Quote Originally Posted by Balipu View Post
We are nearing the end of 4.x and speculation threads keep popping up. The name, the destination, the jobs.

But what about the central gimmick?
Hopefully a shift back to open-world exploration. Swimming and Flying is good and all, but there's really no practical use for either of these. Flying isn't enabled for a map until after you unlock and complete all MSQ relevant to the map. Swimming was only unlocked after going to the Ruby Sea, and then you needed it to access exactly one location after the Ruby Sea map.

Like a completely seamless underground ruins of Gelmorra, they could excavate the entrance to it and have an actual exploration region, where the "boss room"'s are the only instanced part as trials. Right now it's implied that the Palace of the Dead deep dungeon is part of it. Such a dungeon would allow you to both fly and swim in it once you unlock the MSQ thing-a-ma-bob.

If we're heading to the actual Garlean empire area, their tech is easily somewhere between steam/clockwork and 1970's level of complexity, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to go into space and land on the remaining moon. The fact that the Allagan Empire went into space at all, at least leaves open the door that this is something doable.