Island Sanctuary "visions" – are they working as intended?

[Iscah]

The tutorial for the Island Sanctuary emphasises "visions" and then they are never used again throughout the actual gameplay.

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Steps:
1. Unlock the Island Sanctuary and work through the tutorial stage, which emphasises "visions" – basically, a quest displayed in the duty list, specifying a thing you can construct on your island and listing the materials you require to construct it.

2. Read the help guide in the Iskekeep's Index menu, which again highlights visions under the Basics section of the guide, describing them as "objectives in your duty list" that will unlock additional goals and features as you complete them.

3. Get past the tutorial stage, at which point you are given no further specific visions and do not seem to have any way of setting one. The duty list simply says "The Perfect Paradise: Create the island of your dreams" and that remains the sole listed goal for the entire time you are working on your island.

It seems like something may have gone wrong here. Is there supposed to be some way of designating an item or building as your current vision, and having its materials list appear in the duty list while you are gathering?

[ICountFrom0]

Yes, they are just your tutorial.

[Iscah]

Yes, they are just your tutorial.

That's what they currently are, yes. But it doesn't seem like it's what they are intended to be.

[Breakbeat]

Yes, they are working as intended.

"Create the island of your dreams," means for you to proceed with building and upgrading everything you can. No, there is no way to make the "visions" list reflect a specific item you are working on. Google docs or actually just opening up Notepad would be the best way to track what you're working on (I'll reveal my boomer-ness if I suggest pen and paper LOL.)

There are grey-area ways to have a notepad in-game, but I won't discuss that here; you'll need to Google.

Here's other discussion that gets into this topic, and provides more information than I have:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...fect_paradise/

That person's solution was "...ok thanks everyone, turns out a landmark i thought i had checked forever ago was actually not checked." Which then allowed them to complete the last vision.

If you still feel this should work differently, then we're in the realm of a suggestion. Those go in General Discussion, but many people use the "Website / Companion App Feedback and Suggestions" forum to make in-game suggestions and have been doing so for years, so that'd be appropriate too.

[Iscah]

No, there is no way to make the "visions" list reflect a specific item you are working on.

Yes I understand that it cannot be done in the game as it currently stands.

That is not the same thing as being certain that it was not intended to be doable.

If the devs actually set up a system for setting more visions as you progress, but somehow forgot to actually add that option to the menu, that would be a bug. That is why I am asking.

The prominence they are given in the tutorial and menu seems at odds with how little they are utilised in-game. Why give a tutorial for something that's over and gone when the tutorial itself is? Why call it a basic feature of the island?

Either something has been overlooked, or their prominence is being misportrayed.



(Also, no, I don't think the fact that people have been misreading the "Website Feedback" forum's purpose for years makes it any more appropriate to misuse it now.)

[SpiritMuse]

I must say I've had this question too. The whole visions thing seems like a really nice way to frame quests within this setting, and I was hoping I could set my own after the tutorial focused so much on them. But no, that never materialized. It would have been so useful to be able to set my current island build goal in there, so I wouldn't have to keep searching through the menus every time to check and re-check the materials I need and if I have enough already. It made the whole thing a lot less relaxing than it could have been.