New SoA Trailer 2012.12.27

**Loziel** · 2012-12-30 20:50

Originally Posted by Tarage

Because there is an Airship Dock in the dats.

yeah but its been said (in the recent flavour text I believe, cant remember) that Adoulin is too far to be reached even by airship so I dont think we are going to be travelling between Jeuno and Adoulin on an airship

**SephYuyX** · 2012-12-30 20:57

Norg ship obv

**noodles355** · 2012-12-30 21:00

Originally Posted by Damane

but you have seen 200 peopel everyday in aery and never see every day 200 people riding a boat!

I think it was used occasionally for exp on spiders and flys back then. and its used for excalibur too. but yeah. still better then a boat ride!

Nowadays it's definitely not better than a boat ride though. I bet the boat zones get much more player traffic nowadays than Aery (and a heap of other zones).

You seemed to dismiss fishing as if it's a tiny thing that no one does lol.

**arus2001** · 2012-12-30 21:53

Only bots fish, duh.

Anyway, I'd guess the Adoulin dock will be more for transit to other spots on the island(s). Given the whole "exploration" theme, certain points may even be blocked off or potentially lost depending on activity.

**Tarage** · 2012-12-30 22:34

You think maybe we should merge the two threads? The trailer talk seems to have ended.

**Churchill** · 2013-01-01 07:15

The only thing in this thread is trailer talk, everything else was moderated fairly and justly.

**Eldelphia** · 2013-01-01 08:12

Originally Posted by Loziel

Why are we talking about the boat, they have already said that we won't be going by boat or airship as its too far and they don't want to waste development on a one time boat ride. It will be by waypoint for sure

Could be a cutscene airship the first time to get you there via story and then you get the waypoint once there and don't look back.

**Alkar** · 2013-01-01 10:47

The airship dock could be there for other purposes. I'm quite sure back at vanafest the devs said we will be warping there and no boat/airship travel is planned to reach Adoulin.
They're pretty much setting the whole thing up already anyway with that lore article and these waypoints showing up.

Sagacious Sundi · 2013-01-01 20:28

did anyone see cait sith

Trigun · 2013-01-02 02:22

I personally think we're getting Siren.

Probly not for another 10 years though.

**Ragns** · 2013-01-02 06:15

The more I look at it the more the trailer looks about the same quality as the one Septimus did back in the days: http://www.bluegartr.com/islandwut/

**Cairthenn** · 2013-01-02 06:25

I had completely forgotten about that. Gold.

**Toth** · 2013-01-02 09:52

Does Sage Sundi even work for SE anymore? Haven't seen him in forever.

**Charismatic** · 2013-01-02 10:10

Originally Posted by Toth

Does Sage Sundi even work for SE anymore? Haven't seen him in forever.

I am fairly certain that he does. I remember seeing his name when reading some XIV interview stuff a while back.
If he's no longer with them it has to have been a fairly recent development.

**Tarage** · 2013-01-02 13:41

Didn't we establish that WUT was code for Working Under Tanaka or something?

He'll need a new response now.

**Kohan** · 2013-01-02 14:28

Originally Posted by Toth

Does Sage Sundi even work for SE anymore?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sage-sundi/0/849/1b3

**TummieGaruda** · 2013-01-02 16:04

Originally Posted by Kincard

Spira actually posted a list of zones he was able to find in the test server dats.

Spoiler warning I suppose, though really it's just spoiling a few names so it probably isn't a big deal. Between this and the official site, there's 12 zones so far.

I'm gonna be a bit disappointed if we can't actually climb the stairs though.

The stairs and the mansion are most likely Eastern Adoulin. Also there is some kind of dock or something in Eastern Adoulin because the website states that in order to reach Yahse Hunting Grounds, you have to catch a boat from Eastern Adoulin.

Also based on spiras previous .dat mine here: http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.sg/2...y-of-rom9.html

You can kind of match up the zones with their names:

Spoiler: show

I'm working on a map of what I believe are the connections between the cities but basically what i have is:

Spoiler: show

**Outlaw** · 2013-01-02 18:01

Originally Posted by TummieGaruda

The stairs and the mansion are most likely Eastern Adoulin. Also there is some kind of dock or something in Eastern Adoulin because the website states that in order to reach Yahse Hunting Grounds, you have to catch a boat from Eastern Adoulin.

Also based on spiras previous .dat mine here: http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.sg/2...y-of-rom9.html

You can kind of match up the zones with their names:

Spoiler: show

I'm working on a map of what I believe are the connections between the cities but basically what i have is:

Spoiler: show

I looked at some of his old dat mines again from that link. If you look really closely you can see the character standing on one of the areas above the slopes. The one that has the gate with the circles. So maybe that means you can walk up there? Or is it just dat hacking?

**Spira** · 2013-01-03 02:34

When I did it I literally walked up the zone. The "stairs" are slopes that zigzag to the top. Can't be certain but I don't remember the castle being directly linked to the paths on the ground.. So you probably can't walk past a certain point where gate guards probably are

**TummieGaruda** · 2013-01-03 12:15

Originally Posted by Spira

When I did it I literally walked up the zone. The "stairs" are slopes that zigzag to the top. Can't be certain but I don't remember the castle being directly linked to the paths on the ground.. So you probably can't walk past a certain point where gate guards probably are

I wanted to take a look myself with the old zone viewer but it looks as though I was late to the party and ROM9 no longer downloads to your machine on the test server. I was hoping to extract the .DAT and throw it at 3D studio max and do a virtual walk through of the town.

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