Issues with some zones and aethertes, please do not repeat this in SB

[Nixxe]

I'm worried that I "think" it got better only because it's not as needed, but at the moment I do think Balmung's hunt culture is fairly reasonable - the waiting is a good compromise and it's called out on like 8 different linkshells lol.

But I do remember the golden time when even S ranks died faster than a minute, and A ranks... haaah. Back when you didn't play normally so you could actually get credit for the hunt lol, enmity spamming ftw xD.

Well, I've only been on Balmung a couple of months, so I really have no basis for comparison. I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it died that quickly when people cared though, as turnout tends to be higher, especially for people who don't care the least bit about any sort of hunt culture or other hunters. I'll just have to rely on my SSD and making hunts my #1 priority for SB then.

[Shougun]

Well, I've only been on Balmung a couple of months, so I really have no basis for comparison. I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it died that quickly when people cared though, as turnout tends to be higher, especially for people who don't care the least bit about any sort of hunt culture or other hunters. I'll just have to rely on my SSD and making hunts my #1 priority for SB then.

Ah, well IF it gets that bad and your rewards start to scale down its because the system is overloading. We had this issue a lot when stuff was most popular (you shouldn't have seen it in the last few months), like literally whole parties who were there the entire time (all 45 seconds lol) would get zero participation. It became apparent that the easiest way to get participation was to max out your enmity super fast, with healers dropping their regens like they were free lol.

It's actually a good strategy for FATEs too, since they use similar systems. I highly dissuade it if the system isn't overloading because.. being useless is not great, but if you're concerned about not getting gold then get in there and just drop piles of enmity everywhere.

I believe SE has made tweaks since /the worst/ periods, to make it easier - so some of the awesome times I remember might be non-repeatable, but you still get some absurdly fast moments sometimes. Like watching that one Odin like FATE in the HW area during peak hours, HP just got divided by zero lol.

Balmung when the content is no longer highly desired (new important progression) is actually pretty nice, like the Hunts right now have people but not way too many people but hope you're ready for the party this SB ^_^.

It's part of this above stuff and you addressed it a bit already but getting people more locations to teleport to means people there sooner, meaning it will die sooner. So I'm not entirely sure it will solve the problem, maybe just paint it a different color but be at the same tier of issue. Unfortunately I don't have an easy suggestion for such a content, since part of it just relies on people being reasonable to each other (not too fast, not too slow) - probably why I like open world content, that's just mine/my party lol.

[Hasrat]

"More open world content! But don't make us schlep all the way out for it. Just, y'know, put it right outside town or something."

[Vanitas]

Clearly the removal of PvP chat makes even the most insignificant of complaints valid and the dev team should listen to, and act on EVERY single one and how dare they if they don't because I am just so SALTY at the removal of PvP chat.

[ErryK]

Ok so, you want an aetheryte RIGHT in the middle of the Vundu territory? Like right in the middle of the enemy base? You also want one over where the chimerical creations of the Allagan are too, as well as the base where the Garleans are situated in Azys Lla? And also the Sylphlands and Kobold mines?

Do you know what "Sanctuary" means?

[Paranoir]

There's a point where perceived quality or life, or convenience changes end up taking away from the game, not give to it. Why have big open world zones if you never actually need to travel. I thought the point of far off places was, you know, that they're far off and as such you need to put in some travel time to get there.

What you're describing is a community/overcrowding issue, which sucks, but the fix isn't to make travel meaningless, and large zones feel small.

[Zojha]

Why have big open world zones if you never actually need to travel.

Why have big open world zones if you can just fly over them and treat them as pretty scenery or tab out while on autorun? >_>

You can just put a loading screen with the scenery instead at that point.

[Driavna]

No, we have enough to move around, your problem is your server so more aetherytes won't fix it, if anything you should ask for some summoneable marks that require the party to do/bring something special first, like a fisher catching a sea monster.

[azura84]

I would actually welcome some difficulty navigating like adding flying, swimming, paroling mobs that aggro can apply heavy and are actually dangerous. Ya know, that difficulty stuff.

[Driavna]

I would actually welcome some difficulty navigating like adding flying, swimming, paroling mobs that aggro can apply heavy and are actually dangerous. Ya know, that difficulty stuff.

How it's that difficult? All you need to do is learn a safe route or change to DOL and use Stealth or go tank and don't care.