Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII! (Lead UI Minagawa)

[Gildrein]

Greetings, everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part XXVIII! This next Live Letter will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 3:00 a.m. (PDT) / 10:00 (GMT)!

In this thread we'd like you to pose questions for Lead UI Artist Hiroshi Minagawa.
Please forward questions on the game's UI design and also general questions about him in person.

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[reiichi]

We've seen that additional status icons can be implemented in the game like the new icons for the Mentor System. Would something similar be possible for people who roleplay on FFXIV to denote either a "looking for roleplay" or "in-character for roleplay" status?

[Kai_Lee]

Can we get special icons for triple triad npcs even after we have beat them on the mini map?

[uberr3tronerd]

Would it be possible at all in the future to perhaps have a DPS class that uses twin swords, i understand the Ninja is slightly like that with twin dagger type weapons but being a class wielding dual swords would be pretty amazing to see and become.

Perhaps not in the upcoming updates as i can understand making a new class and balancing their stats is something that will take a while, but perhaps food for thought in the next expansion?

Thank you for your time

[Teiren]

For Machinist and Bard actions, there's a delay between when the procs for Slug Shot/Clean Shot and Straight Shot are triggered and when that proc buff shows on the Flying Text (+Improved Slug Shot, Straighter Shot, etc). This encourages staring at your hotbar for the highlighted icon or proc buff instead of reacting to the flying text.

Could the flying text be updated so that it's perfectly synced with the hotbar and buff bar?

[Teiren]

Speaking of having to stare at your hotbar, could there be some kind of notification for when Bloodletter/Rain of Death's recast is reset?

I don't play BRD, but I'm worried about any future jobs having terribly annoying procs like this. This might be outside the scope of UI design because even though my issue could be solved with something like a 1 second "dummy buff" every time Bloodletter resets, the "gain buff, lose buff" sound effects would get really annoying fast.

[Teiren]

Have you considered an option to show select hotbars only while in combat and otherwise hide them while out of combat?

[Teiren]

During preliminary development of A Realm Reborn, Yoshida said he directed all of the developers to play other MMORPGs to get a feel for what gameplay designs a modern MMORPG should have.

While playing other MMOs, did you come across a special UI or unique interface feature that really impressed you? If so, is it something you'd like to implement in FFXIV one day?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Can you please let us disable the red error message text that appears on screen or be able to move it in the hud layout ?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Can you make it so we can reposition the flying text ?