(09-12-2013, 12:38 PM)Magellan Wrote: .... multiple linkpearls? You only have two ears, and can join up to eight shells.
... indoor plumbing? Are there showers and flushing toilets in your version of Eorzea?
... travelling from city to city? Do you RP using the aethryte crystals? Or do you RP travel between town as actually taking time?
... electricity? Can my character make a pot of coffee in the morning, or is she sol? :p
More questions to come if I think of them...
For Linkpearls i've played it as a sort of Bluetooth style ear piece, for my character he has "his" gifted to him by Momodi during 1.0 (the original quest line had you talking to her over it.) To which he attunes any further connections except when expressly told other wise. (Such as the Cold Moon Gala.) where he took his primary one out (RP'd telling everyone I would be off-comm for a personal event.) and placed the Event shell in until it finished, then swapping it out. To each their own though, this is mostly to address the personal/impersonal treatment of things IC.
Plumbing- I presume and through some quests suppose it has a fairly basic existence in Limsa Lominsa and Ul'dah, (fountains ect.). I think there might be some basic water diversion and engineering in Gridania (the water wheels outside the INN.) but the intended purpose beyond perhaps prevent flooding is beyond me.
Travel- I RP both my mounts (2xChoc's and Gobbue) and Aether transportation, I have mused on the nature of aether passes within city states (is it like an Oyster card from London that you can just swipe along the crystal to tap into it?). To the Larger Crystals in major encampments. I'm unsure how to justify the toll, the trouble of splitting the fee between the departure point and the destination still makes me consider the idea that its in place of some reagent instead of a direct toll.
Electricity- I've seen it an choose to interpret the situation as Gas/steam era (Gas appearing in Limsa, where Goblin technologies and homes appear to have steam-esque contraptions with valves/gauges/pressure plates.) In day to to day use? I imagine the average person has little access to that kind of technology outside of lamps, even the ovens in Thanalan appear to be wood burning with large smoke stacks. But we're adventurers! I don't think its out of the realm of possibility that upon stumbling through alchemy for a level or two you realize you could as easily replace the Alembic with a funnel to hold coffee and pour water through. (at least thats what I do with my equivalent tea, much to the dismay of a Lalafell friend who often comments on the odd after taste.)
