Crystal Tower: idle speculation on the future

[Fenral]

I have two competing theories on what they might do with Eureka, without speculating too much on the content itself, and I'm curious to see what others think about them.

First, and unfortunately more likely theory, is that it will be "separate" from the Crystal Tower in the truest sense. In relative geographic proximity, but it's nature as a place entered from within the Crystal Tower will be completely handwaved with the discovery of some "alternate" entrance. Whether or not you've done CT will ultimately only affect how the handwave plays out: either you still haven't opened the tower, or "we" still aren't ready to reopen it. In the event of the latter, Sleeping Beauty's name will be dropped once or twice to appease that one guy who still cares (me ).

Second, slightly more interesting/improbable theory, is that it will be a "continuation" of the current Crystal Tower story, but tied more to XIV's own story and lore than the original dungeon. Rather than having Eureka as the "objective" of some expedition, I imagine it in this case as being a "consequence" of reopening the tower for some other story purpose (see my first post). Putting the tower to sleep without properly containing Eureka has allowed whatever experiments were contained within it to awaken, and reopening the tower has at last given them a means to escape into the outside world. In this version, G'raha is free to resume his role as plucky, self-deprecating sidekick/Allagan history expodump as needed.

As for content itself, I kind of imagine it housing Lv. 60 (or greater, depending on time of release) individually-instanced "Extreme Mode" versions of the original CT bosses, many of which were pulled from Eureka to begin with.

[Kaiser-Ace]

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I like a combination of the two. Lets say that Eureka is not the 2nd entrance but like an Allage Arsenal or Weapons Bay or something for Ultima like creations. Maybe even experiments that were locked up for being either to dangerous or reject/failures. And in order to access Eureka we need our good old Allagain Miqo'te back. Then our good friend, Ghost Noah (Cue Ghost Nappa Jokes) and his possessed Miqo'te sidekick decide to show us a "Back Door" into the Crystal Tower that was built by him with out telling any one. Then Cue Eureka arc by assisting Ghost Noah, G'raha, and the Noah alliance in stopping a fleet of super weapons from being released. Maybe even have you fight one of each weapon (Or maybe a pseudo version) on the way to the inner most level.

After all that place is still pretty huge. We went from the labyrinth of the ancients to the Sycrus Tower immediately, but both Cid and the Lore have already said that Sycrus Tower was just the largest and most important of the towers. I imagine Amon's mad scientist lab is still sitting some where in the "Crystal Palace" so to speak. (Wait wasn't Crystal Palace a dungeon in an old FF game too or am I Thinking of something else?)