Why we cant land in so many places?

[Syntafin]

With the ability to fly in 2.x areas, there are now so many new places you could land. But... we are not able to do that, I have an example here as a screenshot (in the area [Outer La Noscea] there are many unfortunately impossible locations).



Is there a reason for that?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Because the areas weren't designed for flying so most of the terrain isn't "real" in that sense

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's not just ARR areas, there are plenty of seemingly flat surfaces in later maps that we can't land on, too.

[Rekh]

Multi billion company with 2001 level/server design.

[Jeeqbit]

You can only land where SE specifically designed it to be allowed. They are extremely strict with their invisible walls and clipping. Before you can fly in ARR you notice how extremely annoying the clipping is because the edges are like ~ so you keep running into them.

The expansions have this strictness as well, but the areas are more square and they were designed with flying in mind, so they typically make a lot of roofs easy to land on.

When they added flying in ARR, they did not do it with Yoshi-P's blessing. It was a passion project they did without him knowing (well until they had to tell him). So they had a limited amount of time to choose what objects you can land on and they could only choose so many to work on. That's why we can land on some roofs but not others. So you see it more in ARR but this also a thing in expansion areas to a lesser extent.

[Rekh]

The assertion that it was a "passion project" is even more embarassing in my opinion; it just shows how barebones the game would be without "passion projects."

[RethDaron]

Back in 1.0 you couldn't jump. A ledge higher than your ankle would stop you.

Square always has these weird limitations.

[Asari5]

tbf, i was very surprised on how many buildings and ships on old maps we can land. probably because they make copy paste with their assets.

im very dissappointed about the new maps though.
when i compare this to aion its like heaven and earth. in aion you could land anywhere. you would slide down if its too steep, but you can land anywhere.

[Enkidoh]

Because it's a role-playing game, not a fantasy world simulator/open sandbox game, as much as some people so desperately want it to be.

[Azureskies01]

"Why can't we?"

Because they use smoke and mirrors for that type of stuff and I would rather not have my WoL fall through through - not so solid - ground that we can't land on.