Message to Developers about Map redesigns...

[Dreadnought]

i dont like the current designs.
the copy and pasting is excessively blatant and invokes the feeling of being in the exact same place on the exact opposite soide of the map... that is bad design.

cant wait to see the new maps SE!!!

also, can we have some NPCs being more active like surveying and patrolling?

[Vaer]

also, can we have some NPCs being more active like surveying and patrolling?

We already have those, they're called players. No one ever talks to anyone outside their LS/clique.

In all seriousness, leves are a pain to do in Black Shroud because there are all these tunnels that you have to navigate through. Feels like you're walking through a cave. If they added some shortcuts that cut across, (like to Emerald Moss or something) it wouldn't be as annoying.

[Isaveron]

I could overlook some copy paste of the terrain, but they overdid it with XIV. It's actually insulting they thought they could get away with how much they did.

[Nash]

In FFXI, I could tell where I was and where to go just by looking around me. In FFXIV, I don't control my character, I control the little arrow on the map screen.

[MugenMugetsu]

I do apologize for my long winded and unparagraphed original post. I apologize for the wall of text but got a kick out of the comment pertaining to "The wall of text hits you for 24k+ damage!". Again, sorry about that. My post was made because I like the maps the way they are and maybe it's just me, but I have no problem with the way they are currently set up even if there is a lot of copy/pasta terrain.

Improvements to this would be welcome and I would love to see more diverse environments rather than the same set of designs for areas being used over and over all over the map. However, I don't want environments to lose any detail. I want XIV to remain as beautiful as it currently is without losing any of the lushness of the lush environments like The
Black Shroud.

Pyrix, or Ayaka, I do apologize if my desire for unchanged maps and terrains is upsetting to you. I completely understand your disappointment with copy/pasta terrain and your desire for the maps to be updated so that the terrain doesn't look the same in each particular zone. Also, I completely respect your desire for the maps to be changed. I personally like things the way they are and started this thread, aimed at the developers, in hopes of keeping them the same.

I see that they are already working to change the terrain so my post was in vain, but at least I tried. Again all apologies where apologies are due and Pyrix, or Ayaka, I'm not an idiot. I had an opinion and I wanted to express it on these forums. I apologize that my opinion differed from yours and I have faith that SE will make the maps, terrains, even more awesome and easier to navigate than they currently are. Thanks again for your time everyone in reading and responding to my post!

[Pyrix]

Well my post got edited, guess it was a tad harsh. Still why would he want a copy-pasted nightmare?

[Haibel]

why is this a topic. it's already be confirmed that the maps are getting redesigned.

[MugenMugetsu]

I was hoping to encourage SE to abandon that process, however seeing as to how I am the only person who likes the maps and terrain as they currently are, I don't think SE will be very willing to accommodate my request. It's fine though, I expect great things from SE and what they are going to be doing with Final Fantasy XIV. I truly believe that XIV will be EPIC when they are done improving, fixing the game, and adding more content.

[Teknoman]

Dalamud has been activated and the calamity will come.

[Travesty]

Improvements to this would be welcome and I would love to see more diverse environments rather than the same set of designs for areas being used over and over all over the map. However, I don't want environments to lose any detail. I want XIV to remain as beautiful as it currently is without losing any of the lushness of the lush environments like The
Black Shroud.

The problem is that as beautiful as the game is, that fact loses some of it's luster when you realize there's no variation to the beauty. Even the best sunset becomes mundane if you see it for 100 nights in a row. And I don't know if you've noticed, but from the Thanalan entrance to the Black Shroud to Gridania, you cross the exact same river about 10 times. It just gets annoying seeing the exact same things over and over again.