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

Originally Posted by Zahak

According to 2.0 PDF's:
"Campaign of battles against the dragon horde in the defense of Ishgard, with participation possible as any of the four Disciplines."

So I hope that means we can enter Ishgard by then! Unless they just let you do everything outside Ishgard like dragoon quests <_<

I get the feeling that the Dragoon quest NPC will be located INSIDE Ishgard in version 2.0, though I could be wrong.

Can someone actually cite where they said they won't be re-doing the cities, because I'm pretty sure they said they would be.

After all, there's a lot of crap in the cities right now that doesn't make a lot of sense, and way too much instancing. I would hope they intend to re-do them.

I think they said the cities will be remade as well.

Hopefully we will get an actually AH instead on an empty wall of air to trade with.
Hopefully we will get an actual building for the grand companies.
Hopefully the Airship docks in Ul'dah and Limsa will be part of the same zone as the city and not require loading.

Originally Posted by Jinko

I think they said the cities will be remade as well.

Hopefully we will get an actually AH instead on an empty wall of air to trade with.
Hopefully we will get an actual building for the grand companies.
Hopefully the Airship docks in Ul'dah and Limsa will be part of the same zone as the city and not require loading.

They might not re-do the cities and instead just add buildings for these above. Who knows...

Originally Posted by bobbygunz

They don't need much at all, in my opinion. Gridania could use some work though. But Uldah and Limsa are pretty amazing.

Gridania just needs to be chopped down or segmented into zones, which is what I recall would happen to the cities in terms of redesign. Gridania in particular is more 'filler' than the other 2 cities, while it fits with the forest theme, it's inconvenient for conjurers mainly because their guild is the only one way out of the way from everything.

Originally Posted by bobbygunz

I cannot follow your reasoning regarding these cities needing to be segmented into zones. A loading screen would just make navigation slower. lol.

Not really, since loading is only slow to some people now because their PCs can't fully handle this game, I noticed what takes me up to 5 seconds to 'zone' from teleport, takes some people a good 2 minutes. (I actually timed it.)