Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
I won't deny I'm really disappointed that they didn't take any measures to make the Firmament/Diadem experience more interesting/fulfilling.

The FATEs in the former could've been a regular thing and also more a involved process; perhaps allowing you to actually craft things to use for the repairs and gain bonus skyward points as a result.

Diadem could've had collectables/aetherial reduction as an alternative to just brainlessly hitting nodes, and perhaps some "boss" monsters that take a collective effort from the players there to reap a large reward.

As far as the botting goes, almost all of the people from my server I see doing it there have an established history of doing it pretty much any time they're on DoL/H jobs though, so it's not like it pushed them over the edge or anything; they just find gathering/crafting fundamentally uninteresting. There isn't any actual risk to doing it, either, as SE's three strike policy means that unless you had prior offenses, you're just going to get a slap on the wrist if you do somehow get caught.
My problem with the FATES in the original IshRest is just that they were too few and far between, too short, and involved too many people. You'd need instanced Firmaments to do them right, and that's lunacy. But you're right, I wish there was more to the Firmament beyond just a special place to grind collectibles.

And the botting in the Firmament bothers me a lot less than the general botting in the game, such as the type that takes over the market board and devastates the server's economy.