Thread: Player Run Farms 5.0

I'll be excited when there's actual information. Maybe squadron levels of fun, but renamed to farmhands and without the dungeons? What is the bare minimum it could translate to? That's my expectation bar.

Setting expectations low, as always.

Could end up as something as menial and forgettable as Squadron mission deploying. Throw-in a little something for seed/crop growing (for those without a personal house), and call it "new."

Originally Posted by Merceus

I was previously hyped.

I have moved to.... LUDICROUS HYPE.

Don't get hyped. Never get hyped.

Here's something from an interview I got hyped about.

At the start of Heavensward once you build your airship you’ll be able to send it out to scout, no passengers, just the ship goes out to try and scout. And then in a following patch you’ll then be able to board that ship and explore and find uncharted areas. And even beyond there’ll be capabilities to add combat capability so you can have sort of a battleship. So it’s going to be very major content that will become available throughout the 3.x patch series. Once you’re able to go out and explore and travel and find those different areas in the sky you may find that some of these areas may have Notorious hardcore monsters that you can’t beat and just end up defeated and having to have to come back. Or you may find that other Free Company have already visited and trashed it and made a mess of it. Or you may end up finding a land where you can find really rare gathering items, materials that you can harvest. So there will be a lot of very interesting things you can look forward to in the 3.x series.

Sounds incredible right? Group craft a customizable airship you'll be able to use not just to explore with, but also to fly yourself, equip it with weapons and have airship combat, but also an open world area where you're competing with other FCs for monsters and materials? And its being advertised as a major part of the expansion content and on top of that, Yoshi described it in yet another interview as something the developers put a lot of love and effort into? Sign me up!

I was hyped for that, super hyped. Ludicrous hyped I'd even say. What I got was a long, expensive list of materials that one member of the FC gathers, then drags 3 warm bodies to stand in a "workshop" and do nothing so that we "craft" what are nothing but inanimate retainers for a renamed kind of retainer venture. But you can ride them! --to a static instance with nothing to do but grind monsters.

Don't get hyped for anything, least of all something that was only mentioned offhandedly.

So, farms? Probably going to just be a renamed house garden.

Originally Posted by WellFooled

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[Airships] Sounds incredible right? . . .

Ah yeah that was a really awesome hope.. lol.. /sad.

They need to make sure /every/ FC has some way to access this content and then I hope develop it further, it definitely feels stunted but in a direction that could be great. I was under the impression there would be some sort of airship dock and you'd get to see it built up when I heard about that, I was hype lol.

I was imagining and hoping that airships could be a solution to the messed up housing system, like a FC could just drain all their money into that instead and have a flying house in essence (substantial money if big, but still). That and the thought of exploring a map with an airship of mates (or even solo perhaps) like FFXI airship/boat ride except you're the driver..

Hopefully the farm isn't just an interface that you click through ;/

Originally Posted by Shougun

Hopefully the farm isn't just an interface that you click through ;/