"If you ignore them long enough.."

[Skivvy]

Doesn't that kinda, I don't know, defeat the purpose of playing an MMO to begin with if you just want to play with NPCs?

Most parties you get in DF offer nothing more than an NPC would. Getting a simple hello from people is too difficult most days.

[Grux]

Well. My motivation level for PvP went down significantly.

[Sicno]

Don't forget egi glamour and right click -> report RMT message on the chat window

[MistakeNot]

Someone made a really nice flowchart of all the MMOs out there and what kind of storage space they all had. This one has pretty much more storage space than any of them, gear wise, crafting material-wise, etc.... I'm sure if anyone wanted to find it they could on google images... I don't think I need to find it again since this thread has been posted so many times that someone actually made a pretty darn nice flowchart about this topic...

But with the ability to level all classes with a single character combined with the interconnected nature of the crafting classes, one also ends up needing quite a bit more storage space in FFXIV than in most other MMOs.

[Defias]

SWTOR had NPC companions from the beginning.
There is another MMO but the name eludes me.

Honestly the NPC group thing would be lovely. As it'd help with a lot of the community's complaints.

1. Folks would no longer be "forced" (I use the term loosely) into old content just because 1 person needed a clear.
2. It would allow people to go through the MSQ without queues & the drama of being the 1st timer in a group of disgruntled veterans.
3. It would cut out a large number of the "Bads" that everyone says are ruining the game and that everyone resents in their groups.
4. Folks could in effect learn fights/dungeons & their class without hurting/hindering/endangering other players.

I'd honestly just every Dungeon & Trial get a Solo mode. Awards Gil, Seals, 50% of the group Tome award, or ONLY award the group Tome reward qty.

[BloodPact]

I'll be honest. I hope none of these ever happen until the game is literally unplayable if it doesn't.

What you're suggesting is we take everything that makes an mmo a mmo and turn it single player.

Not necessarily. Even more now that you can now basically stay out of contact with the outside world in most instances. If you have three other friends you can roulette or straight out run basically anything without needing another player. The exception would be newer full party content.

If they are to allow chocobos it will probably have to be on undersized configurations only. No one will want to run a roulette with another person's companion instead of a player. It would probably take way more time. What this would do is provide an alternative for people who want to farm or tackle super old content without having to wait years in the queue (especially DPS).

[Vivi_Bushido]

I'm personally against FC alliances.

[FaizeD]

Increase the duration of Shroud of Saints to 25 seconds.

Yes, I went there. If you're going to make one healer's MP management trivial, then you may as well make all them trivial.

[BloodPact]

Increase the duration of Shroud of Saints to 25 seconds.

Yes, I went there. If you're going to make one healer's MP management trivial, then you may as well make all them trivial.

Scholar still has the advantage over the other two healers on MP management (and pretty much almost everything else), just so you know.

[Andrea]

Yes, I went there. If you're going to make one healer's MP management trivial, then you may as well make all them trivial.

Increase scholar and ast base healing potency then.

After all, can't have one class able to heal for more than the other? Gotta make all class the same too.