Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV! (Exploratory Missions)

[Aoxaviar]

If the airship is the base for our party, will our airship have summoning bells and an FC Chest so we can access mats and not have to carry them in our inventory?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Will people outside your party/alliance be rewarded for helping your group?

[BooskiBoo]

Will the class of the airship affect the quality or rarity of the rewards?

For instance, using an enterprise class airship over a bronco class airship would yield greater, more valuable rewards.

[Stormfur]

Will we be able to personally (or as a group) find rare materials on these islands that currently only airships can bring back (dusk leather!) or possibly rare items that normally spawn for gatherers (ooids, rare herbs) ?

[zuzu-bq]

Will we be able to gather from nodes or fishing spots during exploratory missions?

[Iromi]

** Airship will have a captain, and other roles to steer the ship. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014)
*** Airship experience will be different from flying around on map. (Secrets of Eorzea; 07/18/2014

Can you show us what you meant by this? How do ship roles work and how do we fly it around as a team?

[Momo_Suzuki]

When out on these missions, it was said we will be able to see other Free Companies. Since their will be hunt mark enemies out here, will it be like a "Claim first" for FC's, or will other Free Companies have to work together? And will it be server based (EX: Goblin FC's only in the area)?

[Aoxaviar]

With the Sea of Clouds being added to the gamespace, will we see any additional side quests (or side quest storylines) come that require exploring the Sea of Clouds?

[Aoxaviar]

When Yoshi-P first brought up the Sea of Clouds content coming in Heavensward - paraphrasing:

"You will travel by FC Airship into the Sea of Clouds. However, if you come to an Island and the monsters are gone, it means another FC got there before you did."

Now we are being told that the FC airships and an airship landing at Ishgard will make it accessible to everyone.

Please provide us with explination on how the Sea of Clouds has evolved so that we aren't potentially looking for things that are now in the landfill of the creation room floor.

[Kiara]

For Exploratory Missions, will there be any Weekly Lockouts / Restrictions? Please consider NO penalties, to allow friends from other Free Companies / Linkshells to join in on this activity as many times as possible each week.

This has the potential to be a fun activity that isn't as severely restrictive as current End Game events are (pushing players to only play with a static).