Eulmore should have been Shadowbringers' capital

[TeraRamis]

It's everything that the Crystarium isn't: compact, interesting to look at, relaxing (and yes, I find this to be a BIG factor), and conducive to socializing (there are a lot of chairs, neat venues to sit in, vistas to overlook, etc). Eulmore reminds me a great deal of a Las Vegas casino (when you get away from the slots) - showy, done up, completely fake, but really a cool place to stay for a while and just chill. (Special shout out on the palm trees, drapes, and eastern Mediterranean/Arabian vibe. Whoever planned the interior deco. for the place: you did well).

By contrast, the Crystarium is needlessly enormous, difficult (bordering on frustrating, with the pointless multi-level design and jump-blocks that prevent easy traversing of the landscape) to move around in, tastelessly decorated (it looks like some horrifying collision of The Crystal Palace and an airport terminal), and so empty in most places that you might as well be playing by yourself. I dread going there - it's far, far worse than any capital introduced previously (I think Kugane suffers from similar issues, but is at least somewhat pleasant to look at). It's a soulless, forbidding, cold place with a drab color palette.

In the very least, Eulmore should have been given an inn so that players could utilize it as an alternate capital. I realize the chances of this happening at this point in the expansion's life are close to zero, but lessons could be learned here moving forward. Square's designers struck gold with this little gem, but they struck out in equally profound fashion with the Crystarium. Next time, please get it right.

[Iscah]

But it... is the alternate capital? With a bar and tables that functions perfectly well as an inn for gathering at, besides the ability to go to individual apartments from it?

Crystarium is the early-game hub; Eulmore is the endgame hub. We always have one of each, and the early hub is generally a larger city (or three cities in ARR), besides Stormblood blurring it by going to the endgame hub first and not utilising Kugane very well.

[Naoki34]

Eulmore is the Rhalgr's Reach (SB), the Idyllshire (HW) and same in ARR. It's a tomstone place and thanks withouth mount.
People who like to show off their mount must find other places to parade in afk mode.

Crystarium, Kugane and Ishgard are really better at least we are not one on the other where everyone gathered on the place of aetherite as in Limsa Lominsa.
Apparently you like the compact crowd, this is not my case.

[TeraRamis]

But it... is the alternate capital? With a bar and tables that functions perfectly well as an inn for gathering at, besides the ability to go to individual apartments from it?

Crystarium is the early-game hub; Eulmore is the endgame hub. We always have one of each, and the early hub is generally a larger city (or three cities in ARR), besides Stormblood blurring it by going to the endgame hub first and not utilising Kugane very well.

It needs an Inn for full functionality. I don't enjoy having to bounce over to the Crystarium every time I need to do things with my attire.

The real shame is that the Honey Bee has everything necessary to actually be an inn, lacking only - of course - a room design.

[RicaRuin]

But as Iscah said, Eulmore is the Endgame Hub just like Mor Dhona, Idyllshire and Rhalgr's Reach were. Neither of them had an inn, either.

[LaylaTsarra]

I love Crystarium one of my favorite places in the game. Sorry but Eulmore isn't meant to be the city and as such there isn't an inn there.

[Colt47]

My opinion? Our house from the Source should have been the main base in the First. It would actually give purpose to the thing besides being an overly expensive lawn ornament.

[Elladie]

I don't hang out in any city, some are way too crowded, and others I have no reason to visit. I hang out at my house or the FC house. I go to a city if I have a reason to. Different things suit different people. There are no rules saying where you have to spend your time, for goodness sake. It's not like porting to Ul'dah to sort your glams is any more inconvenient than porting to Eulmore ....

[Imakun]

Even though Eulmore is convenient with all NPCs being so close to each other, I'd love if we could also have them in the Crystarium since it's so big and can easily accomodate more people without feeling packed.
(I don't really like Eulmore to be completely honest, The Crystarium is a far better place for me to be in while waiting for queues or just chilling).

[SigSauer]

The only reason Eulmore is packed is the location of tomestone/token vendors. Has nothing to do with aesthetics, compact, bla bla bla.