Thread: Airships: Cost vs. Frequency vs. Usage

Firstly, I'd really like to know how many people use the airships regularly.

Secondly, what do you think of the cost and the frequency of airships? Would you prefer a more frequent pickup at a higher cost?

Basically, I keep looking at the cost of airships and it's tiny compared to how much gil is being thrown around in this game. I never use the airships despite this, because I find the time it takes for an airship to arrive to be annoying. I don't like to sit around doing nothing! I save my anima for this, and have only used airships a handful of times at most. I ignore them, really.

I would be in favour of a higher cost airship that was fairly instantaneous. Say 10,000 gil and it arrives immediately in a cutscene and takes you away. Think of it as taking a taxi instead of the bus. Of course, I'm only back in the past week so I have no idea how other people feel, so I thought I'd ask here to get more opinions on the matter. If loads of people use airships as they are then obviously there's no major need to change, but still, we all know this game could use more effective gil sinks, and maybe this could be a good one for now. *shrug*

Would you use it more often if it was quicker to arrive?

As i never use more than i gain, and as i don't farm much, i dont use the airship, 5k is to much, event if it's look nothing, i have to paye arrows (not cheap at all -_-) and food, if i had to make 2 airship run in a day, i would throw over 100k~ (depending how many food i buy) gils by day (Arrows 45k~ , Food 5k each using 5~ by day). i'm not a crafter, neither a gatherer, so my anima resplenish fast enough (the AF's part has end so now i have all my anima back =P ) and i'm only teleporting to the 2 new dungeon place (where i've set them to cost twice less the price).

if i had 0 anima, i would use my chocobo. Airship only if necessary and if i have to hurry.

Just throwing out random ideas.

What if Airships took us to areas where our teleports where out of range. Like a continent we can't reach without airships with its own set of big honking crystal camps amidst fields of nothing.

Originally Posted by Gramul

Just throwing out random ideas.

What if Airships took us to areas where our teleports where out of range. Like a continent we can't reach without airships with its own set of big honking crystal camps amidst fields of nothing.

Yeah, although that would require a massive amount more work, naturally, as it would require new maps/zones, so would be a 2.0 kind of thing. But at the very least, they could take us to the various places that have airship docks throughout the existing maps in Eorzea. xD They're still sitting there doing nothing!

Originally Posted by Chardrizard

It's already instant, how quicker can it get lol

I thought you have to wait for it to arrive after you go through the gate? My proposal would be that you get on the airship the moment you pay for your ticket. No waiting inbetween.