The World: so Big so Beautiful... But yet so empty

[Blackcanary]

Remove teleport.

Not all teleport needs to be removed though. Just Leave about 6 major teleport hubs, like in FFXI. 1 in Thanalan, 1 in shroud, 1 in noscea, 1 in mor dhona, 1 in Fringes, 1 in Doma.

That's it. This will encourage people to use airships, boats, to access major cities that dont have teleport. And make those airship, boat, and yes, let's implement the Thanalan train , not skippable cutscene, make them real time but not too long. In FFXI even if you want to go to a major city, you had to do this.

If you want to go further, have only Healers able to teleport to encourage interaction between players.

yes to this 10 times over.

[Shurrikhan]

yes to this 10 times over.

I'm not strictly a fan of teleport removal, but just to throw this out there:

In 1.x, Teleports were not linked to gil. Instead, they were linked to a slowly regenerating resource called anima. This made for reduced proportion of teleports overall, while also being more casual-friendly (or high-playtime-unfriendly, since you only had, essentially, x teleports per day/week/etc.). Additionally, teleports were more spread out, but there were also hubs alike to Souls-ish aether-fissures that you could make a home point. This allowed you to return relatively quickly upon death (more important in that mob camp grinding back then was much more productive, but with such activity came a higher chance of death), but meant that you were still traveling fairly large distances routinely, taking in the landscape. That said, more mission check-ins were also completed via linkpearl...