In-Game Content/Addition Ideas

[KitingGenbu]

My fellow Eorzeans,

The idea behind this thread is to come up with content ideas or general additions that you, as players, would like to see implemented in the game and/or existing content/systems you feel should be improved and how. To give others a better idea of the ideas/revisions being conveyed, please try to be as descriptive as possible to encourage accurate feedback from others.

It is my hope that some day the dev team will look at this thread and draw ideas from here while also crediting those that inspired them, maybe making you guys famous. Who knows.

I'd also like to give credit to the poster Altera(?) for sparking the idea of this thread since he/she tried to convey thoughts to a company. Although they maybe have fell on deaf ears, at least with more people participating in a public manner, it can increase the chance of some of the ideas occuring maybe in 4.0 or 5.0.

If you have any issue with ideas, please establish why to the best of your ability or just do not respond at all. I would like to keep this as civil as possible.

[Orbo100]

MATERIA COMBINING

Aside from the random trade 5 materia of your choice for a random materia and possible upgrade - I would love to see the ability/function to combine materia into a higher grade of the same type.

It could work at the same NPC "Mutamix" in Central Thanalan. You could go into a menu where you would deposit..saaaay....10-20 of materia of one grade and it would GUARANTEE a materia of the same type but of the next grade.

Not only would this ease the frustrations of DoL/DoH getting their T4-T5 materia (especially when we/they compare how easy it is to get T4/T5 DoW/DoM materia), but it would reinvigorate the Grade 1 - Grade 3 materia markets across all servers, not only making it challenging, yet less frustrating to get the materia, but also giving newer players a good way to earn spare gil other than killing dungeon monsters for 3gil a piece or asking their high level friends for a gil loan.

Also as a plus - the Spiritbonding parties would make a strong return and could give the overworld activities of the game (yes, yes I know - Hunts are a thing too) a much needed boost as far as social activities go.

[KitingGenbu]

(You can just cut your second post and edit it into your first one)

From a crafting/gathering perspective, I can see this working since there's no real way to get those Vs yet for them that I know of, but the battle materia grade Vs you can already get from PotD so I wouldn't be surprised seeing those go down as well.

Maybe what I would add is, that we have your idea to trade 10 in for the same type in but higher grade OR the option to trade 20 and get one of your choice but the same grade. I think that might help with the resistance materias and such selling faster as well. The reason I put it higher is because people might just find it cheaper to get the high teir resistance and just convert them to something they want.

[Orbo100]

That's actually a really good idea! Hopefully someone looks into this thread and steals our combined idea and implements it

[Zeiden]

It'd be nice if they expanded on chocobo racing and instead turned it into more of breeding/raising your own mount that you could take outside of the Gold Saucer. I think this would make the overall mini game much more rewarding and interesting.

[KitingGenbu]

It'd be nice if they expanded on chocobo racing and instead turned it into more of breeding/raising your own mount that you could take outside of the Gold Saucer. I think this would make the overall mini game much more rewarding and interesting.

You might be editting, but maybe give us some ideas on how you might improve the chocobo racing experience.

[Hammerhorn]

PVP castle/airship wars , think Gw2 meets Final Fantasy.

[KitingGenbu]

PVP castle/airship wars , think Gw2 meets Final Fantasy.

Would this fall more in lines with WvWvW? I would honestly kind of like to see something like that implemented. Maybe make a zone the size of Diadem for a control match or something with structural objectives and such but instead of the free company barrier, its just server vs server vs server.

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It may be true that diadem might be the only thing we'll get closest to an open world activity simulator, which may or may not be in 3.5 or later. But honestly, I think it would work quite nicely in the long run since you'll be able to interact with other people from other servers in a massive area. Lets just hope the diadem changes are truly objective focuses, like maybe adding structures and other types of mobs. There were caves and such in diadem so it would be nice to explore those and actually fighting through hordes of mobs to reach this underground boss that spawns every 15 minutes or something.

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Very true. I think many people felt XI was like a sandbox since you could honestly engage in quite of bit of content from that game at early levels without having to be capped on a single classes. It would definitely be nice to have 1-2 persistent elements that people of various levels can participate in and benefit people of various levels instead of waiting for everyone to be capped. I also agree that PotD has the potential to be a type of content like that depending on what they decide to add on to it in future patches. At the very least for now, it provides people with a decent enough alternative to leveling jobs people do not feel like gearing or wanted to try out, so in that regard I do not feel it will go 'dead' any time soon.

As for airships, are you and dinnertime kind of referring to having stations and such in the airship and multiple people operate? I suppose the only comparison I can speak of first hand to utilize as an example is Archeage, where you had multiple stations that could be operated by people to take on huge creatures in the sea. So you had a navigator, someone steering the ship, and people operating the canons, then you have people doing repairs as well. If you are referring to something like that, that would be very interesting and would draw a lot of attention. At the very least it would be a great thing to do with FCs. Maybe even add a pvp element in their like airship battles that might've been suggested earlier in the thread.

An option for players to request repairs from other players, much like a request meld thing. Useful in cases of emergencies if gears break in dungeon and/or helping other players repair gear.

I am definitely with this idea, or at the very least allow us to leave and re-enter dungeons incase we do need to repair or forgot something like games such as WoW and Rift allow players to do.

id like to see other tribes aded to the curent race/ tribe options like maby miqote with more lynx type ears or au-ra with oni type horns or race of amazon like roe women where ther more of a tribal type feel to them could tie in to beast tamer/ beast baster ore even berzerker jobs (if those jobs will ever be implamented) but stuff like that and add more face and even body options to your charicters like sliders for your hips abbs torso thighs cafs stuff like that

sorry for the spelling errors i was just typing this up quick before bed ill try to corect the errors in the morning but i wanted to get my idea um for people to see

Ruby~~

Referring to an oni race, I could be mistaken but I do believe their is a race with horns in the game or at the very least there are 2 npcs for sure I know of that have small horns, which are the conjurer main quest npc (forgot his name) and the one that was added near the PotD entrance npc in Quarrymill. I'm not sure if the horns they have are like 'real' but I did notice them (even though they kind of just look like elezens with horns) but it would be nice to have an oni race none-the-less. Maybe more horns on their body and such.

Thanks a lot for all of you that have posted so far. There are definitely a lot of good ideas and QoL things that I would personally like to see that have been suggested so far. Can't wait to see what other ideas will be posted.

[Rhyku]

I am definitely with this idea, or at the very least allow us to leave and re-enter dungeons incase we do need to repair or forgot something like games such as WoW and Rift allow players to do.

Or just stick a repair NPC at the dungeon's entrance, like how GW2 did it