She has a point. We chose our starting cities in 1.0 regardless of the class we ran. I felt Lominsan even though I had to FREELY TRAVEL (can't do this anymore from the very start) to Gridania to do Archer class quests. There was storyline here and it reflected the area I started in and prefered overall for world design. I made sure this time to pick ACN to spawn in LL and get the naming. What if someone doesn't want to do ACN or MRD at all but still wants to be a Lominsan? SE says sorry we don't want this to be possible anymore. Sounds like cultural racism. Oh the groups of players defined by the starting classes they use aren't races you say? Well mosey on over to the definition of race and realise that it can be defined by culture, ethnicity, nationality, and techincally how you do something (how you play your first low levels) is can be attributed to culture and open for discrimination from jerks. Ficitonal in game racism. Just saying. Off to a great start. All they had to do was open up the ferry for us start and let us pick any city we want. Would that be so bad? With everyone running around with a mount right now anyway. Sprint isn't even that slow. And then you can get the aetherytes.

It is just this way because they want to make travelling to the 3 cities a storyline event. Or atleast, not being able to leave Vylbrand or go to Vylbrand a storyline event. Ferry NPC won't even give you the time of day until you travel from what I can tell. They want us to be doing class quests while doing main quests to keep us busy before we leave the city. It'd be nice to have the option of willfully not caring about this and voiding it so you can level whatever starting class you want, albeit tougher (a good thing), in any region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)