Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post

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Yup this, this whole map seems like a joke based on some stupid request some players made a while back:


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-11-2014%29

Q: Do you have any plans of making it random where each Grand Company starts in Frontline?

To which they obviously responded:
Quote Originally Posted by Pocchory View Post

A: While it's possible to shuffle around starting points, the maps were made to be extremely balanced, so there no significant differences in the layout regardless of where you start. However, there are a fewfeatures which could change things up a bit for players, so we'll try and look into this.
It's like they went: Oh you think the spawns are imbalanced, do you? I'll give you your imbalanced map, with the rng node spawn cherry on top of the cake, how do you like it now? Mwahahaha

Ugh