Thanalan - train tracks... what are they for?

[aerialrave]

everyone loves trains and wants to see someone suplex a train.

Please look forward to it.

I'm maining MNK since I started playing but planning to switch over to Machinist after the expansion. If they add new MNK skills from Sabin such as Suplex and Bumrush I will reconsider staying MNK.

To stay on topic I don't see why we can't have trains. We already have airships and engineers and fancy science people. Surely they could make it happen! The mention of politics from the Syndicate in Ul'dah is the only plausible reason holding it back!
Some inspirational Train Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TaTSIDarZA

[LystAP]

While it has its faults, one of the new WoW instances takes place on a moving train and it is one of the more popular instances of the newest expansion. It would be great to have a instance in FFXIV where we fighting inside or along a moving train.

[Kotemon]

It would be great to have a instance in FFXIV where we fighting inside or along a moving train.

I thought of that once.. However it wound up looking to much like a homage to the intro of FF7 and the train top battle from FF6

[Violyre]

Every time I come upon it, I think "You guys wanna go see a dead body?" I referenced it in a video even (poorly, at that. XD).

[Eye_Gore]

Every time I come upon it, I think "You guys wanna go see a dead body?" I referenced it in a video even (poorly, at that. XD).

Too bad there wasn't a train then you could have, "That was the all-time train dodge"

If you talk to the NPC's at Blackbrush station they will tell you the line is used to haul ore from the Nanawa mines and that is what they are waiting for. At the Ul dah station the npc's there will say they are waiting for the mine carts to come through so they can get a drink.

[godwin]

Those tracks were going to mor dona imperial base to the one inside the shroud. It was said to be for a rapid large troop transport/ supplies

[Terin]

Ive always wondered thst as well. Kind of hoped that they might actually add a train at some point, as battle atop a speeding train coukd make for an awesome Guildhest.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Yes, but there are no lyrical components in the 1992 Moogle Theme, which is what is taken from Nightmare Before Christmas, which is what I was pointing out in the youtube link (as it starts with the part of the vocals that was sampled into Moggle Mog Theme).

#Can'tschoolthealreadyknowledgeable

PS: Moogle Theme from FFV is called Critter Fritter Tripper which is referenced in my post :P

[Enkidoh]

What does that have to do with trains in FFXIV though? Except maybe a thread derailment?

Bad pun I know...

Those tracks were going to mor dona imperial base to the one inside the shroud. It was said to be for a rapid large troop transport/ supplies

That's not correct - as I mentioned earlier the railway between Castrum Meridanium and Castrum Centri is a completely separate line from the railway in Central Thanalan - the tracks don't even look the same because they were built and are owned by different countries, the former naturally owned and operated by the Garlean Empire.

It was this line that was blockaded by Gridania during Operation Archon and they sent troops into Mor Dhona specifically for the task as the line runs nowhere near the Black Shroud.

[OMEGA_HACK]

What does that have to do with trains in FFXIV though? Except maybe a thread derailment?

Bad pun I know...

I liked that bad pun; but it was started because I linked a song (Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne) saying they should sample that song if they do a Doomtrain/Phantomtrain trial. At least have a crazy conductor yell "all aboard!" and laugh manically would be fine tbh.