What Kind of Islands Would You Like to See?

I wouldn't mind seeing a tropical-like island.
I know Legends 2 tried this attempt with Manda Island [and possibly Calbania Island],
But there wasn't much to see. Generic trees and whatnot.

I wanna see more like, tropical flowers, actual palm trees, sandy beaches, and like, overgrown vines on the buildings.

And like such an island, it should be, well, somewhat populated, but not in a massive amount.

I'm waiting for someone to try and get us all laughing with his ideas for floating islands--which could actually work, if they have a reason for being in the game, relevant to the story, and actually having a working, practical means of propulsion. It would also be largely devoid of any Carbons, if any would bother living up so high, and would hold a particularly wind-based ruin. Ideally, we want a sort of Laputa-like weathering and overgrowth on the island exterior, which diminishes as you head into the now-ruin. The ruin would have once been a monitoring station for global wind currents and meteorology, which is all fairly automated and never truly needed Terran assistance. But that would work.

Hmm.. we still did't sratched the whole planet in MML2...

Floating islands... huh.. that's an idea... but what about underwater islans? Eh? EH?
Or Underground islands...

Wait I'm not making sence...


Okay now really. Something like Nino island (if that can be called an island... uh.. maybe), but the city can be more underground.. because.. Nino really seems.. small for so many people.
Maybe it's just me...


I also purpose above-the-trees city... *shrug* Could be, who knows.

Actually, truth be told, a floating island wouldn't necessarily be too outlandish. After all, we've seen other floating things, though it would be kind of an... awkward situation. First of all, it would likely require a refractor the size of the one from MML1. In other words, huge, and thus, hugely valuable. A prime target for pirates, etc (though maybe a refractor array could also work; numbers and all, you know). Second, removing or damaging the refractor would likely lead to the whole island collapsing into the sea.

On the other hand, it would be easily accessible, given how common airship technology seems to be. Feasible, certainly, and it could be tied into the whole "halcyon days" ideas, seeing as the halcyon days were the seven days of the year in which no storms occurred, a day without winds. The god of the winds, Aeolus, would stop the winds during these days so his daughter Alcyone, who had been turned into a bird, could lay her eggs in peace. So, birds, sky, winds, storms, etc. Hell, the heroine's even named "Aero" in the Japanese version.

That said, I do like the idea of an industrial island, or some sort of factory complex. While we had the old city, there wasn't too much to it. It could also be interesting to see a sort of reaver factory as a ruin. After all, to be honest, a lot of the ruins we see seem to have, well, no real purpose. The closest we come are the residential sectors, and possibly the Main Gate. I suppose the ruins in MML2 did serve to contain the keys... Still, I'd like to see ruins like the residential sectors or Elysium which actually felt like the ruins of a civilization, a place where life once trod but doesn't any more, save for the clacking of the artificial servants, long since robbed of their masters.

But now I'm getting terribly off track! And long winded... Ah, it's been a while since I've rambled.

So let's see, other ideas:

Underwater "island": I can't really see a populated underwater city, but I could definitely see underwater ruins, especially since the world was kind of flooded and all. People of the day are just living on what were mountain tops (which begs the question: just how bloody tall was Ruminoa City, considering that it goes to what seems to be the ocean floor yet rises well above the mountains... That must have been quite the elevator ride). That means that there are vast swathes of lost civilization just sitting beneath the seas. Cities, ruins, what have you. Not human populated, unless you want to believe that one episode of Futurama... Still, interesting all the same.

Tropical island: I definitely like the idea of a more ruin-y setting, and deep jungles (or even thick forests) do accommodate that quite well.

But it occurs to me that the time is four in the morning and classes start at 9:40, so I'd best get some sleep in. Sanity, you know. It's good. In small doses, at least.



ohhh, they added a character counter to the posting screen. It's like a game... but the more I type, the lower my score goes. I should probably stop, then...

GustaffGlyde dropped in?! Awesome!

I hope they don't go too overboard with the elementals this time around. Something about the "This is the water dungeon on the artificially formed city jutting out of the sea," "This is the jungle dungeon in the mock Japan Island," "This is the fire dungeon on the desert Island," "This is the ice dungeon on the snow island" setup of Legends 2 made me feel like they really could've done better creatively to think up an original experience, or at least mixed it up a bit. It's okay to have a theme, but it's okay to deviate a bit from that theme instead of just shoving it down your throat, if you know what I mean.

From the New Island Types thread on CU:
It's me, of course, but I've made my case.