Hello. I am fan of FF series, and a fan of FFXI i want to congratulate the effort of your work. Is a well done job and i hope you go on whit this quality.
I think a lot about the game, his state, his machanics and i have a bunch of ideas and i hope you consider it.
Level cap for quest, story line, and raids. Want to enjoy raid rank 25 whit my gladiator rank 45 whitout oneshooting all. And making storyline quest whiout a little feeling of accomplishement. Not oneshoting some thing again. I.E raid rank 25 whit a level cap of 30.
Market wards: time limit for retainers in the wards and a custom armor for all retainers. So ppl will can use the proper wards again, and the feature to see the armor selling in the retainer will be more accurate. I.E retainer will remain 48/72 hours in ward till he get exausted.
Anima: change anima for an scroll system or npc service system. Whit NPC allowing you to teleport in exchange of a fee. You will drag gil from server effiently and will bring back a "logical" (ff terms) to the world. Like the explanation of return in raids after time end. An spell!!! Not the power of you soul........ Whit chicobos and airship coming i think will be not necesarily a FREE taxes teleport system.
About UI: I think is a good idea bring us a bunch of posibilitys to configure the "names" of mobs, npcs, and pcs. So we can feel draged into the game. Whuout a lot of BIGS names everywhere. I.E making smaller the surname of PCs, allowing us to choose betwen see mobs names (smaller too pls) or whiout names but whit an icon to diference the claimed ones. And an option o remove, or directly remove ours names from screen.
Job traits: more of that and exclusive (or more penalised if you use it whit other classe) of classes and jobs. Like subtle blow for pugilist. Parryng rise for gladiators and marauders, refresh at very low rate for conjurers. Thm can have an piety natural boost. Archers meaby passive dex boost etc. And all of this to buy it whit GUILD MARKS. And a lor of them. Parryng rate jobtrait I, II, III, IV etc.
NPCs: scripted NPCs movng around citys and roads will bring more live ti the world. I dont if is too complicate too implement this. But will be great.
This is all. I have a lot more ideas. But i think (skipping npcs scripted) all this is the more realistic and needed. Hope you find anyhing usefull.
Goodbye and welldone for 1.18.
Waiting the 1.19 and more... GL