I went for the first time to fantasy isle today. very funny place, but the first thing i noticed is that HUGE square. I ask myself if tyhe developers did that as a new market place, like monster derby. free of charge, but as large as giran.
so, maybe us players should start to leave giran free to walk and use fantasy isle for market!
Also, they could make it so that you could only set up shop there. FI is pretty huge, and wasting space. Its made to go AFK in... I mean, who would want to stay in that area? lol
make it avaiable to set shop only in fantasy island i dont agree, but i think that as players like monster derby cos u have free charge from anywhere, its a good and interesting idea to migrate giran shops there. we would use that big, huge, wide space for something =p
Gives the market that extra flavor too in the form of the entertainment. (Granted the entertainment of FI is "Spartan" to say the least but you get what I mean. Seen the show which is viewable once then it gets old.)
Suggestion: add some mineral sellers too to FI and I think we have it all.
Theres no npc shops in fantasy isle, you need ore/blacksmith/C/D grade to crystalise and other stuff whilst in giran.
Yes it is fatally flawed ..that's why you will never see any player shops at the race track either, because everyone while in an AFK shop mode, runs around buying crystals and such :).
WTH you dont need npc shops to make afk stores, if u need to buy crystals and pots and etc just letyour mule at giran or werever u want. MRT have no free enought space, FI is almost the same size of giran main square and have free port, so the idea is good.
Shot sellers are really AFK shops, they may go afk while waiting for mp to regen but they usally craft while selling. so in turn to make FI a marketplace you need to put in mineral traders and wh keepers at the least.
I went there the other day and loved the mood it set. (Still not sure if you can ride the sky balloon that goes around the area.) But then I haven't been to a Six Flags for quite sometime.
I was a little scared of it at first because I was not sure if I could get out of there. :-O I only found one contact on the isle and that was in the square.
If you talk the contact there you will see that there is an arena beneath the isle for pvp. I believe I read you have to destroy the the other teams towers.
My toons are not high enough level yet to play it yet so I can't give a full opinion on gameplay.
Its a shame there are no games to play there as in an amusement park. Neat idea. Looks great though!
Because you can get there free of charge from any gatekeeper for free. You wouldn't have to pay to port to Giran from where you are. If you are crafting you can get supplies from the lowest city tax without port charges, as long as you port ot the island from that town.
When you need supplies just ge tthe free port back to town. then free port back to the island. I think it's a great idea, dought it will ever sink in but great idea.
this is great for buyers. i can't see real profit for sellers. also it doesn't change anything for crafters of industrial scale. they have very huge reserves of soul/spirit ore and crystal. so they maybe go to cheaper shops once a week. but, hey, giran is that cheaper shop if other castles lords don't play with tax. so i don't know why any traders should move there. :)
The island is deserted on Franz now, I'm surprised not to see a single soul there ><. And having the market there wouldn't be a bad idea, actually I quite like it, like a bazzar on fantasy island :).
it is completely useless so it will remain empty on each server. maybe some crazy role-players from Lionna or Erica can make some shaman ceremony there, but i doubt. Actually MDT is great place for business but it's too small to place all stores from giran.
to improve FI market area it needs:
1) great plain piece zone
2) standard town warehouse keeper (personal and clan)
3) gateway to some towns (giran, aden, rune, gludio, shuttgart looks good enough)
4) battleground (MDT arena copy) - just for fun
5) NPC shops with range of goods equal to giran
6) blacksmith to create dual swords and (re-)seal up to b-grade gear...
now you can compare giran's square with what FI offers. i think, it is obvious why traders and crafters prefer giran.
The hole island is a piece zone, or am I not understanding your question.
2) standard town warehouse keeper (personal and clan)
I agree but can easily be accessed for free by port back to where you came from. In alot of cases that could be faster than trying to run through Giran to get to anything you need.
3) gateway to some towns (giran, aden, rune, gludio, shuttgart looks good enough)
It already does but you have to port there from that town. Would still be cheaper to go to FI from any of those towns than to continually port back to Giran, or quicker to switch to an alt in Giran.
4) battleground (MDT arena copy) - just for fun
I agree even though if you realy want to pvp in arena it's just as easy to port out of FI and into the MRT.
5) NPC shops with range of goods equal to giran
Same answer as #3.
6) blacksmith to create dual swords and (re-)seal up to b-grade gear...
Same again as #3
now you can compare giran's square with what FI offers. i think, it is obvious why traders and crafters prefer giran.
Maybe so but I believe if FI had been here since the beginning things might be different, Knowone really knows. I still think it's a great idea but it would be really hard to get everyone to move to FI from Giran. If you could get hero's on a server to advertise it and get people to go there then store would migrate there. Would have to be a server wide push to do it so I dought any server could get it done.
this needs addition unnecessary actions. why should someone do it? it's simple to stay in giran that have everything but arena (not necessary for trading)... i don't understand why i need make some difficulties that will waste my time...
I think this is indeed a cool idea... FI is suposed to be light-hearted fun... but with no people its just a ghost town... maybe if they did implement something like a 5% bonus for shops in FI all shops would move there (u sell/buy shop - u get 5% of transaction value for each sold/bought item). To prevent exploits, they could make for example, that you get this bonus only for 2 random transactions per hour.
The other problem is shop locatios... I really believe they should add shop-free zones in towns AND on FI... meaning... all roades or passages are places where one simply cannot sit down, therefore all shops would have to be placed on rode-sides, not in the middle of them.... then this would also start looking like a market, and not a flood of AFK-shops.
I am confident FI will be more active, and indeed the "main player hangout" place once they start adding some fun mini-games. (They said the mini games would be rewarding for your character ands tuff like that, so I am confident people will play them for special loot or whatever)
they need to add at least those hair accessory that they hide in bosses, events etc actions like get-me-if-you-can-with-chance-of-one-from-ten-thousand. so everyone can have some misc stuff that changes nothing beside coll view. but they are ncsoft. they better add some stupid game as their boring fishing and this won't work. :)
isnt there supposed to be a monster parade every day in fantasy isle? If there it would be pretty annoying trying to shop there with mobs parading all around...
Already mentioned but I'll chime in anyway. Put some warehouse keepers and freight on the island and more people will setup shop there. On the other hand who knows what they will do to it in the future. There is a putt putt golf course and that looks really interesting.
first there was only one,then two and after a while the rest must follow, becasue who wants to sit around giran square alone, would be a funny way. Best way to move the people from giran and other towns to FI would be to place a elpy with high p.attack and very high HP regen running around amok, who ever sets up a shop , gets eaten alive... go to FI please, much easier and it dose not cost a thing, what else you want...you got legs to move and get to WH or what ever you need. Lets unite and migrate to FI. Plenty of room to split non grade sellers in one area, c+ grade in other, shots and other magics in different area, so much room.
It would be nice if there were a NPC shop for soul/spirit ore on FI so crafters could set up their shops there too because people are loosing time traveling to and from FI in order to buy those when they want to craft SS/SpS.
Heya all ,
First of all, i wanted to thank Ista for his great and bright idea! I also thank Lomen for speaking to me about this thread and the idea. Since 3 days , some of us are busy promoting your your idea. We have received alot of positive reaction. Some of us left Giran , and hopefully more will follow our foot steps. I think we must come up with a thread , and ask NCSOFT to install a wh in Fantasy Island , for those who dont have legs lol !!!! Well here we go take a look at Lionna's beautiful people! It's about time to listen to digibluez and add not only savings but some colors and light to our gaming lives.
shops in fanatsy island , lionna http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shot00054rp4.png
parade: http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/8083/shot00042ao1.png