Lodestone 11/25/2013 - Housing Preview

[arus2001]

Windurst was needlessly large and had the second worst music after Sandy's midi bagpipes. And while I understand why they're big, I tend to feel like most MMO cities are bigger than they really need to be. That fluff has a habit of compromising functionality when a dev doesn't think of things like maybe a mailbox or AH in each sub-zone. Could curb the whole functionality argument that's been going on and just leave it to aesthetics.

[Niiro]

I don't care how big a city is or how spread out things are as long as things are close to tele points.

[Vuitton]

I liked WoW's cities. They are all absolutely humongous and require mounts just to get around them effectively, but they also have mailboxes, inns, and auction houses all over the place, so everything was always nearby no matter where you were in the city.

[Niiro]

The cities definitely need more retainer bells, 1 per city is retarded.

Every market area has 2 rows of market stalls, why there aren't 2 bells is beyond me.

There's even gaps in the other row of stalls there where a bell should be.

[Rocl]

a bell should.

a bell should what

[Seravi Edalborez]

There were like 2-3 bells per city in 1.0 also, which makes it kind of dumb.

[Xanthe]

The cities definitely need more retainer bells, 1 per city is retarded.

Through my ultimate hacking powers, I have managed to place a retainer bell inside your inn room!

Yes, it'd be nice to have another bell in proximity to the market boards, but the inn is a good lag-free location to manage retainer inventory and sales.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Wolves' den is pretty much the best "city" if you don't need to buy anything.

[Niiro]

The wolve's den is just an outdoor inn room without an armoire.

Access to the markets is what we go to cities for 90% of the time.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Eh, has a delivery moogle and you can craft there. Personally I have 50 everything and anything I need for synths, I gather. I visit market board like once a week maybe.

[Spider-Dan]

So you're not into materia or philo mats, then?

[Rocl]

I sell way more of both of those than I buy

[Seravi Edalborez]

Maybe it's a healer thing, not needing a billion melds on everything. I don't spend money except on shards.