Airships: Cost vs. Frequency vs. Usage

[Enfarious]

Huh ?? you haven't done leves in a long time have you.

nah I suppose that exxageration is a lil too much then?
But on a more serious note, 5k for a 1 star rank30 leve, yep that's what I just cleared. So rank40 5star, it's been a bit but I'm thinking yeah it's higher. Next time I have a job ~40+5star I'll update my numbers.

[Jinko]

I use the airship maybe 3 times a day, I think the price is about right.

Instead of making what we have more expensive SE should make more gil sinks.

One way to do this would be to change the way teleportation works, anima could be abolished and would require a player to pay a cost to one crystal to teleport to another one, the farther the distance the more it would cost, it could end up being the biggest gil sink in the game.

[Nuinn]

I use them on a daily basis. The 5k price is ok I think, you get about the same amount of gil per lv40 leve, or even if you vend junk from inventory to the NPCs. The cutscenes do bother me a bit, same as they do in instanced raids but it's no big deal. Don't think they'll be removing them and making the travel 'instant port to the city' or whatever as the devs said that sometime in the future they plan to make Airship travel similar to boat travel, as in, you'll be able to 'do stuff' on board while travelling from place to place.

[Morticous]

This game would be better if you had to take the time to travel until you earned better and faster forms of travel. Ffxi did a good job of that.. you walked, then got a bird, then got an airship pass, then some teleport scrolls, then if you did the OP quests an even quicker mode of transportation. This instant traveling bs is ruining this game, its part of the reason everyone is sooo booored with the game and has all their jobs maxed and want more content, blah blah blah! Airship should have a mandatory cutscene.. and a waiting time for it to come... as it already does. No more of this must have now mentality! If you want faster travel fine... you just have to earn it, gives you more to do in game as well .

[darkstarpoet1]

This instant traveling bs is ruining this game, its part of the reason everyone is sooo booored with the game and has all their jobs maxed and want more content

no you are directing blame at the wrong thing. i'd be able to give you many more reasons why power leveling is closer to the issue of capped classes and boredom the game has atm.

[Morticous]

no you are directing blame at the wrong thing. i'd be able to give you many more reasons why power leveling is closer to the issue of capped classes and boredom the game has atm.

I think the pl system is garbage too. Please note i said PART of the reasone. Collectively many PARTS of this game are leading us into constant boredom and the crappy instant traveling system everyone cannot live without is part of it.

[indira]

anytime i need to go to the other citys i use it 5000gil is cheaper than 6 anima.

[Rokien]

Don't worry you can use the airship less when two different home points come into play.

[Ruisu]

Don't worry you can use the airship less when two different home points come into play.

Cry more.

Anyways, the airship prices suck. Why am I being forced to pay more because I'm higher levelled? Implement something that allows me to spend 100k on an airship pass a month so I can just buy that instead of dropping 5k every single time I use the airship, which is at least 4 times every play session.

[Jynx]

Cry more.

Anyways, the airship prices suck.

Just thought that was a bit funny. Anyways I think 5k or 20k a sesion to float around the towns is a pretty fair deal I wouldn't be opposed to a monthly pass of some sorts though good gil sink for the people who buy it and don't end up using it enough.

*edit*
I'm not sure why everyone on both sides has to get so defensive on the subject.