Airships

[Snugglebutt]

I have one question and couple concerns.

The question is given we know there are personal airships coming into play, do you have to not only be a part of an FC with a house or own a house of your own to use the crafting facilities...does this mean you cant have a personal airship unless in such an FC with such facilities or own own house with them?

The concerns I have is firstly since we know you are limited to crafting 4 ships in the facilities, does this mean that same space limitation is applied to personal crafting of them so if for example the FC has 4 ships already crafted then does this mean there is no space for specifically 'crafting' one for personal use? The second concern related more to that of FC airship crafting and I worry that people (FC members) will be screwed over when spending their time and gil helping craft components for the FC's ships if the FC leader is the only one receiving the benefits of those ships like airship ventures giving all rewards to only the FC leader and him/her keeping everything to themselves for personal use and not FC use/sharing...

I can imagine a lot of that sort of thing going on when implemented, including FC leaders getting rich off the hard work of their members and their members getting shafted. It just feels like to me the rich will be getting much richer (mainly FC leaders) especially given how much materia was shown to be gained in screenshot from single airship venture, while the poor will remain poor especially if already cannot afford their own house or cannot buy one due to the bad way in which the housing system exists using plot based system that has extremely limited plots.

It would be nice if personal airships could be created outside of owning a house or a FC house and those personal airships could also go on ventures so that it wont just be the case of rich getting richer (especially FC leaders or those that already own multiple houses) while poor remain poor. Maybe an option to craft personal airships for your retainers which will expand the amount/type of ventures they can go on and things can bring back. So it wont just be rich getting richer, poor stuck being poor by comparison in terms of the additional options open to players for increasing their income limited to mostly the already rich.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I think the personal one will be from a quest, they never stated it was part of the fc crafting. I think its just a mount like the dragons and chocobos.

[Ferrasper]

I think the personal one will be from a quest, they never stated it was part of the fc crafting. I think its just a mount like the dragons and chocobos.

In the patch notes, it mentions the Fc one I believe.

[Snugglebutt]

I think the personal one will be from a quest, they never stated it was part of the fc crafting. I think its just a mount like the dragons and chocobos.

You said 'you think' so does this mean your not sure as in haven't seen SE say such? Have SE covered this with an answer to the question part of my above post that I might have missed?

[Alberel]

We've already seen the personal airships. A dev blog post showed them off weeks ago. They are mounts, nothing more. They have nothing at all to do with FC crafting in the workshop.

[Snugglebutt]

We've already seen the personal airships. A dev blog post showed them off weeks ago. They are mounts, nothing more. They have nothing at all to do with FC crafting in the workshop.

I saw the picture of them a while back and I know they are mounts but have the devs actually said they do not need to be crafted and more importantly that such crafting did not require the house facilities etc or is everyone just assuming they wont require such? I just want clarification as in a known fact about it given by the devs which I might have missed rather than just assumptions alone.

[StouterTaru]

They are just a mount, so expect them to be a quest or achievement reward.

[Alberel]

I saw the picture of them a while back and I know they are mounts but have the devs actually said they do not need to be crafted and more importantly that such crafting did not require the house facilities etc or is everyone just assuming they wont require such? I just want clarification as in a known fact about it given by the devs which I might have missed rather than just assumptions alone.

If they gated any single-player content behind FC crafting these forums would explode and they know it. Given that most FCs can't even get a house to craft anything only a tiny tiny minority will have access to FC crafting. I don't think SE is stupid enough to put anything like personal mounts behind that barrier, and even if they did the rage on these forums would force them to change it pretty quickly.

[Waeksyn]

I believe that access to the workshop where you build the airship is a purchase option that is accessed through your house's "Private Chamber" door. I don't think you have Private Chambers if you have a personal house, only a FC house. If so, then crafted airships can only be done through a FC.

Not that it really matters. From the description, the crafted airships are not for transportation, they are drones that act as glorified retainers, going out "exploring" and bringing back stuff - probably more worthless fish.

[aerialrave]

I wonder how much of this content will require the Ixali beastmen tribe quests as well.