FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread V: No one told me beta would have problems in it

[Crazyd]

You can reallocate all of your stats, But you can only do a portion every hour. Takes about 5 hours to fully reallocate them. I went from 81 STR, 82 VIT and 15 everything else, to 82 MND, 81 PIE in a few hours.

Ok... that makes some sense, guess you'll spend some craft time swapping them out... do you unassign and then Unassign untill everything is 15? Just so I have a future refrence.

[Oshin]

Since we're speculating, I wonder if we'll see three completely different opening cutscenes depending on starting city, or if we'll all get off the boat in LL and Hob will either escort us to Mizzenmast Inn, or send us off to Gridania or Ul'Dah.

I'd like to see different cutscenes, but I think the premise is that we're all arriving in Eorzea from *somewhere* and the boat is the only way there.

Opinions?

Edit: Are we supposed to be arriving from Vana'diel?

[outzaidur]

Since we're speculating, I wonder if we'll see three completely different opening cutscenes depending on starting city, or if we'll all get off the boat in LL and Hob will either escort us to Mizzenmast Inn, or send us off to Gridania or Ul'Dah.

I'd like to see different cutscenes, but I think the premise is that we're all arriving in Eorzea from *somewhere* and the boat is the only way there.

Opinions?

Edit: Are we supposed to be arriving from Vana'diel?

Do not mention Vana'diel ever again, thank you.

There will be 3 separate opening cutscenes. My psychic powers tell me so.

[Soap]

Ok... that makes some sense, guess you'll spend some craft time swapping them out... do you unassign and then Unassign untill everything is 15? Just so I have a future refrence.

No, i unassigned and reassigned until it became the stats that I desired for a mage class. It unassigns your oldest stats first, so putting in new ones doesnt mean that it will just undo what you just made.

[Reii]

I would love different cutscenes and honestly i expect that there will be. Story wise it would be a better fit because i doubt the citizens and officials of Gridania and Ul'dah will know/care much about a mythical sea beast (Leviathan?). Probably the same thing with random small creatures attacking a carriage in the forests of Gridania and then be scared off by Titan, and something similar for Ul'dah with a desert caravan and Ifrit maybe.

[blythe]

I would love different cutscenes and honestly i expect that there will be. Story wise it would be a better fit because i doubt the citizens and officials of Gridania and Ul'dah will know/care much about a mythical sea beast (Leviathan?). Probably the same thing with random small creatures attacking a carriage in the forests of Gridania and then be scared off by Titan, and something similar for Ul'dah with a desert caravan and Ifrit maybe.

Yep I mean I see the boat scene as being the beginning of the storyline for LL. That's also why I appreciate that only LL will be available pre-release.

[Fawkes]

I would love different cutscenes and honestly i expect that there will be. Story wise it would be a better fit because i doubt the citizens and officials of Gridania and Ul'dah will know/care much about a mythical sea beast (Leviathan?). Probably the same thing with random small creatures attacking a carriage in the forests of Gridania and then be scared off by Titan, and something similar for Ul'dah with a desert caravan and Ifrit maybe.

I expect an airship and a train.

[Destinye]

I would love different cutscenes and honestly i expect that there will be. Story wise it would be a better fit because i doubt the citizens and officials of Gridania and Ul'dah will know/care much about a mythical sea beast (Leviathan?). Probably the same thing with random small creatures attacking a carriage in the forests of Gridania and then be scared off by Titan, and something similar for Ul'dah with a desert caravan and Ifrit maybe.

That depends, it IS a Final Fantasy game after all. The lore around any mythical beast goes around the entire world unless they're extremely secluded from the rest of the world/different world all together e.g FFV's Unknown Lands.

It won't be the same CS but I won't be surprised if there's mission lines involving Levia. Titan and Ifrit would be the respective beasts of those areas but all stories in FF games tend to tie together at some point

[Cichy]

I expect an airship and a train.

Airship or a train from Vana'diel?

[Lucavi]

If it stays the same as XI in this day and age it will suck. If you're drunk off nostalgia and it stays the same it will be the best game ever. Really depends on what not sucking is to you.

@Lucavi
That's absolutely true, however if there is another bottleneck, those who make it to the top and exploit it at the expense of rest of us will have some pretty annoying effects that will reverberate out from their "King of the Hill" gesticulating and subsequent exploitation. However that makes the assumption that there will be a bottleneck that is able to be monopolized to the point of detriment to the majority of peoples enjoyment (however that enjoyment is manifest). I personally fell comfortable in that assumption.

Bottleneck or not, it would have nothing to do with how much currency everyone has in their possession. People's complaints are stemming from a desire to not see millions of gil on their character. They want to "feel" rich if they ever manage to save up a mil.

Just tell it like it is, then. Don't hide behind this blanket of "I don't want to see gil devalued, so we shouldn't be able to make a lot from quests!" Large amounts of gil and devalued gil don't go hand-in-hand. So long as SE balances how much gil goes off of the servers through NPC transactions and balances the amount of gil people spend on weapons/armor/consumables/materials from NPCs with the amount that people bring in from grinding/quests/missions, there's no problem with how much e-currency you currently have in your menu.

Its just a pet peeve of mine. Asshole crafting exploiters and scalpers bottlenecking and ruining the economy have nothing to do with how much loot we can pull off of a dead mob. I heard that shit all through the Christmas of 05 in FFXI, when it was all about idiots buying gil and paying absorbant prices for SHes than anything else.

@Cichy: Will we be jumping on chairs during the airship or train from Vanadiel cutscene?

[Oshin]

Airship or a train from Vana'diel?

I haven't seen any lore that says where we're coming from, Vana'diel was just a guess.

[BlackheartX]

Airship to Ul'dah with Titan at the landing zone dancing like this...

Necronomicon text....

Spoiler: show

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs18/f/20...lemistress.gif

[Lucavi]

God I miss that dance. Shit was epic.

[Cichy]

@ Lucavi
If its a train sequence we will be hiding in a baggage rack with a cloak of invisibility on while Titan attacks the train, SE gonna make it a Harry Potter rip off.

[Tokitoki]

It's the train from chocobo woods. That area in .dats that was never used.

[Cichy]

Btw has anyone tried the "Seek Repair" option in the beta, I clicked it and it put my brass dagger in my bazaar for the amount I offered.
What I was wondering is how that works? You gotta trade the item to the crafter or can they just fix it and it never leaves your inventory?

[Kurokikaze]

When you seek repairs on an item you make an offer (its smart to make the offer the item needed to repair. Or maybe enough gil to buy new one).

Person comes around and attempts to repair you item:
- If they fix it. The item you offered gets thrown into their inventory and your item gets removed from your bazaar and back into inventory.
- If they fail. They lose their repair mats and your item stays in bazaar.

I ran around a did a bunch of repairs in the Market Wards. :X

[Gulkeeva]

Airship to Ul'dah with Titan at the landing zone dancing like this...

Necronomicon text....

Spoiler: show

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs18/f/20...lemistress.gif

no.. that would be the scariest thing imaginable... oh god its already in my head... ;/

[Sky Red]

I haven't seen any lore that says where we're coming from, Vana'diel was just a guess.

Last I check Vana'diel is the name of the planet in ff11, so space train and spaceship? What about the boat in the CS, Spaceboat? ;O

[Crazyd]

Last I check Vana'diel is the name of the planet in ff11, so space train and spaceship? What about the boat in the CS, Spaceboat? ;O

LOL... and they forgot the race names.