Thread: Fill the land of 2.0 with loot!

Make the world have randomly spawning chest in areas that are hard to get to, or a place someone normally wouldn't explore. Hide the chest behind trees or in ruins. The loot the chest drop would be purely cosmetic, so like hats or role playing clothes or furniture for your house, maybe cards for the card game. Make the items only obtainable from these chest, so then when you invite someone over to your house and they ask where you got that sweet sofa or cabinet you have a store to tell them about how you found it in some long lost ruins.

This will encourage players to explore, and then reward them and make the world have a little bit more of a mystery to it.

Rare spawning mobs could also drop interesting looking gear. Maybe even powerful cards or wacky cards.

The chest system wow had in place was really interesting, and fun a dwarfs even had the racial skill to sniff out treasure chest. When you opened a chest in wow you never really knew what you were going to get sometimes vendor trash sometimes crafting mats maybe a piece of gear you could use. It felt like finding someones hidden stash, it was just something fun to stumble into.

Originally Posted by Rokien

This is my idea for something along the lines of that

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Company-Chests

I tell ya guys as much as you hate me, this is one of my better ideas.

Originally Posted by Rokien

I tell ya guys as much as you hate me, this is one of my better ideas.

Nope.

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Ya with loot and secrets, it would be neat if they gave the Primals another use. Where if you use them in a certain area like Ifrit in a certain part of the forest, the trees in said area would burn and reveal a new area which would be accessible for 1 RL week. Shiva could freeze water revealing a previously inaccessible island etc etc. Of course this would be for the entire world so if a LS wanted to unlock an area everyone would be able to check it out otherwise it would just get to messy to deal with lol.

Originally Posted by Airget

Ya with loot and secrets, it would be neat if they gave the Primals another use. Where if you use them in a certain area like Ifrit in a certain part of the forest, the trees in said area would burn and reveal a new area which would be accessible for 1 RL week. Shiva could freeze water revealing a previously inaccessible island etc etc. Of course this would be for the entire world so if a LS wanted to unlock an area everyone would be able to check it out otherwise it would just get to messy to deal with lol.

That would be really awesome and all, I would love to see something like that implemented. I don't think that the game is going to be setup like that, but if this was a final fantasy, fantasies thread it would fit right in.

I do think, we as a community have come up with really good ideas, but I think the ideas if the dev team where to use them would have to be more realistic.

I'm a sucker for collectable items, I love gathering insignificant little cosmetic things.
No sarcasm intended.

Originally Posted by Rokien

I tell ya guys as much as you hate me, this is one of my better ideas.

I don't hate anyone.

I suspect that you would be fine with people hating you, just as long as you are getting some attention.

Yeah, no hate from me... just pity.

Just to be clear the 2nd comment bugs me because I never said anything about not wanting interesting locations. Of course I want them like we all do.

Also they don't need to be chests. Basically I hope they design lots of different ideas that can be found by exploring the world on your own terms.

Every single FF ever has these things except the current version of XIV. Do hidden treasures is FF games offend anyone really? "oh crap I was rewarded for looking around this corner by free crafting mats!!! Aaargh this is the worst game ever!!1!"

Seriously?! I honestly do not get it.

I dunno... If you're just suggesting random collectibles that encourage exploration then... Hmm, the game already achieved this with the achievements for obtaining all Aetherytes. If you've ever bothered to go after them all you can discover most of what Eorzea currently has to offer. And as far as I'm aware, the maps will be explorable/unlockable and tied into achievements. Am I interested in exploration? Yes, absolutely, and I'll probably do it anyway without the incentive of "collectable loot" with no significant worth or use and which will probably just take up valuable inventory space anyway.