New City Aetheryte shards confusing

[BreathlessTao]

Greetings,

The development team is currently working on a feature that will allow you to check the name of each Aethernet location from the map.

One of those things (since this is not the first such occurrence) that make me go bonkers, like, really, had nobody in the dev team ever noticed this and thought of fixing it? @.@
And yeah, in ARR beta, the city aetherytes were named in a mixed-up fashion, some with the "fantasy" name (excuse the pun) of the place, some with a direct descriptive one - for launch, everything got the descriptive name in those lists. Now in Ishgard it's back to confusion time again...? Please be more consistent.

[Shhikasan]

never had a problem with them back when the major three cities had their old names and the new city is no different from learning a few places.

[Narthice]

I don't really have a problem with it, because I took my time to memorize them. But I Would still like it if when teleporting it would show the map and as you highlight the name of the location it shows you on the map where you are about to teleport. Or make it so you just click on the map and bam, there you are.

[Evangela]

you just need some time to get used to it.

[h0tNstilettos]

I never have any problem with the aetherytes. On the first day of early access I already memorized where each goes to and all the locations around both areas of Ishgard.

[Gilraen]

This is how we lost the original names of the Limsa Lominsa aethernet... I miss those names. So joke worthy.

[Ryamatsu]

Thanks for pointing this out. This really bothered me as well.

It was a bad game-play interface decision that shouldn't be defended with statements like, "get used to it" or "I already memorized where it is".

A good example of how it should be is in FFXI the teleport crystals will center the map of where you will go to. This way you don't need to memorize anything but see geographically where you will go to. It was very intuitive and not confusing to new players.

[AskaRay]

I never had any trouble... do people not look at maps anymore?

Not to mention it's called the "Forgotten Knight" because that's the place with all the stuff in it.

[Welsper59]

I never had any trouble... do people not look at maps anymore?

Not to mention it's called the "Forgotten Knight" because that's the place with all the stuff in it.

Think of it like this, prior to your memorizing locations, would you have been able to determine which aetheryte name is likely to be used just by looking at a map? Minus the identified aetherytes in the image, which I got from an old thread by ShinSoku. Link



The two right-most aetherytes are quite the equal distance from each other to The Forgotten Knight inn. Not exactly something you'd be able to identify with 100% certainty initially. Unlike The Brume aetheryte, The Forgotten Knight aetheryte has many other potential names it could have gone under otherwise.



Even for the other map, The Last Vigil could easily be The Architects or some generic name like Manor Residence, similar to The Tribunal. It's really not much of a matter of game breaking proportions, as it's just a minor inconvenience. What they're apparently working on, with adding the names to the map icons, is exactly what they should have always done. If that were done to begin with, they might not have had to change the starting towns teleport point names.

[Setesh]

My only (minor) gripe with Ishgard's aethernet is the inability to teleport directly to the Coerthas Western Highlands or Sea of Clouds. Would be nice if those were added when we unlock flying in those areas, along with the zone lines becoming accessible.