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[Nalien]

But then when it's time to do group activities, I'm glad to have the option for faster travel. I certainly would NOT want to go back to the days of FFXI where you had to pay a WHM to teleport you someplace, a BLM to warp you home, or take a VERY long boat or chocobo ride, possibly miss the airship and wait at the dock for the next one, etc. No thanks.

That's actually something I think really should be reintroduced... I mean... What is the harm in it? If you want to instantly travel from Ul'dah to Gridania, you have Teleport for that. Why not have a physical airship ride? When was the last time anyone even used the boat from Limsa to Thanalan...

Arguably it's wasted resources, but I don't think so... It adds a touch of immersion to the world as you sail past various landmarks, and Final Fantasy XI did a fairly good job of having unique events happen during them (Sea Horror, Pirate attacks, fun times) and even if you ignore that (given the size of Eorzean Airships, I don't know how anything could happen on them...) there is one tiny little thing they can still do; Fishing. Airships in XI didn't really have anything (I think there was a match the passenger quest? Meh), but here in XIV we have Skyfishing. All we really got for Fishing in XIV is that boat off the shore from Costa de Sol, but it just sits there... I want to fish on a boat that's going somewhere, that maybe has odd little things going on in the background (Apkallu jumping up on deck, damn I miss ToAU).