Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! (FFXIV: ARR)

[chrillix]

Do you have any additional features planned for individual housing?

[Wings]

Vanity-patch

Would you consider doing a large vanity-patch, adding several hairstyles (new would be nice, but definetly old ones unlocked for others), everyday-like clothing items, facial hair, maybe even body hair, make-up, tattoos, dark "highlights"? Preferably not gated by one race getting it and not the others until later (or at all).

Even a non-spectacular thing like making the hempen set into several items, instead of one that looks different depending on which race wears it, would add a lot of versatility to possible appearances.

[chrillix]

Do you have any plans to make the sale of FC/Personal houses easier on players? Currently to trade ownership you have to relinquish the land completely, with the buyer having to re-buy the plot and re-build a house. It would be nice if you could trade a deed to a player that included the plot and the house.

[Exodus-E]

Can you make it so whenever we buy something off the Market Board we can still stay within a given item's window (to buy another copy of it right away) instead of returning to the overall Market Board list?

[Meuterion]

Desynthesis :

Please, make some UI element integrated in the desynthesis level window so we can lock a certain skill to prevent it for loosing thoses infamous 0.01 points, instead of relying on the "hidden" lock rotation (that you inevitably botch at some point )
Or if it's not feasible, at least limit the skillpoint decrease to situation when you already have hit the 300 lvl cap (so you won't loose point in other desynth class until you hit the 300 level mark).

Edit : typo correction

[Exodus-E]

Considering Dark Knight's announcement (being the first class-less job), could it still be a possibility to implement the Blue Mage job during Heavensward's life cycle?

[Wings]

Reworking the glamour system

Would you consider re-considering the glamour system? The way it is, it's heavily restricted because of gear being exclusive to class, role, GC, PVP, race, or gender. Nor can you choose to have a different appearance depending on which tank, caster or healer you play. Maybe there could be a way to tie the glamour to the gearset list? I don't know what the best solution would be, but the current system is rather cumbersome and rigid.

[Exodus-E]

Regarding the difficulty on actually finding gear from previous dungeons (due to crafting materials dropping more often) for glamour purposes...is there a solution in the works so that gear may drop alongside the materials instead?

Or at the very least, the possibility of implementing a new retainer exploration option so they can go obtain some for us?

[Cyrusskorrey]

The games provided method of obtaining outdated content is improperly curved.
outdated gear
outdated items
outdated crafts

Gear: Ilv gear 55,60,70 and 80 the RNG chests is a time consuming method for obtaining. and in certain dungeons they share a chest with 20 crafting items
Items: Crafting mats that use to be bought with Phil and Myth are now drops in dungeons. and while the drop rate is nice. its just another time sink
Outdated crafts: all ilv60-90 gear requires more time and effort than the new ilv110 gear.

In a recent test i found that after leveling a new character it is EASIER to gear them out in crafted gear ilv 50 gear then farming Soldiery and Poetics to gear out in 100+ gear.
i save more time by just working on the current content provided and just forgetting about the old content.

the curve just feels wrong. shouldnt the weaker crafted gear be easier to make and why on earth do they take so much time to make?

[Wings]

Personal rooms and FC's

I must say I find it rather unreasonable that if someone leaves or is kicked from their FC, they should lose their personal room too. Is there any way to tie it to one of the inns while the person changes FC? Or have them able to choose to let it remain there, opening up personal rooms to those who don't have housing? (A friend of mine suggested an "apartment building" in Mor Dhona XD) In a world of magic and teleportation crystals, it doesn't feel so far-fetched that the door, the portal to your room, could change location. After all, a house that is pretty small on the outside has one door that leads to several rooms =)