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.

[dinnertime]

Man, I wish this game brought back the old-school open world feel where the zones were dangerous, have secret or indoor areas and what's there to do is mostly open world content or rather something that involves being there. It'll make the world feel more alive but they'd have to make such big adjustments for it though so they'll definitely not bother with it. Oh well..

Anyway, I'd like to see airship explorations to become something you get in because of an objective instead of being there freestyle (but maybe an option for that, sure). There would be some sort of quest board where you accept quests and have to do the objective before time runs out, it could be gathering (or hunting) specific items or hunting down a really powerful monster (that's already in the area, not something that randomly spawns) and get rewards (tokens?) for completion and you can exchange those for neat stuff. Meanwhile you're in the area, you're free to gather or get mats from monsters, too. I think this way you can't be with other parties in the same zone so there's no competition.

[Lainmyst]

I do like that SE added Palace of the Dead only in the fact that low levels can run them too. But I am thinking the future of MMOs are more in the direction of the sandbox style MMO. However just saying sandbox evokes open world pvp and a miserable time for players what is essentially a PVE game. But it doesn't have to be like that. Basically people are mistaken that it only means pvp and ganking. That style only state that you can pretty much do what you want. There are all kinds of ideas that could be explored to make this game quite exhilarating and allow many to experience something beyond the usual dungeon and gear grind. For FFXIV I see more of a hybrid. A lot of options could be implemented that would give a player many options to follow that gives them so much more exciting things to do, plus the MSQ and plus all of the different dungeons we have now.

Also as Dinnertime mentioned about Airships etc. Right now they are nothing but cutscenes. I was so much looking forward to actually flying a one for real. And I don't mean the airship mounts. There is so much more content that could be added in that area specially with the sandbox style MMO. Swimming and over the sea, or under it content. This game has so many possibilities to get it out of the current rut it is in. And all of this would be from level 1 on. I would like this game to give more content to lower level players so the feeling that we so badly need to run to level 50 is such a strong and needed thing in this rush rush everywhere world we live in.

[Rhyku]

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.