Lets stop being hippies.

[Majidah]

Lets talk about FFXI for a second.

FFXI was able to create through its own means a strong connection between a player and his nation and even his race.

Elvaans were proud, tarutarus were playfull and intelligent, humans were avant garde regarding technology and truly unruly, the galkas had a well forged sense of community and yearned for their land, and mithras were slutty (HEH).

People were very nationalist. Bastokers were bastokers to death, even if they always got last in the tally. Same for windy and sandy. There was this huge sense of loyalty and competitiveness in the game.

You'd walk into a city and you'd instantly sense the personality of each race. Be it the traditionalist elvaans or the class differences between humes and galkas who had no option but to work together.
Walking into a city really felt like stepping into a different country that held a different culture.

I feel like XIV is lacking this.

It doesn't matter where you start, we are all pretty much children of Uldah.
Races mean squat. Not much to say there. There's literally no difference between them.
And it doesn't matter which company you choose. There's nothing significant to put its members against each other.

In XI everyone was instantly brought into these very well defined elements and bought into them without questioning them. Players actually acted in some way or another as their race, or as their nation. And we loved competing against each other be it through ballista, conquest or whatever we had at hand.

I'd like to see this to be brought onto XIV.

[Hippo]

People from Twin Adder or Maelstrom selling their wares in Uldah MW should be taxed more.

[Firon]

Don;t know what game your playing but Ul'dans love being Ul'dans by calling grid ppl tree huggers.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

I think you should read more carefully.
Racism was an important part of lore in ffxi (promathia putting sins in vana'diel races ecc), but ffxiv have his share of racism, not against races themselves but city-state

[Majidah]

I think you should read more carefully.
Racism was an important part of lore in ffxi (promathia putting sins in vana'diel races ecc), but ffxiv have his share of racism, not against races themselves but city-state

nationalism you mean?
that's exactly where I'm going, XIV fails to deliver this be it through bad writting, bad plot settings, bad enviorments or bad game dynamics.

At the most you can hear a little talk from an NPC say yeah lets beat that other nation. But that's it.

In XI people loved to get parties of the same nation, we all wanted to beat the other when it came to conquest, ballista was the same. It wasn't just some line in some NPC that no one cared about, people actually believed it.

[Shosasosa]

in the beginning before they started changing everything Uldahns are primarily merchants who are very concerned with wealth and power. Gridanians are more religous it seemed, always worried about the elementals and protecting the forest. Limsa Lominsa seemed to be more of a city for pirates and mercenaries.

[Vaer]

I'm sure the allure of starting in the nation of your respective race granting a ring factored into many starting character/nation decisions in XI.

Grid's outside areas are terribad so that probably shooed everyone away from picking that as a starting city.

The Grand Companies each have their own flavor but the competition in general is only really realized by the NPCs and not the players. The GCs to most players is just a means to get a chocobo and gearz.

Conquest was a pretty neat system, (lol Lastok) but it would run into problems if implemented in a similar fashion now as a lot of people chose Immortal Flames because of convenience.

[Rokien]

People from Twin Adder or Maelstrom selling their wares in Uldah MW should be taxed more.

that is a great idea

[HiirNoivl]

Hiir calls anyone who is not a Lalafell a "tall-ie" when she's being cross.

[AlaulaTheGreat]

Us Adders need to hug the trees... or feel their wrath!