Island Sanctuary

[Deveryn]

Second monitor to watch something on the side.

Yeah, but I want the hair, and the pasture upgrade costs 1000, the cropland upgrade costs 1000, demolishing the rocks or whatever to get the next landmark (I presume) costs 1000. I'd be cleaned out!

Yeah, I get that. There's a lot I want, but there's not much to be done until that currency starts flowing. I'm sitting around 450 waiting on things to be made and sold.

There's a weekly challenge of selling 20 items, which gives you 1000. There's another 1000 to be earned from harvesting. There's some achievement for earning like 17k in a week, so that's something to look forward to as you progress.

[Alleo]

I love it, it's very relaxing; i'm trying to take my time with it because i know this is just supposed to be the introduction, and there's more content to be added to it in the future.

Sometimes I just put on a nice song in the orchestrion, lay down in the bed and use the roaming camera to watch my island. Its quite relaxing.

[Missbone]

So after taking a good look at the exchange shop and reaching island level 7 so far, i must say im disapointed in this overhyped Yoshi Guy once again. It has the same issue like the Doman Enclave and Similar content. Once you are done, you are done. There is no point in sticking with this content longer than you need to, it dosent add any long term beneficals for the main game as far i could tell. You cant get resources for the real professions, you cant exchange the tokens in anything usefull (no i dont count the materia as usefull), except from the furnishings you cant sell anything fromt the exchange store on the market (would be otherwise a nice alternative way to earn some money) and there is not even an aetheryte there to teleport there directly.

At every stupid corner of FF14 is and Aetheryte, but when you travel to the Fareyman to visit your island again there is not even another cutscene that shows you on a ship travling to your island. I allready didnt expectet much from this content, seeing how SE behaved during the last years, but im still disapointet. The island could have been something nice to hang out or a different kind of content with replaybility like the gold saucer where it is rewarding to come back and doing the minigames again and again. But no SE screwed up once again.

[kaynide]

So after taking a good look at the exchange shop and reaching island level 7 so far, i must say im disapointed in this overhyped Yoshi Guy once again. It has the same issue like the Doman Enclave and Similar content. Once you are done, you are done. There is no point in sticking with this content longer than you need to, it dosent add any long term beneficals for the main game as far i could tell. You cant get resources for the real professions, you cant exchange the tokens in anything usefull (no i dont count the materia as usefull), except from the furnishings you cant sell anything fromt the exchange store on the market (would be otherwise a nice alternative way to earn some money) and there is not even an aetheryte there to teleport there directly.

At every stupid corner of FF14 is and Aetheryte, but when you travel to the Fareyman to visit your island again there is not even another cutscene that shows you on a ship travling to your island. I allready didnt expectet much from this content, seeing how SE behaved during the last years, but im still disapointet. The island could have been something nice to hang out or a different kind of content with replaybility like the gold saucer where it is rewarding to come back and doing the minigames again and again. But no SE screwed up once again.

Isn’t that the thing in any game though? You have no one to blame but yourself when you burn through the content as fast as you can and suddenly find yourself with nothing to do.

[Missbone]

Isn’t that the thing in any game though? You have no one to blame but yourself when you burn through the content as fast as you can and suddenly find yourself with nothing to do.

I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

[Alleo]

I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

People that reach island level 10 in just 3 days will never have enough content to be happy, because they will burn through it anyway, while it would become impossible to reach the end for the more casual players.

Right now if you want every special item from this you will probably grind this for quite some time, especially if you cant play that often. If they just had increased the costs or made it so that you constantly have to maintain the crops and animals to get somewhere you would have destroyed it for the casuals while those with way more time at hand would still grind through it fast and complain that they have nothing to do.

Just look at grind like the tiger from hunts...it was such a huge amount that it will probably demotivate anyone that just plays it casually or that wants to do more than one side content while those that no-lived it, got it anyway.

[Jason_Ashford]

Second monitor to watch something on the side.

Yeah, but I want the hair, and the pasture upgrade costs 1000, the cropland upgrade costs 1000, demolishing the rocks or whatever to get the next landmark (I presume) costs 1000. I'd be cleaned out!

only if you are deliberately ignoring the workshops. if you build up your efficiency bonus you can spend the rest of the week making the 6/8+ hour crafts that give tons of cowries. (just an FYI, the efficiency bonus doubles the amount of cowries you get from an item)

[george357]

so far reached rank 6 working on rank 7 so far a fun ride lots to do and gather.ps update just reached rank 8 renovating a workshop and gathering mats for more renovations.

[kaynide]

I surly dont burn through the content, in fact i spend my free time these days mostly with doing other things than playing this game. And if i would burn through the content like some ppl that allready reached island level 10 after 3 days it woudnt change the fact that the playvalue of this island is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got your island to lvl 10, collected the animals you want to have, upgraded all the stuff and bought everything there is from the shop its over. There is no point in sticking further with this island (except they change something). Also its much smaller than the advertisment showed.

I mean, the same can be said about, I dunno, literally any game. "the playvalue of [GAME] is limited, no matter how long a person needs to reach that point. Once you got [all the pokemon/all the Korok seeds/the ring to Mordor] its over.

[Knot_D]

I have 2 babies now!