Some ideas I have to make the game more active.

[Jim_Berry]

I just wished there was more encouragement to play with other players from your own server. I would love to be able to go through some Roulettes or dungeon crawling with people who I can actually see again. I just want some long lasting group content I can play with different players without being stuck with having to use a static. FF14 is very anti-social compaired to other MMOs I've played.

Also do we not have a Linkshell directory?

The thing is, some people feel as though their server suck while other people only want to play with people they know.

[raela]

You know if Yoshi-p decides to expand the dev team, he should really consider making a team dedicated to PvP. If PvP becomes something as enjoyable as it was in WoW, they can attract hundreds of thousands of players from the PvP crowd of mmorpg gaming.

Bleh, my experience with pvpers mixed in with pve-ers is horrible.. Even worse of the "filthy casual" mentality than is tossed around with raiders.

I am not a fan of these suggestions.

[Gilthas]

Make the game FFXI

As much as I enjoyed FFXI, I left it for a reason.

[Zeonx]

1. Add NM's with special glamour or weapons that you can sell your claim your drop.

2. Boat racing near the dock of wolves den, just like chocobo racing except with boats and going full circle.

3. Adding Sprint to Chocobo or jet boost on Magitek armor and burst of speed on flying mounts just like running sprint but with a timer.

4 Chocobo digging just like FFXI add this to FFXIV you dig to find stuff add items revolving around your chocobo and items to sell.

[Amiaze]

I'm shitty at formatting so I'll just make a list. The list isn't in a specific order of importance.

1. Two toned dyeing. Basically changing the 2 main colors of an item, i.e. changing the black part on Company Tabard.

2. Free Company PvP Tournament. The FC signs up in the beginning of the week and then the tournament would happen over the next few days. Winners get rewards and stuff.

3. Level 60 monsters that drop more valuable materials and are harder to kill. SE my be doing something like this with the airship exploration.

4. Consequences for a FATE failing. If a fate fails the landscape is changed i.e. FATE monsters running around even after the FATE is over temporarily. A new FATE will spawn that will change the landscape back to normal.

5. A Free Market. Every thing is sellable except for token based,relic, and AF gear. These include all green,pink, and blue dungeon items.

6. New Roulette for Expert primals and Crystal Tower.

7. PvP zone. Like a free battle zone

8.Gear sets that effect skills. I.e. a set that turns Blizzard 4 into an aoe. Or a set that increases Bios duration.

9. Stronger crafted gear, less emphasis on glamour more on effectiveness.

10. Turning off battle music.

11. I don't know if this one would be popular, maybe an idea for 4.0. Splitting jobs in half to specialize in a specific field. Like splitting Black Mage into AoE or single target. This would start at the split, not change how the job worked before. Could give them a cool name to, like Galaxy Mage or something.

12. Alternating animations for spells. Mix it up a bit rather than the same robotic character animations.

13. Magic scrolls that contain one spell. Can be a new crafter.

14. New super skills. Can be for 4.0. Basically has along cast time or(both) recast time Each job would have one.

15. Randomized Treasure Chests. One spawns in every area say every 4 hours in a random spot.

16. More character customization options. A shorter less pissed off male Au Ra, a big Miqote, a skinny Roe, a bigger female Au ra.

17. End ps3.

1) I agree.

2) This would be a good idea, but what incentives would they implement? More glamour options? Offering dev-given gifts would seem odd since it's done among your personal guild.

3) Indeed, airship exploration is answering this. And before that, hunts answered it. Perhaps not as well as it could have, but it did.

4) While I like the idea of penalizing you for failure, I do not think that this is a good idea. FATEs are only as successful as the community is, and there are certain ones that are nigh impossible to do without a large number of people. I really wouldn't like to see giant crabs and goobbues running about just because nobody wanted to do the FATE. This might also make players feel as if they're inclined to stop and do them all the time, and nobody wants to do that.

5) I partly agree. It would encourage players to solo-run dungeons to get the gear and sell it at a high price for players that want to access it early, thus giving them no reason to run the content themselves. And when the prices are deemed too high and players do run the content themselves, this niche in the market will likely just fizzle out.

6) Yes. I recall a GM stating that they were looking into the Crystal Tower portion.

7) No, thanks. Not only would it seem jarring from a lore-perspective, but God forbid you accidentally stumble into that area, or someone decides to place a FATE or something too close to it.

8) How would this work, exactly? And how would they balance it across all the classes and roles? If they increase anything concerning WHM's potency, for instance, then it will become overpowered. If they increase its DPS output, then it will run the same risk. That will also just fuel more discussions about healers fitting into DPS slots, and that's an argument that already seems to have no end in sight.

9) On this, I can agree. Hard work goes into crafting end-level gear. I personally think that what we make ourselves should at least be in the same ballpark as the gear that we currently spam Seal Rock for countless hours to purchase. The hard work put into crafting yields very little in this regard.

10) I believe they're already looking into this.

11) I'm all for more customization and preference settings, but we run the risk of imbalance. It's also a bit of a moot point since diversity in party composition, something the game rewards you for, already achieves this. It would also go against what the devs have been doing in terms of keeping everyone on the same level.

12) Yes, please!

13) Didn't something in FFXI work like this? I'm all for this sort of idea (I was hoping they might take a note from Rikku in FFX and make a new job from it), but this might only complicate our current inventory issues.

14) A personalized Limit Break, perhaps? How would this balance out across different roles? Would it be used in dungeons as well, or just out on the world field?

15) I think the airship raids are answering this, as well.

16) Memory issues.

17) This would solve #16, as well as a number of other unlisted issues. This is coming from someone who was a PS3 user until recently.

[KaedrianLiang]

Bleh, my experience with pvpers mixed in with pve-ers is horrible.. Even worse of the "filthy casual" mentality than is tossed around with raiders.

Never heard of these "horrible experiences" or "filthy casuals" i tend to have a pleasant experience with everyone i encounter. Except for discriminating JP's.

[UBERHAXED]

Wasn't this game more social at launch when all we had was PF, before they added the whole cross server DF?

At least it seemed more social back then.

Also I don't know why they put regions for servers this time around. Back in ffxi everyone around the world played on the same servers, but ffxiv they separated jap/ and English servers for some reason...

I think you have this backwards. At launch all we had was cross server df and 5 months later in 2.1 they patched in the pf.

[Xatsh]

As much as I enjoyed FFXI, I left it for a reason.

SO making it a dumbed down WoW is better?

NO one is asking for an XI clone. But atm the game is way way too linear and everything is designed for solo. If the opposite of that is XI... then yes make it an XI clone.

[TheUltimate3]

Item Decay.

[UltimateAoe2]

a skinny roe



WHAT


I want beefier roes and hairy roes thanks 8D.

-twidles fingers-