Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
The travel animations are probably forgotten, but if you take an airship to Limsa for example you and see your character board the ship and the actual airport being used and shown how it operates. This is not true of newer locations where it just turns black and plops you unceremoniously.

It would also be cool to see the occasional airship leaving the port from the city and flying overhead as well as ships coming in and out of Limsa instead of the stale looking background items the cities have. Merchants coming in to Uldah, etc... There is SOME of that for sure, but definitely not enough.
We actually had this in 1.0 and the ARR airship animations are a step down from 1.0’s.

The ceruleum exhaust wheel thing in the middle of the airship used to spin along with the fluttering wings. Airships used to run on a schedule and you’d need to wait for one to show up to fly between cities. They intended us to be on the airship in the air as well like in FFXI and the boat ride in 1.0, but never got around to it. You used to also be able to see the airships coming into the dock from the city and even see it flying between the cities from the ground in different zones.

When ARR came, they turned the boat and the airship into teleport buttons so I wouldn’t really expect them to enhance or fix these at all in the future.