Signet <Can I have it?>

[Estellios]

Signet offers nothing of value for gameplay.

Talk to a NPC that gives you a status effect with no downsides. If it lasts either forever or for an extremely long time there is no reason to make it a status effect and in that case you should just make it a permanent effect for everyone.

If it doesn't last a long time, it is going to be annoying as hell having to refresh it by going back to town/the npc at camp, and apparently you dislike anima so if that was the case we can't get there quickly. Since it's nothing but benefits people are pretty much going to feel obligated to have it going 100% of the time. Also needing to talk to a NPC before you go along your way is pointless for gameplay.

Anima allows people to gather together quickly and actually play the game, especially those with less playtime. It's no contest as to what is more gameplay valuable.

@Meowy, that is some nice ideas but it should just be permanent stuff as soon as you join a company. There's no reason to tie anything like that to a status effect since your company allegiance should be enough.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

EVERYTHING ELEVEN ALL THE TIME ALWAYS. GOOD TIME. BEACH PARTY.

[Rau]

5 Hours for a signet that gives you 100 seals for every 3000 exp? yesss?!

[Answa]

Instead of this, why not just make it so that when we rank up we can get more company seals per caravan/company leve?

[Andrien]

Guardian Aspect?

[Jennestia]

Guardian Aspect?

They're actually changing or scraping (can't recall which) this system -- Also that's only for Leves. A Signet/Sanction/Sigil type system would work for quite a bit more.

[Seif]

Signet makes me feel like windy is MY hometown. If it isn't exclusive to your home town and tied to area battle then I don't see the point.

I do want it but I'm pretty sure we'd only end up with a watered down version of it.
Frankly the area battle and embassies with their stories and quests seems like it's asking for too much content especially considering this is XIV.

Anyway I hope someday they implement the full system or don't touch it at all. This game isn't exactly known for having that kind of depth anyway.

[Nakiamiie]

I am against the idea of a signet as well. While I do want more GC seals, the signet will simply shift us even more toward monsters grinding, not enjoying varied activities.

[Jennestia]

I am against the idea of a signet as well. While I do want more GC seals, the signet will simply shift us even more toward monsters grinding, not enjoying varied activities.

Not really. You know what would shift us towards one thing and not enjoying a variety of activities? Once PvP is introduced. It's inevitable that something in an MMO will shift players towards one thing -- getting seals for killing a monster will not change that.

I get that people for whatever reason hates a grind (ironic too given in most MMOs you quest grind) but this wouldn't suddenly make people focus on one thing, it would actually get people to do something else lol.

go.

But, seriously, this thread is a live monument to the huge nostalgiai over FFXI that prevents some people to accept the fact this is an entirely new game

Yet it's ok to implement features from other MMOs in order for it to "compete"? Yet it's "nostalgia" for SE to take what works from their previous FF MMO and make it better, even though other companies has been doing that since 2004?

[AdvancedWind]

Yet it's ok to implement features from other MMOs in order for it to "compete"? Yet it's "nostalgia" for SE to take what works from their previous FF MMO and make it better, even though other companies has been doing that since 2004?

It's not a matter of it being "OK" or "not OK". Again, I repeat, I'm not even against adding ideas from XI, or other games. I'm also pretty glad that they did start taking up some stuff from XI, like XP chains.

In fact, there are plenty of stuff from other games I'd love to see here, including from XI. For example, a XI-style Blue Mage would make me instantly main it and never look back. A few dungeons with plenty of stuff to interact with, like some of XI's, wouldn't hurt too.

What I AM against is the prevalent mindset some people have here that SE *HAS* to *STAIGHT UP COPY* up XI or whatever other game to be succesful, offering little more reasons other than "It worked there" or "look at XIV, it sucks!".

If someone comes up here and post about WoW-like dungeon finder, or make the game fully voiced because SWOTOR is fully voiced, my reaction would be the exact same.