Auto-saving Chat Log

[Loony_BoB]

I noticed in the translations thread that the length of the chat log will be much longer in future. However, I would like to know a couple of things...

1. Will all data be logged, or will NPCs just say their bit and the text be gone forever the moment you skip to the next bit?

2. Will it be possible for it to be properly logged, as in, automatically saved to a text file on your PC similar to that seen in almost every popular chat system?

I'd be gutted if these aren't implemented in the long run. If you accidentally skip text on the first bit, it would be lost forever and that would be really frustrating not knowing what was said. For the second, I personally adore being able to go back through my old logs and it shouldn't take much (if any at all) processing power on the server-end. It could be disabled by default, too, in case anyone is worrying that the chatlog would grow too large.

Pretty please, SE?

[Reika]

The chat log did save automatically in 1.0..... but they were garbaled and kinda unreadable lol. It would be good if they fixed it up so its readable.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

will it not be delay like in 1.0 server? idk why many time after the merge especially, i always have this chat delay or sort, is something like while i playing i never see a chat pop out then a few minutes that can be hour or so, wooooooooooosh all the previous chat come out. =.=" IS SO ANNOYING especially in instance dungeon and in PUB group. =.= can't even communicate with anyone unless i say it ini /say and they reply me in /say, all my other chat like /linkshell, /party, /shout get delays or something.

like wth?

[Loony_BoB]

The chat log did save automatically in 1.0..... but they were garbaled and kinda unreadable lol. It would be good if they fixed it up so its readable.

Really!? =o Oh, man, where do I find it? xD

[Reika]

My Documents/My Games/Final Fantasy XIV/user/somenumbers/log

but like I said, they are unreadable, or at least very hard to make out who said what since everything is bunched together, but they are chat logs. They need to make the auto-log saving they had going on actually usable.

[Loony_BoB]

Thanks! And yes, I agree 100%.