Update on Future UI Changes.

[Riaayo]

Just have achievement rewards sent to you through the mail. You can even attach a lovely letter from said NPC to the item so people can still feel like it came from said npc... but having to go all over the map to claim rewards/titles isn't necessary. You already completed the achievement.

Really wish people would stop complaining to keep every little piece of design that makes the game take a few more minutes to do things that don't NEED to take a long time, thus making the whole game take forever to do anything just because someone wanted something to be "more realistic" or whatever. I remember when it took so long to npc vendor things in the beta that I didn't even clean out my inventory anymore... and it ruined the game. The AH and the inability to sell damaged gear STILL does this, as another example of things that are just more convoluted and time-consuming / annoying than they need to be. Ifrit should not be simple to kill, but selling an item on the AH or receiving a reward you unlocked should be.

[Rukkirii]

Bump for UI changes!


In the current version of the game, the action bar and macro palette are independent from each other; however, in A Realm Reborn both the action bar and macro palette will be unified as a hot bar.

It will be possible to set actions, user macros, emotes, and other things and execute them by clicking on the hot bar. We are also planning to have a large amount of slots available for you to play with!

Sounds good, huh?

[PSxpert2011]

Meh v.v;

I've gotten used to action/ macro bars

v.v;

[Doho]

well you'll still use the same shortcuts, just the bars are all visible at the same time. works for me lol

[PSxpert2011]

This whole "UI improvements" seems like a waste of RPG game potential when all I need to know is the obvious.

I'm sorry Am a FFxi Vet (sinse 2004)and most of this intel on screen is situational but not worth the time when your suppose to focus on the action. I'll be checking all this garbage 'off' when I finally log into 2.0, the fun for me in discovering the new world(and NOT afraid of getting lost).

How are we going to play through a full HUB with all these distractions of numbers, colors and meters when we need to type, run, click and every other thing we're having a challenge doing on our own already?
I can see the same as:
driving in fast/heavy traffic and you know other drivers could easily be distracted by either cell-phone or GPSs. It's already hard enough to discern who knows what their doing.


I really feel these UI friendly functions are upgrades to a player base but a downgrade to Final Fantasy quality and skillful community.
What would really improve this game is to know if SE is planning to extend our display/ HUB value!

[PSxpert2011]

well you'll still use the same shortcuts, just the bars are all visible at the same time. works for me lol

That cool and all but I can deal with the option to make it appear and disappear when I'm not using it.

[Allistar]

Bump for UI changes!


In the current version of the game, the action bar and macro palette are independent from each other; however, in A Realm Reborn both the action bar and macro palette will be unified as a hot bar.

It will be possible to set actions, user macros, emotes, and other things and execute them by clicking on the hot bar. We are also planning to have a large amount of slots available for you to play with!

Sounds good, huh?

Any word on a text based menu UI and a macro system like XI for someone like me who really dosen't care much for the action bar???

[Ricky]

Bump for UI changes!


In the current version of the game, the action bar and macro palette are independent from each other; however, in A Realm Reborn both the action bar and macro palette will be unified as a hot bar.

It will be possible to set actions, user macros, emotes, and other things and execute them by clicking on the hot bar. We are also planning to have a large amount of slots available for you to play with!

Sounds good, huh?

yep, sounds good, I don't really mind hitting alt or ctrl to bring up the macro menu but if we can remove one extra keystroke then why not
Will be nice

[Nikita]

That cool and all but I can deal with the option to make it appear and disappear when I'm not using it.

If they don't give you the option in the stock UI I am sure that someone will make an addon that will do that for you.



In fact, If the addons are like "that other MMO", players will be free to go as far as making their UI look exactly like FFXI.... if... they really wanted to... xD

[Ingolf]

This whole "UI improvements" seems like a waste of RPG game potential when all I need to know is the obvious.

I'm sorry Am a FFxi Vet (sinse 2004)and most of this intel on screen is situational but not worth the time when your suppose to focus on the action. I'll be checking all this garbage 'off' when I finally log into 2.0, the fun for me in discovering the new world(and NOT afraid of getting lost).

How are we going to play through a full HUB with all these distractions of numbers, colors and meters when we need to type, run, click and every other thing we're having a challenge doing on our own already?
I can see the same as:
driving in fast/heavy traffic and you know other drivers could easily be distracted by either cell-phone or GPSs. It's already hard enough to discern who knows what their doing.


I really feel these UI friendly functions are upgrades to a player base but a downgrade to Final Fantasy quality and skillful community.
What would really improve this game is to know if SE is planning to extend our display/ HUB value!

The more information you have, the better player you become.