Hydaelyn Role-Players
Random Observations - Printable Version

+- Hydaelyn Role-Players (https://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/mybb18)
+-- Forum: Community (https://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/mybb18/forumdisplay.php?fid=8)
+--- Forum: Lore Discussion (https://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/mybb18/forumdisplay.php?fid=49)
+--- Thread: Random Observations (/showthread.php?tid=15839)

Pages: 1 2 3

RE: Random Observations - Askier - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 02:56 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:50 PM)Askier Wrote: And thus, the journey that lead to the writing of  "The Silent Bell", Eorzea's epic poem of silence and loss of purpose, was begun!

...I need to stop typing when I am out of coffee... lol

Just let it happen, it makes everything better.
I'll drag people along with me in search of this bell, make it into a party while i'm at it.
RP event+party? What more could you ask for?

Tea and cakes?

0.0

RE: Random Observations - Unnamed Mercenary - 04-12-2016

Thanalan still looks mostly the same-ish.


Show Content


RE: Random Observations - Askier - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 02:53 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The actual desert is south of Ul'dah anyway; the Sagoli is where it's just sand and sun. Thanalan itself is mostly unchanged since 1.0 if I remember the terrain correctly.

So would that would make the rain more of an amusing weather phenomenon due to programing of the game; rather than a sign of shifted weather patterns like Coerthas?

RE: Random Observations - GhostlyMaiden - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 02:57 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:56 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:50 PM)Askier Wrote: And thus, the journey that lead to the writing of  "The Silent Bell", Eorzea's epic poem of silence and loss of purpose, was begun!

...I need to stop typing when I am out of coffee... lol

Just let it happen, it makes everything better.
I'll drag people along with me in search of this bell, make it into a party while i'm at it.
RP event+party? What more could you ask for?

Tea and cakes?

0.0

I don't have tea, but I can make cakes.
Lots of cakes.

RE: Random Observations - Askier - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:00 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:57 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:56 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:50 PM)Askier Wrote: And thus, the journey that lead to the writing of  "The Silent Bell", Eorzea's epic poem of silence and loss of purpose, was begun!

...I need to stop typing when I am out of coffee... lol

Just let it happen, it makes everything better.
I'll drag people along with me in search of this bell, make it into a party while i'm at it.
RP event+party? What more could you ask for?

Tea and cakes?

0.0

I don't have tea, but I can make cakes.
Lots of cakes.
You are certain these cakes aren't a lie?

RE: Random Observations - L'ohba Tia - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 02:58 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:53 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The actual desert is south of Ul'dah anyway; the Sagoli is where it's just sand and sun. Thanalan itself is mostly unchanged since 1.0 if I remember the terrain correctly.

So would that would make the rain more of an amusing weather phenomenon due to programing of the game; rather than a sign of shifted weather patterns like Coerthas?

In 1.0, during the fall of Dalamud, the massive amounts of rain in Thanalan was given as a huge sign as something being very wrong. The rain has just remained. There's also much, much more greenery than there was in 1.0.

RE: Random Observations - GhostlyMaiden - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:04 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:00 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:57 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:56 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:50 PM)Askier Wrote: And thus, the journey that lead to the writing of  "The Silent Bell", Eorzea's epic poem of silence and loss of purpose, was begun!

...I need to stop typing when I am out of coffee... lol

Just let it happen, it makes everything better.
I'll drag people along with me in search of this bell, make it into a party while i'm at it.
RP event+party? What more could you ask for?

Tea and cakes?

0.0

I don't have tea, but I can make cakes.
Lots of cakes.
You are certain these cakes aren't a lie?

I'm 99.9999% sure the cakes I make aren't a lie.

RE: Random Observations - JudicialHunter - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:35 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:04 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:00 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:57 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:56 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote: Just let it happen, it makes everything better.
I'll drag people along with me in search of this bell, make it into a party while i'm at it.
RP event+party? What more could you ask for?
Tea and cakes?

0.0
I don't have tea, but I can make cakes.
Lots of cakes.
You are certain these cakes aren't a lie?
I'm 99.9999% sure the cakes I make aren't a lie.
I can confirm that, due to that .0001%, that the cakes are a lie.

RE: Random Observations - Askier - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:47 PM)JudicialHunter Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:35 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:04 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:00 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:57 PM)Askier Wrote: Tea and cakes?

0.0
I don't have tea, but I can make cakes.
Lots of cakes.
You are certain these cakes aren't a lie?
I'm 99.9999% sure the cakes I make aren't a lie.
I can confirm that, due to that .0001%, that the cakes are a lie.
NOOOoOoOOOOoOOoOOoOo!

RE: Random Observations - Askier - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:19 PM)L Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:58 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:53 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The actual desert is south of Ul'dah anyway; the Sagoli is where it's just sand and sun. Thanalan itself is mostly unchanged since 1.0 if I remember the terrain correctly.

So would that would make the rain more of an amusing weather phenomenon due to programing of the game; rather than a sign of shifted weather patterns like Coerthas?

In 1.0, during the fall of Dalamud, the massive amounts of rain in Thanalan was given as a huge sign as something being very wrong. The rain has just remained. There's also much, much more greenery than there was in 1.0.
But is the extra greeniery  just cause of improved graphics or an intentional choice cause rain? Are we talking trees or just Sade grass?

RE: Random Observations - L'ohba Tia - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 04:02 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:19 PM)L Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:58 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 02:53 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: The actual desert is south of Ul'dah anyway; the Sagoli is where it's just sand and sun. Thanalan itself is mostly unchanged since 1.0 if I remember the terrain correctly.

So would that would make the rain more of an amusing weather phenomenon due to programing of the game; rather than a sign of shifted weather patterns like Coerthas?

In 1.0, during the fall of Dalamud, the massive amounts of rain in Thanalan was given as a huge sign as something being very wrong. The rain has just remained. There's also much, much more greenery than there was in 1.0.
But is the extra greeniery  just cause of improved graphics or an intentional choice cause rain? Are we talking trees or just Sade grass?
Probably both. But in 1.0 while there was vegetation, it was mostly dry grass, brush, and cacti, aside from a lot of greenery in the wetlands under Horizon. Now, especially in Black Brush and Drybone, you can see a lot more vegetation where there didn't used to be any. That geyser area at Stonesthrow, the area around the dead goobbue in Drybone, a ton of greenery at the Burning Wall, and the vegetation leading to the Shroud. As was said before, Drybone was called that for a reason.

RE: Random Observations - GhostlyMaiden - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 01:51 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 01:05 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 12:44 PM)Askier Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 12:15 PM)Roen Wrote: Since the passage of time in-game is much faster than the actual passage of time, I think chiming a bell hourly in-game would become an annoying background noise that happens way too often.
That's a fair point, but where would the sound come from? I don't know if I've ever even seen a large bell in-game. lol

Don't hold me to it, but I think somewhere in the Ishgard/Coerthas area they have a bell.
I'm probably going to be looking around for that later this evening......if I remember.
You get me a screenshot I'll eat my hat!

...also I'll send some gil to you or something for the trouble. lol
I found one!
[Image: C87ujr8.jpg]
[Image: 8cI8kls.jpg]

RE: Random Observations - LiadansWhisper - 04-12-2016

My personal favorite:

In Southern Than down at Forgotten Springs, if you go outside, there's a small stream/creek that flows into the pool the Miqo'te girls are in.

The stream is utterly barren on either side.

The reason this bothers me is that it makes no sense. So, the reason that people settled along the Nile (which flows through a desert area) is that it's GREEN AND BEAUTIFUL on the BANKS of the river (because of the water source). Even in arid places, wherever there is a running source of water, there is always vegetation around it (and often trees). That's why an oasis is an oasis - the presence of water means green vegetation and trees.

But there is no green on the banks of this stream. It's just sand. It makes no sense. It drives me nuts.

RE: Random Observations - LiadansWhisper - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 03:19 PM)Lohba_Tia Wrote: In 1.0, during the fall of Dalamud, the massive amounts of rain in Thanalan was given as a huge sign as something being very wrong. The rain has just remained. There's also much, much more greenery than there was in 1.0.

There really isn't anywhere near enough to reflect the frequency and amount of rain they're getting, though.

RE: Random Observations - L'ohba Tia - 04-12-2016

(04-12-2016, 05:40 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:
(04-12-2016, 03:19 PM)L Wrote: In 1.0, during the fall of Dalamud, the massive amounts of rain in Thanalan was given as a huge sign as something being very wrong. The rain has just remained. There's also much, much more greenery than there was in 1.0.

There really isn't anywhere near enough to reflect the frequency and amount of rain they're getting, though.
I agree there isn't, but there's still a lot more than there used to be. That along with them explicitly mentioning the heavy rains as strange during 1.0 seems to say that the heavy rain in Drybone is intentional. Just another shift of the climate like we see in Coerthas, the random jungle that sprouted up in La Noscea, and the expansion of the Sagolii into Southern Thanalan.