Thread: Wishlist For 2.0 :) as it draws Near

Originally Posted by knite23

Linkshell Housing- just like personal housing just that your ls can purchase like a small castle if your in limsa or collection of tree houses high in the sky if your in grid instead of every LS just picking a spot on uld's many walls. i think the Rp'ers would love this ideal and it would help with the congestion of everyone just standing around in uld

Linkshell Transportation- let LS's buy boats, airships, carriages, etc to travel from city to city and make the airship they have now just like the boat an actual airship ride where you can see the vast skys

I just wanted to say I love and completely support these ideas. For the big powerful ls's, there can be a weekly charge through some sort of system for a ls to purchase and maintain their own fort. Now it doesn't have to actually be a physical fort or building, but can easily use a zone to transit into your ls's guild. Can even give ls's bonuses for owning a ls house by giving crafting buffs and maybe spaces to display trophies. Also, instead of staying at the inn, can have your own personal room at your ls's house

I also like the the ls transportation idea. Unfortunately with anima and aetheryte crystals in the game...I don't really think there would be a real need for it in the game. But maybe ls's can get special tele's say to certain dungeon entrances or something.

Chocobo breeding and racing... plus less server jankyness.

I'm going to keep this civil and friendly for you. I just wanted to have my responces here before I add my own wishlist to the pile.

First, a quick overview.

Originally Posted by Amage

1. Linkshell Message
2. For the game to Activate my crossfire
3. Gear Swaps (I know some people hate this but i hate staying stuck in one spot for 3min because i switched a ring)
4. HNM's (epic dragons etc)
5. Sky/Sea Type content (no more Instance)
6. Be able to trade more then 4 items
7. Real Airships (Not a CS)
8. More weapon Variety (not to be locked to a job or class by your weapon)
9. Crafters Signature plates for armor (So crafters can be admired like on XI)
10. Skillchains (Make People have more fun with weapon skills)

Things with smiles are ok.
Things with question marks I'm iffy on.
Sticking my tongue out, I disagree with.
Angry face is a game-killer for me if implemented (I will unsubscribe without giving it a chance I feel so strongly about it.)

Now on to the details. I'll only go over what's not oked.

3. Absolutely not. Gear Swap was a toxic mechanic in FFXI. Swap mechanic killed all job variety. It also secured the use of 3rd party programs. It should have never been supported in FFXI and it should not be supported here. Sorry but I'm not willing to debate or discuss this. If they implemented it, I'm gone, period. It's just that bad.

4 & 5. I'm iffy on HNM and world boss systems as it stands. I'm going to be frank, heated competition in a PvE part of the game is bad and paves way for cheating. I've no problem with people desiring to fight these guys for epic battles. What I don't support is monopolizing loot. Perhaps if there was some sort of 'Hunters Guild' with points awarded by the death or trophy retrieval of these NMs, and, while they drop certain unique items, high value gear would be kept within in the currency system. (You can create certain barriers that prevent certain loot from being accessible until you've killed the specific NM.)

The same goes with creating high-level areas that have tedious and frustrating entry barriers. To put it more amusingly: I'd support Sky and Sea type areas if they're not locked off, and some poor noob sap can find their way in and get eaten.

8. While I'm in support for more weapon variety, I do like the fact that classes are restricted by their weapon type. Reason: Red Mage. There's no reason why this class should ever have access to anything but a degan, period. No staff swapping, no pinning the hybrid job into the back line. Securing Fencer/Red Mage to a fencing degan ends that debate before it's even released.

Now, if you were to create more weapon types that were designed for a job, like quarterstaves for monk or hand-axes for warrior, I could grow to support that - so long as the types stick to the basic principles behind each class/job.


10. Skillchains - I don't think they'd work here.

I want to state something here: The Battle Regiment system had potential - but they took it in the wrong direction, IMO. I would like to see them operate Battle Regiment like Crono Trigger/Crono Cross's ability combination system. They could use it as a means to directly combat class stacking by creating ability combinations that require a variety of jobs, rather than just multiple of one job spamming skills.

And we'd get fancy animations beyond just colored explosions.

More importantly, it would emphasis the feeling of teamwork visually too, just like skillchains.

I mean, some of these ideas are simply good. I don't mind them at all. I'm sorry Abyssea ruined your FFXI experience, but let's not try to make this FFXI-2. Let's be making this something better, that will appeal to more than just the disenfranchised FFXI crowd.

I'll be going through this thread looking over more ideas. It's more fun to mull over given ideas and respond with ways I think it could work or ways I think it won't work.

I'm pretty sure they plan to have private company housing and have talked about it quite a bit. Hopefully they can preview that in the not so distant future.

I just want them to actually attempt to balance the current classes out. Not really holding my breath though.

I want a stand-alone download for 2.0 instead of the patcher. I want a lot of things from 2.0 but what I don't want the most is a two day long download to play.

I also forgot to add...I want a friend list confirmation...I don't really like people being able to add me to friends list without my consent..and then camp me for when I come online haha. Another thing that would be nice is /sea all command of course and to be able to see what zone people are in.