Wicked experiments that could have been in Dawntrail testing for the future

[Connor]

[*] Fates that are minigames and not combat or combat + gather. Catch an alpaca, race on toads, Olympic mini-games... curling, skijumping! Player rankings, world, global best scores leaderboards

Haven’t they technically done this before for some of the summer events? I don’t see why they couldn’t have some in normal areas.

[*] Strong experience from side quests and fates for leveling alt-jobs from 1 to 100 (especially when adding 2 new DPS jobs).

Agreed with this, sidequest exp is bafflingly low compared to exp required to level.

[*] Armor set bonuses - expansion starter set with bonuses to fates, dungeons?

They already made clear they won’t ever do serious ‘set bonuses’, either back in 2.0 or maybe around 3.0. Unfortunate, but I don’t think they have or will change their minds on this

[*] Areas like Mamook or Garlemald capital as "in-story" DoH/DoL content instead/aside short story-deliveries (Erenvile commenting on a mysterious gleaner providing good from another age, another time, Thancred commenting on mysterious entrepreneur adventurer with 10x the wealth of Lord Lolorito...)

Wouldn’t this just be Allied Tribe quests?

[*] long-term DoH/DoL/combat content like above that evolves how a zone looks like and what it has (Firmament Statue on much bigger steroids).

I think that might be a bit too much for the small indie dev team that is CBU3 sadly lol.

[*] job trinity changes testing through sort of GC command missions where you would not play your character but a custom one - for example, ranged phys DPS that gets turned into DPS/Healer support job.

I like the idea but I couldn’t imagine how this would be possible unless they have the ‘sub-roles’ a very small and simplistic skill set.

[*] fell cleave for healers

Why?

[*] more voiceover/voice narration of MSQ, less generic text-talk/move-out elements within MSQ quests. Potentially AI mass-generated voiceover similar to how WoW Classic voiceovers were generated (for the whole game!)

Please no AI FFXIV lol. I’d rather use my imagination tbh, I don’t think everything needs to be voiced personally. It is a Final Fantasy after all

[sharknado]

I agree with all of these except for the part about AI-generated voiceovers. THAT is one of the worst ideas ever proposed on these forums, and that's saying a lot. I would sooner have NO voiceovers than have uncanny at best, robotic at worst AI garbage. What is wrong with you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDxXjuxafRc

Something like this. Depending on race and gender it uses one of matching AI voices and voices the quest text. Like it's not intended for named characters. For the generic ones it's fine. You accept all quests in a hub and while going to the location you get all the VO and know what and why you just accepted from the side quests

They already made clear they won’t ever do serious ‘set bonuses’, either back in 2.0 or maybe around 3.0. Unfortunate, but I don’t think they have or will change their minds on this

Those set bonuses don't have to be "serious". Just something that makes the initial gear practical on launch and when leveling alt jobs. Right now leveling alt jobs gives you job set at 99 but quickly you hit 100 and the 100 gear is superior, the more the longer the expansion is out

I like the idea but I couldn’t imagine how this would be possible unless they have the ‘sub-roles’ a very small and simplistic skill set.

We already had some in like Stormblood where we controlled other scions. Like Urianger had almost-Astro abilities.

[Connor]

Those set bonuses don't have to be "serious". Just something that makes the initial gear practical on launch and when leveling alt jobs. Right now leveling alt jobs gives you job set at 99 but quickly you hit 100 and the 100 gear is superior, the more the longer the expansion is out .

In that case I don’t see why not then. There are already some set bonuses that still exist in the game I think, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t be able to do more set bonuses with fun features. I think it was more an issue with set bonuses on ‘relevant-content’ gear in case it caused gearing to become too rigid (i.e really needing a full set for bonus or you’re kicked from party, etc)

[Lck0ut]

I agree with all of these except for the part about AI-generated voiceovers. THAT is one of the worst ideas ever proposed on these forums, and that's saying a lot. I would sooner have NO voiceovers than have uncanny at best, robotic at worst AI garbage. What is wrong with you?

Agreed, we should not let AI take over human's jobs, especially in the creative fields.