Thread: Crafting in 2.0 and beyond!

Originally Posted by ellohwell

FFS... they explicitly stated they would NOT be releasing player run airships. Tanaka said this.

What they said they were implementing was player-owned ships (like naval ships).

Some people get so upset over stuff, really ellohwell, he doesn't work on the game for a reason, because apparently his direction the game was taking sucked.

Who is to say what the new direction of the game could take, they seem to want to take down the competition and create one of the best mmos to date. I'm all for it, but unless they do something that nobody as tried yet I don't see it happening.

I'm not saying my Ideas are law, heavens no, I just want something that players can work on together other than fighting monsters, or pvp (2.0).

Being a carpenter, I don't get much work aside from making spears for people or bows, and trying to get +3s on both, once in awhile I'll get a request to make some shoes, but this stuff is boring, I would like to tackle all types of carpentry. I have a feeling other crafters have the same feeling.

These are only ideas to maybe, start encouragement for the Devs to do something truly amazing.

Please take some Ideas to make crafting more interesting, nobody likes to sit in one spot for 20 days nonstop making the same stuff over and over.

Originally Posted by Allcars

Some people get so upset over stuff, really ellohwell, he doesn't work on the game for a reason, because apparently his direction the game was taking sucked.

Who is to say what the new direction of the game could take, they seem to want to take down the competition and create one of the best mmos to date. I'm all for it, but unless they do something that nobody as tried yet I don't see it happening.

I'm not saying my Ideas are law, heavens no, I just want something that players can work on together other than fighting monsters, or pvp (2.0).

Being a carpenter, I don't get much work aside from making spears for people or bows, and trying to get +3s on both, once in awhile I'll get a request to make some shoes, but this stuff is boring, I would like to tackle all types of carpentry. I have a feeling other crafters have the same feeling.

These are only ideas to maybe, start encouragement for the Devs to do something truly amazing.

Please take some Ideas to make crafting more interesting, nobody likes to sit in one spot for 20 days nonstop making the same stuff over and over.

Im not saying its impossible, im saying the statemrnt that SE were ever considering implementing player-owned airhships is blatantly wrong. No one ever said that, not least of all Yoshi.

On that note, the trend seems to be that SE are stripping more power away from players every day and putting all the emphasis on "structured fun" and "scripted events" so I doubt they would put any weight in a player-run airship feature unless it was some kind of instanced minigame or something stupid anyway.

I definitely see what you are saying, even if they could at least, let us craft a airship and this would let us travel to other contents once those are unlocked, or islands. Maybe make it so that would be the only way to visit the new content first.
(doesn't matter if it is a instants where to see yourself flying over water or land, or fast travel, that isn't what my focus is on) Just something to make crafting not so boring, a way to give the player like they are needed to access different parts of the game or a way to change the world.

Originally Posted by Bigglesworth

your ideas seem fun, but I feel you are starting to get into a different game. Once you start building houses, airships etc. where does it stop? sounds like a SimCity type game. I would prefer them to just continue to come out with new recipes for gear and weapons that help us kill stuff.

Never build your own houses, just build furniture, so you could decorate your house, and from what I read of the post above it looks like they already had something planned like that, so that is great.

Airships would be more of moving to other lands, and exploring places that the npcs from your home region don't go. So you would just build it and it would give you more options at the airship docks. That is all.

Still not sure if this is similar to what you had in mind, or if I read too much into it, but look! Source.

JPGAMES.DE, Frederick: So called “free companies” are going to be implemented with the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV 2.0, additionally player housings and the summoning of the primal Ifrit are planned features. Can you give us some details on this matter?

Yoshida Naoki: About the housing estates for the free companies, at the moment most disciples of the hand or of the land are thinking: “Why are they concentrating on the battle side?” Housing estates are going to be very important for those players, because it is more related to the lifestyle. We can make sure these players, trying out different classes, can really fell like they are taking place in the game, that was really important to us. Even for an MMO it is something very special to have your own house in the game, so we are fully aware of that and we are making sure it is really going to be exciting.

Unlike other MMOs, in which you can only see your own house and each house is based on an instanced system, we want to make sure that other players can actually see your house as well. Around 20 houses can be in one area, you can make houses, not anywhere, but you will be able to decide in which part you want to have your house. You can also design your house itself and have your own garden, maybe you can grow your own Gysahl Greens there or house your own chocobo. You can really customize your own estate.


At the moment, in the Dev Team, you can actually see the mock up of the polygons. So you can see what the estate is going to look like. It’s the Limsa Lominsa version, and the concept is to make it like a European resort area, so it is going to be really beautiful. Up from the hill you can see the ocean, it’s going to be really nice, I believe. I’m looking forward to it.