Please let us *really* ride airships

[Krausus]

I'm glad they are going to be instant, the less time I spend not playing the game because of travel the better IMO.

[DNO]

I'm glad they are going to be instant, the less time I spend not playing the game because of travel the better IMO.

This 100% and this only

[Kiote]

I'm glad they are going to be instant, the less time I spend not playing the game because of travel the better IMO.

That is ridiculous. The point of an MMO is to have a massive open world to explore. Travel is a massive part of that. Further more instant travel eliminates the possibility of mid travel events such as the pirate attacks in XI. Considering the Notable power of the imperial air armada it makes little to no sense to not allow for active air travel with the possibility of an imperial encounter.

[Aeyis]

I'm glad they are going to be instant, the less time I spend not playing the game because of travel the better IMO.

Getting there is part of the experience, Kupo.

[Krausus]

That is ridiculous. The point of an MMO is to have a massive open world to explore. Travel is a massive part of that. Further more instant travel eliminates the possibility of mid travel events such as the pirate attacks in XI. Considering the Notable power of the imperial air armada it makes little to no sense to not allow for active air travel with the possibility of an imperial encounter.

it makes little to no sense that SE couldn't just add in separate events for attacks, as well as stating riding on a ship over the world is equatable to exploring it.

[Anonymoose]

That is ridiculous. The point of an MMO is to have a massive open world to explore.

Well, when they put some freakin' content out there - we'll go explore and appreciate the surroundings. What's ridiculous is to spend hours just walking around looking at pretty copypasta textures for f**k-all progress in an MMORPG. Those last three letters matter just as much as the first.

[Reinheart]

Copy/Paste from my tranlsation thread on todays JP rep response about airship travel.

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Just like the NA side some people didn't get YoshiP's message in the past about how the airships going to work now and later on so the Reps clarified it for us, so here goes:

Original thread link: http://goo.gl/3tdHZ

こんにちは。
Hello,

1.19で実装される飛空艇については 第17回プロデュサーレター でもお伝えしていますが、出発と着陸時にはカットシーンの演出がありますが、移動は一瞬になり飛空艇内を動きまわるといったことはできません。
The airship releasing in 1.19, as stated in 17th producer letter, there will be departing/landing cut scenes but the travel will be instantly where you wont be able to move around the airship.

ただし、将来的には飛空艇の中も動きまわれるようにする計画があります。
そしてその際には、飛空艇内で事件が起こったり、クエストが発生したりなど、飛空艇内での遊びも一緒に提供していきます。
However, there are plans for future to be able to move around inside the airship.
And when that happens, will offer contents you may play such as some kind of problem occurring on the airship, or quest happening.

まずはひとつの移動手段として飛空艇をご利用ください！
For now please think of it and utilize the airship as additional method for travel!

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Copy/Paste from my tranlsation thread on todays JP rep response about airship travel.

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Just like the NA side some people didn't get YoshiP's message in the past about how the airships going to work now and later on so the Reps clarified it for us, so here goes:

Original thread link: http://goo.gl/3tdHZ

Thanks Reinheart, this issue that really isn't an issue at all will still be argued over til they are blue in the face. Sadly, we live in a TL;DR generation and the only way to get this message to people would be to start a new thread with this above post. Right when this page fills up and there is a new one, it will be lost. lol

Really, Yoshida should have mentioned that they will be added later again in his latest letter. So, it's half his fault as well.

[Kirith]

Well of course they are letting us walk inside the airship. This was possible in FFXI 10 years ago, so they can't give us less in 2011-2012. Now my issue with it is that 10 years later i kinda expected something more.

[Reinheart]

Well of course they are letting us walk inside the airship. This was possible in FFXI 10 years ago, so they can't give us less in 2011-2012. Now my issue with it is that 10 years later i kinda expected something more.

Same here but can't blame the new team for it, they are trying to fix as much on what the old team messed up, hard to tell the new guys to suddenly take over and read the old teams codes and just figure out and fix instantly, for programming it takes lots of planning and coding, since its MMO it will take longer since they have to make sure they can use the new code and make changes to it in the future to change/add new stuff onto it later on.