Do you think the old zones should be given aether currents?

[Arixtotle]

If they were gonna redo the old zones I'd rather them work on seamless transitions between zones (aka less loading screens) and less invisible walls. Those two things are basically the only things I think other games do better than ffxiv

[KisaiTenshi]

Just curious on your thoughts. What if they added aether currents in the old zones?

They'd have to merge them back into their V1.0 sizes to give a reason for it.

On the other hand, I'd love to run around Ul'dah on a flying mount. Limsa likewise would benefit.

The reason they can't, is that the maps are essentially cut in half or a third from where they were in V1.0, and Gridania was originally a bit more of a maze to get to.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I was just curious on everyone's thoughts. I asked this in the FC yesterday. One member commented that he wouldn't want flying in the old zones because it would render the old grounded mounts useless.

Personally, I wouldn't mind even if it's limited. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to figure out how to traverse the terrain. Especially in the Black Shroud.

[Naliee]

I wanna be able to glide the least if not fly in old areas D:

[Samburi]

All this flying has made the youth of Eorzea weak! Flying here, flying there! Why, in my day, we were glad to have a Chocobo to take us where we wanted to go!

And get off my lawn!

Yeah
In my old days, back in 1.0, I was happy if a foot-high rock didn't stop my character. Jump changed everything. And now jump is not good enough anymore and everyone want to fly. And before we see it coming everyone want to fly to the moon.

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

To Op's question: No.

[gtasthehunter]

Yes i would like to see flying in old zones

[Ashkendor]

As cool as it would be to be able to fly in the old zones, it would be a ton of work to make them viable for flight. I've glitched out of the map on more than one occasion and discovered things like one-sided mountains, two-dimensional trees and other scenery, and lots of objects that have huge gaps in them where you wouldn't normally see. I honestly don't really think it's worth the amount of effort that would go into retooling zones meant only for walking through.