I'm willing to entertain a new server, just because I want to experience it fresh. If I can, I'll try to important my old character to whatever server I choose to benefit from it's presence if there are too many timers.

As for guilds and such, I'm always available on Skype ( loltemperwolf ) if anyone wants to chat about that. ^^ I dont have any guilds yet, and nor do I really aim to run one -- but I wouldn't mind being an asset.

Originally posted by Lexin
I think they are giving us too many characters on Legacy accounts. It's nice and all but what am I going to do with 8 characters on a server? I will use 2 or 3 max and only plan to play on 1 server.

I agree, there isnt really any point in more than one character, unless you really like to try all the races, but I find the idea of mastering every class on one guy the most appealing feature of XIV. I get to be an alterholic without the hassle.

Originally posted by drivendawn

I think because they had a big team working on it but mainly because they already had a solid foundation to work off of. I can tell you this I was in alpha here recently and it was the smoothest running I've ever been in. I don't think that breaks NDA  I hope. : )

I would say the opposite is true, there was no solid foundation, which is why they had to re-build in the first place. New engine, servers, UI, all new open world design, cut-scenes, the works, which makes the time it took even more incredible. You can say however that it saved time being able to re-use certain assets from XIV 1.0, such as character, gear, mob and building models/textures, and dungeon layouts. That really is all I recognise in alpha so far, and I agree that it's the smoothest alpha I've ever seen. It was because the previous version ran so badly I wasnt able to play long enough to get legacy :(

Originally posted by Fendel84M
Shouldn't anyone who played the game during its initial launch F2Pish stage have legacy status?

No, did you care enough when they announced the legacy status? no, so why should you care now?

Originally posted by Smoey
I'm not sure to re-roll or stick it out with my old character. I've got my Goobbue mount on that!

Alas, the Goobbue was for 1.0 only, but they are introducing new mounts unlike any others, and chocobos will be heavily upgraded.

Originally posted by zevni78

Originally posted by Smoey
I'm not sure to re-roll or stick it out with my old character. I've got my Goobbue mount on that!

Alas, the Goobbue was for 1.0 only, but they are introducing new mounts unlike any others, and chocobos will be heavily upgraded.

Goobues will carry over to ARR for those that obtained them in 1.0, they havnt decided if they will re-introduce them in ARR yet.  They probably will eventually.

Gil has been reduced by 90%, my LS friend had the common to turn all his gil into raw mats, I on the other hand will feel slightly short changed, though I have a lot of gear and materials to fall back on.

Originally posted by biggarfoot

Originally posted by zevni78

Originally posted by Smoey
I'm not sure to re-roll or stick it out with my old character. I've got my Goobbue mount on that!

Alas, the Goobbue was for 1.0 only, but they are introducing new mounts unlike any others, and chocobos will be heavily upgraded.

Goobues will carry over to ARR for those that obtained them in 1.0, they havnt decided if they will re-introduce them in ARR yet.  They probably will eventually.

They've been very consistent that the mounts where always for 1.0 only. All the barding, raising, armor etc wont apply to a Goobbue, and I am not sure they would work in ARR with tighter zone design built with higher pop in mind than 1.0 ever got after the launch pop crash.

Originally posted by zevni78

Originally posted by biggarfoot

Originally posted by zevni78

Originally posted by Smoey
I'm not sure to re-roll or stick it out with my old character. I've got my Goobbue mount on that!

Alas, the Goobbue was for 1.0 only, but they are introducing new mounts unlike any others, and chocobos will be heavily upgraded.

Goobues will carry over to ARR for those that obtained them in 1.0, they havnt decided if they will re-introduce them in ARR yet.  They probably will eventually.

They've been very consistent that the mounts where always for 1.0 only. All the barding, raising, armor etc wont apply to a Goobbue, and I am not sure they would work in ARR with tighter zone design built with higher pop in mind than 1.0 ever got after the launch pop crash.

There was never any barding for goobue in 1.0.  You couldnt get any tighter spaces than you had in Gridania in 1.0 and they crowded the screen if one got in front of you, with ARR Gradiania is a bit more spacious so I can't see a problem with these mounts.

Originally posted by biggarfoot

 

There was never any barding for goobue in 1.0.  You couldnt get any tighter spaces than you had in Gridania in 1.0 and they crowded the screen if one got in front of you, with ARR Gradiania is a bit more spacious so I can't see a problem with these mounts.

I was referring to the new features planned for the standard mounts that couldnt be done for Goobue, also Grandia was a town,  towns didn't allow mounts as I recall, (Ul'dah didn't anyway), the outside areas where a lot more open and seamless than in ARR which has more condensed regions and quest layout, and as I said will have a denser pop.

Originally posted by TemperHoof

I'm willing to entertain a new server, just because I want to experience it fresh. If I can, I'll try to important my old character to whatever server I choose to benefit from it's presence if there are too many timers.

As for guilds and such, I'm always available on Skype ( loltemperwolf ) if anyone wants to chat about that. ^^ I dont have any guilds yet, and nor do I really aim to run one -- but I wouldn't mind being an asset.

I am going to be away this weekend but I will get up with you Monday either on here or Skype. Anyone else reading this feel free to join us. Just hit me up and I'll let you know when the website and teamspeak are up. Should only be a couple of days