Limitations

[Kurogaea]

The PS3 has nothing to do with summoning primals. It more to do with the problem Hydaelyn's perfect little messiah summing her anathema just seems a little...inconsistent.

Think about it. The Summons in this game are devised by the villains, for the sole purpose of draining the planet of its aether so that they can merge parallel universe together summon their own god and wipe out the morals. And in the blue corner we have the players who are always depicted as someone who very much would like to see the mothercrystal, the planet named for her, and her inhabitants live. Doesn;t that seem a little but mutrually exclusive with summoning life-sized primals?

You mean like Lady Iceheart who saved us by using a Primal? Was it not Hydaelyn who requested Minfila to be a her thrall for the greater good, ultimately giving up her own life? If you have to give aether to save lives I think it'd be kinda called for if you had to use a primal.

[basketofseals]

I don't think anything you listed was PS3 limitations. Most of them are just design choices or server limitations.

Most of what's limiting in the PS3 was its ungodly low RAM, so maybe we'll see triple triad playable in the field or a better HUD or something.

You mean like Lady Iceheart who saved us by using a Primal? Was it not Hydaelyn who requested Minfila to be a her thrall for the greater good, ultimately giving up her own life? If you have to give aether to save lives I think it'd be kinda called for if you had to use a primal.

Summoning a primal should only be a "to avoid worse case scenario" kind of thing like the last Calamity. I don't think we should ever do it outside of a very specific story scenario. Minfilia isn't exactly a primal. She was just a mouthpiece that channeled Hydaelyn.

[Norleas]

butts - limitations

[Norleas]

We need much more open-world stuff in general, this game has way too much instanced stuff.

[Kikoten]

Going off my earlier post about open world dungeons, I think I just had a cool idea for an open world dungeon. Anyone who's played Dark Age of Camelot might know what I'm pulling this from.

You know how there are three Grand Companies, right? And they like to have friendly* battles to control territory, right? What if there were an open world dungeon like Darkness Falls, where all three Grand Companies could contest for relics, special treasures belonging to the leaders of the GCs, which give benefits to any GC who possesses all three relics? Instead of doing PvP combat for them, it could be like a race between GCs to complete special FATEs, available only inside the dungeon. And in order to steal a relic, it'd require a GC to KO the champions who protect it.

*LOL

[Norleas]

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as interesting as that sounds, i'd rather not have to grind more fates for more things (unless those fates are all crazy fun)

[Kikoten]

as interesting as that sounds, i'd rather not have to grind more fates for more things (unless those fates are all crazy fun)

Oh, definitely. The open world dungeon FATEs could be about more than just killing X number of monsters, or downing a big boss, or collecting items for some idiot whose feet can't move. I'm thinking of a mini-game like "capture the flag," which does involve killing monsters, but for a different purpose. And you'd be contesting with other GCs in that. Anyway, gotta go back to work now!

[basketofseals]

Going off my earlier post about open world dungeons, I think I just had a cool idea for an open world dungeon. Anyone who's played Dark Age of Camelot might know what I'm pulling this from.

You know how there are three Grand Companies, right? And they like to have friendly* battles to control territory, right? What if there were an open world dungeon like Darkness Falls, where all three Grand Companies could contest for relics, special treasures belonging to the leaders of the GCs, which give benefits to any GC who possesses all three relics? Instead of doing PvP combat for them, it could be like a race between GCs to complete special FATEs, available only inside the dungeon. And in order to steal a relic, it'd require a GC to KO the champions who protect it.

*LOL

If it's anything like Ashran in WoD, then one GC will utterly dominate leading to everyone funneling to one GC making queue times for PvP even worse. Also the GC battles aren't about territory nor are they even pretending to be friendly. It's a bloodbath free-for-all that's being tolerated because of the Eorzean Alliance doesn't want to war against each other, but the Allagan technology is too valuable to give up willingly. It also serves as a front for preventing would be power mongers from gunning for the Allagan super weapon at the bottom of the Carteneau Flats.

[Derio]

Really need fun fates

[Felis]

Everything around housing is server limitation, not PS3 limitation.

You mean like Lady Iceheart who saved us by using a Primal? Was it not Hydaelyn who requested Minfila to be a her thrall for the greater good, ultimately giving up her own life? If you have to give aether to save lives I think it'd be kinda called for if you had to use a primal.

Iceheart used her light crystal, drained the energy from herself and died after it.
So, no live sized primals are design limitation and not PS3 limitation