Per the live letter last night, Yoshi-P showed off some fantastic screen shots from the yet to be released islands in the Sea of Clouds for the upcoming Airship Expedition content they've been hinting at for awhile.

From the way I understand it - your FC will use your FC airship to be taken to one of these uncharted islands, whereupon you will go out and slaughter things, cute and terrible alike. Multiple FC parties can be in the same island together and likely for some things this will end up being required. I imagine they'll be adding some big nasties to some of these islands, like S rank level mobs, if not higher.

Thing is, we don't know any actual information on limitations on these islands. Such as, are they going to be like instanced areas separated from other islands in the uncharted zone. Will there be a time limit imposed, say like a 3 hour window that once you and your crew get in the island, you have that amount of time to secure it from the nasties before your crew can then start to salvage materials from the landscape. These are just speculative tid bits to think about.

Reason I'm writing this up though is because we need to consider some kind of organization for this type of thing. Of course until details are fully hammered out we won't know what we're actually getting ourselves into. But let's hear some feedback from the Council and members. Are you interested/excited about this content or just 'meh' and it doesn't matter to you one way or another? Due to the limited size of our FC currently, creating 1-2 full parties for explorations may be a bit rough at times. It may also require that we start to associate ourselves with other FCs again (as we did once upon a time with GHOST) to hit islands as multiple crews.

Thoughts?

I actually like the idea! It gives players to do if everyone's bored and stuff, plus a lot of our members have a bunch of downtime between capping eso and scrips now that almost all of us finished MSQ.

I wouldn't mind setting up a group or two or associating with other FC's to try and do it.

We've got 3 airships now, so we should hopefully have a pretty good start on discovering the explorable islands once they're introduced. We'll probably incorporate exploration into Friday Night Fights, so we're not just doing primals every single week.

Also, when were we ever associated with GHOST? We were with Travelers and Ascending Order back in the day, but that all fell apart when Orson left and, honestly, we got tired of dealing with shit from certain members of AO.

That said, I'm all about cultivating alliances with reputable Free Companies.

Wait. . .Aku put together an intelligent thread?! What is the world coming to?!

Anyway, as of now I'm sitting at 'interested, but not impressed' with this idea. All we have to go on is one or two screenshots. As for forming an alliance with another FC- as long as they're a reputable, trustworthy company, I don't see why not.

Sorry Rak, you're right, it was AO we were in league with. GHOST just happened to also be around at the same time rather prominently and that's what my memory was pulling up.

And yes Alira, it happens. Punk. There's a reason I behave like a total idiot in general (so I won't have to be a grown up and actually get put with any actual responsibility, mostly lol)

*sings* I don't want to grow up~