Official FINAL FANTASY XIV Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Wholly shit that flow chart concept is amazing.

[Kurokikaze]

Lol I was wondering about the general section.

Also anyone:
Is there a 'Welcome' or 'Introductions' thread any place in the English forums? you know the "Hi my name is noob and I just signed up, I play a level 10 blah blah.." kind of thread? I prefer making those my first post but can't find one or know if I should just start one myself.

Actually the general section is where most of the non-battle fixes are being discussed. You just gotta surf through some really really horrid ideas before finding something good.

[Jamison]

Love the flowchart and the original idea behind it... my first thoughts were to make it super generic, that any DoW could lead into melee/tank job, and any DoM could go to any mage... but that is well done!

[Hyan]

Yoshida posted something on the JP section right now.

He's back in Japan, blahblah nothing of interest but we should expect english translation soon anyway.

[Hyan]

Oh shit, he made a comment about Jumping.

Also as far as developers posting on the forums, I think he's saying that for now Yoshida will speak on behalf of everyone in the dev team, and gradually the rest of the team will be given more forum privileges and they will start posting as well. For March it's just Yoshi-P.

[Zettofaia]

From what I'm understaning, he's saying that jump will function only as a way to step down from or up to hills?

[solracht]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/s...earchid=355530

He posted in the copypasta maps thread. From the little I can gather, he might be talking about a redesign (although he could always mean adding the danger he keeps on bringing up, instead of actually changing the maps).

Hopefully we'll get real translations soon.

[Hyan]

I wonder if he's going to have everything he says translated by the representatives or if he's a brave enough JP to talk in slightly broken English.

Former prolly.

[blythe]

Let's flowchart!

Spoiler: show

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/7...branchflow.png

This is great. Really hope devs see this.

[Kurokikaze]

It gives me a sign of hope to see him posting in threads. Really does. Wonder what he'll think of the sig

Solracht that link is broken. He might have removed his post since I can't find it on the dev tracker.

[solracht]

Link works for me, either way: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/m...-Naoki_Yoshida and find all all posts. It's the one talking about "MAP".

[Draylo]

Sounds like hes thinking of a ff13/ffx-2 style jumping?

[Vice-Admiral von Titsling]

Hi! The Rep team will translate my comment soon, and it contribute to other language forums.

thanks!

Yoshi-P's English isn't bad.

[Lucavi]

Sounds like hes thinking of a ff13/ffx-2 style jumping?

Nothing wrong with that. I never needed full "jump whenever" physics, just an escape from XI's concept of not being able to traverse over anything that's higher than a 2-inch incline or decline. "Jumping" worked fine in XIII and if they bring that over, but simply allow you to do it at any realistic height, then I'd be happy.

[Draylo]

Same, I never really liked jump feature in most MMO's.

[Kurokikaze]

Agreeing with Lucavi on that one.

[Hyan]

I thought they're willing to do a lot of things to get it right but I'll still be amazed if they go as far as to redesign the areas. I bet we won't see an expansion for a year+ at least if that happens. Not that I mind, since half of Africa is yet to be revealed..

EDIT: Well, I guess it could be considered an expansion in a way, just won't cost us a thing >_>

[kisada]

Nothing wrong with that. I never needed full "jump whenever" physics, just an escape from XI's concept of not being able to traverse over anything that's higher than a 2-inch incline or decline. "Jumping" worked fine in XIII and if they bring that over, but simply allow you to do it at any realistic height, then I'd be happy.

yeah i think if the jumping mechanics are similar to games where you essentially just button press to get over a certain obstacle in the way (like gears of war) then that is 100% ok with me.

[Corrderio]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/s...earchid=355530

He posted in the copypasta maps thread. From the little I can gather, he might be talking about a redesign (although he could always mean adding the danger he keeps on bringing up, instead of actually changing the maps).

Hopefully we'll get real translations soon.

I hope this is real. Although I'm curious how big of an update that will be.

[Lucavi]

yeah i think if the jumping mechanics are similar to games where you essentially just button press to get over a certain obstacle in the way (like gears of war) then that is 100% ok with me.

Those types of features have always been fine with me. I'd love a cover mechanic, but that's horribly off-topic and unimportant.