Suggestion: How to Implement Flight in 2.x Areas Without Delaying Expansion

[Nekodar]

What they should do is fix the old areas zone by zone and implement a few per major patch.

[Nalien]

I actually don't see the point in adding flying to old areas if you're not going to do anything with it... Getting the increased speed would be nice, but old zones are relatively small and have no real need for a speed boost...

I'd still like them to add flying to old zones, but not as just a "Fine, here you go" sort of way, in a way that actually provides something new to the old zones. Take Southern Thanalan, rather than just adding flying to the area, I'd say add new areas to the area that make use of flying. There is that big old tower in the distance for example... So rather than it just being a case of "Here's the old zone, now you can fly in it", it's a case of "Here's the old zone, now you can fly in it and discover new areas!".

[Derio]

I would be fine with delaying 4.0 to do this. I mean people would ask the same thing if they implemented swimming in the next expansion anyway.

[AskaRay]

I don't think we need flying in the 2.0 areas.

People already complain about the world feeling "small" and what will this do? You'll be able to cross SoThan in like, two seconds. I think the areas are fine without flying, thanks.

[Ashkendor]

I don't think we need flying in the 2.0 areas.

People already complain about the world feeling "small" and what will this do? You'll be able to cross SoThan in like, two seconds. I think the areas are fine without flying, thanks.

Imagine very small areas like Upper La Noscea, lol.

[Nalien]

Imagine very small areas like Upper La Noscea, lol.

I think it would be a good opportunity to go back and merge Upper La Noscea and Outer La Noscea, like the original idea seems to have been. Though that would make Wanderer's Palace slightly more annoying for me...

Although now that I mention that, the caves in the 2.0 areas really were not designed with flying in mind... You only need to look at the occasional Outer La Noscea Hunt spawn to realize that... I guess Diadem indicates that they can actually toggle flying on and off though, since you cannot fly in the caves in Diadem IIRC.

[Rufalus]

I would be ok with them adding even more areas that have no aether currents and no flying. Even an underground zone perhaps. I think there's a place for both flying and flightless zones to exist.

[Spawnie]

why do we even need flight in 2.0 areas??? waste of time n resoursces even considering it ffs

[PArcher]

I think only one zone really needs flying; Coerthas Central Highlands. All the other zones are just too small or have enough Aetherytes to keep land-only travel fine (Southern Thanalan and East Shroud are close to needing flying, but still don't really need it). If they can get this one zone redone without pushing things back, it would be great.

[Khanscott]

They would have to tack on artificial backgrounds to cover up untextured areas or add more area to each zone which I could see S-E doing if/when they do stuff to 2.0 regions like making West Shroud a thing again.