Real Time Airship Travel

[Edli]

The problem is that the world is separated with countless loading screens. It is not one vast open world so that wouldn't be possible to implement.

[Felis]

The problem is that the world is separated with countless loading screens. It is not one vast open world so that wouldn't be possible to implement.

I don't see a problem
It would be only 2 loading screens
1. loading screen the moment you get loaded on the ship
2. Airship fly in a special zone, where you can see Eorzea under you
3. Leave the ship with another loading screen

Example the 1.0 ferry ride, it happened also in a zone and not in the seamless world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDWjtDzr-MM

[Edli]

2. Airship fly in a special zone, where you can see Eorzea under you

Ah, I thought OP meant it like when flying on WoW. I would much more prefer to fly through the actual game world, with people down doing stuff. Special zone? Meh, I would just teleport.

I hate the fragmentation of the world so much in this game.

[Oblitae]

Ah, I thought OP meant it like when flying on WoW. I would much more prefer to fly through the actual game world, with people down doing stuff. Special zone? Meh, I would just teleport.

I hate the fragmentation of the world so much in this game.

Whilst that'd be awesome, I don't think it'll ever happen unfortunately. And as you said, the way the game world is broken up at the moment makes it tricky.

(Kinda reminds me when you're walking somewhere irl and you look up and there's a airplane, like woah people livin' their own little lives inside that thing)

[Sadana]

A forced ride with cutscenes, no thanks. An area with more stuff to do? Sure! I guess it would be like a few new zones, but smaller and moving.

[Synestr]

Heh, I remember boat rides with skeleton pirates,....or fishing on that boat and hauling up a gigantosquid!! Fun those days were. That made the rides interesting, cuase it only happened everyonce in a while.

Syn

[TornadoFury]

no one has used air ships anymore since level 15 lol.

[Amused]

I too miss the days of having it take time to travel from one location to another. I used to enjoy the boat rides and airship rides in FFXI. Throw in some random events that can occur during travel too to spice up the experience.

[Moqi]

lol I actually use airships and chocobo porters all the time. If they started implementing random events during my ride, I'd start teleporting. I use them because they're cheap and I can afk (or enjoy the scenery), I don't wanna be on my toes while I'm traveling, I use them to take a break.

[LineageRazor]

I avoid teleporting whenever possible, with the exception of my free teleport. 500+ gil might not seem like a lot, but it does add up over time. That said, I think I'd be annoyed if I was forced to take a slow airship ride whenever I rode an airship - I'm definitely in favor of making this optional.

There are times I want a slow ride, to be sure. I love Chocobo Porters for this purpose. Very cheap, and riding them gives me a chance to get up, grab some food, go to the bathroom, whatever. I just wish porters were less limited in where they can go; it's annoying that a porter in, say, Southern Thanalan, can take you to another porter in SouThan or to Ul'dah, but won't take you to Drybone or Black Brush Station? And why can't the Drybone porter take you to Camp Tranquil? It's one zone away!

Porters should be able to take you to any town that you could get yourself while remaining mounted - so, basically, any town at all not on La Nocea if you're not in La Nocea, and any town in La Nocea if you are.