Town maintenance and camps repairs [suggestion]

[Nakiamiie]

I'm not sure if I made that suggestion in the past or someone else did, nevertheless, I'll mention it (again) anyway.

For Final Fantasy XIV 2.0, it would be nice for crafters if certain parts of the cities and camp would need repairs over time. Nothing major, just cracks, holes, etc. that would need repairs. This would happen randomly in town, not in a leve or a quest, but as "world" event. So, less used hallways might look older until players repairs them, camps nobody goes to would benefit from crafters making the trip there to repairs the tents, fences, etc.

It would make things less used by players feel somewhat abandoned. Again, it would not be something that completely destroys the view, just make things look older and in need of maintenance.

All the players would have to do is stop, target the cracks or holes, and perform the maintenance. It would give a small amount of exp and only take a short stop to complete once in a while (unless it has been abandoned a long time and there is lots of holes and cracks to repairs -- players could call other crafters in their linkshell for help).

It's the small details that makes a great game beyond great, excellent. I hope to see such small activities for players to take on on the spur of the moment. When we just take a breather and come relax in Eorzea without grinding, to truly enjoy this beautiful world.

(Or just get on the nerve of OCD players trying to make everything orderly, haha)

[Zenaku]

I'm not sure if I made that suggestion in the past or someone else did, nevertheless, I'll mention it (again) anyway.

For Final Fantasy XIV 2.0, it would be nice for crafters if certain parts of the cities and camp would need repairs over time. Nothing major, just cracks, holes, etc. that would need repairs. This would happen randomly in town, not in a leve or a quest, but as "world" event. So, less used hallways might look older until players repairs them, camps nobody goes to would benefit from crafters making the trip there to repairs the tents, fences, etc.

It would make things less used by players feel somewhat abandoned. Again, it would not be something that completely destroys the view, just make things look older and in need of maintenance.

All the players would have to do is stop, target the cracks or holes, and perform the maintenance. It would give a small amount of exp and only take a short stop to complete once in a while (unless it has been abandoned a long time and there is lots of holes and cracks to repairs -- players could call other crafters in their linkshell for help).

It's the small details that makes a great game beyond great, excellent. I hope to see such small activities for players to take on on the spur of the moment. When we just take a breather and come relax in Eorzea without grinding, to truly enjoy this beautiful world.

(Or just get on the nerve of OCD players trying to make everything orderly, haha)

That be cool but i see a issue where players who want to do them can't due to all the craft just did it. But i really like that idea repairing stuff around the world would make it a lot of fun for craft

[Nakiamiie]

That be cool but i see a issue where players who want to do them can't due to all the craft just did it. But i really like that idea repairing stuff around the world would make it a lot of fun for craft

I thought about that too, and I think it might be like lighting the lamps in Jeuno in FFXI. People will do it a lot at first and then get bored with it and become more available to other players.

Thanks for your comment Zenaku.

[Zenaku]

I thought about that too, and I think it might be like lighting the lamps in Jeuno in FFXI. People will do it a lot at first and then get bored with it and become more available to other players.

Thanks for your comment Zenaku.

Ya i hope they do this it sound like it would give more life to the City you can even have quest that you enter a instances and many part of the city is broken and you job is to repair it and seeing how this quest is within a instances only the DMG can be big and you can really see how much you fix it and such.

I think this is the best idea i hope SE think of maybe doing this when they get everything for 2.0+

[Raldo]

I like the idea. They even mention that the BSM/ARM guild has to upkeep the bridges outside of Limsa in one of the quests.

Maybe just shortcuts / decorative stuff? Building/upkeeping a bridge that exits from Limsa to the Skull Valley area, or upkeeping decorations / fountains. Repairing the guild shops (that aren't currently usable) in the little towns outside the cities.

When I first started the game, I also thought it would be cool if a large number of miners mining the caves underground La Noscea (Limsa) would slowly open up an underground shortcut to Ul'dah. Maybe with occasional cave-ins that need to be upkept in order to keep the shortcut functional. I realize that's DoL, not DoH, but the concept still applies. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of any special thing for Botanists or Fishers to do <_<. Botany could clear out heavy brush, I guess, but fishers... could... fish a bunch of fish out of a lake that is feeding a bunch of super-high-level monsters nearby so that they go away, so a new path to somewhere is opened? There are spider webs in the copperbell mines that block a couple paths... maybe they could spearfish around the area and clear out some of the spiders (and thus, their webs). Personally, I would like to see new dungeons opened up by requiring DoL jobs to clear the path like this, but that sort of change would need to be permanent.

Y'know, these ideas aren't so hard to come up with after all! All this stuff would make the world seem a lot more dynamic, since sometimes things would change. I just always fall back to fearing that if things fall into disrepair, it needs to be something that isn't too much of an inconvenience on everyone else. In an MMO, once content gets old enough, it inevitably stops getting done very much (usually because the reward or time spent isn't worth the time anymore).

[tymora]

Just give a decent EXP bonus at the end of it like a leve and people will do it.
Or make it such that that part of the city no longer functions...doors don't open, lifts don't run, shopkeepers can't work...etc