Let's have Tents

[casker]

tent for when you are in the wilderness and want rest exp, but don't want to return

[Jynx]

As much as I'd like to have tents for nights out in the wilderness the concept doesn't lend itself to the game as it stands.

Now let's say that during night the wilderness got damn scary and setting up a tent could keep you safe from things like undead spawning near you or at least not being agressive to Players in your camp. Would be nice to set up a tend and talk over a campfire while you planned your route during the daytime hours. Perhaps it could be a gimick in a specific zone that once your strong enough that you don't need to fear the dark but in your early trips to the area knowing when to pitch a tent could be a life saver.

But I can allready hear the whines of "wasting my precious time"...

[Shurrikhan]

Now let's say that during night the wilderness got damn scary and setting up a tent could keep you safe from things like undead spawning near you or at least not being agressive to Players in your camp. Would be nice to set up a tend and talk over a campfire while you planned your route during the daytime hours. Perhaps it could be a gimick in a specific zone that once your strong enough that you don't need to fear the dark but in your early trips to the area knowing when to pitch a tent could be a life saver.

But I can allready hear the whines of "wasting my precious time"...

The whiners can stay out of those lands. It's not like every FFXI land was touched, and regardless of that it's fun to have some environments that differ significantly over a course of day. I'd love campfire strategy meeting. Exploration as it stands is as easy as not getting too close to a mob, despite that FFXIV invites (until realizing how small the world is as a whole at least) exploration as a near-breathtaking possibility upon stumbling into it.

In short, I'm all for it. Both the tents, and zones that would make fun use of them. Using it as an outdoor-deployable inn or for save points in long instances would also be interesting.

[Venat]

HP/MP isn't I was expecting from you guys. I was expecting new function that a tent would be useful to use. Let's say 2.0 has Weather Effects that effect our stats. Nothing too extreme but something like (-20 Fire /+20 Water Resist) in hot weather. Say using a Tent would make the -20 to 0.

Or lets say when your Party sets up a tent it tells other players that you have this camp and lets say within 50yam radius you get +2% EXP to all your party members. Lets say you can only use it every 20hrs-cooldown and when you use it in a party it inputs everyone elses Tent timers to 20hr cooldown also.

[Elexia]

Basically a 3 step process.

1. Toss tent at boss.
2. Let it get bit by a silence, darkness, poison snake.
3. Profit and/or get horribly raped when it fails.

A tent system doesn't really have too much use in the MMO setting given how they'll probably introduce a higher native regen/refresh and 'campsites' just to be generic..err standard, so really a tent would only serve as a means of not going back to the inn, which would actually negate their purpose altogether (in current version at least.)

[Venat]

A tent system doesn't really have too much use in the MMO setting given how they'll probably introduce a higher native regen/refresh and 'campsites' just to be generic..err standard, so really a tent would only serve as a means of not going back to the inn, which would actually negate their purpose altogether (in current version at least.)

Tent be alright for quick Inn function but it would have its limitations on max Bed Bonus.

Normally 16 hours logout gives u about 15000exp bonus while your in a INN. Max INN cap being like 50000exp something like.. 3-4days logged out. I dont know the exact cap of it but lets just say it is.

Say when your using a Tent anywhere on a field cus you quickly need to logout right away or your too lazy to go back to the INN or you like where your currectly are.

Bed bonus for Tent is slower and say Cap is 20k EXP.

Say for you toget Tent bonus to 20k it take 30 hours.

And lets say for INN bonus u get about 25000 in same time.

[Yves]

"You pitch a tent in the middle of the thick forest."

[Mushy]

my epic thread about tents and cottages

I already went in-depth with this sucker of a thread. even produced a professional image depicting them in game:

[VoltaAsura]

Only thing I could see the tents being used for, is for logging out in the middle of the world, and away from cities, to be used for getting rested bonus.