What do you think....

[darkstarpoet1]

we were talking about this in voice chat last night. i think everyone that was in there agreed with some things we would love to see.

1 add some long term goals.
- an area where there's multiple nm's that are popped only after you have completed pop requirements.
- each nm would have a chance to drop a rare item.
- an example of a rare drop would be an ability that would allow you to attach a single piece of materia to one piece of your u/u gear
- that ability would only have like a 25% or so chance of attaching that materia.
- have another nm inside that area that would drop a piece or rare materia that could only be attached to u/u gear

have each nm in that area be where it would be a nm you wanted to beat, but it would also make the u/u content become viable again. say you tried to attach a piece of materia to your ifrit's bow and blew it up then you would want to go do ifrit again to get a new bow. say another nm later on would allow a chance for a second materia slot to be added to u/u gear. how many hours would you personally spend trying to get those drops and get materia added to your primal loots.

2. fun aspects.
- add a trip from the airship docks to an island where a golden saucer type arena was located.
- have multiple different types of mini games there that people could do during the slow times of the day so they can have fun
- a card game in which you got cards off the monsters you killed or collected in the game. (yes, tetra master/triple triad style)
- it could be done with the ffxiv theme and when you start off you can choose between the 3 beastmen tribes and it would limit the types of mobs you could collect.
- once you completed one beastmen deck you could then choose to grab a second beastmen tribe.

there's many of these small type items that could be added, but i feel the biggest thing missing from xiv is the fun factor and those would go a long way towards adding them. i think this is the type of content that would be great to look over the older ff titles and pull things people loved off of them and put in aspects of them with a mmo and xiv type spin to them. it would also give both the hardcore and casual players something to do during those down times when they usually just get bored and sign out.

3 merge the servers with low population
- at this point when the new dungeons come out no matter how great they are there's some servers that will not be able to do them.
- on my server there's usually a total of 30-50 english speaking players online from ranks 1-50 during na prime time.
- it is almost impossible to get a group together as just a basic pickup party to do anything and the ls's have died to where multiple ls's have to group with other ls's to even get an event done.
- i can understand the priorities are geting the patch out, but when you look at some servers no matter if it comes out or not there's not enough people on to do it.

if the patch came out today my server would be lucky to have a group running it because the population has went down that far. i understand for the larger servers the priority is content, but the smaller servers cannot even get a group to do content when its released. the priority on those servers are getting enough people to be able to even attempt the content.

4. open/instanced content
- as stated before by someone else i loved tanaka's open and instanced content combination with the leve system.
- i'm not saying i like leves, but the system they used could have been expanded upon big time.
- have nm's that have pop items in open world where once you pop it and engage others can view the battle, but not get involved.
- i'm sure not everyone did, but i know i sat and watched alot of nm battles ls's had early in the game.
- those allowed me to watch for things they did which would help me become a better player.
- allow those popped nm's to be able to be spawned and nobody could see or attack it until the group that popped it engaged it.
- those mobs would become visible and you could watch those battles, but it would not be able to be attacked outside of the party involved in the fight.
- when they pop a mob in the area they could have like a big weather change or something

you could be in uldah and someone gets the items and pops the mob over by the golden bazaar and all of thanlan has a weather change and everyone would be like "ohhhhh someone popped mobx let's go watch the fight." to me it would just add more of you actually accomplished something

** i know it was tl:dr, but the op did ask about what we would like to see added so i wanted to add some details on what i'd like to see eventually added and some points of why i wanted to see each one.

[Enyyx]

merge the servers with low population

While we know that's coming, I'm beating my dead horse that it needs to happen soon. At night I log in, look around, log out lately >.>