't really feel like sticking around, since that's a waste of time, nor do I really feel like going back.

[Kojikensei]

I was really looking forward to the sightseeing log, but after wasting an hour getting zero entries complete, it actually made me put the game down. It actually put me in a bad mood and turned me off the game. How the heck did they manage to make this so obnoxious? I should have never unlocked it; at least then I'd be leveling my CUL.

Between the obnoxious zodiac quest that I refuse to eve start and this equally annoying "feature", I have never been so disappointed in a patch. Actually, I've loved every patch except this one. Please stop trying to turn me off this game SE!

[Leowilde]

On reflection, 80 Echo cutscenes might be an utterly ridiculous thing to expect.

It would be nice if only some of the locations had an Echo cutscene, too. Maybe the most challenging ones, and you wouldn't know beforehand which ones had the cutscene as a reward. It would be sort of a pleasant surprise when completing some of the vistas (for those who don't look it up on the web, anyway).

[ShirKirakira]

I was really looking forward to the sightseeing log, but after wasting an hour getting zero entries complete, it actually made me put the game down. It actually put me in a bad mood and turned me off the game. How the heck did they manage to make this so obnoxious? I should have never unlocked it; at least then I'd be leveling my CUL.

Seriously! You sum up exactly how I feel I logged onto the game after it patched, thinking, "Wow, this looks fun! Let's try it out!" Nope, its not. I too wasted an hour trying to complete the unlock quest, decided it wasn't fun, and abandoned it and went to do something else. Maybe I'll pick it up again later when it improves (and the objectives become more clear and there aren't 100 people trying to complete each entry at once, cluttering my screen). Apparently I'm not alone, as I watched many people in my FC and on my server get mad and just give up too.

Great idea, terrible implementation.

[Ominoussilence]

I really wish SE would just get over their tendency to make evrything pointlessly grindy or RNG heavy. Seriously, WTF!?!?! This would have been fun if you didn't need a specific weather on top of a specific time as well as a specific emote. Day/night requirement would have been tolerable but X hour + X weather + X emote makes these no fun. I woulda enjoyed finding and figuring most of these out myself but instead I've been forced online to find out what the proper combination of occurences are required to get the log completions. Gg SE way to make casual fun pointlessly hardcore.

Also all the way this was implemented has done is turn those cool little challenging to get to locations into ugly mobs of people camping the time/weather requirements