Teleport kills immersion

[Kaiser-Ace]

There is a crap ton of lore about why the Aetheryte system exists. After the calamity caused by Bahamut, there was a large amount of residual Aether dispersed....you know what? Just read more.

We still don't know who originally made them though. Or how they found the aether streams, or what happened to their civilization. As much lore as we have we still have unanswered questions and there's still plenty we could learn on the matter.

Never a such thing as "Too Much Lore".

[Iagainsti]

Never a such thing as "Too Much Lore".

Subjective; I for one skip over all text since 2.0 and my mrd/warrior class storylines. I haven't watched a single cutscene since Coil.

Frankly I have no idea what really is going on in the MSQ for all of HW(sorta lying, I did watch the final cutscene for Thor NM), so yes, for some, there is too much Lore.

[Judah_Brandt]

We still don't know who originally made them though. Or how they found the aether streams, or what happened to their civilization. As much lore as we have we still have unanswered questions and there's still plenty we could learn on the matter.

Never a such thing as "Too Much Lore".

That's true. It's also plausible that they can still release this information in the future. Assumptively we can't know everything at once, that's part of the fun. You know what the people in this thread would love? If as part of the story the game messed with the player's Aether and they were unable to teleport for a short time while they adventure. God, that'd be awful.

[Dualgunner]

We still don't know who originally made them though. Or how they found the aether streams, or what happened to their civilization. As much lore as we have we still have unanswered questions and there's still plenty we could learn on the matter.

Never a such thing as "Too Much Lore".

The answer to all of your queries is Allagans; everything is explained with them.

[Noshpan]

I use teleportation sparingly (I'm trying to save up gil), as useful as it is, I don't feel that it ruins my immersion one bit.

I do wish that the chocobo taxi service was a bit better, or a lot better in the case of Heavensward areas. How the chocobo taxi is in Heavensward just makes me want to flip tables like Titan.

[Kaiser-Ace]

The answer to all of your queries is Allagans; everything is explained with them.

The Allagan Empire wasn't responsible nfor all of them. They may have made some but so did Sharlyon 5000 years later.

Who invented them before there was such a thing is the mystery.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Subjective; I for one skip over all text since 2.0 and my mrd/warrior class storylines. I haven't watched a single cutscene since Coil.

Frankly I have no idea what really is going on in the MSQ for all of HW(sorta lying, I did watch the final cutscene for Thor NM), so yes, for some, there is too much Lore.

If that's how you enjoy the game then I can't judge, but you are missing such an incredible amount of content by ignoring the story.

[Felis]

As anyone else would, i have my opinions on the travel system but i am interested on peoples thoughts. Would you like more teleport locations or return to a more FFXI-esque system with limited teleportation using instead boats/airships for travel between regions.

Keep the teleportation, but make them cost anima points instead of gil. And make it that it need 2 hour real time to regenerate 1 anima point.

Teleport within the same region = 3 anima
Teleport to another region = 6 anima
Teleport to a city or to a favourite aetheryte = half the anima prices

the amount of anima a character can have maximal = 50 (I know it was 100 in 1.0, but there were also already people complaining about too many teleportings someone can do)

[Iagainsti]

If that's how you enjoy the game then I can't judge, but you are missing such an incredible amount of content by ignoring the story.

How so? I do not believe I have missed any content by skipping quest text and cutscenes unless there is some duty or trial I do not know about unlocked by watching and reading everything through.

[Claymore65]

How so? I do not believe I have missed any content by skipping quest text and cutscenes unless there is some duty or trial I do not know about unlocked by watching and reading everything through.

It depends on how you define "content".

A lot of players (myself included) enjoy watching the story develop and how the characters interact with it. To these players, the story itself is seen as valuable "Content", and skipping the quest dialog/cutscenes can be seen as ignoring a critical part of the game.

Other players (such as yourself), hold no interest in the story or the dialog, only caring for the gameplay/dungeons/etc. To these players, you're not missing out on any real content.

Neither way is a wrong way to play the game, but that's where the confusion comes from. "Content" is really a tricky thing to define for any game, because players find value in different things.