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

Originally Posted by Rydin

Do you really have a problem with copy/paste going on in cities?

Isn't that what people do?
I thought the main problem was believing that natural terrain would be copied exactly every few feet....

But a city... a man made city is going to be copy pasted... thats actually one of the key elements of a city...

That's a good point, though I do find it a little cheesy that some of the islands in Limsa are copy-pasted.

More than anything, I hope they can make the inside of Ul'dah look as cool as the outside. Looking at it from Thanalan, Ul'dah is amazing. Once you get inside, however, it's mostly a few hallways. I'd like to be able to go inside of structures more, and to be able to explore all of that crazy architecture on the upper levels.

I would love to be able to fully explore this:




Or better yet, this:

Originally Posted by Rane

More than anything, I hope they can make the inside of Ul'dah look as cool as the outside. Looking at it from Thanalan, Ul'dah is amazing. Once you get inside, however, it's mostly a few hallways. I'd like to be able to go inside of structures more, and to be able to explore all of that crazy architecture on the upper levels.

True... more important than the copy/paste is that the cities are a HUGE teaser of places we can't go

Originally Posted by Rane

That's a good point, though I do find it a little cheesy that some of the islands in Limsa are copy-pasted.

More than anything, I hope they can make the inside of Ul'dah look as cool as the outside. Looking at it from Thanalan, Ul'dah is amazing. Once you get inside, however, it's mostly a few hallways. I'd like to be able to go inside of structures more, and to be able to explore all of that crazy architecture on the upper levels.

I would love to be able to fully explore this:




Or better yet, this:

Man you look at the concept art, then you look at the result, and its like. What happened? So much missing, so much of the design ruined =( The 3d Result is awful compared to the concept.

Originally Posted by viion

Man you look at the concept art, then you look at the result, and its like. What happened? So much missing, so much of the design ruined =( The 3d Result is awful compared to the concept.

Could it be the angle of the screen shot is different? also the tallest parts seem to be further back then what they would be from the concept art... which makes them seem smaller and less grand

I really hope they make it so I don't have to load into anything. Grand company? GOTTA LOAD IN. Market Wards? GOTTA LOAD IN. Merchant Wards? GOTTA LOAD IN. Airship? same thing.

It grows tiring. And I would rather interact with something. Now the MW I guess I can understand, but it should still have it's own building rather than a gigantic invisible wall everyone stands around. Put a gate in front of something we cannot pass through, or guards. Something.

Gridana has the best Airship port because I can walk to it, rather than take an elevator. We need more stuff like that in general.

Originally Posted by Ruisu

Airship? same thing.

Ul'dah Airship...
1. Load onto the right floor using elevator (Complete with cutscene?)
2. Converse with gate attendant (Select Limsa)
3. Load dock
4. wait for airship
5. Load "Leaving Ul'dah" cutscene
6. Load "Arriving in LL" cutscene
7. Load into LL dock
8. Talk to LL attendant (Make sure you select YES to leave, it defaults to NO)
9. Load into outer airship area.
10. Load into actual LL from elevator (Yet another skippable cutscene)

And there you have it... Ul'dah to LL in 10 easy steps....

sidenote: I typed the word "load" so much that it actually looks funny to me now... has that ever happened to you guys?