Random Airship Encounters

[Tranx]

A friend of mine had a very interesting idea about randomly battling Monsters while taking a flight on an airship, the most interesting way to do this we believe is to make it similar to the Final Fantasy X airship battle with Evrae, so you would have to interact a lot with the environment either moving the airship away or shooting cannons for a short phase, with 2.0 this may be possible to do this, Odin will be the first wandering Primal it would be interesting to see like Garuda or another Primal in airship fight as well as many other unique monsters. Please share your thoughts on this

[ellohwell]

Yeah, they should definitely add more interesting elements to the gameplay. Making the airship battles more interactive would be a big step up from the boring FFXI airship/boatride battles.

[Dreamer]

I'd like to see this for both the airship rides and the boat rides.

[Jinko]

So when you get the loading screen sometimes it will go all swirly and you have to fight stuff ? /grins

[Bocajo]

Haha, I really like that idea Jinko. I'd at least like to see a little more more scenery from the flight. It's a little disconcerting to pop from one city to another.

[Chardrizard]

Haha, I really like that idea Jinko. I'd at least like to see a little more more scenery from the flight. It's a little disconcerting to pop from one city to another.

They already said it's temporary, a choice of full ride will be there once they have contents to supplement it, there is no point of 10min rides if nothing is going to happen, sightseeing is only fun on the first ride.

[Incarna]

I'd like to see this for both the airship rides and the boat rides.

I hope this makes it for 2.0 at least.

I'd also like to be able to see the new landscape revision while riding on the airship.

[Bocajo]

Yeah, I can understand not including this sort of feature until the new zones are finished. They would just have to remake the entire cut scene.

[Lyndis]

Is this thread about fixing the airships? Because no one uses airships and the concept is still incredibly irritating. For being one of the big "Final Fantasy" items added to this game it is hardly felt. We need destinations that require an airship. We also need to stop this nonsensical one airship departing and arriving simultaneously at two different locations at inconsistent times stuff.

[Bocajo]

I'm usually out of anima, so I use the airships often. Regardless the entire issue of how we navigate Eorzea needs to be reworked.

I understand it might be an unpopular idea, but I would like teleport abilities be given to mages (similar to ffxi), and to do away with the anima system. I believe this would improve the usage of airships, and be a step towards resolving the awkward transports systems.