Anima

[Aegishjalmr]

As a former FFXI player i agree the anima system is great and all but i would much rather have chocobos and give it up all together the anima system is nice and all and when there are chocobos and airships from city to city there wont be much a need for it at all but atm its just another of the 100 frustrations we have to deal with in 14

[Tantalus010]

I know this thread is a tad old, but as a returning player and a semi-casual player, I had to weigh in on a problem that has existed in FF XIV and persists even now.

I think players should be able to teleport more often.

Yes, I know we have Chocobos and airships now. However, players under lvl 25 have to rent Chocobos. For a newbie, 800 gil for 10 minutes (especially considering you lose the Chocobo if you dismount, and you have to dismount to do anything - even just talk to a quest NPC) is a tad pricey - especially considering all the travel this game requires you to do for quests and guildleves. On top of that, the rental Chocobos are slow. I sometimes wonder if running on foot is just as fast. I know that owned Chocobos are a little faster, but still not as fast as I'd like them to be. The airships are disproportionately more expensive, and are limited to town-to-town travel.

The problem lies in that there are too many destinations to which there are no methods of fast travel other than teleporting. At the beginning of this post, I said I was a casual gamer - I have a full-time job with family responsibilities. When I get to play, I don't have time to spend 20 minutes running to a camp, then another five minutes running to where the actual action is, only to have to run 20 minutes back to town after my leves are done. The short of it is I need to be able to teleport more in able to get what I want done, and the current rate of anima regeneration is painfully slow (I've teleported no more than two times daily for four days in a row since I ran out of anima and it is still not above 20).

Honestly, I don't really care how it's done - make the maps smaller, make Chocobos faster, allow lower level players to purchase Chocobos, increase anima regeneration, decrease teleportation costs, let anima reset every week - whatever. Just make traveling less of a hassle, please. The current model wastes a lot of time.