island sanctuary

[Shougun]

We're no longer going to be the Warrior of Light, we're going to be the Farmer of Light, producing food for the war-torn lands having food shortages.

Not sure if you meant it this way, but if you did... I like it! (literally what you said, not as a joke but "literally" lets do that).

Where you use the island to actually interact with other elements of the game world, like actually producing and sending food to X village and making an impact to that village (such that each village may have a 'level' and you help rank them up). There also may be other content that is less one and done once some of the story / etc side content has been completed, like empowering your squadron (may tie in with a new purpose for squadrons as Trust system takes over other elements), beast tribe, new type of custom deliveries, FC, etc.

[Illmaeran]

Not sure if you meant it this way, but if you did... I like it! (literally what you said, not as a joke but "literally" lets do that).

It was a joke, but I could definitely see them coming up with some sort of world interaction mechanic using the island.

I hope that we get a wide array of ingredients to use for CUL out of this more than anything else. Leveling our Chocobos would be cool too. All that dirty straw will make an excellent soil amendment!

[Scryar]

Looks like we might actually get instanced housing.

https://clips.twitch.tv/MoldyAmazing...kpz3vEv19a5fpR

https://imgur.com/a/5rj7xIU

[Knot_D]

Looks like we might actually get instanced housing.

https://clips.twitch.tv/MoldyAmazing...kpz3vEv19a5fpR

https://imgur.com/a/5rj7xIU

Now I'm excited

[Scryar]

I'm a bit sceptical. This sounds like something they would advertise way more. Better keep my excitement low till we get it officially confirmed.

[Stormfur]

I'm hoping this is something they'll go into detail about in the next live letter because not just an instanced island for you to grow crops/breed animals/possibly have a workshop? but also place buildings, including your own house. If that's the case, I'm totally fine with it starting out small, like an apartment space, but being able to be upgraded as you get more resources (a la Far Cry). That would be amazing. I just want to be able to customize it.

[Scryar]

well, yoshida talks about it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86QB..._channel=Meoni

Now I'm getting excited. He mentioned having a personal island, placing buildings, gardening, animal raising.
It will be released in one of the 6.x patches and they will add stuff over time.
O and we will be able to visit other people's islands

[Shougun]

Transcript from the video linked, taken from youtube (though don't forget to support people if you liked whatever they were able to offer):

um since the announcement for island
sanctuary there has been a lot of
mysteries surrounding this content are
there any new details you can share
about it
uh so i want to say firstly that when we
originally announced island sanctuary we
were kind of taken aback by the huge
response we got from the players
we weren't expecting such an incredible
reaction
to
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so really because now uh we we
understood that a lot of players are
really looking forward to it and they've
got like really high expectations
i did not want to just approach it in a
haphazard way uh for example if we were
just to give some uh information here
and there
i think that might lead to a
misunderstanding on the player's side
they might not really understand what we
are trying to do in this content so i
thought it might be a safer option if we
wait until we're at a stage where we can
show screenshots or maybe even live
gameplay in a stream
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but i just want to give like a a bit of
a disclaimer for our players i think a
lot in a lot of people are thinking that
maybe
uh island sanctuary will be something
very akin to
animal crossing uh but animal crossing
is really the product of many many years
of
you know
installments very many iterations um
much development uh so uh first and
foremost i'd just like to say that uh
please don't expect something on that
level uh because it will be a little bit
tough for us
but i would like to provide you some
general details just some general
information so this is going to be
island sanctuary is new content that
we're putting in the game and we will be
uh putting it in the six point x series
and we will make sure to update the
content regularly as well so it will be
a quite a large scale new form of
content
only
and so really the concept is that you
obviously have your own island uh so
you have at the start kind of like a
blank canvas and so you can see okay
what type of building do i want to place
here what type of materials do i want to
gather and you know you can see okay
maybe i want to let my minions roam free
in this uh in this island so that was
really the concept we were going for
this is not going to be a con the type
of content where people compete with
each other
and you won't feel pressurized like for
example if someone is trying to uh get
elegant tombstones you know they feel
like oh i have to do that content every
week
so it's really free from those pressures
and laid back relaxed uh where basically
uh you have your own sanctuary uh your
island
so this isn't not the type of content
where you would expect to find that you
know the goal is to get like a super
strong weapon or you know for the people
who like raiding then maybe this is not
so much their cup of tea maybe they will
not play it
so really i'd like people to think of it
that in fight in 14 uh this is an area
where you can relax so basically you you
can also call over your friends to your
island have a chat with them you can go
visit your friends island
but basically it's with laid-back
relaxed content so it's typically
the things like maybe tending to crops
or you know like uh
looking after animals raising animals uh
that was more the concept that we were
going
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so of course that there is content which
is the there's a focus on the house the
garden and the furniture
uh but this i would say island sanctuary
you could see like a little bit of a
rank higher because there's there's a
bit more broad uh things in there in the
but i think that's probably about all i
can share for today

I don't see where it says we can place furniture though I do see Yoshida talk about how you might see this content as a higher rank than housing itself, which may infer that idea (but it also may just mean generally it's an evolution in some ways due to the progression mechanics available here but not in housing itself).

What is definitely confirmed though I am excited for. Am looking forward to this content~ I do like the idea of having progression space, and I am very glad to hear we can also place buildings and such. Wonder if they associated any bonuses (things that transcend the content itself). I do believe it would be smart to add small amounts of furniture placement (and that small amounts may be a reasonable ask), so that'd be cool but at least from listening to the wording, unless I missed it, I didn't see that is a hard yes and more of a infer-able maybe.

I hope the content does well. If the system does have a lot of cool building options then maybe the FC idea wouldn't really fit, but if it does well and the buildings are less 'hamlet'-like I still suggest they could have a lot of fun value for FC (making a hamlet, being able to use the relationship panel on the FC more, causing general goals for the FC longer term, and maybe some combat element in hamlet defense / assault). Though that is just a stepping stone thought, I am excited for this system and just an aside thought it may have branching opportunities if it is well received.

[SweetPete]

This definitely seems like SE way of giving us instanced housing without actually saying it’s instanced housing. I’m super excited! Can’t wait for more information at the last live letter before early access.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I am excited but I would also say dont expect to be getting a large house for free with this content. SE need to address players with an army of alt FC's taking up an ass load of housing plots. I see one player on my server with 3 mediums and a large in one ward alone.