Personal Ships in ARR?

[Solace]

I have been praying for this since FF went online..
I have made topics and requests even back in the beta FFXIV stages.
I would really love to see this..
It was always one of my favorite things in ff games to fly around in my ship, looking for hidden caves, behind waterfalls..
Some odd looking mountain that hides some cool sword.. etc..
Miss that soo much..

[Celia]

I really hope that they allow us to visit all the isles, or at least most of them in the sea expansion Yoshi-P was considering (although I think he said the air expansion was likelier to come first).

Also the ability to explore lakes - maybe visit the island in the middle of Silvertear Lake where Midgardsormr is (was?), see underwater ruins, visit Sil'dah's ruins and underwater caves would be really awesome too. It could definitely be tied into Disciple of the Land's treasure maps/treasure hunting feature.

[Matsume]

Yoshida mentions personal airships in this translated post by Bayhone:

2.0 and beyond
I spoke a little bit about housing in the 2nd edition of the LIVE producer letter. I personally came up with the basic design for housing. (We have separate staff working on the details, and I feel bad for them that I was so ambitious with my plans)

I decided to implement a garden by any means necessary so that we can add content for Disciples of the Land and Hand.

It is also possible for players to decorate the exterior of buildings using custom architectural items created by Disciples of the Hand using construction material gathered by Disciples of the Land. There are roofs and other architectural items that can be purchased with gil, but custom items will only be attained through Disciples of the Hand and Land.

We also plan on implementing gardens so that players can plant gysahl greens and raise chocobo chicks.

Another thing we have planned for housing is an underground facility for building boats and airships. (This will be implemented sometime after the release of 2.0) We will release an image for housing as soon as possible, so please look forward to this patiently.

[Remember]

I wrote this last year, I'll just be lazy and copypasta.

Maybe they should make it so that people can own and build their own Airships, then we could have large PVP wars against other linkshell ships.
You would be able to board their ship and take them on directly if you get close enough the option would appear.
There would plenty of quests that require a large airship and linkshell for completion, imagine fighting Bahamut with your linkshells airship.
Crafters would to build airships, first you would need a blueprint and then you would need lots of high level parts that drop off of certain leves/NMs, crafters would also be able to repair the ship while still in mid-fight.
I think people should be allowed to own a single pilot ship or a small ship with a 1-3 passangers.
It would be nice if the sky was a new place to explore, with places you wouldn't normally be able to reach.
It would cool to see a merchant ship that's owned by a player with his or her retainer on the deck, so that people can stock up on resources without having to go back to town.
Being able to teleport to your linkshells airship would be a plus too, that way people would have no excuse for being late. :P

Maybe i'm just being a little bit too enthusiastic. lol

[Shougun]

Yoshida mentions personal airships in this translated post by Bayhone:

Yes...

yes...

YES

YESssss...


Oh.. Oh hey guys, dont mind me. :P


Hope they add ponds and aquariums for the fisher (Garden for the bot). What would the miner have for the house? A cave? A vault? lol

Back onto airships - like in FF7 it would be neat to see everyones chocobo stabled in the larger airships..

And even larger ones could have mini ships within XD



So much gil to spend.

[Zehira]

Yes...

yes...

YES

YESssss...


Oh.. Oh hey guys, dont mind me. :P


Hope they add ponds and aquariums for the fisher (Garden for the bot). What would the miner have for the house? A cave? A vault? lol

Back onto airships - like in FF7 it would be neat to see everyones chocobo stabled in the larger airships..

And even larger ones could have mini ships within XD



So much gil to spend.

I crossed my fingers about ships battle so I would spend so much gil on making one! (No need to lose your own ship if you fail at battle.)

I am the captain pirate, make it happen Cid!

[LlenCoram]

Hope they add ponds and aquariums for the fisher.

You are a good person. If we were on the same server, I'd send you many fish.

[Seraphe]

I crossed my fingers about ships battle so I would spend so much gil on making one! (No need to lose your own ship if you fail at battle.)

I am the captain pirate, make it happen Cid!

Not losing the ship, but let it be damaged so that it needs repairs (can be done on the sea)

[Yrusama]

It would be very cool to have personal ships to cross the sea in ARR.

Remember the old world map? It had so many isles.. would be very nice to explore them don't you think ?



A perfect example is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=p93oMXuf1Vo

.. how i wish ARR was for PC only (it could be a sandbox, or an hybrid at least, and not a pure themepark..).. it looks already graphically "older" than the new mmo's coming for pc only.. Archage is just an example..

Another perfect example could be Zelda Wind Waker... (Archage video, reminds zelda ww a lot! imho)

So, guys, do you want ships :P ?

I was ready to put on my skeptical specs (p.O) until I considered they could give us a separate zone for navigating. This zone would only LOOK bigger, but from a technical standpoint it would be no bigger than, say, Central Shroud. The avatar would be a ship, with no need to render a mini-character piloting it. The only concern is that they'd have to put an invisible barrier in the ocean to keep people from going to yet-unseen lands.

[Celia]

The only concern is that they'd have to put an invisible barrier in the ocean to keep people from going to yet-unseen lands.

Maybe make it so that when they reach that barrier they don't actually progress forward any further, they appear to be it'd just be their ship moving in place.