A few Ideas

[BH5432]

Hey all.
I started playing FFXIV about 7 months ago. And while I have been playing several things have come to mind. Ideas for ways to improve things. Some large. Some small. And in no particular order.
Glamour System
- I suggest that the Glamour system be reworked to a degree. For starters. Have every item that can be affected by Glamour already in the system. So when you open up the UI everything is already there. Sets are assembled. And you can easily use the fitting room to create sets and dye them within one UI. To unlock items you still need the item and a prism. So the economy stays and in fact, gets better as everyone clamors to put all the gear they have stored away into the system. Make it a one-time thing. As you no longer have to worry about a limited inventory for your Glamour drawer there is no need to take anything back out. It also stops hackers from selling all your glam items.
- Make a craftable item that allows the use of glamour plates anywhere for a short time. Prisms would allow for changing the glam on an individual piece of gear from the UI instead of having the item on you.
- Store dyes in the Glamour UI. They must be manually put in and cannot be taken back out. Max stack of like 99.
- Show in the Glamour UI where you can find that item or set.
- Armor with Multiple dye options. (I wanna look like one of the Gotei 13 captains from Bleach on my sam)
ToolTips
- In crafting mat tooltips. Please add what crafting jobs use them. So I can see at a glance what it's used for.
- In gear tooltips. Please tell me if I have that item in ANY of my inventories. I'm saving gear on my retainers for alt jobs and don't wanna roll on items I already have.
Misc
- Allow a dismount on attack option in the character options. Essentially if you hit an attack that would successfully execute you will dismount and execute it.
- I'd like to see the ability to have a second setting for character battle effects for when you're in an alliance raid or normal 8 man. I love having battle effects on full most of the time but in an alliance raid there is just too many flashy graphics to see the telegraphs on the ground. Id like an option that auto lowers it to Limited when I enter an alliance raid then puts it back to full after.
- When in a Party. An arrow on the edge of the minimap to your party members.

I hope thats everything. And I hope some of you all like my suggestions. I'll also be posting this in the forums to see what people there think too.

[Sated]

- In gear tooltips. Please tell me if I have that item in ANY of my inventories. I'm saving gear on my retainers for alt jobs and don't wanna roll on items I already have.

You can check this by clicking the item and doing "Search for Item" or by using the /isearch command to check your inventories (and then using "Search for Item" from the list of results).
Edit: I realize now you might mean literally equipped on your retainers, in which case yea I don't think it checks that. It also doesn't check housing/storage for furniture I think.

A lot of the stuff above would be good QoL improvements but I think some would be difficult given how their code is set up, which is usually a huge hurdle for any changes.

[Elladie]

Unfortunately this game was built very quickly on old coding from 1.x that causes issues especially with stuff like inventories, the armoury and the glamour system. The current glamour system is pretty new, and they do update it but only really to expand the number of storage slots and plates. From dev statements on this subject it sounds like most of the things you're suggesting - marvellous though they are - will pretty much make the game explode.

Is this a problem? It's certainly annoying. Should they sort it so this old code isn't an issue anymore? That would be fantastic. Will they do it? Highly unlikely because it would probably mean taking the game offline for a period of time, thus losing them money and players. At this point it's more economically viable and makes more sense to start designing a new MMO behind the scenes and let this one go the way of XI. Which is still fairly popular in fact

[Rymm]

Welcome to the game! I hope you're enjoying it. ^_^
About your suggestions-

Pretty much everything you've said about glamour and dye has already been asked for. A lot. While it'd be nice to get a clone of WoW's transmog system/GW2's dye system, I wouldn't hold your breath since the game is built on a foundation of spaghetti code that generally causes the devs to hand-wave most UI update requests.

Not sure if you're aware of some of the other short-cuts or not, but in case you aren't-

- In gear tooltips. Please tell me if I have that item in ANY of my inventories. I'm saving gear on my retainers for alt jobs and don't wanna roll on items I already have.

Typing /isearch nameofitemyou'relookingfor in your chat box will check all of your inventories, retainers, etc. for it.

- Allow a dismount on attack option in the character options. Essentially if you hit an attack that would successfully execute you will dismount and execute it.

Your draw/sheath weapon hotkey (Z by default on PC) will dismount you. It's not a perfect fix but it might make it a little easier for you.

[Brightamethyst]

I want a 'what can I craft with this item' lookup in the crafting UI. I'm tired of having to google it every time I obtain an item I'm not immediately familiar with.

[Mahrze]

I want a 'what can I craft with this item' lookup in the crafting UI. I'm tired of having to google it every time I obtain an item I'm not immediately familiar with.

This is such a mood.

[Enkidoh]

Unfortunately this game was built very quickly on old coding from 1.x that causes issues especially with stuff like inventories, the armoury and the glamour system. The current glamour system is pretty new, and they do update it but only really to expand the number of storage slots and plates. From dev statements on this subject it sounds like most of the things you're suggesting - marvellous though they are - will pretty much make the game explode.

Is this a problem? It's certainly annoying. Should they sort it so this old code isn't an issue anymore? That would be fantastic. Will they do it? Highly unlikely because it would probably mean taking the game offline for a period of time, thus losing them money and players. At this point it's more economically viable and makes more sense to start designing a new MMO behind the scenes and let this one go the way of XI. Which is still fairly popular in fact

This is actually a myth - ARR runs on entirely new code and a new graphic engine (there is gear and stuff from 1.0 but these are rendered in the new engine, and 1.0 character data is just references in a database controlling stuff like setting your EXP level at start), the trouble is the game was designed as a 'closed system' that makes it difficult to implement major alterations into the code, and it is this reason why things like a better glamour system cannot be implemented - the glamour dresser is using workarounds to make it function (this is why you could not remove gear stored in it at first - they were testing the system carefully to ensure the workarounds were stable, and only when they were certain it was not going to crash or even break the game completely did they add the ability to remove gear from it).

It was simple pragmatism - their priority when ARR was designed was to get the base systems of the game up and running and especially stable (unlike 1.0 which was notoriously buggy and unstable as hell) and that meant sacrificing 'fluff' like glamour for later inclusion, and by the time it was implemented the game was already well advanced.

Either way, FFXIV supposedly running on '1.0 spaghetti code' is just a stupid meme at this point with no basis in reality. ARR uses entirely new underlying code, but the client is programmed in such a way that major changes cannot be implemented into it easily. It's unfortunate, but that's life I'm afraid.

[Mahrze]

Either way, FFXIV supposedly running on '1.0 spaghetti code' is just a stupid meme at this point with no basis in reality. ARR uses entirely new underlying code, but the client is programmed in such a way that major changes cannot be implemented into it easily. It's unfortunate, but that's life I'm afraid.

Rumor or not, it doesn't take away that by this time in its life-cyle it already looks like it needs a considerable overhaul if they want to keep it adding/upgrading systems and features.

[Anienai]

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