http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/246971-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-XXIII-Q-A-Update-Thread
I am excited and curious about everything I am listing below.What about the producer letter peaks your interest?
Are they talking about making summons look large and powerful or some kind of aesthetic addition to current designs?
Q7. Can you please let us know the current progress for the system where we can change the looks of summoner egi?
A7. We haven’t been able to address this yet. We’ll need to make this work with all the actions and we’re going to start working on this, so please give us some more time. Even if we were going to change their appearance, we would need to create the effects, sound, and actions for each egi, so it’ll require some time. We’re still deciding if we’re going to add these as we’re done with each one, or add them all at once, so please be patient while we work on this.
Who do you think is flying that airship?
Q28. You can often see some type of airship flying around the Sea of Clouds...what is it?
A28. I think you'll find out in 3.1. For those that haven't seen this, keep an eye out!
What could they possibly mean by what is fun? Is this hinting to grand company crafting of cakes, boats, and other stuff?
Q33. When are you planning to unlock new ranks for Grand Companies?
A33. We’re currently planning Grand Company-related content, so we believe we’ll release new ranks when adding this content. It’s not fun moving into the next rank just by collecting something, so we think it’s good timing to add new types of content when releasing the ranks.
Oh crap.oh crap.oh crap! I am super excited about this! What kind of content is in the works? I hope it is some kind of Magitek Battle or racing circuit or chocobo jousting lol.
Q39. Are you planning to increase the rank of our companion chocobos?
A39. We do not have any plans for this at the moment. We currently planning for new content that utilizes chocobos and magitek armor, and we will be making adjustments for this.
What could be discovered on an island? Old ruins, corpses, um clams, what else? Will there be underwater exploration/swimming?
Q48. Do you plan on adding exploration content such as searching for treasure chests in the really large new areas?
A48. We are planning to have island exploration which is content that has not been seen before. Please look forward to it!
Timing based? Is that like reaching checkpoints in racing games or something else?I sure would like an airship battle either pvp or pve just like that original trailer when XIV first released.
Q57. Do you have plans to add content using flying mounts, such as shooting, or racing?
A57. We did talk about wanting to do some type of timing-based challenges, so we’ll look into something.
Q66. This might be a bit early to ask, but will flying mounts play a role in future expansions?
A66. We're planning future contents based on flying mounts, so you'll be able to enjoy them in the future as well.
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Are they talking about making summons look large and powerful or some kind of aesthetic addition to current designs?
They'd talked about making it so people could change their Egis to look like different Egis in lieu of new summons. So make your Garuda look like Ramuh if you wanted. That sort of thing. They'd still be Egis.
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Who do you think is flying that airship?
FC airship slaves? Seriously... who flies my FC's airships?
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What could they possibly mean by what is fun? Is this hinting to grand company crafting of cakes, boats, and other stuff?
I think he's referring to previous ranks being granted by things like completing hunting logs and bribery. He wants to attach it to more interesting content than that? I'm all for it.
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Oh crap.oh crap.oh crap! I am super excited about this! What kind of content is in the works? I hope it is some kind of Magitek Battle or racing circuit or chocobo jousting lol.
Interesting. No idea, but it's intriguing.
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What could be discovered on an island? Old ruins, corpses, um clams, what else? Will there be underwater exploration/swimming?
They'd mentioned going on an adventure with your FC to islands that your airships discover where there will be some kind of open world content to do. They haven't elaborated much on what this is, but I assume that's what he's referring to here.
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Timing based? Is that like reaching checkpoints in racing games or something else?I sure would like an airship battle either pvp or pve just like that original trailer when XIV first released.
Yoshi P previously mentioned his desire for aerial racetracks. Timing based challenges sounds like it might be some kind of open world time trial? That'd be pretty cool. All about route optimization. I'd love to hear more.
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If random outcomes aren't acceptable to you, then don't play with random people.
I just assumed that the airship was the one you build for the Ixali. They're up there trying find they're home in the sky.
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Are they talking about making summons look large and powerful or some kind of aesthetic addition to current designs?
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They'd talked about making it so people could change their Egis to look like different Egis in lieu of new summons. So make your Garuda look like Ramuh if you wanted. That sort of thing. They'd still be Egis.
Sort of like glamours then, I guess that's cool.
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What could they possibly mean by what is fun? Is this hinting to grand company crafting of cakes, boats, and other stuff?
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I think he's referring to previous ranks being granted by things like completing hunting logs and bribery. He wants to attach it to more interesting content than that? I'm all for it.
Me too, me too :)
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What could be discovered on an island? Old ruins, corpses, um clams, what else? Will there be underwater exploration/swimming?
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They'd mentioned going on an adventure with your FC to islands that your airships discover where there will be some kind of open world content to do. They haven't elaborated much on what this is, but I assume that's what he's referring to here.
That sounds very mysterious and intriguing.
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Timing based? Is that like reaching checkpoints in racing games or something else?I sure would like an airship battle either pvp or pve just like that original trailer when XIV first released.
[quote]Yoshi P previously mentioned his desire for aerial racetracks. Timing based challenges sounds like it might be some kind of open world time trial? That'd be pretty cool. All about route optimization. I'd love to hear more.
Yeah, I hope they give more info before that gets implemented.
They're talking about the "mysterious" airship that pops up from time to time in certain zones that on closer inspection, does kind of look like the Lunar Whale from FFIV. They said it may be related to the alliance content coming.
Summoner wise, something of a glamor system.
Summoner wise, something of a glamor system.
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Q51. A lot of new equipment has been introduced, do you have plans to implement an inventory specifically for glamour, or some type of a gear log?
A51. I understand that players often carry their glamour equipment in the Armoury Chest, and because of this your Armoury is often full. We need to think about the stress being placed on the servers, but would like to somehow increase the quality of life by doing something like adding the ability to glamour from your retainer’s inventory. We’re also looking into saving the glamour status on the client side as a final measure.
A51. I understand that players often carry their glamour equipment in the Armoury Chest, and because of this your Armoury is often full. We need to think about the stress being placed on the servers, but would like to somehow increase the quality of life by doing something like adding the ability to glamour from your retainer’s inventory. We’re also looking into saving the glamour status on the client side as a final measure.
All the hackers and modders just raised an eyebrow...
Huh, reminds me of how FFXI dat file mods allowed us to radically alter our client side appearance and our character models.... but only to ourselves.
I wonder how on earth that would work.
I wonder how on earth that would work.
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Huh, reminds me of how FFXI dat file mods allowed us to radically alter our client side appearance and our character models.... but only to ourselves.
I wonder how on earth that would work.
I wonder how on earth that would work.
Way back when PSO was on the Xbox, People did some funny things with the offline characters and Action Replay. All because data was stored client side.
Wellll
Without going too much into detail, I can tell you this much: At present time you can actually tell the server to make things happen for you, e.g "I'm actually level 60 Botanist with 89.9m gil" and the server will respond to that and..well, you'll instantly level up to 60 with the message in the chat box stating x attained level 1-60.
This is how the marketboard hacks happened back during 2.0/2.1, so if they didn't close certain holes...enjoy the peace while you can lol.
Catwho - You can't do that with XIV simply because the file format is terrible. You can edit textures, but they store color information and certain other data server side which makes 'dat swapping' for a lack of a better term impossible currently outside of music.
Without going too much into detail, I can tell you this much: At present time you can actually tell the server to make things happen for you, e.g "I'm actually level 60 Botanist with 89.9m gil" and the server will respond to that and..well, you'll instantly level up to 60 with the message in the chat box stating x attained level 1-60.
This is how the marketboard hacks happened back during 2.0/2.1, so if they didn't close certain holes...enjoy the peace while you can lol.
Catwho - You can't do that with XIV simply because the file format is terrible. You can edit textures, but they store color information and certain other data server side which makes 'dat swapping' for a lack of a better term impossible currently outside of music.
For the Chocobo, there is the new arena for fighting chocobos.
So my guess is any new content related on them would be related to this. Only my opinion though, this was on my mind because I did randomly talk to the NPC who said it was closed at the moment.
So my guess is any new content related on them would be related to this. Only my opinion though, this was on my mind because I did randomly talk to the NPC who said it was closed at the moment.
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