[devs] or [Yoshi] Please give us some more information on Airships

[ladyJ]

How long will it take to craft a Free Company airship?
How much will it approximately cost to purchase a Free Company airship?
How long will the process be to craft a FC airship?
What is the use or benefit of having a Free Company airship?
Is there something special that they are used for such as Free Company quests?

Will all players in the FC be able to use the airship crafting area to create their own personal airship?
If so, will only allow one person at a time to craft their airship or will everyone be able to craft it at the same time?

[RiceisNice]

We should be getting some more info on 3.0 as we near release date.

pls?

[Felis]

Free Company & Housing

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The image shown here is related to the creation of airships.



As a part of the free company workshop, we'll introduce the house crafting feature, which can be used to adjust the appearance of your house. You can consider this a type of glamour for the house where you create a new appearance to project onto your home. We'll also be introducing an airship crafting feature where you will work together to build airships. You'll need to spend gil to build this workshop area, but don't worry, the price isn't that high. We’ll start with these two features for now, but we're planning to expand on this system so players can craft various things in the future.

For house crafting, please use your imagination to see what kind of house you can build using the existing building materials. For airship crafting, you’ll need to combine four parts to build an airship: a bow, hull, stern, and sail. There will be various types of each part. For example, you can work with your Free Company and build an airship using a really fast engine to make explorations faster; however, the fuel consumption would be greater. Additionally, your airships will gain ranks by exploring the skies, and you will be able to build and own multiple airships.



At the launch of Heavensward, you’ll be able to build airships and explore the skies using sky treasure maps to obtain various items, and make new discoveries. We’ll update sky exploration with every patch. With the first update, players will be able to go to the floating island which your unmanned airship discovers.

As for housing, we’ll have more furnishings, as well as the ability to change the appearance of the house using the house crafting.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...804-23-2015%29

[ladyJ]

I appreciate the information you provided and currently released but was hoping for more answers such as the ones I provided in my original post .

[ladyJ]

maybe yoshi will release a letter from the producer and give us more info soon <3
Expansion is within 6 weeks time now!!

[ErikMynhier]

It'll probably cost a fortune like housing.

[Eidolon]

It'll probably cost a fortune like housing.

Don't worry, free company airships will be separate from free company housing and have different prices!


/stillbitter

[kyuven]

They're probably not going to discuss the time investment or cost until after the airships launch (pun intended)
Simply because they got in trouble when they quoted pricing last time >_>

[ladyJ]

I don't expect the purchase price to be cheap of course, but would be nice to find out more about the other questions like the personal airships if it is quest crafted, if a person doesn't own a personal house can they use the Fc crafting station to craft their personal airships and if that is the case can multiple people craft their ships at the same time.

[Imoye]

Housing and the likes should be free for everyone, the decor is what should be costly. The model they're going by is a huge failure in itself.