(08-14-2015, 11:28 AM)Blue Wrote: In 1.0 aether teleport was a lot stricter (I think only IC Grand Company members could use it, or something of the sort). Now it's not, and everyone can do it.. to remove it from canon sounds like really too much.
Annoying 1.0 player here. Aetherytes were in each of the cities and I never made it far enough to join a Grand Company. That said, aethernet didn't exist when I started in 1.0 (around the 1.20 patches), which made trying to navigate Limsa Lominsa certain cities absolutely horrible. When the aethernet was released, you needed to get some special token to unlock it, which I never did.
But travel by Aether was also quite different back then. First, one didn't pay gil to travel. (That would have been WAY too easy). We got this special currency called Anima, which regenerated very slowly over time. Think....slower than waiting for new levequest allowances. Anima was described as almost a sort of hardiness to travel by aether. More anima = more travel = longer distances. Adventurers, in their super-awesome "we do this all the time and we're pretty aetherically well-practised" naturally had more anima than your average city person. (And Garleans had no anima because.....well, it's basically manipulating aether).
But post-Calamity, the old aetherytes kinda broke and new ones had to be brought in and set up (which is why we never got one in Vesper Bay). Expensive Sharlayan technology is used these days, as opposed to the more "natural" ones previously. Hopefully Sounsyy can elaborate in much better words than I.
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Oli brings up some excellent reasons for why someone may not want to use it in the post-2.0 world!
I would consider it too much a stretch to say that Teleportation doesn't exist when we see it in cutscenes, literally USE IT to fight Shiva (yes, that's the WoL, yes, the circumstances were weird, no, it worked the same way aside from the attunement issue), and the guards in ever city explain how teleportation works and why it costs gil now.
If your character (or group of characters) doesn't like aetherial travel, there are plenty of other ways to get around!
