Teleport costFollow

See, I must have missed that. I was probably so excited to be playing again haha. Thanks for clearing that up for me though.

=)

Another great point!

Anima made you care where your bind spot was. The only problem with long term cheap teleport means it's going to become a point to point game. City pickup then to leves or grind spots never having a healer get off the chocobo and raise strangers "ala FF11 good times". As far legacy benefits we have about a 2month head start then we'll be average to all the other servers. I think most of us old crafters have over priced items and materials that far exceeds our gil, the final game recipes is what i'm curious about.

I think it's fair. If you want to get to one of the big cities, it costs like 600 gold, which if you use it more than a few times adds up quickly. And if you're already in the area, it only costs 100-200 gold or so to get around. If you want to go the snail route, you can spend 15 gold and take a chocobo porter, until you get your own.

So far it seems fair, but I really have only amassed a gold stack of about 20 large, so it might seem too minimal once I have gather quite a bit more.

Just outta curiousity, for any 1.0 players, how much gold did you guys have on hand at any given time? Like what is a lot of gold in this game?

Yeah, in that case, I would agree teleport costs are maybe too cheap. lol

i'm going to have to go with this new system being better for the game. In 1.0 before i took a long break like everyone else, i managed to make 20 mil doing only leves. Back then the 40 ones were giving like 40k per leve so i was able to make money pretty fast. There was nothing to spend gil on as NPC repairs were rediculously high, and there was no gear in the market wards. So gil just accumulated.

When i came back last august i had enough money to gear up all my classes pretty well and craft a bit. But even then there wasn't really much use for gil so I always seemed to just accumulate gil. Obviously if this continued there would be some pretty bad inflation, so I am all for a gil sink as long as it's balanced in such a way that I can make progress.

In 11 you really had to plan out your spending. Making money in that game was the hardest of any MMO ive ever played, at least in my opinion. (anyone remeber the prices for chocobos at the mea crag when going to party in Bibiki bay? the CoP area. On my server it was 9k/bird, and i would be lucky if i got enough materials to cover the cost while partying. One night i had 3 fail parties where it didn't work and we disbanded after like 3 mobs. 27k down the drain in a span of an hour.)

It is either just fine or a bit too expensive and needs to scale somewhat with level. There is a reason why I keep sitting around 1.5k while my g/f and friend are sitting on over 20k each. I'll give you a hint... It's helping them XD.

I thought that the Anima model was fine for the game, but I suppose they want their gil sinks and to not have people QQ about not being able to teleport when they need to.

Edited, Jul 4th 2013 5:02am by DamienSScott

I must say that in all those weeks I am playing I used teleportation only 2 mayyyyybe 3 times tops. Using airships is not that bad and I like taking my time. The only time I used it was when they were waiting for me to do a run in TTD and I was late.

I made 25k on quests and leves by 15, it's not impossible and that's plenty for someone who won't be leaving their opening areas until 15 anyway.

I don't understand the immersion comments; paying for transportation is a normal part of life across cultures and history. I don't recall hearing about any free trans-Atlantic planes or boat rides.

It's not mandatory to teleport; don't use it if you don't like it. You can get airships and chocbos fairly quickly. If you think the anima system is so great, then just play by anima rules on your own.

You think those people that want to TP will slow down anyway? They wont, if you want to feel immersed then it is YOUR responsibility as the player to play that way.

In case you didn't know, they added a similar system to XI last year with the "waypoints." Waypoints use a kinetic energy charge, anywhere from 1 to 100 units per zap. Kinetic units are refilled by feeding the waypoints crystal clusters. (Light clusters give the most energy.)

Earlier today I finally got around to doing SAM AF2's quest, in which I had to go to Norg, get a KI by trading a chef four gross ingredients, go to Laybyrinth of Onzozo and pop a NM, return to Norg, then tomorrow I'll go back to Norg, then head out to Valkurm Dunes and pop two more NMs, and then finally go back to Norg.

Before, this quest would have been a two day nightmare for a 50 SAM, with having to constantly travel to Norg from Kazham after getting there from a teleport or an airship or from the outpost.

Today, the first half of the quest took me about thirty minutes. I zapped myself to Norg from Ru'Lude gardens, initiated the quest, bought the crap off the unified AH in Norg, got my KI, zapped myself from Norg to Mhaura, ran to LoO, killed the NM, ran back to Mhaura, zapped myself to Norg again, and finished Part I of the quest. Then I zapped myself back to Jeuno. Total cost: 120 kinetic units, or about one light cluster's worth. 5K gil, maybe?

A poor 50 SAM back in the day would have spent around 3-4 hours and at least 10K gil getting Teleport-Yhoaters.