Community Petition: "Get out of Ul'dah"

[Yves]

but the point is the game had something that gave people a reason to go to other cities. people cried it wasn't a good thing to have so it was removed. those same people are now complaining that there needs to be something to make people go to other cities. if they add something to make people leave uldah again people will just cry about it again because if forces the majority to do something that only the minority wants.

be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.

Honestly, the problem with this is that going to another city means you are single-tasking. You resign yourself to just that task since the /sh for groups will still be in Uldah. A reasonable search function would help this a bit but, even in XI someone would invite you and then ask you to gather at either the camp or WG (more commonly WG) so the problem is still going be there.

[Ahzda]

They just need to remove the Market Wards/Retainer system altogether and make a global AH available in every city, and some sort of Storage NPC/Housing area to remove all the pressure of sticking to one major town.

As for party searches, I agree fully we could use a global party grouping channel for the people who are out in different areas. - Don't want another spam channel, turn it off?

I agree LL needs some more Dungeon content/etc to fix the issue of camping for ease of access to certain raids.

I for one hate being forced to camp Ul'dah to find a party or a raid to run, when I'd much rather sit around Limsa all day for the sake of my GC and the preferable scenery.

[tymora]

Allow linked wards but charge 50% for delivery. That will make people move. (and bitch)

[Matsume]

Allow linked wards but charge 50% for delivery. That will make people move. (and bitch)

Extreme yet effective... as long as the items from the city you check from have precedence over the other cities wards regardless of price, this could work well. EX: if there are only 10 of said items for sale in gridania and you check from gridania, those 10 get listed before the 10 cheapest from uldah and limsa.

[3Jane]

The noise of the fireworks has driven me out of all three cities.

[Tonkra]

i cant understand why people dont want to have a "main city" where most players gather together..

we had that also in FFXI "Jeuno" .. it gives players the good option to share items, interests, yeah and even to recruit groups.


dont know whats so "bad" about shouting in the main chat for seeking players...
its like on a market where every vendor shouts for selling his goods..
it gives me the feel of an alive world/city.


yeah its unbelievable we're playing an MMORPG!!!!


if you cant stand it that sometimes somebody is shouting for a recuit.. than shut off the chat. finished..

[Viritess]

I liked some of the Ideas of making your own GC help population matters. You could also wrap that together with linked markets. for instance: (i don't usually propose numbers, thats generally something that makes more sense when you've decided on the basic mechanics already)

As a Twin Adder i go to the Newly linked market via Gridania. I search for Item X. Item X only has some for sale in Udlah. The surcharge is as always, + a % delivery charge However i'm In Gridania, so my GC is willing to pick it up for me on one of their many Trade caravan runs. Delivery charge canceled or lowered, i would hope by alot, if its pocket change everyone will ignore it.

If as a Twin Adder i did the same but the cities were reversed, Delivery charge is in effect, even though it may be comming from Gridania, my GC is not stationed there. One could even impact the surcharge with a discount to make it more worth being in the city YOU PLEDGED TO DEFEND and SERVE (caps for effect, how are you defending it if your not there Moogles need you!) So there is always a benefit to purchasing from your GC town.

I think anything thats implimented as a "home town" should be by GC, since by the time you can choose a GC you've advanced far enough that you can make that choice. Starting town would be sad because that would hold new first time players to their initial choice. which they may not really want by lvl 25-30. And if you but a fee to change "home towns" it would have to be so high to keep long time players from changing constantly that a new player would be off-put about the price tag.

Far as grouping. If the Party search you put in was more isable within the game itself, say Seeking party Icon over people. or something like that, i'd imagine it would be checked more often. makeing the whole system slicker and easier to navigate would help also.

As far as crafting i'm still low enough level that i get by with the drops i get from killing. I'd rather make my own products.
I should hope that when we get recipe books, we'll have to go to the craft guild to get some recipies. In my opinion all should be given by the craft guilds. and some or at certain levels a quest sould be done to recive/advance. Nothing crazy, just something to keep you in whatever area your in for a little bit.

Not a huge fan of global chats, they just tend to become filled with alot of nothing. By choosing a global chat as the /shout alternative your passing the buck from those who would rather not be in Uldah to those who would rather not have a hundred+ people shouting everywhere they are. A better party system would see to it that either group needs to suffer.

[Sojiro]

Only reason I check Grid/Limsa wards is to try and ninja buy items people post for 1 gil when attempting to safely transfer items from between characters. To whoever sold me that INT +20 materia...thanks. :3

Lol! What an asshole! /highfive

[syntaxlies]

Maybe after they redo the maps and the other city's stop failing so hard people will go there.

[Sojiro]

Maybe after they redo the maps and the other city's stop failing so hard people will go there.

Are the cities included in the map redesign for 2.0? I honestly don't recall if they mentioned the current cities changing or not.