Diadem 2.0 Treasure Race : Suggestion for FC and airship content.

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Ever since the announcement of the Diadem and airships i was very excited about what could be done to engage Free Companies and one great Idea was the Airship Crafting, it made so people went together to build it and it was something to work towards as a team. but we never used the airships itself and they became like a retainer who farms materials for FC credit.


this is a suggestion for a second look at the Diadem:


Treasure Race: Diadem 2.0


overview:
A treasure race consist of scattered treasures and whos the fastest to reach them!
In this mode, there would be 6 who can support 8 players each for a 48 people map the size of the diadem, there, every Island should have a treasure and who reaches it the fastest gets it, creating a competitive environment.

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Design:

Map would consist of many islands with one treasure box on each, this box would appear at random spots in the island like at the end of a cave, or the bottom of a lake ot atop a hill or deep in the jungle, and many monsters would live in these islands blocking the way, some islands would have boss monsters who ate the treasure box and should be defeated for it to appear, otherwise no monster should drop anything, not to incentivize farming them, they are just obstacles, the main goal should be exploration and racing to the treasure against other Free Companies.

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Movement:
in this area, only mechanical mounts are allowed, like the manacutter, the falcon and the magitech armor, but they can only be used on land and cant fly, flying will be only for the Airships and there are 3 variations of them, the custom crafted Free company airships, the individual Pirate ships and the individual Gatherer Ships.
restricting movement by removing individual flying will force players to go through the dangerous monsters having to clear them to reach their destination as the airship is big and can only land on safe areas of the island.


The Treasure Boxes:
Boxes are physical items that can only be opened after the run ends, players have to find it and bring it back with them to the airship who will have a limit of how much it can take at once, opening them will reward varied ammounts of Diadem currency, who can be used to buy materia, crafting materials and the usual diadem randomized gear who comes in a box

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The Ships:

Free company Airships:

4 of the 6 ships in the match will be reserved for FC Custom Ships or ishgard rental airships, the rental airships will still require an FC to represent and cannot be boarded from the duty finder, only premade party and at least 2 members of the FC. the ship will be controled by the party leader and can have up to 8 players, there will be an aetherite in the airship so players can teleport to it if they are left behind or if they die, since its the only way to fly for free company members. these ships will have a maximum ammount of treasure it can bring at once, and it has to go back to the base to store treasure before getting more, they can be customized to carry more at once, to be faster or more resistent and also for looks.

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these airships will also have customized weapons to be used by the party leader, like:

Total Recalll: teleports all party members to the ship can only be used once.
Control Jam: fires an electromagnectic ball at another ship and makes their movement control reverse for a limited ammount of time, has a huge cast time and will alent the target before it hits.
Cobweb Missile: fires a cobweb at the target making it imobile for some time and no one can get in or out of the ship in this state, has a huge cast time and will alent the target before it hits.
Aether Shield: gets up a shield to block the next enemy ship attack, can only be used once.
Ceruleum Turbo: increases the ship speed for some time.
X marks he Spot: locates a rare treasure nearby, will show the spot for all ships in the area.
triple magic lock: locks your treasures so it takes more time before a pirate can steal it.

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Pirate individual Ships:
the other 2 parties will come from the duty finder and they can be either pirates or gatherers can only enter solo in this mode, the pirate ship is individual, since its a duty finder party they wont be able to coordinate too well so its best for them to go alone, pirates can fly anywhere and monsters wont attack them in their ships, their goal is to steal other people's airships; they cant outright steal the whle treasure box, its too heavy for their ships so they have to use a magic steal skill to get some coins instead, their skills are:

Stealth: become almost invisible, monsters cant reach you and players cant see your name and title.
Phantom Hands: steal coins from a locked treasure box, has a 10 seconds cast time and will steal 10% of the box loot, can be interrupted by a magitek blast.
Ankle Snare: setup an concealed trap, players have to get help to be free'd
Monster Lure: spawns monsters in a location

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Pirate Flag: needs at least 4 pirates together to mark an island with a pirate flag, and setup anti-air cannons so big airships cant land there and they get a pirate flag buff that increases their strength so they can fight the monsters and look for the chest box themselves, they still need to use Phantom Hands to get the coins but they get 25% instead of 10 if an island has a pirate Flag.

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Gatherer individual Ships: same as the pirates, they can fly anywhere and must be entered from the dutyfinder, same as the normal diadem gathering except they cant see treasure boxes locations and they can use stealth.


Rewards:
The free company ships will recieve their sky pirate spoils and tomestones once all treasures are found, also, there will be a points system who will tell whos free company did better to increase competitiveness between them. for pirates they will get gil and skypirate spoils based on performance, no tomestones so players have different reasons to go with an FC or as a pirate.