Personal Ships in ARR?

[Morticous]

make airship difficult to acquire. it takes 18 people to get.. several mil to buy... 20 people to run properly... then you can have battles.. and not skies over run with morons... a meaning to owning an airship.

[OJtheLIONKing]

Eh, I'm not sure about the "make airships difficult to acquire" thing. Partly because it reeks of elitism, and partly because if they ever do this, it will be a huge investment of time and resources to do it. Doing so much for a small percentage of the player population doesn't make sense, especially in an MMO. WoW had the same issue with raids: people complain now that they're too easy, but before they changed them only a small percentage of all players actually participated, and that didn't make sense from the developer's perspective to spend so much to "satisfy" so few. (Satisfy, of course, is being somewhat ironically used here because the people who complain the most about this kind of thing are never satisfied.)

That said, I think the idea itself is cool and would like to see something reminiscent of the world maps of the classic FFs in higher quality. That's something I've been waiting for since before FFX, honestly.

[KaMuiSouZou]

I agree with Yoshi-P in that if I had to pick one, it would be an airship over a sea ship.

-I think a logical and practical way to implement an airship is to have it optionally replace the airship rides already in place from city to city (with new cutscenes and everything). There are two possible ways I see this done:
1-For example, when you go to the airship dock in Gridania and choose another city, you can choose to ride either the normal airship or your personal one (perhaps they have different perks? or maybe just a different cutscene).
2-You can travel from city to city on demand using your personal airship from your house and/or special airship docks scattered around. The normal airship would still be within the cities for convenience and for anyone who can't afford one yet.

-The ride itself (between the cutscenes) would probably be instanced the same way normal airship rides will likely be in the future as this would avoid crowded skies.

-Being able to pilot it yourself would be nice and could possibly be done by having a special instance where you drive from one point to another. I guess the Gummi Ship from Kingdom Hearts is an example of this.

-The more likely scenario though is you hire a pilot the same way you hire a retainer - he/she will pilot your ship and take care of it when you're gone. They'll also be the one picking you up so you don't have to keep track of where your airship is (in most FF games since you pilot it, you need to go to it instead of it coming to you).

-I also think that airships should be expensive and something to "look forward to" and save up for. If it's a long-term goal I think it'll feel that much better when you do finally own it. But while I'm not against the idea of super expensive big ones for Free Companies, I do hope we get personal ones like we'll get personal houses. And like housing, it should also be upgradeable and customizable. Like inns to houses and rental chocobos to personal ones, we'll have the normal airships until we can afford one after all.

-Finally, basing airships off of the pre-existing systems of housing and regular airships/transportation makes it a lot more realistic to be implemented in the future as it will hopefully cost less to develop and expand both types of content.

[Matsume]

Yes...

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.

What a great Idea...

Gardens for Botanists to bring back rare specimens acquired in the wild...

Aquariums for fishers to display rare fish caught in oceans and streams...

Display cases for miners to show off collections of rock, mineral and fossil specimen!

[mbncd]

What a great Idea...

Gardens for Botanists to bring back rare specimens acquired in the wild...

Aquariums for fishers to display rare fish caught in oceans and streams...

Display cases for miners to show off collections of rock, mineral and fossil specimen!

When I think miner, I think pretty rocks like aetherite crystals. Maybe we can gather shards of it to make our own aetherites at home and on ships ^_^