Expansion of City States and "Dangerous" Areas.

[odie]

Will we ever see the possibility of expansions to the existing city states? Currently, each one has 2 maps to it.

Uldah has Steps of Nald and Steps of Thal
Limsa Lominsa has the Upper Decks and the Lower Decks
Gridania has New and Old Gridania
and Ishgard has Pillars and Foundation.

I wondered if maybe we could see extra maps added to these cities, such as a darker part of Uldah, maybe full of thieves and the poor. I feel like the alleyway behind the Quicksand and Market doesn't do a good enough job of portraying it that way.

I imagine a bunch of tight alleyways, a run down part of town, and maybe even aggroable enemies that try to mug you. The music should be fitting to help set the mood. Ul'dah and the other city states songs sound too heroic or cheerful, and the maps open and well lit. I love exploring and I think that an expansion of the cities with at least 1 additional map would help add more character to the cities itself.



My ideas along the lines of Uldah having the dark crime filled alleys.
Limsa Lominsa maybe having a military yard or something.
Gridania is still rebuilding some of the forest isn't it? Maybe a map to give a look at their recovery efforts being underway.

I don't know. I just feel like it would be a nice addition in the future and I would hate for the older locations to feel like they've been forgotten in the content going forward. They seem to just be there to talk to an NPCs in our questline than anything now. I'd like to see a focus on new maps in new zones obviously, but I don't want the older locations to be left behind.

[LionFranco]

We can already enter the entirety of these 3 cities outside of one residential area in Gridania. There are no seedy back alleys to add, we have seen the entirety of publicly accessible area of these cities...

[Xlantaa]

The cities are complete. But, it is possible add this things to the new ones, like 4.0.

[Velhart]

Rather they focus their resources in new areas for the next expansion. The idea isn't bad, but the new areas within the current city need to have a reason and purpose. I rather those type of things be done in new areas to explore.

[odie]

The cities aren't exactly complete. There are many gates in Uldah that aren't accessible and even parts of Limsa we can't get to

[Dyvid]

While not sure it fits into the current setup, they could use your idea for new cities in 4.0.

[LadyVal]

Someone did see that SE accidentally showed, in the new map design, that a map of Gridania had an "entrance" arrow going into Lilly Hills, where Gridanian nobility/elite reside. They then removed the image and said "it is for an area in a future expansion." So there is hope!

[Enkidoh]

Someone did see that SE accidentally showed, in the new map design, that a map of Gridania had an "entrance" arrow going into Lilly Hills, where Gridanian nobility/elite reside. They then removed the image and said "it is for an area in a future expansion." So there is hope!

That was probably me - I mentioned that in the 3.3 preliminary patch notes thread, and when the full notes were uploaded that image was changed with a disclaimer that the previous image mistakenly showed content "that was still in development". So yeah, that is hope that part of Gridania will finally see access (given it's been locked since 1.0).

[LadyVal]

That was probably me - I mentioned that in the 3.3 preliminary patch notes thread, and when the full notes were uploaded that image was changed with a disclaimer that the previous image mistakenly showed content "that was still in development". So yeah, that is hope that part of Gridania will finally see access (given it's been locked since 1.0).

It was you! I could remember your face/hairstyle buuuuttt I'm super bad at remembering names... >_>;;

[FallenArisen0990]

It's gonna feel funny having all these flying mounts and we can't fly in 4.0. It's probably asking for too much but I would like Air Battles.