A possilble solution to the Ishgard Restoration Fate debacle.

[Noitems]

So with Yoshi-P's recent comment on the matters we know that the reason Cross World is implemented for Ishgard Restoration is to allow the lower pop worlds to still meet their goal with help from the other home worlds.

However this in turn is causing the issue of Home World people not being able to help their own Restoration and are forced to visit a whole other world instead (due to congestion)to get the fate rewards which causes the same issue on a different one.

My idea would be to allow the Restoration to work for Home World residents only BUT allow a system to send supplies (through crafting) to another Home World that needs the support. This could in turn be like a buff that allows the people in the FATE to perform more efficiently (like the Echo) and allow them to complete their goal despite the lack of people currently on the world (albeit they would still need a high majority of people). In return the people who helped by giving them supplies could earn extra scrips for the effort.

It could be a chart that shows the progress for all of the worlds (or just be a link for the Lodestone), and people in the Home World can decide where it wants to send the buff to. This would allow those players to not have to visit the world to cause a congestion, but also allow the smaller worlds to complete the effort.

I can say even on smaller pop worlds like Brynhildr, Zalera, and Malboro they were all able to finish the first phase in the same day. So I think a system like this as long as it gives a buff to those working on the FATE would be a great way of unifying the home world but also give the feeling of the others supporting them.

These are just my thoughts and I'm sure there's a glaring issue in them somewhere so feel free to let me know.

[wereotter]

I was thinking about this too... and it seems more people are upset with outside influence in their one-time only event than anything else.

To me, another solution would be to allow anyone to contribute to the progression, but only allow home-world people to participate in the concerted works project. To counterbalance this, once that fate is completed, everyone who participated in popping that fate gets a reward regardless of world. This would still accomplish the goal of letting higher population servers participate to help lower population servers without locking people out of those bigger special events.