New Content Ideas

[BreyVoreas93]

I\\'m not entirely sure if this has been a topic, I\\'m sure it has, but I\\'ve not found it.

So many complain on here about lack of interesting, and inventive content that capture the player bases attention and keep them subbed. And by no means am I saying they don\\'t have a point, but instead of simply complaining how about we brainstorm ideas and hope something good catches SE\\'s eye.

What type of content would you like to see created?

I would love to see something where NM\\'s, machines, men, allagan constructs or whatever they concoct, randomly attack settlements throughout eorzea, examples camp bronze lake, aleport, tailfeather, Falcons nest, and maybe something like a server message comes up for players to come and defend, or perhaps a message in that area. The walls would have Hp meters and we have to prevent them from being destroyed, obviously with some desirable reward potential involved.


Please share your ideas.

[BreyVoreas93]

Just a thought but I feel like this would be interesting and would keep the old areas alive. If this has been done in another game I wouldn\\\\'t know but it was just a thought for this.

[Enkidoh]

What you're describing is basically FFXI's Besieged/Campaign, which were fun, but the problem is, having such content usually means other gameplay content suffers as a result (Besieged suffered from this problem in that NPCs would often be captured by enemies if the battle failed and then players would lose access to certain functions in the city like item vendors and chocobo handlers).

Plus, if you have in it areas where players are still levelling (especially areas around the three cities), new players would just find life too difficult to get anywhere when a ton of mobs are assailing the place, and given the fact the main design brief for FFXIV ARR was to make it easily accessible to new players (read, those who have never played a MMO before), I don't see this kind of content being implemented, at least, not in the ARR zones.

[BreyVoreas93]

Ah okay I hadn't realized that was content in FFXI. Maybe something for the heavens ward areas perhaps?

[Amiaze]

I'd love to see them do something more interesting with the hunts, although I'm not sure what. I personally think the goal for new content should be to make the world itself more interesting and not confine everything to an instance, as well as keep it lasting longer than a month or two. I honestly don't see why adding something like the S-ranks in Diadem as very rare monsters with a single drop (perhaps as a FATE that functioned using your item level rather than actual level) wouldn't work.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Kind of a pie in the sky idea. But I thought it would be cool if they created an external software that allows you to design your own gear for glamour purposes and upload it to the game for you and others to use.

Think of something similar to character creator, but instead of choosing race, you choose gear slots and it gives you options and sliders and things to make a unique piece of gear.

To fund development of this you could make it a purely cash shop system. Free to download the software but to get your designs in the game you have to purchase a "design" or "pattern" that can be used to craft your design in game. Make it something easy to craft like glamour prisms where the recipe is always the same just need relevant crafter.

If you allow players to buy multiple patterns of their own designs and sell it on the market board it could serve as a way to curb RMT activity or just make a website where you can browse other people's patterns and purchase them straight from mog station.

This is a feature that I think would be pretty popular and generate good revenue stream with very low development cost in the long term.

[BreyVoreas93]

I have to say that's def a cool idea if def be for that, and I agree the whole entire hunting experience is lackluster would be nice to revamp that a bit.