Removal of loading screens

[Sotaris]

Fusing the towns back to 1 area may be possible, since we have big Kugane and Cristarium. It's just the usual problem of "updating old content" which FFXIV devs are allergic to.

Might be more of lot of ARR runs on 1.0 code and they don't want to intentionally break something in the legacy code base.

remove all loading. remove screens entirely. just shove more RAM into your PC and chant blockchain till you achieve light speed connectivity

How do you upgrade ram in PS4 then?

[OranKells]

How do you upgrade ram in PS4 then?

[Genz]

Might be more of lot of ARR runs on 1.0 code and they don't want to intentionally break something in the legacy code base.

"lol no"
(only sensible answer to "1.0 code" and other tin foil hats)

[Sotaris]

"lol no"
(only sensible answer to "1.0 code" and other tin foil hats)

What do you mean?

[Rinhi]

What do you mean?

1.0 was on a completely different engine most likely written in a completely different coding language, it's unlikely that any kind of 1.0 code is present in XIV

[OranKells]

remove all loading. remove screens entirely. just shove more RAM into your PC and chant blockchain till you achieve light speed connectivity

[Endariel]

If we want to remove loading screens, we need to drop yet another Dalamud on Eorzea and wait 2-3 years.
I'm definitely up for it would we rework glamour system around the way, but without it..
Hard pass

[Payadopa]

I'd already be happy if they put all 4 initial city states back together. Gridania is okay, but Ul'dah not so much. I know why it's there but that loading screen that interrupts the main street is not to my liking.

[wereotter]

I'm not sure that the city maps work to integrate them into one large zone... doing a look at the maps of Ul'Dah, the Chamber of Rule would overlap over the top of the Ruby Road Exchange where there's currently sky overhead.

Ultimately this would be a lot of work for the developers to merge the two zones and make them work as they ought to but little to no benefit. Having the original cities as singular zones won't attract more players to justify the man hours needed to make it happen.

[Hyperia]

Yeah. Making even just the two halves of the older cities fit together would quire a good deal of additional work for little actual payoff. Let alone outdoor zones even in the same region.

It'd be nice but the devs have new zones to be working on, not worth the time and resources it would take compared to doing new areas.

And in EW things are way too disconnected geographically so even if they 'were' at a point they could say, put all six of an expansoin's zones into one instance, which I doubt they are, they wouldn't be able to do it in 6.0 either.

Right now, Gridania is so busy that I am lagging. Having them split is a lifesaver. I don’t even dare zone into Limsa.