Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

Suggestion: Allow you to select your own battle music (or no battle music at all), even in Escha/Reisenjima.

We are already allowed to select our own title menu music. I think it seems like a bit of a shame we can't select our own Overworld/Dungeon battle music (I understand if they want boss battles to remain constant for thematic reasons however), especially since, as the game exists now, you don't really get to hear them unless you deliberately play a low level job to level in these places. Some of them are quite good too, like the RoZ overworld or WotG overworld. At the same time, I find not having a separate battle theme from time to time has its own merits. I would suggest a menu like:

Default
Base Game (Overworld)
Base Game (Dungeon)
Zilart (Overworld)
Zilart (Dungeon)
Promathia (Overworld)
Promathia (Dungeon)
Aht Urhgan (Overworld)
Aht Urhgan (Dungeon)
Goddess (Overworld)
Goddess (Dungeon)
Abyssea
Adoulin
No Music

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Originally Posted by Lastarael

I know this is not relevant to most players these days, but I have been begging for this for years. I'm one of the last chocobo breeders on Odin, and am one of the few people who actually sell chococards. I have plenty of buyers, and have trouble transferring the cards from my three chocobo-breeding mules to my bazaar mule, as it requires me to frequently impose on one of my friends to transfer large amounts of cards between my characters. Would it really be too difficult to make Chococards able to be sent via delivery box between same-account characters? This would make a huge difference in my "quality of life" in-game and save me and my friends a lot of hassle. Please please please, devs, put some thought into this.

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Hello!

This is something that we just might be able to do! The team will take a look at enabling chococard transferring between characters within the same account, and as long as there are no major issues, they'll work towards getting this feature implemented in the next version update at the earliest.

Thanks for your feedback concerning chococards and stay tuned for updates!

Is it possible to remove hit detection from trusts?

It may be a bit silly, but would it be possible for a way to see if we already have a trust or not when we try to buy a cipher?

There are a lot of trusts and I honestly struggle to remember if I have some or not.

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Originally Posted by Jin_Uzuki

It may be a bit silly, but would it be possible for a way to see if we already have a trust or not when we try to buy a cipher?

There are a lot of trusts and I honestly struggle to remember if I have some or not.

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Agreed completely.

Since you expanded the areas for mounts, do you think you could do the same for Monipulators? The current selection is pretty limited...Especially for Belligerancy.

Either Belligerancy needs to be expanded to more areas, or the cap to 10000 infamy gain needs to be removed from non-Belligerancy areas. Right now I feel forced to level my monipulators only in the three Belligerancy Areas because otherwise I get no Infamy alongside my exp.

I'd also like to reiterate that the key item for gladiators needs to be fixed so that it becomes permanent (you could set Gladiator Mode to be flagged off and on similarly to Seeking Party or Level Sync.), and also allow gladiators ride chocobos/mounts. Having to drop the key item to ride a chocobo is absurd.

My Monipulator would be so happy with even just one of these fixes.

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Originally Posted by Dyrandal

Is it possible to remove hit detection from trusts?

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They..kind of require hit detection. Unless you're talking about them only attacking when you melee? That's required too so they don't run wild attacking everything that moves. Pretty sure SE explained that at one point when trusts were kinda new.

I think he means collision detection with trusts, which I would agree with. Wading through a sea of trusts is a pain at dragons, and hiding them completely kinda removes the fun of it. Even if it's just turning it off for other people's trusts would significantly help.

Once you hide the display of other peoples' trusts, you'll never go back.

Going through Windurst storyline mission (I'm originally form Sandy), I noticed, would it be possible to allow to "skip" some of the Shadowlord related missions?

For example, the Magicite one:

- It's the same for all nations. There are more stuff in Windurst 1-1 than 4-1 from my perspective now.
- The ability to skip some missions already exist.
- It's a bit silly from a story perspective, which it's weird given how the FFXI team tends to give you "alternate" CS to maintain some kind of continuity. I am the slayer of pretty much every single storyline boss, but here I am, talking to Jeuno's Duke (who should be dead) about the Shadowlord's menace and the magicites lol.

Thinking bout it, I think the storyline would greatly improved by making Shadowlord missions optional when you are replaying a nation storyline.

Are there any plans to increase the number of Macro Gear Sets? Although it initially sounds like a lot, 100 sets isn't enough for preparing multiple endgame jobs. (especially if you want to use Job Ability sets, for multiple jobs)

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Originally Posted by Stompa

I suggested something similar a few times in recent years. The core battle music is of course awesome, but we also have to remember that we've been listening to it for over a decade. If we kill a lot of mobs, we've heard non-stop Battle Music for many years!

A few years ago, I suggested a Key Item, iMog Player, a magical Walkman-type device that plays any music in the game continuously on a loop, regardless of circumstance, battle or area. So if you really love Sarutabaruta music as much as I do (and that is a LOT of love) you could choose to have this music playing instead of battle music. Or the Oldton Movalpolos super seventies disco music, or any other game music.

Or simply having a disable/enable toggle on battle music, so you can listen to the native ambient music of the area you're XPing in.

I would prefer the iMog Player, so I can listen to Sarutabaruta and Oldton music regardless of where I am. But a battle music on/off toggle would also be good enough.

I don't think there was a reply to my previous suggestions, or maybe a no current plans reply. It didn't really get much traction, lol.


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One of the Lore ideas I was toying with, was that you could select a soundtrack on your Orchestrion while you are in your Moghouse, and there would be a toggle option "play this music on your iMog remote player?"

If you select "yes" then the music will continue to play after leaving your Moghouse, and will not stop playing until you go back to the Moghouse and change it, or use the CONFIG "disable iMog player" option.

The Lore is that you already have an Orchestrion machine in your Moghouse which plays music, which you can select at will. And your Moogle can use a magical device to remotely transmit this Moghouse music to you via Moogle Power, so that you can enjoy the current Moghouse music even when you are away from the Moghouse, and even during battles.
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It's already pretty easy to achieve that just by swapping DAT files around. The data files containing the music are pretty well documented now. There are even tools for swapping the DATs you want.

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Originally Posted by bungiefanNA

It's already pretty easy to achieve that just by swapping DAT files around. The data files containing the music are pretty well documented now. There are even tools for swapping the DATs you want.

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In general, I don't think we discuss modifying the game in such ways on Square Enix's OF.

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Originally Posted by OmnysValefor

One of the suggestions I've seen that I've really liked is that mastering a job allows you to fully merit everything for the job.

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While this is an interesting idea, the entire concept of merit points is very different from job points, especially in the sense that they can be earned on any job you wish. Balance adjustments have been made based on the caps for each job’s merit point categories, so making it possible to max out each one would result in the necessity for re-balancing. Due to these reasons we do not have any plans at the moment to make it possible to max out all merit point categories.

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Originally Posted by Camate

While this is an interesting idea, the entire concept of merit points is very different from job points, especially in the sense that they can be earned on any job you wish. Balance adjustments have been made based on the caps for each job’s merit point categories, so making it possible to max out each one would result in the necessity for re-balancing. Due to these reasons we do not have any plans at the moment to make it possible to max out all merit point categories.

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So not only are you not a master, there really would be little balancing needed, NONE of the merit point buffs are anything to shout home about.

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Originally Posted by Jakuk

So not only are you not a master, there really would be little balancing needed, NONE of the merit point buffs are anything to shout home about.

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So if Merits are so useless there's no point SE doing anything then, is there?

And let's face it, capping JPs seems to be simply running round the end-game zone in a party AoEing everything in sight for hours on end, hardly difficult merely a horrendous time-sink which I guess some people equate to 'difficult' and thus worthy of some sort of reward.

Could we get a buff/status icon that displays the amount of time we have left for our current chain timer? That would be amazing.

Merit "balance" was kinda throw out of the window when every piece of equipment started to give you a bazillion of + in each stat.

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

So if Merits are so useless there's no point SE doing anything then, is there?

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I suppose you simply chose to not read what I wrote if that's what you got from it.

Eh, considering you can regain merits to re-spec with such ease nowadays the limit is mostly an inconvenience rather than a balance issue.

And while I personally don't care about maxing merits I think saying that maxing categories would require rebalancing in post ilvl XI is just plain silly.

Please resume development on the updated UI!

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Originally Posted by Camate

While this is an interesting idea, the entire concept of merit points is very different from job points, especially in the sense that they can be earned on any job you wish. Balance adjustments have been made based on the caps for each job’s merit point categories, so making it possible to max out each one would result in the necessity for re-balancing. Due to these reasons we do not have any plans at the moment to make it possible to max out all merit point categories.

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Perhaps it could be addressed on a job-by-job basis? I doubt that there would be any balance implications if BLM could max out all AMII's or RDM could get all their debuffs. It always seemed rather unfair that certain jobs have to spread out their merits more than others just to get the base functionality. There are also quite a few that feel like they should be baked-in to the jobs rather than merit choices at this point.

For example, BST's "Beast Affinity" is essentially required to compensate for the undocumented oddities of jug pets. (There is nothing on the jugs that state their level when used in ilvl gear, which determines the level they spawn at.) Not choosing Double/Triple Attack for WAR/THF is most likely a bad choice.

Choices like those don't really count as "choices" if not choosing them is a flat-out error. Maybe we can get some of the "choices" like these converted into traits @ 99? If not, maybe simply increase the cap by 5 in each category for jobs that have 4-5 choices, and allow the elemental categories to be fully capped? (or at least possible to have even numbers across them all? Asymmetry bothers me.)

I've always been of the mind that ANY merit JA or Spell should be learned naturally with the merit then enhancing it in some manner. I'd honestly extend this to the WS nowadays, too. As others have frequently noted, not all merits (or categories) are created equal.

Any plans to allow people entry in Vagary or Delve alone, like with Dyna?

Any chance we could get the combat/magic skill displays to show every skill type you've unlocked a job for(instead of only the skills your immediate job allows for), as well as your actual value per whatever job it's the highest on, and lastly the cap you're currently capable of?

<stenemy>, {Can I have it?}

The functionality exists in game, since if you select an offensive spell/JA from the menu, it won't let you cast it on a random npc. Can we have a "macro pronoun" that exactly mimics this?

<stnpc> exists but it will pick up soul pyres, ???s, npc objects.

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Originally Posted by Seriha

I've always been of the mind that ANY merit JA or Spell should be learned naturally with the merit then enhancing it in some manner. I'd honestly extend this to the WS nowadays, too. As others have frequently noted, not all merits (or categories) are created equal.

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Doesn't happen naturally because the client's hardcoding. They're through merits/JP because it allows them to introduce new skills/abilities/etc beyond that hardcoded limit.

please add a feature that allows to buy 99 Displacers in Jugner forest or change default option to "yes" so ppl can just spam enter. buying 300-400 displacers in chatspam aint exactly fun. :)

Yeah, there's a /targetbnpc, but I think they forgot the <tag> version. The former's obviously useless if you're already engaged to a mob.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Doesn't happen naturally because the client's hardcoding. They're through merits/JP because it allows them to introduce new skills/abilities/etc beyond that hardcoded limit.

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You don't know this, and there's no evidence to support this, especially since the merit system, in its full scope, existed prior to the addition of the four most recent jobs. Supporting my argument, all four of those jobs (SCH, DNC, GEO, RUN) have a plethora of baseline abilities and/or spells unique to the job.

The design of the merit system didn't have had anything to do with compartmentalizing abilities/spells for programming reasons.

As to job points, a few jobs get spells through JP that other jobs get baseline. It's done this way merely for the sake of feeling like your character is growing stronger, in regard to both systems.

Are we ever going to see more High Tier Battlefields? It upsets me a bit to see this seems to be content they're no longer interested in pursuing. Especially since there are some battles they could reasonably get more content out of it.

Battles against Lady Lilith and Hades for starters- granted, in Hades, case, it would probably be only level 119 and above. Bahamut and Apocalypse Nigh would also be opportunities. Even a Very Difficult Cloud of Darkness. I, for one, would love a fight against Cloud of Darkness that isn't even remotely soloable.

It seems like an opportunity for more content that ought to be easier to create, but is not Ambuscade.

May have already been mentioned before, but what is the deal with trust using high level weaponskills at lower levels like 5? Anyway players can use unlocked weapon skills at any level, so long as they unlocked it with the necessary skill requirement in general? If this has been mentioned or shot down before, don't mind it; this would be great for guys like me getting back into the groove or players doing capped content.

ive been to mayb 3 cap parties yes only three ive solod almost 1k cap points on rdm and im not about to zerg high lvl mobs in a party that only wants my rdm as a healer when other jobs do much better at healing nucing tanking buffing u name it rdm is on the end of the list... i heal i get hate im dead(0 defence stoneskin melts like a newb) i nuc also dead...debuff a fe times again ive got hate same dead....buff up new mobs dont like it so again im dead ...maybe a repeating pattern? idk

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Originally Posted by Evogolist

So there's one of these type of threads on the FFXIV forums, but when I come here there seems to be a lot of suggestions for different stuff, but not a thread where many people can come and post all of there suggestions in one place for the devs to look at all once. So I thought that it would be a great idea to make this thread. And seeing as how over the last 2-3 years the devs have become more responsive, I figured, why not give it a try? So what are some things that could help make this game better for both new and veteran players?

Here's two things from me that I feel should be addressed to help make a player's life in the game easier and bring the game up to date with current MMO's.

1) Make locating quest NPCs and/or quest description easier I think one of the biggest issues and gripes of the game is not knowing which npcs are quest givers, let alone which ones are related to a particular quest. The only way that a player can even identify who is who is by either having a hard copy of an out of date Brady's Guide like I do, or searching the web for a guide. In today's MMO's, quest npcs have become a lot easier to locate due to having some sort of Icon to signal that they are a quest giver or associated with a quest that a player has currently undertaken. I think the addition of this would alleviate a lot of stress that comes with doing quests in the game.

2) Empyrean Armor Seals Storage. This is by far the biggest issue I have to date. Nothing sucks more than having a bunch of for your Empyrean Armor taking up a lot of inventory space. Sure I could just drop what I don't need for my main job, but then the problem that comes in is what happens when I need to reacquire those same seals later on in my FFXI career for another job? Having an npc that players can store those excessive amounts of seals on would do wonders for people like myself who like to level and play multiple jobs.

I do have one more suggestion that came to mind as I was typing.

3) Artifact Weapon Upgrades. With the newly acquired ability to reforge and upgrade our Relic/Mythic/Empyrean Weapons I couldn't help but wonder, what happened to our very first special weapon...our Artifact Weapons? Back in the day, Artifact weapons were the first step to mastering you role/job. For some jobs, the artifact weapon was an useful addition to a lvl 40-42 job, but for others they were just an road block that needed to be passed in order to get your af body armor. My suggestion is to allow us to reforge them as well. Some players may gripe about having to upgrade yet another weapon, but the great thing about this game is that you always have some piece of gear that's more useful than others.

Last one from me

4) NPC Adventuring Fellow armor upgrades. While most people complain about not being able to lvl their npc fellow the last 4 lvls, my complaint is a bit more different and I don't think most people have mentioned this. Why is it that our npcs our still stuck wearing outdated pre-CoP gear? I mean how is it that they were released like a patch or two after the release of CoP and yet, you can't equip them with even that expansion's set of gear. I mean sure, while gear absolutely has no effect on your npc fellow's stats, I think it would be nice to have gear options that are more up to date with the latest expansion as opposed to Vanilla or RoTZ out dated gear. So why not SE? Trust npcs are nice, you've really neglected our npc fellows over the years.
















That's it for me, but what other suggestions do you guys have that could help make this game better and breathe new life into the game?

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make the things that happen in the past have results(or lack) in present.... example u have prisoners in al zhibi why not do same in past ....exomille captured in past missing in present till hes returned....wont make a great deal of change in some npc's but results in others missing will be needing a direct responce .... i used to come acrossed npc's missing with the message "(NPC<NAME> needed a coffee break hell/shell be back in a vadeil day) dont see those anymore

With the chocobo changes I've been messing around with raising and racing the birds again, and I got to thinking: Since we now have the warp networks that let us instantly zip around between cities, could you remove the forced entrance/exit lockout on the Chocobo Circuit? There's no reason to force a player to leave through the same city door they entered from anymore, or force us to use a specific entrance to reach our Free Run NPC.

With the changes this month to the sparks npc making it easier to buy the same item repeatedly, how about changing Prize Powders so they stack to 99? Would be a small amount of work for a major impact on QOL (particularly for newer players.) You are allowed to buy hundreds at a time, but 12/stack makes it become a lot of extra time, inventory space, and keystrokes (laptop's getting old, starting to worry about keyboard wearing out lol) to sell to an npc.

How about reducing respawn timers on monsters in all zones released prior to Seekers of Adoulin to 5 minutes or less?

It's easier/faster than ever to get from level 1 to 99 and even the most casual players are running around in item level 117 gear, so it doesn't make any sense to have to wait 10-15 mins, and in some cases even longer, for monsters in older zones to respawn. Is there any practical reason as to why such a change wouldn't/shouldn't happen?

I know I might the only person here who cares about campaign. But can you please lower the amount of Campaign ops it takes to unlock the next tier? You lower the Requirement from 3-6 people to 1 person. But you realize that when they completed it, it was 6 people turning it in at once compare to just me trying to spam it over and over. It literally takes hrs for me to unlock the next tier.

Dear SE and fellow adventurers,
What do you think about a "Preferred Trust" option for solo play. This would work like the preferred locations we have for home point and manual. Let us select the trusts that u use the most so you can summon them all at once instead of one by one.
I dont know about other players but when I solo I usually play with the same trusts and only change them for things like dyna.

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Originally Posted by vienne

Dear SE and fellow adventurers,
What do you think about a "Preferred Trust" option for solo play. This would work like the preferred locations we have for home point and manual. Let us select the trusts that u use the most so you can summon them all at once instead of one by one.
I dont know about other players but when I solo I usually play with the same trusts and only change them for things like dyna.

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Not a bad idea, but people shoot it down with "just make a macro".