Regenerating more Anima while resting in the Inn?

[SkeletonJelly]

All you people stating the Anima regeneration is currently fine are insane. The OP's suggestion is a good one. Currently Only people who play extremely casually would have anima continually.

If you ever have to teleport somewhere that is out of the region that you didnt plan on teleporting to ahead of time to favourite it, It Will Take you 24 Hours To regenerate

It is really easy to burn through alot of anima at once unexpectedly by doing class quests, Main Scenario Quests, Grand Company quests, etc. Think back to the pre-ifrit quest to kill multiples NMs that are all located wildly far apart. This would take Ages to do without teleporting and would cost an extremely steep amount of anima.

Then lets say a person who completes some of the previous activities mentioned continues to play on a regular basis. Which, lets face it, alot of us did not because a large portion of the community only plays for a small portion of time following each patch, giving those players PLENTY of anima while they wait for the next patch.

If they continue to keep playing and are level 50, they are likely to regularly do certain things:
-Moogle
-Ifrit
-CC
-AV
-Level Other Jobs
-Help Friends/Strangers

Because of the limited community in FFXIV, most player would have a difficult time deciding to just "Focus on Moogle" or something. They would likely try and join most shouts that interest them. However there are plenty more activities than there are favouritable points. In Addition to this most players are located in Uldah when LFG so Moogle and AV would cost a fair amount consistently. Inevitably players will end up teleporting to non favourited points sooner or later. And a player who played consistently and started trying to complete these tasks with a low anima pool would find themselves starved for anima, and groups dont want to wait for you to walk to Turning Leaf or Aurum Vale from Uldah!

A player in this situation would likely feel that he has to take a break from the game and feel that he would be better off playing something else for the 2+ weeks it will take for their anima to refill.

I think in a game where it is essentially acknowledged that the game world is far to large and empty for running around to be reasonable by giving us teleporting in the first place, that it's ridiculous to turn around and say the world is only unreasonably large enough to require teleporting if you are someone who plays this game inconsistently, otherwise if you enjoy the game and would like to play regularly you should also enjoy spending significant portions of time running around.

If you're playing the game so much that you have no anima left, no inn bonus left, and no leve allowances left, consider it a sign! The game's telling you to take a break! There's other things you can do.

It takes me just a week or so away from the game to get anima back to decent amounts. And if I've really burned through it, I just bring myself back slowly by playing more conservatively.

Not a hard concept, really.

This is a totally ridiculous Idea. If I would like to continue playing then I dont need the game "telling" me to take a break! It shouldn't force you to take a break, you can always take a break if you want to. A player should be able to continuously play as often as they would like to.

Yes its a nice suggestion, however are we trying to make the game even more easy?

Making people spend more time running around is not hard. It is just a waste of time. Time =/= Difficulty

I'm all over the world, almost every day and I manage to keep over 90 Anima. What are you people doing with it?

So obviously you just leech teleports? Going "all over the world" with no more than 10 anima every day is pretty amazing! You teleport to one non region non favourited point, lets say unexpected Moogle (6 anima). And set hp to turning leaf. You win several times and are asked to teleport to grid one of these times(2 anima, 8 total).

Congratulations! You just spend 133% Of the Anima you gained in 24h to do one event.

And you're 4/5 of the way to your normal daily usage that you stated earlier in which you go "all over the world". Ok.

[Razorboi82]

Great Idea! I like the anima system the way it is though. If they were to Implement something to help recover anima quicker, I say you should pay for it. go to an NPC near any aethryte and pay hard earned gil.

You see, the way I see it, If your dumb (like me, 0 anima at the end of tonight) you should be charged for any aditional anima (gil of course) gain. Say... 1000 per anima charge, 10000 for 10 and 100000 for 100. thats alot of moneh. It should be punishable to the player if they use all their anima and want it to be recharged.

AND b4 you say "Well what about those people who have alot of money? they will be able to teleport and pay for their recharge no problem." The reason they have money is because they know how to save, and not only just Gil but anima as well. I dont see them running up to recharge very often. You might see me there though lol.

Now, I do not agree with any speedy recovery of anima by no means. I'm just saying, that if they were to make it happen... Make it punishable.

[Zenaku]

oh you say im porting everywhere? interesting..



im using it everytime i can (airship, choco).. but i dont ride from ul'dah to Mor'dhona, or to camp iron lake, blue dunst, or what ever seriously.. would me take 1 hour or more per day for just traveling (for getting to ifrit encounter or whatever)

i walk everywhere and got 100 Anima don't see the issue .

[Niko_Kishiko]

I don't always have the time to sit and wait 30 min to start an AV or CC speedruns because someone is chocoing just so they can post in the forums about how they have 100 anima and the anima regeneration is fine.

Do all the non anima users have their own linkshells that only allow for taking the scenic route? Driving Miss Daisy or something like a linkshell where people like to wait for others 10-30 min before doing much of anything?

I personally don't like always making people wait for me :3

[Denmo]

This is a totally ridiculous Idea. If I would like to continue playing then I dont need the game "telling" me to take a break! It shouldn't force you to take a break, you can always take a break if you want to. A player should be able to continuously play as often as they would like to.

It's not forcing you to do anything except not teleport as often. If you want to live in XIV's world 24/7, the downside is that you have to hoof it. And you make taking a break from a video game sound like it's such a terrible thing.

I don't always have the time to sit and wait 30 min to start an AV or CC speedruns because someone is chocoing just so they can post in the forums about how they have 100 anima and the anima regeneration is fine.

Right, because that's always the case.

Do all the non anima users have their own linkshells that only allow for taking the scenic route? Driving Miss Daisy or something like a linkshell where people like to wait for others 10-30 min before doing much of anything?

I personally don't like always making people wait for me :3

Yeah, the person you described sounds really stupid and inconsiderate. Of course that's how everyone with 100 anima is! Those bastards.

[darkstarpoet1]

I don't always have the time to sit and wait 30 min to start an AV or CC speedruns because someone is chocoing just so they can post in the forums about how they have 100 anima and the anima regeneration is fine.

Do all the non anima users have their own linkshells that only allow for taking the scenic route? Driving Miss Daisy or something like a linkshell where people like to wait for others 10-30 min before doing much of anything?

I personally don't like always making people wait for me :3

yep, it takes forever to get to cc. homepoint is ud and it takes 5 whole minutes to get there via chocobo. if i get into a party i am usually there before everyone else because i ride the chocobo while they are assembling.

going to av omg everlakes is a favorite so it's usually me that makes the first port there.

i'm still sitting at 100 anima and both of your reasons have already been shown to be false, but nice try.

[syntaxlies]

Anything relating to anima now is kinda pointless. I hope SE lets us know there intentions for anima in 2.0 ahead of time so we can give some feedback though. Smaller maps will definitely alter my opinion of anima an I hope they come up with a more dynamic system.

[Starlord]

@ Denmo

I never said Traveling = Difficult, I said Teleportation the way XIV is takes traveling literary out of the games equation. Mine was well have all Instances and just use your anima to teleport there.. because thats exactly what it boils down too :/.

And since you took the time to cut off half my thought/statement allow me to put that in full for you:

Yes its a nice suggestion, however are we trying to make the game even more easy? Traveling is part of every game and this Anima/Teleportation thing just takes out the traveling part of the game That's just how I feel and my opinion.

Traveling is part of Every game, If you take Traveling out of the Equation... are we even playing a game then?

Like I said, I agree that Anima should stay in the current FFXIV because how boring the maps can be at times. However, if 2.0 maps are more interesting to look at then they should find other means of teleportation ( or ease up on it post 2.0). Heck even flying over the land is just as good as teleportation.

Like in FFXI we had WHM tele spells, it was perfect because not everyone could teleport unless you leveled it and got the spell. So it put a gil sink within tele whoring. Maybe use Anima in a different way when maps become more vibrate to look at.

Traveling is part of every game.. if you just skip that.. then whats the point of the world itself then? Mine as well cut out the open world and just have all Instanced stuff at that point.

My Personal Opinion just making sure everyone knows that and thinks I speak for everyone when Im not :P.

[Biggs]

I hope after the meteor hits, 1 out of every 6 teleports results in the everyones lower body being reformed backwards a'la Spaceballs.Your all fired for not telling me I had such a fat ass!!!

[Zelkelion]

I'm almost done my entry GC quests, and I've burned about 60 Anima. I have never been below 70 until now. Every quest is in a new and exciting EXTREMELY FAR AWAY PLACE. And then they want me to walk back afterward.

To be fair, I should have been hoofin' it the whole time. The only time I should ever need Anima is on my lunch break or if someone needs a hand quickly.