suggestions to improve the gameplay of FF14

[jinda]

Here are my suggestions to improve the gameplay of FF14

1.I am a former player of aion, and one of the most exciting part of their pvp system is the challenge a player system where you get to invite a player in the exact place where you have seen them and have a mini one on one battle until one player gets an hp of 1.

2. I am hoping to see an environment that explores the sea. Swimming is a must for this game

3. more hairstyleand more faces please.

4. an ultimate attack for each job. like a limit break where you fill the gauge but this time even not in party.
5. and please dont include wings as a part of character customization. it will destroy final fantasy haha.
6. its nice if we can change the way we walk, run, stand. (again like aion)

i apologize if i am comparing this game to aion. i love final fantasy and i can see the highest potential of the game developers to surpass a free to play game like aion in terms of quality. please consider this post to future updates

[CeveArthu]

k, but they dont read this section of the forums

[jinda]

where should i be posting this suggestion my friend

[Tanama]

In the General Discussion section.

[Enkidoh]

Here are my suggestions to improve the gameplay of FF14

1.I am a former player of aion, and one of the most exciting part of their pvp system is the challenge a player system where you get to invite a player in the exact place where you have seen them and have a mini one on one battle until one player gets an hp of 1.

It seems the development team are not very enthusiastic about the idea of 1x1 PvP as they've been reluctant to even acknowledge the concept. Personally I'm rather neutral in regards to it - I hate the idea of open world unrestricted PvP (it is just an excuse for players to harass others as I've experienced this problem in other MMOs that have dueling in them), but, a restricted, tournament style system in the Colosseum or Gold Saucer could work, where the duel is separate from the main game and requires the player to sign up for it, thus preventing the harassment and e-peen problems open-world PvP brings.

2. I am hoping to see an environment that explores the sea. Swimming is a must for this game

As I understand it, this was the choice the development team had to face when designing the initial concept for the upcoming Heavensward expansion - whether to allow players to fly or swim, and they chose the former. Hence it's highly likely sea exploration and swimming will be added much later in the future.

3. more hairstyleand more faces please.

SE are constantly adding new hairstyles into the game with patches - and with the new race the au ra coming in Heavensward, it's obvious new hairstyles and facial models will be added too. Just have patience.

4. an ultimate attack for each job. like a limit break where you fill the gauge but this time even not in party.

Although a personal Limit Break gauge would just make things a little overpowered (technically this is what the TP gauge is for, at least in FFXI and FFXIV 1.0, but it was completely changed into ARR and no longer functions as such), in a way in Heavensward the level 3 party Limit Break will now be unique to each Job and no longer just be based on role, which is sort of what you're asking for. But true personal Limit Breaks don't seem to be on SE's agenda I'm afraid.

5. and please dont include wings as a part of character customization. it will destroy final fantasy haha.

I agree. This doesn't include costume items or 'fireworks' that create the image of temporary wings on your character though.

6. its nice if we can change the way we walk, run, stand. (again like aion)

I'm not sure about walking and running, but you can already change your character's pose when standing or sitting by simply using the '/changepose' command - each character has three standing and sitting poses. Additionally your character has an idle weapon drawn pose as well.

[mbncd]

Firstly, I've not read the whole thread yet. Only got up to the below quote when I wanted to pipe up about this:

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I'm not sure about walking and running, but you can already change your character's pose when standing or sitting by simply using the '/changepose' command - each character has three standing and sitting poses. Additionally your character has an idle weapon drawn pose as well.

I know it's a very minor point and slightly off topic but I just wanted to clarify that we have more than 3 sitting poses. We have 3 poses when sitting on an edged surface (such as a chair or bed where the character puts his/her legs down the side of it) but we also have 2 general sitting poses (for the ground and other non edged surfaces) for a total of 5 unique sitting poses for each character, that also vary depending on race (and possibly gender? Not sure about that).

For example, Crystal here when sitting on a chair can:
- tensely put her hands on her knees, holding her knees together and her arms straight,
- casually fold her arms and cross one leg over the other, or
- very casually cross one leg over the other and rest her chin on her hand with the elbow of that same arm supported by her top knee

When sitting on the ground, she can:
- sit with one leg stretched out flat, the knee of the other leg raised up and wrest he elbow on that raised knee while sitting back and leaning on her other hand, or
- take a very polite Japanese sitting position on her knees

When sitting in general, you can give your character a lot of personality depending on when and how (/cpose) you choose to sit them down.

[Aethaeryn]

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Does Aion even have swimming yet...? It was promised years ago and never added. I quit when FFXIV came out, but there was no sign of it at that point. Does it have a real dungeon finder yet?

Also, this game is leaps and bounds better than Aion. Aion had a nice character customization system, but (in my opinion) the pvp was horribly unbalanced and broken. PvE updates were really rare, and they never added a proper organized pvp arena in all of my time there. Now it's "free to play" but with a pay to win cash shop, so you can't really compare it to FFXIV at all. If FFXIV's cash shop ever sells some of the stuff you can get on Aion's cash shop, I'm more than certain it would result in a mass exodus of players.

I don't know. I liked Aion for aesthetics, but it was kind of a one trick pony with gank-style "world" pvp, and I think even FFXIV's somewhat lackluster PvE choices are already more numerous than that game.

[jinda]

1. how about a character customization of hairstyle similar to freedom wars. the combination of color is really amazing.
2. its nice if we can have a slow motion effect if we beat a boss
3. how about the option of just hiding the shield for paladin and not both sword and shield. sometimes that shiel ruins the costume while walking.
4. can you please give an option to hide the horns of aura
5. make a hair similar to cloud strife, zidane, reno of ff7, vahn, basch, rikku, lulu, tidus, auron, jecht, and wakka
6. i hope we can have a leveling system for equipment
7. i hope we can imlement an elemental system. fire wind earth etc with corresponding weakness

[jinda]

forgive me if you think im being rude.

[Aethaeryn]

2. Why? O_o

3. I like that idea. Shields clip the crap out of everything.

4. B-but...then they're just weirdly proportioned hyurs with weird scale things. D:

5. They've already added Hope, Snow, Lightning, Irina (from Last Remnant) etc. hair, so those are possible.

6. Elaborate? I'd prefer they just add set bonuses and special bonuses from equipment like... increases damage of fire spells, increases potency of foe requiem, etc. I don't want to see something like enchantments in Aion and other kMMOs. That was a terrible system. No 'heirloom' stuff from WoW either, please.

7. Me too. And a 'real' black mage that can exploit different elements.

forgive me if you think im being rude.

I don't! I just don't think Aion is something we need to strive for. It's a different style of game (more pvp oriented), and there's a reason why it does pretty well in Korea but is barely hanging on in the US through the p2w cash shop.