Forming Exploratory Voyages Group/Event

[Dresdel]

If you want to form a static to do these, then by all means do so. But please bear in mind that other groups will be going, too. We are not in the business of restricting our members access to content. We will not tell them "you can't go because Runestone's static wants to go."

Especially when the answer to "someone took an airship" is as simple as "wait 20 minutes."

I think what Rune meant was set aside 2-3 days like friday saturday sunday where officers or whoever handles the current airship missions does not deploy the airships and they can be used for the new content, while on the other 4 days of the week, its first come first serve for either type of airship content. Not like static groups being the only ones allowed to use it on specific days.

[Madruck]

I think to be fair to all members of the FC, it should be first available to all that contributed to the airships then by doing a raffle for first access after the contributors.

[Wallfulls]

if there is only a 20min Cd to reuse the ships whats this whole fuss about anyways.

Make a post with people play times and go from there.

Now if the ships do jnot have this 20min turn over then that another issue to hit.


this post has turned into lets bash flights for having flights. y'all make this hard for no reason. It's a simple fix get 24 ppl together who can do this at the same time and like/ can work together not hard ot get teams made.

people wihtout flights have no idea how hard it is to form one/keep it up and running and how much stress it brings trying to get that group of 8 going. stop bashing ppl who got off there asses and found flights/ swtched mains to be able to raid.

The flight issues is not the issue in this thread so stop it.


Stop acting like little kids who want there candy now and it fed to them while pushing your jaw up and down to chew it. Go make your groups yourself and stop being lazy.

[Lumino]

Yes, OK! I'm evil and horrible for bringing up the idea that people who play in flights tend to specifically run with those people in their flights. I've been avoiding posting because I didn't intend to cause a problem, and I similarly don't wish to stoke the fire any further.

Everyone in the FC is entitled to play in whatever way they enjoy, I wasn't saying otherwise. However, I think any point I want to make is going to be too far lost to cause anything except more drama.

Therefore, I rescind my comment. I apologize to anyone I offended. As was said by our officers, with the 20 minute turnover I'm sure anyone who wants to go will be able to find time to go. Just, for the record, fear of FC members not being able to go on missions wasn't the reason for my post, and wasn't even a concern in my mind.

I seem to have a natural ability to turn normal conversations into explosions of drama, so I suppose I'll leave well enough alone. At any rate, the exploratory missions look like they are going to be a lot of fun. Should be some good FC activities in November.

[E'hosmer]

But in all seriousness you can literally wander to the buffet, eat sushi and pizza or whatever for breakfast, waddle back down to the Tender line and it's like, gone. Just hop on a near-empty boat and g2g.
I think the only difference is that if you flip over things procured from the sky islands they probably don't all say made in China. Also maybe less drunk people passed out in the sun working on their skin cancer.

You have officially sold me on taking a cruise!

[Wallfulls]

also each island can hold up to 9 parties at one time with a tag system in place for mobs. Like old school HNM farming in 11 mixed in with dynamis

this whole thing just recks of drama lama.

[Athoen]

Everyone should take a deep breath because even with our large FC this shouldn't cause any issues for people wanting to go to the islands. If you don't want to go to the Hard islands you can use the ships in Ishgard for "instant" access. If you have a party of FC mates looking for some bigger adventures then every 20 minutes a ship can leave and we have four ships. That starts an individual timer of a two hour cooldown. (I assume that is to resupply your character with barf bags.) That means every two hours if we use all four airships we can cycle through 192 members of our fine FC before hitting an actual queue where some people would be "left behind." I may be wrong but I don't believe we were at 192 members online concurrently even at the drop of 3.0. Even if we had that many people on at one time, players will be doing other things. New trial, new story, raiding, etc.

TLDR - The longest someone could potentially wait for an FC ride should be <2 hours. We wait longer to get fish and roofs back from our retainers. Relax and enjoy the ride.

[Artex]

Everyone should take a deep breath

There's no fuckin time, Athoen.... [heavy breathing]

[Morbid Coffee]

[Coma]

There's no fuckin time, Athoen.... [heavy breathing]

the creepy thing artex im re watching gundamn wing atm.

that gif has too much feels.