Playing the need vs. want game is a bit silly. We're talking about video games. We don't need anything, but there's a lot we want. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting things.
I just love being able to go inside buildings. I get a thrill every time I find an enterable building. One more potential setting for rp! FFXIV has a lot of enterable buildings, but not in their cities. Two of the three cities in XIV don't feel like cities so much as... a cluster of market places and pathways. I mean, where the heck to people live in Limsa? There's not a single place where you could conceivably point and be all, "Yup, that's a home."
Obviously we don't need enterable buildings. I've used the balcony outside Ruby Road Exchange numerous times as a pretend stage for an inn room. We've used the building out in Highbridge as a stage for a Brass Blades office that's supposed to be in Pearl Lane. There's a little hermit house in La Noscea that we've used as a stage for a character's home in Limsa. In TERA, one of our characters owned a medical clinic, and frequently we just stood at the corner at the edge of the street where we'd decided the clinic would be and just rp in party chat (or sometimes /say, which got entertaining results). We've pretended the empty, probably never-to-be-used "housing" areas in Velika were jail cells, and psychotherapy rooms, and multistoried mansions, and inn rooms.
Obviously pretend is a powerful thing. It's still nice to be able to go inside buildings, and it is frustrating when you're walking around in a city but all the doors (if there are any) are impenetrable.
I just love being able to go inside buildings. I get a thrill every time I find an enterable building. One more potential setting for rp! FFXIV has a lot of enterable buildings, but not in their cities. Two of the three cities in XIV don't feel like cities so much as... a cluster of market places and pathways. I mean, where the heck to people live in Limsa? There's not a single place where you could conceivably point and be all, "Yup, that's a home."
Obviously we don't need enterable buildings. I've used the balcony outside Ruby Road Exchange numerous times as a pretend stage for an inn room. We've used the building out in Highbridge as a stage for a Brass Blades office that's supposed to be in Pearl Lane. There's a little hermit house in La Noscea that we've used as a stage for a character's home in Limsa. In TERA, one of our characters owned a medical clinic, and frequently we just stood at the corner at the edge of the street where we'd decided the clinic would be and just rp in party chat (or sometimes /say, which got entertaining results). We've pretended the empty, probably never-to-be-used "housing" areas in Velika were jail cells, and psychotherapy rooms, and multistoried mansions, and inn rooms.
Obviously pretend is a powerful thing. It's still nice to be able to go inside buildings, and it is frustrating when you're walking around in a city but all the doors (if there are any) are impenetrable.
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