Current State of Ishgard

[Derio]

Translation of the meme is the place is pretty much a joke. There is nothing, literally nothing to do there. At this point I would be happy if they added in a whole bunch of NPCs to make that place feel like an actual city.

AFKshire is a lagfest, so much so I wish people were kicked into the hinterlands if they go AFK there.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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You say that, but originally Idylshire WAS going to be connected to the Hinterlands, but the devs decided to separate them because they didn't want the entire zone to be affected like Mor Dhona was in 2.0. But putting end game token content and whatnot in Ishgard is just shifting the AFKers from one city to another and you may as well not even have Idylshire at all if you are going to force people to stay in a major city. But why stop at Ishgard? Why not just keep people in the 2.0 zones for the sake of looking like they are busy while making the new zones look like ghost towns?

Considering that you return to Ishgard many times in the MSQ, do you want endgame AFKers also taking up space as people doing the MSQ have to suffer from lag too?

[BlackenedTiamat]

I always thought itd be a cool idea to put different disciple's tome equipment in different locations.
MIN gear trade in could be an NPC in an outpost somewhere in CWH.
BTN in Sea of Clouds, Camp Cloudtop
FSH, Forelands
Tanks could have been an Armory in Ishgard with DRGs.
MNK and NIN could have been in the Brume,
BRD, and MCH in the Machine Factory place in Ishgard, or Zenith.
Casters could have easily been in the Monastery in The Pillars.

Idyllshire would still have Alexander raid gear, NM and Savage. As well as scripture turn ins for crafting mats, as well as Chloe. Also they should have kept it to where you have to go to the entrance of Savage in order to que in. I understand that some of you hate having to do this, but it adds to the immersion of a game, like it or not. Itd also make Idyllshire even more of a hub for endgame raiders.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Having dozens of players all huddled around a glowy blue portal. Yep, that's quite immersive.

[Seniade]

Even if things are spread out, players will still tend to gravitate towards a single area.
In 1.0, most people gathered in Ul'dah.
For XI when I played, it was mostly Jeuno, although there was a fair amount of players in Whitegate.
In vanilla Everquest (at least on PVE servers), it was the tunnel in East Commons.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Hell, even now, most people hang out at Limsa because the markets and aetheryte are in the same zone.