Known Issues: New Atma Menu "Delayed" again?! /sulk More info if any if you PLEASE!

[kingfury]

**EDIT- UPDATED THREAD BELOW: (Response from the Dev Team)**

As quoted from the recently posted update list:

- "The proposed atma interface improvement allowing players to save their favorite atma configurations has been delayed to a future version update due to development complications."

This was by far the most disappointing news amongst the otherwise positive bounty of additions and improvements that await us after the update is complete. I won't say that it's the end of the world by any stretch, but it's no lie that I for one have been anticipating this menu fix as if it were a new Job Ability being planned lol. I literally just asked someone about this very fix last night /stagger.

As a player that has come to understand some of the many challenges that confront SE on a daily basis, I've become highly tolerant of certain cosmetic and topical adjustment needs that have appeared throughout our beloved FFXI through the years. The same tolerance will hold true through this Atma menu, but I beg that the lines of communication be open to us in regards to the said "development complications" that have caused the second delay of this highly desired and anticipated adjustment. Even if it's something like the Devs are still trying to decided on the best way to do it, and would like Player feedback (wishful thinking a bit there)

There's more than enough to keep us busy in terms of new things to do, but I'm just asking for a bit more detailed communication on what's causing this new menu's wardrobe change to take so long. I really do pray that it's something they feel they could ask us about similar to how they asked about the possible "removing of the crafting skill caps" topic. It would be really great to get player feedback as to how we all would wish to quickly navigate our numerous pages of Atma in one place.

Thanks for listening Guys, /take care
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**EDIT(Response from Devs)**
Posted by Camate(Post 25):

As announced, you will be able to select an option to infuse yourself with the atmas that you last used. However, this is only a temporary solution and the development team is working on other ways to select atmas with increased speed. They are currently looking into the below two options:

1. Ability to voluntarily create up to 3 atma sets
2. Creation of a list of the most recent 12 atmas used

Which would you all prefer to see implemented?

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Friggin' COOLNESS Folks! Cast your votes and junk! Thanks again Camate /salute
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*~~~~~~*Voting Finished (as of 5-23-11/ 5:12PM EST)*~~~~~~*

AND OPTION 2 WINS IT!

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**EDIT(Response from Devs)**
Posted by Camate(Post 89):

Judging from both the tally of players who chose option #2, as well as taking all of your feedback into account, the development team has decided to go with option #2. Just to give you all a bit more insight into what the development team has planned:

• Will add a feature that will remember the last 12 atmas used

As mentioned above this seemed to be the popular choice and the development team decided to proceed with this option based on that. This will allow players to view a list of the 12 most recently used atmas, but please note that due to technical barriers it will not be possible to rearrange the order of this list.

• The current feature to infuse yourself with the last atmas used will remain

There were a few concerns about whether this would stay or not and we just wanted to inform you that we have no plans of removing this feature.

• Separately looking into the possibility of adding a feature where you can maintain the use of two or three atmas without needing to talk to the Atma Infusionist.

Though we can’t promise that this will happen just yet, we are trying our best to implement something along the lines of this.

As always, moving forward with these changes if you have any suggestions or ideas that you feel strongly about please let us know and we will do our best to communicate them to the development team!

Again, Coolness! Thanks for getting back to us Camate. /salute Continue to Discuss and junk Folks! /Discussion
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*~~~~~~*Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6*~~~~~~*

LIST OF 12 MOST RECENTLY INFUSED ATMAS

**EDIT(Update from Devs)**
Posted by Camate(Post 1)

When performing atma infusions, players will be able to view and select from a list of their twelve most recently infused atma.

*When selecting from this list, players will be able to infuse two or three atma at once.
*This feature will function independently of the "Reinfuse previous atma set" option. (Atma selected from the list will not overwrite the previous atma set, nor will atma infused via "Reinfuse..." be stored in the list.)

If you wish to discuss or submit feedback on this topic, please use the [dev1015] tag.

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/cheer ^^
We've come full circle! lol An Epic win for the great communication and follow through from the Devs! It's a really great feeling to know the community got to vote on this and help with the development process. Very, very cool Thank you greatly Devs for reaching out and listening. /kneel + /salute

Thanks to everyone that voted! Thanks again to you Camate! /salute

[Runespider]

I would of been happy with just a sort system or something to put the atmas I actually use on the first page. Assuming what they wanted to add was a little too complex.

[kingfury]

True Strike /stagger

[Miera]

I wish you could Manually sort them yourself. I'd totally use 30 mins of my stones to go and make some Atma sets to store. I would do a MAB set for Mages or Eva Set for DNC and so forth. =\

[kingfury]

I wish you could Manually sort them yourself. I'd totally use 30 mins of my stones to go and make some Atma sets to store. I would do a MAB set for Mages or Eva Set for DNC and so forth. =\

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AMEN to that lol /
I'm sure everyone would ^^

[kingfury]

I also pray that the dreaded "PS2 limitations" don't pop up as one of the possible issues plaguing this wonderful fix @~@;

[svengalis]

I didn't even know they were going to do this. This is such a time sync in Abyssea considering I have 2 chars.

[Greatguardian]

I also pray that the dreaded "PS2 limitations" don't pop up as one of the possible issues plaguing this wonderful fix @~@;

They're sorted by Key Item ID. It's the same technical reason we can't sort our KI lists, and has nothing to do with the PS2. It's a shame that this got delayed but I can imagine it's rather tricky business attempting to implement a feature like this involving Key Items.

[Pikel]

I was most looking forward to this. /cry

I am at 6 pages of atmas and alot of the one's I like to use are the very LAST in the list. Even being able to sort them to my liking would be cool. Ducal Guard and Zenith always the last in my VERY LONG list. /cry

[Garota]

I would have rather them drop and postpone all other new developments such as Grounds of Valor & Voidwatch in order for them to FOCUS solely on this atma issue. That's how strongly I feel about the matter... Oh well, whatever, just keep bringing the updates along, forget the atma groupings SE and go do all your other little side projects you have lined up for us in your nifty little roadmap...