Teleports to all major cities

[Kutch]

Can the devs please explain why there are no teleports to major cities in the game? Travelling is a major time-sink in this game, and feels like a waste of time.

Teleporting to major cities could be done as with the boats - with some form of flag quest prerequisite, or a mission rank (i.e. Rank 5)

One would, of course, have had to visited the city before being able to be transported there, as with the Crags, optionally be placed in a random position just outside the city, as with the warp taru in Al Zahbi.

The major Teleports would be:

- Aht Urgan Whitegate
- San Doria
- Windurst
- Bastok
- Rabao
- Kazham
- Norg

There is no dispute about the White mage's ability to transport people from one area to the next . Giving players the ability to shorten their travels would fundamentally improve the game in my humble opinion, but as I state to begin with, please share with me why this is not already in the game.

[Mhurron]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Because when the Zilart created the crags none of those places existed.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

I don't think it's so bad, honestly. This game gives you plenty of options to get around. The crag teleports are pretty close and take only 5-10 minutes to a city on chocobo. The other three telepoints are very convenient ... the Altepa gate is really only minutes away from Rabao, Vazhl saves me an assload of time when I'm going anywhere up in the cold region, and Yhoat - well Yhoat kind of sucks but it has its uses.

Warp sends you to your HP. I like to keep mine in Whitegate.

The Airships travel from Jeuno to the three major cities and Kazham. The airship is pretty quick if you do get on it right away, but the waiting does suck. I'll work on my enhancing magic while I'm waiting usually so it's no big deal.

You have outpost warping, and if you have all those done that's a really convenient way to get around, also.

Even things like the Olduum ring make your life a hell of a lot easier.

Really, I don't think they need to add much more in the way of transportation in this game. I know it's a big time sink travelling everywhere but if they intended this game to be easy all of my jobs would be 75 already.

[Icemage]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

You can also do the Chocobo quests (or lolExpeditionaryForce) to acquire Gate Glyphs that let you teleport directly to a town.


Icemage

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Outpost Warps
Chocobos you can rent
Chocobos you can raise to ride
Teleports
Teleport Rings
Airships
Warp spells
Warp Cudgels
Warp Tarus
... and more.

This game is stupidly easy to navigate when you do the grunt work. And that's the point, nothing comes for free and really, it shouldn't. If you want to travel to faraway lands in the blink of an eye, Phantasy Star Universe awaits. But then, they still make you walk across those lands from time to time. Damn them!

[Feba]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Because when the Zilart created the crags none of those places existed.

Cid studies the crystal lines, makes replicas outside the cities. This is an MMO, you don't have to think hard to work around the plot... they're designed that way.


But really, until they give the green teleporter a good use, I don't care >

[Vyuru]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Cid studies the crystal lines, makes replicas outside the cities. This is an MMO, you don't have to think hard to work around the plot... they're designed that way.

Or he makes that fire crystal powered train that connects all the cities like SE seemed to be thinking of in the beginning, heck, have it make stops at an underground moblin city with npcs and stuff you can buy things from, that'd be kinda fun

Teleport rings are kinda meh, they only have 10 charges. It'd be nice if you could recharge magical items like you can your exp ring by trading it to a gate guard and spend 100 CP per charge.

I like the outpost warps best of all, they are all (except for bastok's) rather conviently placed.

I like the running around myself, it let's me appreciate all of the detail that the designers put into the zones, and it's fun to run across some hidden little thing in some corner of the map

[Taskmage]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Imo, this aspect of the game is fine. Traveling from one town to another sucks when you're low level, but your options steadily get better as you level up. Chocobos are a huge boon when you get them. Once you get airships chocobos seem painfully slow. Now that I've got all my outposts, I can't even stand to use airships anymore. Between the warp taru, outposts, and runic portals I can go from Whitegate to pretty much anywhere in the world in less than five minutes.

[Stooky]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Well, i played Ragnarok online before I played this and they had a warp service that cost like 1-3k per warp and they went to all near by town. To get to towns farther away you would warp to one near that town then warp again to the next. It was very handy besides when you were broke then you would hear people saying "Can I have 2k zeny plz~". I would like a faster way to get around since I do not have rank 5 yet and well... I really do not enjoy going back and forth from jueno all the time to do missions and such.
I think we need somthing slower than airships but still usful, and maybe accecable at a lower level/rank. Like lets say a land based form of transportaion with stops and such that make it not as good as airships. For example a train that goes through every city and zone it passes through (I really think that would be WAY to much work for square since making a path for somthing like this would be very time cunsuming I would think.) and you can see it go by like you can see the air ships go by over head.

Or he makes that fire crystal powered train that connects all the cities like SE seemed to be thinking of in the beginning, heck, have it make stops at an underground moblin city with npcs and stuff you can buy things from, that'd be kinda fun

Well good idea, but only way I think they could add it is if it was under ground like a sub way. They could had stops in every town also in cave like cave town in some zones and such you could also get off at or wait for the train. Just if square could do this, it would be great =X
The only down side to FFXI to me is this since I have no high level jobs (deleted my old charchter for someodd reason since I hated playing him...) is the slow transportation. I know if i get rank 5 and everything I can to get around just fine. Since the time to travel is rather annoying and time consuming it causes me to not enjoy going to my home town to do missions... Yeah lame but it really does. Just to get from jueno back to my home town takes maybe up to 30 minutes just depends how long it takes to get a warp and if im going to go to Bastok, sandy, or windy. Then Every time you get a warp and a choco its like 3k or more and that adds up, think about how many times you wane gotten warps and what not theres a few 100k+ in there.
Sorry I got going and could not stop. This is the thing than annoys me alot in this game. Square needs to do something! -.-"

[neighbortaru]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

You can also do the Chocobo quests (or lolExpeditionaryForce) to acquire Gate Glyphs that let you teleport directly to a town.
Icemage

this, imho is the only way to go

[Aeni]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

I actually think SE needs to add more crags, if anything. WHMs get the shaft in ToAU so bad, they are hemorraghing from their anal raping. GG SE.

[BurningPanther]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

To see inter-city teleports would be nice, like an NPC in each city, standing in the consulate offering teleports to that consulate's respective city, costing conquest or rank points or some such.

ToAU Crags are long overdue. The Zilart ran the planet at some point, right? It's silly to think they only put crags in the western continents.

[Feba]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

I don't think TAU needs crags...just more Olduum Leypoints. Put one on the western side of Halvung, in Caedarva, and deep in ilrusi

Also, make the olduum teleports a BLM or RDM spell (Lightening, not light, so it shouldbe black magic), AND offer rings

[Kafeen]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Cid studies the crystal lines, makes replicas outside the cities. This is an MMO, you don't have to think hard to work around the plot... they're designed that way.

But that would completely undermine all of his airship work.

[BurningPanther]

Re: Teleports to all major cities

Aht Urgan forbids airship travel anyway. Cid's ship ain't gettin' nowhere near that area. May as well have teleporter access.