Quote Originally Posted by MugenMugetsu View Post
~ OP of this quote was Luxley.

In response...I am grown up. That's why I have no trouble navigating through The Black Shroud and using the map to do so when necessary. I understand everyone's concerns and I realize that I am in the minority. However, reading the map for The Black Shroud is 10000% times easier than reading the maps for Yuhtunga and Yhoator Jungles on FFXI. If you played XI, I'm sure you know what I mean. It isn't difficult at all to navigate around The Black Shroud. I don't understand why people are complaining so much about it. My biggest complaint is that camps are so far away from each other and if I have leves for one camp in The Black Shroud and leves for another camp in the Black Shroud the camps are usually all the way across the map from each other. With the addition of Chocobos this has become less burdensome and less time consuming and doesn't bother me as much.

As far as The Black Shroud's map being a little overwhelming.... this shouldn't discourage players. This should encourage them to want to learn to navigate the area and become as familiar with it, and how to navigate it, as possible. It is absolutely essential that every player be able to read their maps correctly. In my opinion, the map for The Black Shroud is VERY easy to understand. The upper levels and paths to them are bright green while the lower level is a darker shade of green. Not too difficult to understand. Either way it doesn't matter as the redesigns are gonna happen either way and I have faith that SE's redesigned maps will be just as good, if not better (hopefully better), than the current maps and terrain designs.
Wait, you do realize that by "Map Redesign" they don't mean the thing you look at to find your way right? It's the zones that are being redesigned not the paper map thingy. It sounds like you might be confused, if that is the case then I apologize for my last post.

I think you may need to spend just a little more time reading the forum threads. Especially the ones related to the progression and feeling of accomplishment in relation to XI. That is what this is meant to do. Hell, in terms of navigating the new world there is a good chance that much of it will remain the same but with different environment variables, mobs and such.

In any case your please is, as you stated, that of the minority and faaar too late to the game.