Teleport prices are too exensive

[Shougun]

Lore wise, who the heck are we paying when we teleport anyway?

Atomos hoodwinked us so hard. He was all like "let me make them believe by destroying my clones that they're defending their crystals, I'll even give them "free" anima to teleport with" each time we struck him down he just implanted himself deeper into the crystals, and now he's been able to extort the GC for gil to keep them operating, he's now richer than Godbert!!!

The maintenance cost is a sham, fight back sheeple! :3

(Made that up of course, well except the killing Atomos at crystals and getting anima - good times).

On point of the thread, gil costs are not bad if you can get your FC/House/Appartment, Free Teleport, Return, and Favored(s) in a good spot. I don't think I spend more than 250 except when I'm lazy to port to a closer free place first.. which unfortunately happens more than it should lol.

[KageTokage]

You can circumvent teleport costs for a long while by just tagging along for a bunch of ARR A/S ranks.

One A = ten aetheryte tickets, and one S = 25.

[Sakuraluna]

I don't often notice teleport prices, tbh. You earn enough gil just by playing the game, running content, hunts etc. to replace what you spend porting around.


Plus, if you're selling things on the market board, that only makes teleporting less of a worry - especially if you have a decent income coming in, it's completely unnoticeable.

[Seraphor]

I have Rhalgrs set to Home.
Uldah, Limsa and Ishgard as favourites.
Then FC in Lavender beds and apartment in Shirogane.
Pretty much covers most places with a route for under 999g.

[Panzerdarkreth]

Imagine being so poor you look at teleport prices.

[Lemuel81]

Gil is super easy to get in this game. Do not see how prices are too expensive. Maybe to a new player but that's fine. Always thought there was way too much teleporting in this game..

[MsQi]

Gil is super easy to get in this game. Do not see how prices are too expensive. Maybe to a new player but that's fine. Always thought there was way too much teleporting in this game..

I would use the chocobos more if it were better designed. Several stops are not available where they should be. It should cross more maps and the interface should be map based. I want to hop on a bird in Southern Thanalan and ride to Moghome, even if it takes 10 minutes.

[wereotter]

Another game I played, I think, handled teleporting much better than FFXIV does. Rather than charging you based off distance, they charged you based off frequency. So if you just teleported to Gridiania and wanted to teleport to Fallgourd Float, that would cost you 999 gil, but if you hadn't teleported in an hour or so and wanted to go from Gridiana to Kugane, that might cost you 100 gil. Additionally to help new players, its equivalent would be that teleporting by interacting with the large aethercyte crystals was free, and alternately there would be no preferred teleport destinations, and no return spell.

[BiffWellington]

Only Ul'dah is not covered by cheap teleports but could probably be as well if I took the time to see who on my friend's list has a house or an apartment in The Goblet.

You can also get from Gridania to Ul'Dah by airship for free, by stopping at the Gold Saucer first. I like to do this when I need to go to Ul'Dah, and I'll scratch off my Mini Cactpot tickets for the day while I'm there.

[LalaRu]

With:

• free destination;
• favored destination;
• GC teleport tickets;
• Saucer teleport half price;
• Return;

it is near to impossible do a teleport at full price.

And some people have also the Eternity Ring and Friendship Circlet.

But, let say everything above does not exists: when you are 70, the teleport price can-not/must-not be an issue.