Request: Remove Anima and Use Gil/Cooldown Timer?

[Kinseykinz]

So, using gil to teleport won't solve your problem at all..instead, it will just create many, many new ones. Also, I play almost everyday and actually choose to use anima to tele sometimes instead of the airships because Anima is free. Even saying this, I am sitting at around 80 anima. Quite frankly, if you are running out of anima, you are doing it wrong. Here's how you should be able to 'conserve anima'

If you are soloing battle-leves:
1. Grab leves in city of choice for leve camp of choice.
2. Chocobo/Gobbue/walk to camp of choice from said city.
3. Set Homepoint at camp. Do leves
4. When finished, tele back to town (2 anima) or ride back to town, (free anima)
5. Pick up more leves for same camp. Return (Free anima)

Doing this, you could either for free, cut down on your travel times and still tele or spend a measly 2 anima per 3-5leves.

Crafting leves:
1. Pick favorite city and grab leves at counter. (Decide if you want hp to be in town or at camp furthest from town. Set HP in town if that is best for you.)
2. Do leves. Then ride chocobo/goobue/walk all leves from town towards furthest away camp (delivering leves on the way). Set return point at furthest camp...if you didn't set it in town.
3. Return to town. If you have leves that need to be delivered on otherside of town (for example you did bluefrog and horizon but need to deliver one to drybone), run on chocobo/goobue/foot to that spot. Deliver leve.
4. Return to town.
5. Rinse, repeat.

If you set town as your HP and rode/walked to all camps, no anima was used. If you set your HP to the furthest away camp, you can now tele directly there on second cycle of leves but will now spend 2 anima anytime you warp back to town. (either way, you can complete 3 leve cycles for 6anima or under)

When it comes to airships my personal rule is this: If I am not going to make at least 5K by riding the airship to the city in question, then I should either tele (free), walk/ride (free) or wait to go until I'll actually do enough gathering/questing/farming/exping that I'll cover my expenses.

As to: 'but even my chocobo takes to long' I believe people clocked it that you can get from the ferry to gridania in under 10 minutes on a chocobo. That's 2 zones. I think the traveling options in this game are plenty reasonable when everything's said and done.

Also, you can consider NOT picking up leves that require you to leave town/run too far/ go to camps in opposite directions...all this also helps save anima.

[ninesunz]

More casual players will eat up anima more, here's my reasoning:

In a condensed amount a time a casual player will try to do as much as he/she can
quickest way around is anima. Chocobo and ships take time.

A player who has more time will always balance the anima/chocobo time/airship time because they'll have that choice, where as a casual player will always take anima due to the limited time.

That's where casual would like to spend their gil for instant teleport, the gil for no time transport is advantageous to their limited time.

My 2 cents.

[M00NChild]

More casual players will eat up anima more, here's my reasoning:

In a condensed amount a time a casual player will try to do as much as he/she can
quickest way around is anima. Chocobo and ships take time.

A player who has more time will always balance the anima/chocobo time/airship time because they'll have that choice, where as a casual player will always take anima due to the limited time.

That's where casual would like to spend their gil for instant teleport, the gil for no time transport is advantageous to their limited time.

My 2 cents.

That's my point. I don't say I got a problem with my anima use. All I'm saying is, that I can understand ppl who, when they can play 2-3 times a week for 3-4 hours they want to get much stuff done to not get too far behind from ppl in their LS for example. I can understand those ppl and can sympathize with them. Now, they are paying to play as anyone else and maybe don't want to spent an accumulated hour watching a chocobos ass form those precious 3-4 hours gametime.

[Conradus]

That's my point. I don't say I got a problem with my anima use. All I'm saying is, that I can understand ppl who, when they can play 2-3 times a week for 3-4 hours they want to get much stuff done to not get too far behind from ppl in their LS for example. I can understand those ppl and can sympathize with them. Now, they are paying to play as anyone else and maybe don't want to spent an accumulated hour watching a chocobos ass form those precious 3-4 hours gametime.

A person who plays two to three times a week, for three to four hours a session, will have over four anima to spend every hour he plays. A person with four anima to spend every playing hour is not going to run out, ever. No way, no how. Give it up, you can't win this argument with the "think of the poor people with limited playing time" bit. Anima is the way it is because it was *designed* to favor people with limited playing time.

[Asiaine]

More casual players will eat up anima more, here's my reasoning:

In a condensed amount a time a casual player will try to do as much as he/she can
quickest way around is anima. Chocobo and ships take time.

A player who has more time will always balance the anima/chocobo time/airship time because they'll have that choice, where as a casual player will always take anima due to the limited time.

That's where casual would like to spend their gil for instant teleport, the gil for no time transport is advantageous to their limited time.

My 2 cents.

This argument goes down a dangerous road:
At what point will the casual player have so little time that they can not do any of the activities (or time sinks) in the game?

If travelling is too time consuming (which is one of the smallest time sinks) how will they cope with:
- Getting Iffy weapons
- Getting Moogy weapons
- Getting next primal weapons
- Getting Coffer items
- Getting Rune stones
- Crafting 40-50
- Harvesting 40-50

And this of course does not include the big time sinks that will occur if they ever raise the cap.

If the casual player's time is of concern that managing their Anima is not an option, then I fear this casual player will run into a LOT more content that requires a LOT more of their time than they could come close to affording.

[Conradus]

It just doesn't make any sense to me, insisting that it will benefit casual players to switch to gil. In other words, people with limited play time will benefit from switching from a price that they don't have to devote any play time to earning (anima) to a price that they *will* have to devote play time to earning (gil). How's that again?

[RinMorikaze]

It just doesn't make any sense to me, insisting that it will benefit casual players to switch to gil. In other words, people with limited play time will benefit from switching from a price that they don't have to devote any play time to earning (anima) to a price that they *will* have to devote play time to earning (gil). How's that again?

You know, I was thinking the same thing.

[fusional]

every time i click a thread it's like deja vu

[Andrien]

Teleporting frequently will cause strain on your character. It is logical that your character need time to recharge anima after many use.

There is your immersion.


Switch to Gil..? Might as well shout for a person to teleport you for gil instead if you can't manage your anima properly.

[Irondude]

anima regeneration with a 0-99 pool works for intelligent gamers who know how to use resources (similar to how rich people never spend money).

another option though, would be to only allow 1 teleport every 2 hours. Kind of like a trust fund if you will for immature un-responsible F ups.


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