[dev1008] About Jumping

[Rowyne]

Good old-fashioned space bar jump please!

[Malakhim]

Final Fantasy is not a Saturday morning cartoon. If there is to be any jumping, it should be contextual, much like it has been in other iterations of the series. We're not all 5-year-olds anymore.

The use of "extreme jumping" in stuff like Seismic Shock is contextual to the use of that ability, which is used to make the ability seem more grandiose and epic. Anything other than a furry rodent bunny hopping through the La Noscean fields would be beyond illusion-breaking.

It all comes down to why you want jumping in the first place. To overcome small little ledges? Understandable. Make every ledge up to a certain height(a bit less than knee high) be mapped to have a character step up or scale it. Want to jump around like a Tigger? Go play WoW.

Plus you can't bounce around like a Tigger, 'cause there's only one.

[Rowyne]

It all comes down to why you want jumping in the first place. To overcome small little ledges? Understandable. Make every ledge up to a certain height(a bit less than knee high) be mapped to have a character step up or scale it.

This is why I want it. I actually despise bunny hopping. It's a giant pet peeve for me (I've actually gone off on people in WoW for looking like idiots).

But I'm afraid contextual jumping won't account for all the little things I get hung up on. I'm afraid the only real solution is a free-form jump.

So, I'm willing to deal with a possible visual annoyance (though I'm hopeful that SE will implement a tasteful jump animation) to get what I feel is a needed functionality.

[Becken]

Ok think about this, almost evry thing in games ARE unrealistic, being able to cast magic, walking on end and not get tired, fighting a mob thats 20 times bigger then you are and fighting it solo? going to the past in FFXI, theres more that could be named, cuz its all a fantasy

[Akuun]

ffxiv trampoline edition
ffxiv basket ball
ffxiv pogo face-off
This is a list of reasonable conditions for adding jump
Since none of these are met, just keep playing WoW

[Nephera]

... WHAT!?

I want to be able to sit/stand quickly and without using my menu to stand back up (Seriously, what were they thinking?)

/sit

and then /sit again.

[Nephera]

ffxiv basket ball

eorzea jam

[Goldfighter]

If they implement a jump and you want to jump, then jump. If you do not want to jump then don't friggin jump, it's that easy.

[Rinsui]

Yes. Don't take out possibilities for environment interaction just because
you fear that every change for the better will instantly turn FFXIV into WoW.
That's nothing but mass-hysteria.

[Kimahri]

Why is this going to be the 300th post of something as trivial as jump? Is this seriously one of the more pressing matters we should be concerned with? This thread is a gimmick at best. There are far more concerns we're faced with at the moment than acting like a bunch of babies over a simple jump command. Drop it for now. Focus!