Leve Balancing: Can I Have it?

[Jinko]

I was so ecstatic about your last point that I skimmed over these before, and I wanted to address them.. because I don't understand them.



Not to be dramatic about this but.. GOOD GOD, WHY?!

On one hand, you seem to be about equal and reasonable distribution of leves, and then you want to restrict it by city. From a storyline mode, this makes no sense - why does no one have any goldsmithing needs in Limsa Lominsa or Gridania? Now, I wouldn't sacrifice gameplay for the sake of story.. but it has no gameplay benefit either. In fact, in the case of fieldcraft, it's worse, as you can only gather particular materials in certain regions.

I mean, do you think that Archers should only be able to do battlecraft leves in Gridania simply because the guild is there? I don't really see any jump in logic there. Sure, all of the DoW/DoM leves are grouped now, but using your ideal local leve system, it should use the guild instead, and therefore should only be available in that city.

Firstly you can only get guildmarks from the city that houses the guild, so why would you do leves anywhere else anyway ?

Granted you could argue that guildmarks are near useless now, but its down to SE to make them more interesting.

It's also not so much spreading people out as it is segregating them. Many people focus on one or two crafts, and if they can only get leves in one city, it doesn't do them much good to hang around the others. So you won't see many weavers in Gridania the same way you won't see many carpenters in Limsa Lominsa. Then you just end up with everyone in the same place, looking the same, doing the same thing. And I doubt that's what you had in mind when you wanted to spread out the population. There may be other, more subtle ways to accomplish that, but I don't think this is it.

Oh come on we have airships now its less than 2 mins to get from one city to the other there is no restriction other than people being lazy.

Just because the guild is in Gridania doesn't mean that other city states don't requests for items to be crafted. (if I wanted to buy a new TV I wouldn't request one from my local butcher)

So how about a weaver who is also a Con, he will be in Uldah doing his weaving leves and in Gridania doing his Conjurer leves.

Gladitor guild is in Ul'dah and BSM & ARM guild is in Limsa, It would even out perfectly.

SE could further ease this problem by making all marketwards linked across cities so that people didn't have to worry about not being able to find the items they are after.

Further more right now everyone (and i mean everyone) gathers in Ul'dah so we need some way of spreading out people into other cities and giving Limsa and Gridania a purpose.

This has gotten way off topic :S