Random FFXI ideas.

[Herrisa]

Re: Random FFXI ideas.

Give bards the ability to associate music with a certain song. That means if bards choose Dragonfoe Mambo they can select from a list what they want that song to sound like. Something like...

Macro:
/sing <song4>
/equip Ranged "Gems Horn"
/ma "Dragonfoe Mambo" <me>.

The same song over and over and over again for 58 levels is driving me crazy. Well, actually, I have the sound turned down so I don't have to listen to it over and over and over again.

[Raydeus]

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If Bastok created a new military force, San d'Oria would get antsy and up their own military. Then so would Windurst. Then one of the nations wouldn't like one of the others holding territory near their capital and would send troops instead of just quietly and peacefully following the Conquest system. Then the other nations would start to send troops around the world. At some point there would be a disputed region, and it would be war again.

There is a reason each of the nations does not have a large standing army.

There's no reason for San d'Oria and Windurst (or Jeuno for that matter) not to have a SeeD force, although it's true, there would have to be a major threat for them to need this kind of new military force.

Maybe something like a conflict with the Far Eastern nations as a result of the Aht Urgan storyline.

Even though there's peace right now nations are still performing military research, Bastok has many quests that hint about it, and so do all the other nations. My guess is that we'll never have a war between nations, but I'm pretty sure something as big as the crystal war will happen eventually.

Maybe then SeeDs and other kind of specialized forces will be needed. We'll just have to see how the Aht Urgan story evolves and what the next expasion will be like.

[Murphie]

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There's no reason for San d'Oria and Windurst (or Jeuno for that matter) not to have a SeeD force, although it's true, there would have to be a major threat for them to need this kind of new military force.

There is a reason. That reason is: This is not FFVIII.

[Raydeus]

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There is a reason. That reason is: This is not FFVIII.

That doesn't mean I can't hope to see the job in XI.

[Murphie]

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Well, hope away, but I can't think of a single reason why SE would implement such an idea. Having a character named Cid, Chocobos, Airships, throughout every game is one thing, but carrying over a game-specific thing like FFVIII's SeeD, or FFVII's SOLDIER, or whatever the heck Yuna was in FFX totally breaks the immersion factor in a world like Vana'diel. These elements would stick out like a sore thumb, because they have nothing to do with the world we're playing this game in.

Besides, it sounds very fan-fictiony.

[Mhurron]

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whatever the heck Yuna was in FFX

She was a summoner.

[Murphie]

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She was a summoner.

Ha! It's been a while. I forget details like that sometimes.

I guess I was referring to whatever it was she had to do with that Sin business.

[Irisjir Callard]

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Ok..here's an idea:

(By the way, I support mog house expansions. I want a balcony or garden to put my plants in!) which reminds me, my trees are probably dead


Why don't we get a 'training room'? Someplace where we can go and skill-up things we don't really get a chance to skill, or are difficult to cap, like parry. In the training room, all jobs get auto-refresh and auto-regen, the "training dummy" can never die (but never kills you, it stops attacking for a while if your HP gets too low)?

The only problem I can see with this is that it would be unholy boring unless they upped the skillup rate an insane amount.

Double Post Edited:
Oh, and another thing.

New riding animals! Chocobos are kinda cute but some on...who else here would like some variety?

Horses would be awesome, but, working with the creature models we already have, I for one would love to have a riding scorpion.

[Mhurron]

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Ha! It's been a while. I forget details like that sometimes.

I guess I was referring to whatever it was she had to do with that Sin business.

It was because she was a summoner.

[Murphie]

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It was because she was a summoner.

Yes, I got that part the first time. But that was the first game in which a Summoner was called on to send the spirits of the dead to their rest through the power of the dance.

It was a poor example. Can we move on?

[Ziero]

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Congratulations, you just plunged the world into war. No it would not fit into the story line. Each of the 3 major nations do not trust each other. Peace exists between them because Jeuno imposed upon them to demilitarize and leave the task of protecting the cities from the beastmen forces to adventurers.

If Bastok created a new military force, San d'Oria would get antsy and up their own military. Then so would Windurst. Then one of the nations wouldn't like one of the others holding territory near their capital and would send troops instead of just quietly and peacefully following the Conquest system. Then the other nations would start to send troops around the world. At some point there would be a disputed region, and it would be war again.

There is a reason each of the nations does not have a large standing army.

I would just like to correct this a bit. The main reason why the SeeD idea would not work is not because the nations can not have standing armies, it's because they ALREADY have standing armies.

Each nation has it's own unique military which can be used at any time they wish.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/index.php/Bastok
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/index.php/Windurst
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/index.php/San_d%27Oria

Any Rank item you buy with CP is a piece of Military Armor. The higher the rank you need to buy it is the higher the rank of military it represents. For example, Leigonaire's Armor is used by the lowest ranking troops in bastok's army while Gold Musketeer is used by higher ranking officers and troops. Same with Royal Footmen gear, mercenary captain gear, Wise Wizard gear and so on.

Peace between them occured because Jeuno *negotiated* with them to join forces during the Shadow Lord War and they have agreed to uphold those treaties ever since. No one imposed anything on the nations, they all just decided that a civil, yet uneasy, peace with open and free trade was far a better situation then constant all out war. Though they may not 'like' each other, they certainly do not hate each other, and understand that peace is good.

[Standablaze]

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A Selbina Nomad Moggle!!!.

Sure, newbies need to learn to survive without a mog house if they want to brave the harsh world, but why does that mean people who have been playing for months/years cant use a mog house in selbina?

i.e Make it home city-fame and mission rank based or something the way you cant access Airships unless you pay 500,000 (something most newbies dont have) or have Rank 5 (again, most wont have this untill 50).

[Ciros]

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I would like to see dopplegangers of level 72 JSE that are Rare/EX, and have to be quested.

It would impact the economy, yes, but I think it would be better for everyone in the end.

[Kadenmire]

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New riding animals! Chocobos are kinda cute but some on...who else here would like some variety?

Horses would be awesome, but, working with the creature models we already have, I for one would love to have a riding scorpion.

I second that thought but I want ethier one of those sabertoothed cats or one of those raptor looking things just outside Jeuno.

[Irisjir Callard]

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I second that thought but I want ethier one of those sabertoothed cats or one of those raptor looking things just outside Jeuno.

Tarutaru should get bunnies, in that case.

Imagine a tarutaru on a rabbit hopping along.

(imagine a galka, on the same rabbit, hopping along...)