Mounts/Airships/Teleporting

[Tecprincesself]

I cant wait for flying mounts!!!
There will be areas that a flying mount is needed to access certain areas/content

Personally I like the fact there are numerous ways to get about quickly, I use teles and the airships in this game. I didn't enjoy the 30 min run from Sandy to Jeuno ...even the 15 min chcocobo ride was enough for me and the 10-15 min wait for the ships...."crickets" (but that's just me).

In the good old days I didn't think much of it but after this many years of gaming I welcome fast transportation, its probably just my gaming age...

Yeah, see Im from generation who have played original Everquest before it turned bad. When KOS was still had a meaning.

[EdwinLi]

As other said the flying mounts will only be for the new areas and 2.0 area will not be able to use them.

The reason behind this is that the 3.0 areas are planned to have little amount of Aetherytes and a lot of land areas will require players to have a flying mount to reach since those areas are not close to any Aetherytes and are in areas that can't be reached by foot.

As for Personal Airships and FC Airships, during early info about them around 2.0 timeframe it was mentioned they had plans to make Personal and FC airship customizable. However, this plan may have changed due to time and resource reasons so take this promise with a bit of salt since things change a lot from their original plans.

[Ecks007]

The Aetherytes are not natural phenomenon, they are man-made contraptions. So as far as aetherytes and teleports in the sky/flying areas, I kinda think that there won't be any aetherytes since that would require us Eorzeans having been there before and therefor having already placed aetherytes in various locations.

It's unlikely (actually I think it's already been stated) that the flying mounts will work in the old areas and will only work in certain new areas (the sky zones). Making them (flying mounts) the only means of travel in the sky zones will make them necessary so that they are always being used.

From what we have seen so far the sky/flying zones seem to be rather large and made up of various flying/floating masses of land. I can easily imagine the only means of travel between them being your flying mount or the npc paid flying black chocobo that runs a predetermined course. So far, even the best made Airships have not been able to venture extremely high in the skies and have been unable to basically reach these new areas, though this could possibly change. If you've completed the Ixali beast tribe storyline then you know of a certain young heir who hasn't given up on his dream to make the best airship. That said, it might be possible he succeeds, with help from his Ixali pals, and further tweeks the progress that was made during the beast tribe questline. Hasn't happened yet, but who knows? The groundwork for the lore has been laid.

We might end up with perhaps 1 area that will have an aetheryte thoughout the whole sky zone, or each sky zone (if there ends up being more than one). The zones themselves have promised to be larger than anything we've seen so far so that part has me happy. I hope for some fun flying and exploration with perhaps some danger abound as well (so you better be careful where you land!).

Just to be clear, we won't have flying mounts in the old areas. Maybe you missed that memo. It's the new stuff where they will be used and relevant.

[Tecprincesself]

Just to be clear, we won't have flying mounts in the old areas. Maybe you missed that memo. It's the new stuff where they will be used and relevant.

I did lol I am more interested in things like crafting, gathering and side stuff like Golden saucer.

[Felis]

They say that they are going to put flying mounts into the game. Can I ask why? What is the point when the map is closed in with exits?

How else would you reach a flying island with no aetherite on it? Flying mounts works only in the new zones, not in the old.

[Gilthas]

They should either make the teleport class restriction like in FF11 or you can only teleport in the same area of the major city.

That's a terrible idea.

Airships are still cheaper than teleporting (even if the gil required for teleports is next to nothing) but the main function of it is for immersion (as small as it is).

I actually still use airships and use my mounts to run around, but teleports are incredibly convenient when I'm short on time. I don't want to go back to a traveling system based on wasting your time.

As for the "thrill" of going through high level zones, that's a load of BS. I actually played FFXI for years. No one was going "MGSing through these zones is awesome!", but plenty were going "Who caught agro? *groan* Be careful and stop wasting our time."

[Terrini]

Am I the only one that remembers YoshiP saying that Flying mounts will be Slow at the fanfests? Or has he since recanted? Because I'm sure I remember him saying they would just have walking and not running pace.