Higher than usual Teleport costs?

[KisaiTenshi]

I thought that they said they wouldn't make it more than 1000 in and old live letter.

Not saying I can't pay but 2000 is a bit expensive just for tp especially when you tp a lot, even with reduction fee.

Realistically they were not priced high enough.

The three cities and the zones in between should be twice as expensive as taking the airship. Ishgard should be only slightly more than that. Every place outside, as-the-crow-flies should be more expensive.

Then there is Elpis, The Moon, and the First. Those should actually be SUPER Expensive, but realistically, the game can't do that because it would end up gating players behind doing multiple cheaper teleports and land travel that is just annoying.

The game has chocobo porters and that is what you "should" be using if you don't want the cost of the teleports. You were not really supposed to (even in 1.0) to use teleports as the sole source of travel. In 1.0 there was actually a time cost (Anima) in using teleports, so you could only teleport maybe a few times a day and then you had to walk. If they brought that back in a form that would make sense. It NEVER made sense to charge gil to teleport. It should have always been some kind of ticket mechanic.

I just imagine someone inserting 2000 gil into the aetheryte somewhere and someone else wandering up and going "spare some gil so I can get home?"

[genuine_stranger]

I've noticed this too... Finally I can use my 4 stacks of Aetheryte Tickets I've been hoarding, lol.

I have sitting around 9 stacks worth of tickets. >.>
I don't think anyone will ever need that many, but what do I spend Allied and Centurio seals on when I got everything else?

We need an option to sell tickets on the MB. /s

[Collin_Sky]

I haven't paid for teleports in years.

[Toutatis]

The game has chocobo porters and that is what you "should" be using if you don't want the cost of the teleports. You were not really supposed to (even in 1.0) to use teleports as the sole source of travel. In 1.0 there was actually a time cost (Anima) in using teleports, so you could only teleport maybe a few times a day and then you had to walk. If they brought that back in a form that would make sense. It NEVER made sense to charge gil to teleport. It should have always been some kind of ticket mechanic.

Just no. Such a system is tedious and annoying. Having to jump through hoops to travel is no fun at all. For those who don’t want to fast travel and have infinite time on their hands, there are alternate ways.

[BigCheez]

I haven't paid for teleports in years.

This.

Even just making it to a few ARR-Sb S ranks per week will pay for your teleports.

[ForteNightshade]

I sometimes fly around early zones to collect hunt marks.
But I do somewhat feel a little guilty when coming across A hunts, feeling that I'm "robbing" the experience of lower level players, possibly even new players the experience of fighting them.

So why, I wonder, doesn't all "tiers" of Hunt vendors sell utility items such like the Aetherite Tickets?
Is it to motivate "older" players to go back to older zones?
The experience would still be the same, they kill the A marks in second(s) and then move on.
Not that thrilling honestly.
Maybe a FATE level sync system for A and maybe even S marks could be something to ponder over.

While I can't speak for the EU datacenters, if they're at all similar to NA's hint discords. I can assure no new player is ever touching an A or S rank. They won't be able to kill them without asking for help and the second they flag it people at max level will show up and two shot it. Which speaks to how poorly designed hunts are but the devs still seemingly believe 4-8 people are pulling an A/S like as though it's a mini boss.

[BigCheez]

While I can't speak for the EU datacenters, if they're at all similar to NA's hint discords. I can assure no new player is ever touching an A or S rank. They won't be able to kill them without asking for help and the second they flag it people at max level will show up and two shot it. Which speaks to how poorly designed hunts are but the devs still seemingly believe 4-8 people are pulling an A/S like as though it's a mini boss.

IDK how hunts are organised on other DCs.

On EU - the hunt marks are posted on a Discord server. People wait about 5 minutes for people to get there and get themselves into parties, then it's pulled and killed. You can start participating in S rank hunts from 50+, no problem. As long as you hit it once before it dies, you get full rewards.

[TheOperator3712]

So why, I wonder, doesn't all "tiers" of Hunt vendors sell utility items such like the Aetherite Tickets?
Is it to motivate "older" players to go back to older zones?
The experience would still be the same, they kill the A marks in second(s) and then move on.
Not that thrilling honestly.
Maybe a FATE level sync system for A and maybe even S marks could be something to ponder over.

Because if the newer hunts sold the tickets, I would be doing getting 20 tickets from each expansion every week off of just the weekly hunt marks. They implemented the Sack of Nuts currency specifically to prevent this, as they want teleports to act as a gil sink. That doesn't work when you're getting 100s of free teleport tickets every week. As it is now you can still get 60 tickets every week from weekly hunts, which is more than enough for most players. If you do old A and S Ranks as well, you can get even more.

[Chasingstars]

I set my homepoint to tuliyollal, then when I want to return to it, I just swap to blue mage and use self-destruct. While it does apply the "brush with death" debuff on you, you can just get rid of that by unsyching and going into a dungeon like satasha, then immediately leaving.

As for teleporting away from tuliyollal, lots of teleport tickets from stuff like blue mage content and hunts.

[Evergrey]

Because if the newer hunts sold the tickets, I would be doing getting 20 tickets from each expansion every week off of just the weekly hunt marks. They implemented the Sack of Nuts currency specifically to prevent this, as they want teleports to act as a gil sink. That doesn't work when you're getting 100s of free teleport tickets every week. As it is now you can still get 60 tickets every week from weekly hunts, which is more than enough for most players. If you do old A and S Ranks as well, you can get even more.

That is true.
Not sure how that could've slipped my mind.