My only concern with the way teleports and anima work in this game.

[Sav]

Never understood the whole "If you don't like it don't use it" mentality on this particular topic. There are many reasons why it's impossible to not use it.

1.) EXP Parties you're in will use it to get to a particular area. Thus you used it.
2.) Linkshell members are going to use it to get to particular areas for raids and other content. Thus you used it.
3.) The imbalance in not using it compared to those that do is so staggering that you would always be behind your friends/other players in terms of progression due to time spent on walking compared to time saved teleporting. Which wouldn't happen anyways because you're not going to tell your friends "I don't like Anima Teleportation so you can't use it while we do stuff together."

Head out of rear end people. This is a legit problem. Teleporting everywhere, while nice, removes you from exploration. Which sucks. There needs to be other limiting factors on this other than time to regenerate anima. I think having to visit the Aetheryte crystal or node to be able to go there by teleport at later dates is a good suggestion. It makes people explore the world and earn the teleport to that camp/area.

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[Abauge_Goga]

Never understood the whole "If you don't like it don't use it" mentality on this particular topic. There are many reasons why it's impossible to not use it.

1.) EXP Parties you're in will use it to get to a particular area. Thus you used it.
2.) Linkshell members are going to use it to get to particular areas for raids and other content. Thus you used it.
3.) The imbalance in not using it compared to those that do is so staggering that you would always be behind your friends/other players in terms of progression due to time spent on walking compared to time saved teleporting. Which wouldn't happen anyways because you're not going to tell your friends "I don't like Anima Teleportation so you can't use it while we do stuff together."

Head out of rear end people. This is a legit problem. Teleporting everywhere, while nice, removes you from exploration. Which sucks. There needs to be other limiting factors on this other than time to regenerate anima. I think having to visit the Aetheryte crystal or node to be able to go there by teleport at later dates is a good suggestion. It makes people explore the world and earn the teleport to that camp/area.

Hold on a sec, you are saying that if someone is inviting you to a party and you don't have the crystal they should... wait for you? I doubt that will happen.

If that is correct, then i would assume you would not level until you walk to all those areas. This would be your choice, correct?

So if my choice is to actually get teleported somewhere and save 5 hrs of walking somewhere through a bunch of lvl 80 mobs why is that wrong?

There is no mentality behind it, it's a simple choice. You have yours, and I have mine.

[Forlorn]

If you want to explore so bad, why not do it on your own time. What I mean is, someone mentioned even if you don't want to use teleports, you'll be forced to when grouping with other players. While I don't disagree you will most likely have to agree to be teleported with your group, most people aren't going to wait for one member to walk to where ever they are heading to. On the other hand, you can always go doing the exploring that you want to do so bad on your own time while not in a group. I don't mind either way how teleporting works, I played FFXI for years, I know how it goes. But really, there is options, why not use them? You want to go explore a random bush in some random far away location? Then go do it.

[Elgeron]

Now this is a good point, OP. I think that people should only be able to teleport to places they already visited even if someone take him/her there.

Players will feel lke the have achieved something

[Rane]

I also think that you should have to make the trek to a teleportation point at least once on your own before you gain the ability to teleport there.

When a friend/friends are helping you with a quest, and suddenly everyone teleports to some far-off land you've never been to before, it's tough to say "wait...um, never mind. I kind of wanted to walk there on my own the first time." The game allows players to recieve teleports to locations they haven't discovered, so unless you play solo, you're probably going to have that happen to you eventually whether you like it or not.

[Holy_Dragoon]

I actually agree with the OP, despite my earlier comment. Exploring the world is part of the adventure in an MMO, and everyone should do it once.

Alternately, place content in areas that are trickier to travel to.

[SirOleas]

Hold on a sec, you are saying that if someone is inviting you to a party and you don't have the crystal they should... wait for you? I doubt that will happen.

If that is correct, then i would assume you would not level until you walk to all those areas. This would be your choice, correct?

So if my choice is to actually get teleported somewhere and save 5 hrs of walking somewhere through a bunch of lvl 80 mobs why is that wrong?

There is no mentality behind it, it's a simple choice. You have yours, and I have mine.

Getting the crystal by walking is a suggestion, not an answer. However, completely removing it would be silly. Though I will say that going to particular nodes on foot with your linkshell or a group of players is not as bad as it sounds. Solo it would probably suck. But I am viewing this from the standpoint of being a new player with other new players...not the current community who has everything done already. If you have lots of new players to explore with and do this with it could be fun.

[weeble]

yes to this, get there first then port anytime. you lose alot from a game being able to just port there your first time.

[Xianghua]

I just love how people need to find an excuse to go explore the lands. If you really cared that much about exploring you would go do it. Rather then making these threads everyday for them to do something to anima for you to explore.

[Scherwiz]