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

Originally Posted by Colino

I don't mind that in single player games but for an mmo it just looks weird... Never really like the idea of thousands of people running into random houses.

It worked fine in XI.

Ehm, the pdf's are showing that they also will redesign the cities as well..

seems to be gridania (built on water like Windurst in FFXI?) :


does this belong to gridania (the city) as well?


a small outpost/village:


Limsa Lominsa harbour?


Don't know which city this is supposed to be, thought at first this is Ul'dah but the surroundings are very green, hm. anyone who understands japanese, what is written there?:


seems like a garlean keep (like we receiving in 1.22):

Originally Posted by Tonkra

Ehm, the pdf's are showing that they also will redesign the cities as well..

seems to be gridania (built on water like Windurst in FFXI?) :

No, its a small mill.. Gridania is to the Southeast of there IIRC.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

does this belong to gridania (the city) as well?

Those are ruins from outside a dungeon

Originally Posted by Tonkra

a small outpost/village:

This will be located NW of Ishgard's gate

Originally Posted by Tonkra

Limsa Lominsa harbour?

Probably the closest thing we have to seeing what a remade city will look like (if this is indeed Limsa and not simply an addition to it). The spikes emerging from the ground around Limsa will radically change the cityscape, and it has fewer towers than the current Limsa. I believe the area in the middle of the spikes will feature the new arena.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

Don't know which city this is supposed to be, thought at first this is Ul'dah but the surroundings are very green, hm. anyone who understands japanese, what is written there?:

This is a new battleground/dungeon area The japanese refers to 'safe spots' while climbing up.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

seems like a garlean keep (like we receiving in 1.22):

This is a large Garlean base, it will be connected to both Thanalan (north) and Coerthas (south)

Originally Posted by Tonkra

Ehm, the pdf's are showing that they also will redesign the cities as well..

Nope.

seems to be gridania (built on water like Windurst in FFXI?) :

Not Gridania, but probably nearby.

does this belong to gridania (the city) as well?

Well maybe if you look on the map the picture came from, you could find out.

Limsa Lominsa harbour?

That's the PvP arena near Limsa.

Don't know which city this is supposed to be, thought at first this is Ul'dah but the surroundings are very green, hm. anyone who understands japanese, what is written there?:

That's instanced "dungeon". Says stuff like "safe spot".

In conclusion, no evidence that they are changing current cities. But certainly evidence that they are adding new "hamlet" areas and such.

Originally Posted by Ramsey

There's a guy in Ul'dah who mentions there are plans to construct a magitek railroad connecting the three major city states... How long has this guy been around? And I SWEAR to the gods if he is pulling my chain I will punch someone in the throat.

The train being cut from FFXI was my biggest frustration with the entire world of Vana'Diel, if they add a MagiTek train that's not just a loading screen to this game... All I have to say is...

I second that motion. I second it hard.