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    Random Chest Spawns in the World

    One of the things I found cool about adventuring around in MMO's was finding those random treasure chests just sitting there waiting to be opened.

    World of Warcraft has this. Most of the time it's just a potion that restores hp or mp with a few random items inside too, crafting materials or something...but it adds a lot of flavor to adventuring around in areas you have already explored, since it adds randomness to the game and more sense of adventure.

    In the future, could we get something like this? The drops don't have to be gear, obviously. Simple materials and/or potions would do just fine...even Ventures!
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    While a cool enough idea, do you really need more potions?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HyperSMB View Post
    While a cool enough idea, do you really need more potions?
    Depends... from POTD i'm fully stocked on max pots lol. But I could use stat pots!
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    As long as it wasnt just potions to fill up my inventory.

    And you could make it its own thing too, like when found shoots a light up in the sky, and anyone can grab a copy of whats inside within 5 minutes. Then it disappears. They've start to add nifty things to fates too like the double exp mob that shows up. This could be tied to fate completion, or add an effect for players doing fates also etc.

    Who knows but might as well be creative
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    Finding chests with some loot was my favorite thing in WoW and ESO!

    There needs to be SOMETHING in open world to encourage more adventuring. It's very beautiful and even more bland.
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    I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clethoria View Post
    I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!
    I used WoW because it's an MMO. If we're talking about classic JRPG's then I want to be able to go through town and find random items in jugs, drawers, and corners 8^)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clethoria View Post
    I'm seeing a lot of WoW here but not classic JRPGs. I'd be more inclined to agree if that was the argument, not WOW DID IT!
    Same argument as "FFXI did it" in other threads. To be honest, as long as it is a good idea, does it really matter where it came from?

    I'm probably over thinking it, but I'm seeing a lot of potential bot/hacking abuse. Plus (using WoW as a negative here), if FFXIV progresses to the point where we can hop servers, then that could lead to abuse of PF/group invite spam in order to steal chest on other servers.

    I do like the idea of personalized chests, kinda similar to what Niqote said about the current Leve chests, or RubyCirha's idea with FATEs.
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    Last edited by Natsuno; 06-24-2017 at 11:35 PM. Reason: added & changed it a bit

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    FFXI did the fate/chest thing in it's wings of the goddess expansion which at times was nice. I think the posters original intent is that there are large detailed zones with voids between sparsely placed monsters lending to a general feel of emptiness. It is less about what is in the chest and more about filling the zones a bit more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elfidan View Post
    FFXI did the fate/chest thing in it's wings of the goddess expansion which at times was nice. I think the posters original intent is that there are large detailed zones with voids between sparsely placed monsters lending to a general feel of emptiness. It is less about what is in the chest and more about filling the zones a bit more.
    I haven't a clue about FFXI, but I agree with the rest of what you said. There's space for clickable objects and lore tid-bits, monuments (broken or whole) with readable plaques. A random bit of vendor fodder out in the world with a tooltip description that could help enrich the lore of the zone you found it in, or just something silly that makes you smile. I know there are some interesting things scattered about, just nothing you can interact with. So much more could be done with the space.
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