Please let us *really* ride airships

[Len]

If you would like to travel very fast, you can skip the cut scene and instantly be transported to your destination.

If you would like to take your time traveling on the airship, you can enjoy the cut scene.

How does this statement address the suggestion made by the original poster of this thread?

[Chrees]

How does this statement address the suggestion made by the original poster of this thread?

That's already been addressed...

While the airships in 1.19 will feature cutscene-only, quick transport, there are future plans for being able to move around aboard the airship and enjoy the scenery while flying to your destinations. We are also planning on adding airship-related content, such as quests and other things to do.

For now, please enjoy airships as a method of transportation and look forward to what’s coming! ^_^

And I imagine by "enjoy the cutscene" they mean "enjoy the entirety of the flight."

[Len]

And I imagine by "enjoy the cutscene" they mean "enjoy the entirety of the flight."

Poor choice of words by the translator, then, I suppose.

[Zozor]

Let's just hope they give us some reason to want to spend some time on the airship. Otherwise they could have just made it so that teleports between the three cities costs 0 anima when you're already in one of the cities. They could have skipped a lot of dev resources and implemented it last year.

[Zenaku]

This seem like a dumb idea lol

Player1: Going to take the ship going to skip it
Player2: i like the ship ride so i'm not.
Player1: -.- you joking right? we need to hurry up there waiting on us
Player2: Fine ok i skip it also

This is like COP all over again when linkshell make you skip the CS " I for one said hell no i'm watching this"

Seem like a waste of work when 99.9% of people just going to Skip it for that don't even work on it if you going to allow us to pick the speed.

[Reinheart]

This seem like a dumb idea lol

Player1: Going to take the ship going to skip it
Player2: i like the ship ride so i'm not.
Player1: -.- you joking right? we need to hurry up there waiting on us
Player2: Fine ok i skip it also

This is like COP all over again when linkshell make you skip the CS " I for one said hell no i'm watching this"

Seem like a waste of work when 99.9% of people just going to Skip it for that don't even work on it if you going to allow us to pick the speed.

again it's up to the players play style and situation, some cases I need to hurry up to meet friends/party whatever ill skip, rest of the time I don't care much so pretty sure I'll just enjoy the ride hoping the airship gets attacked or something cool happening.

[Anonymoose]

...two options...

So SE isn't allergic to things that make sense to me afterall! I'm overjoyed - or at least I would be, if university didn't just shred my capacity to play even casually...

[Nakiamiie]

Greetings,
For all those discussing the fast travel vs. interactive travel here - Foxclon made a follow-up post that we think will make the situation clearer.

*Edit: 9/7 - 2:11pm - Updated for clarity.

Wow! I hope they do that for many other things as well (enable options for different play styles). Good work devs!

[Jynx]

This seem like a dumb idea lol

Player1: Going to take the ship going to skip it
Player2: i like the ship ride so i'm not.
Player1: -.- you joking right? we need to hurry up there waiting on us
Player2: Fine ok i skip it also

This is like COP all over again when linkshell make you skip the CS " I for one said hell no i'm watching this"

Seem like a waste of work when 99.9% of people just going to Skip it for that don't even work on it if you going to allow us to pick the speed.

I'm just upset that the developers seem to be afraid to add content that may actually...kill time. Warping city to city should be limited, hell even in XI their were 12 different ways to get to your destination and many of them either took time or cost you something.

I guess I'm just thinking that there needs to be a cost associated with insta warping allover the place. I'm used to you know...walking to a place. If I took to long to get their then it was my fault for being 1000 miles away from it when I knew I had to be somewhere.

I'm upset at how much the developers are pandering to the "I want it now" crowd. I just don't get the point of spending the time setting up the airships if they are not even going to be used for god knows how long for "Airship content" quests and such. The system could have been on the back-burner until then and just adjusted how Anima warping cost in towns.

I guess MMO's don't work the way they used too and I need to get used to that. I'm suprised we can't anima warp directly to the darkhold for all the 5 minutes people actually have to walk to get their. or even need to walk around the towns to get anything done. Might as well just pick my quests from the citizens up at the lev counter as well because it "Takes too long" for me to walk around the town talking to NPC's.

With the advent of instant warps to towns and Chocobos I do hope the Anima system gets a hard nerf at least...but I doubt it.

[Zenaku]

I'm just upset that the developers seem to be afraid to add content that may actually...kill time. Warping city to city should be limited, hell even in XI their were 12 different ways to get to your destination and many of them either took time or cost you something.

I guess I'm just thinking that there needs to be a cost associated with insta warping allover the place. I'm used to you know...walking to a place. If I took to long to get their then it was my fault for being 1000 miles away from it when I knew I had to be somewhere.

I'm upset at how much the developers are pandering to the "I want it now" crowd. I just don't get the point of spending the time setting up the airships if they are not even going to be used for god knows how long for "Airship content" quests and such. The system could have been on the back-burner until then and just adjusted how Anima warping cost in towns.

I guess MMO's don't work the way they used too and I need to get used to that. I'm suprised we can't anima warp directly to the darkhold for all the 5 minutes people actually have to walk to get their. or even need to walk around the towns to get anything done. Might as well just pick my quests from the citizens up at the lev counter as well because it "Takes too long" for me to walk around the town talking to NPC's.

With the advent of instant warps to towns and Chocobos I do hope the Anima system gets a hard nerf at least...but I doubt it.

When this game goes P2P only the real fan would stay and the rest of i want it now would leave. They not going to pay for something that does not have everything 100% there way. Then it be a few more years of rebuilding for the players that stay lol.