Teleport costFollow

I think the teleport cost is far to cheap. I kind of enjoyed the anima system, seemed it slowed travel down just a bit.

What are your opinions on the current teleport system?

I guess I am thinking from a legacy standpoint. Where a majority of players already have deep pockets. Doesn't affect legacy and new players the same. Why I favor the anima system. But to each their own =)

i hate games that make teleporting a hassle. your world is beautiful but i seriously dont want to spend my game time running

My instinctive reaction is to agree with you that the Anima system is better, but I haven't leveled enough in both 1.0 and 2.0 to know how it works out later in the game. I do hope travel is not completely trivial, that taking the ferry, airship and chocobos are still viable means of getting around. If I'm constantly teleporting everywhere because cost is a non-issue, I believe it'll break immersion.

I used to have "deep pockets", but not really deep since I didn't play that long. I got to level 24 and I had about 1.8 million gil. Then they did what they call currency revaluation. All existing gold was revalued to 10% of its original value to reduce inflation. All in-game costs were slashed by 90%, but so was the gil you had. As a result, I went from 1.8 million gil (not much for players who probably played considerably longer), down to 180k. Players with 100 million gil now have 10 million gil. You will also have housing on its way as well which will have an expensive front loaded fee to purchase the home, and then throwing money at furnishings. So if you decide to hop from the woodworking guild, to the mining guild, to the fishing guild, and back to the conjurer guild, you'd be looking at almost 2000 gil that you spent in 15 to 20 minutes. You'd have to do a few high level leves or fates to make up for that instant splurge. And then there are people on new servers. That could wipe out some newer players savings pretty quickly.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2013 5:34pm by desmar

I felt it was a good price and i hated anima..

1.0 players should all dump all gear/gil/ or delete char, so people will stop coming up with ideas that makes things seem "fair."

Should have just made your position clear in the OP. "Legacy players have more gil, reinstate anima so they don't have a transportation advantage."

Or, I maybe wrong and you truly just wish for the beautiful vistas are explored.

I do think people should see the work this team has put into rebooting this game. I have been playing since 1.17a, I'm legacy. I don't think that legacy should dump all their work down the drain. I apologize my position wasn't stated clearly enough. I think to be fair to everyone, teleport should have it's own "currency." I also believe that the "small world" feel Eorzea currently has, is partially due to the low-cost/ease of teleporting. I also feel paying gil for a teleport kind of ruins immersion.

I believe that about covers it =)

You still see everything even with the TP... You still need to attune with the towns before you can TP and you run to get there. You are not losing out on seeing anything you just don't have to see it a million times if you don't want to.

You can also take a chocobo and enjoy it that way.


Edited, Jul 3rd 2013 9:33pm by Mopdaddy

On that token... only mages should be able to teleport haha.

I'd rather have it as spells like back in FFXI (and honestly I'd rather have it so spells were learned, not given at level up).

I think the new system will work out for the best since it will be a gil sink. There wasn't enough gil sinks in 1.0 and gil just kept accumulating and accumulating. I plan on playing on a legacy server but I'm going to make a new character and move my gil over eventually. I'm just afraid to see how the economy will turn out with all the gil currently out there. Wonder on average how much each character has ...

Bump up repair costs. With the number of dungeons you will end up running, increase the cost a bit, and you will have plenty of gil to sink into repairs.



That's why Anima is the perfect solution =P all classes have it, but there are, or could be, restrictions on usage, such as a cap.

I don't know. I just really like a seperate currency for teleports, that actually make sense to the use of Aetherytes.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2013 10:02pm by lemopwnu

Anima is a terrible solution. Always has, and always will be. Your "immersion breaking" is broken by Anima. You in essence have a magical ability bestowed by a regenerating currency. Why couldn't this currency be used for other things like limit breaks and cure spells and ... other magic? We could also use a large anima currency to redo our stat points. The point ends up being that anima undermines MP as the source of magic itself. There is already a regenerating mechanic in the game called Leve quests. People absolutely despise leves for much of the same reason. When you don't need it, it's fine, but when you want it to level several classes at the same time, then it's in short supply.

Gil is a good mechanic that regulates usage without producing waste. You can teleport as much as you want, but more importantly as much as you can afford. Versus anima capping at a certain level, and then only regenerating up to that point. Works great until maybe over a period of 3-4 days you really need to travel around a lot to help out LS mates, gathering spots, raids, and then all of a sudden your LS/GC is waiting for your 15 minute CHocobo ride to Ifrit because someone ran out of anima.