but i dont know how old these images are.
They're from the "Eorzea prelive" event held in September.

However, even though it shows that the development had already begun at that time, Yoshida may have taken the system to a whole new direction at least initially. I do hope that these things are coming sooner or later. Yoshida was talking about "new synthesis concepts" in his previous letter, so my hopes are high that this may be it.

And as far as the boat goes, PvP.