Thread: Maps redesing for 2.0... cities too?!

Originally Posted by Onidemon

Looking at the 2.0 documents, the redesigned maps look great. Well at least the artwork does, we will see once E3 comes i guess.

What about the Cities tho'? Will they redesign them too? I can't seem to find anything mentioning the cities, cuz they do need a lift up too!

Given the performance issues they seem to have with Ul'dah I would think you will see them split the cities into multiple zones. There will have to be at lease some design changes if they do that.

the need to make FFXIV citys like WoW, yeah i said it they were lively and big where you can go everywhere they had all kinds of shops.
and no i dont like Wow.

Originally Posted by indira

the need to make FFXIV citys like WoW, yeah i said it they were lively and big where you can go everywhere they had all kinds of shops.
and no i dont like Wow.

I don't like WoW either but you have to give it to Blizzard, the cities are lively and feel like actual cities.

Originally Posted by Impulse

That poor guy in Stormwind has been trying to sell that same loaf of bread that he's been carrying for nearly 8 years now.

Touche'! I think having NPCs that react to contemporary events would be a nice middle ground... But maybe that's too much to ask for?

Originally Posted by LlenCoram

Seriously? You can't honestly want a petition for this without even knowing to what degree the tweaks will happen. We don't know if the "tweaks" will include making the cities more lively, or what changes are going to be made. The city shapes might stay more or less the same but new animations, new areas might be created. The textures and looks might change. The music might change. There are hundreds of things they could do to the cities that entail "Not completely rebuilding from the ground up."

Everyone needs to relax and wait to see what they have in store. If, when they release some info on the changes being made, the cities are shown as being exactly the same, as if someone just pulled them out of the game and placed them back in to the new maps creating some sort of anachronistic nightmare, then feel free to start making petitions. Until then, chill. We have no idea what they have in store for the cities.

But we do know for sure that they won't be doing a complete redesign from the ground up. Yoshi said so himself, per Rukkirri's post.

We do know that they *might* (Rukkirri's/Yoshi's word, not mine) make changes to some locations that are inconvenient or frustrating. Not only is that a vague comment to begin with, but using the word "might" means we can't even depend on some changes being made at all, even if they really should/could be.

Based on Yoshi's statements, per Rukkirri's post, it's safe to say that SE won't be doing as much as people hoped they would.

I'm sort of hoping by 'won't be completely redesigned from the ground up' just means they'll use the same objects/textures/npcs/etc and just change the layout of the city.

I don't mind Ul'dah that much, but I guess that's because compared to Grid it's amazing :P Limsa Lominsa looks amazing, but it's horrible to navigate around (especially when you're new to the game).