Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

Another way this could be implemented would be like the records of eminence quests (storyline, not goals). When you enter a zone and meet the requirements for the starter quest as well as after you've completed 50 of them (and I assume 100) you see a short message to the extent of "You have an inclination you should speak with [NPC Name] around [Position]".

If you have a lot of quests flagged this could spam your chat log so a little text command to enable/disable it would be great. I don't know if other people are like me, but I'll get into "quest mode" where all I'll want to do are quests for a day or week, and then I'll decide to focus on battle content for a while, so enabling/disabling this would be great.

This would resemble the recommendations feature of XIV more than the floating quest icons.

Greetings, everyone!

I have a couple of quality of life-related updates I would like to share with you.

First, the below is a comment from Akihiko Matsui in regards to item stacking.

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Originally Posted by Akihiko_Matsui

Matsui here.

Items that cannot be stacked are mainly separated into two different groups.

The first group is items that system-wise cannot be stacked.

This would be items such as equipment, large fish, and furnishings that cannot stack due to the fact they have additional information added to them such as augments, size/weight, and layout information.

The other group is items that cannot be stacked from a lore-perspective.

For example, ore, logs, skins, and other materials before they are processed to ingots or other items have been set so they cannot be stacked due to the fact that their size would make adventurers’ gobbiebags too huge to carry.

For the former, it would be difficulty system-wise to change this, but for material items and such that cannot stack due to lore, we would like to make it so they can be stacked so players can more easily enjoy synthesis.

Similarly for ammo, we are planning to make it so Nokkhi Jinjahl will stack the newly added ammo, but in order to address new ammo with this NPC it requires a bit more time, and we appreciate your patience.

As there are a vast number of items to address in addition to auction house and delivery box adjustments for this, I cannot give a specific implementation time as of yet; however, we are in the process of working on this.

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Also, though not necessarily "quality of life," but still a nice adjustment that is on the horizon, we will be making it so slow affects enemies that only use AoE attacks as their regular attack in the March version update.

I'm all for lore but, if I can carry a large bed in my gobbie bag, I can carry several stacks of logs... :D

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

I'm all for lore but, if I can carry a large bed in my gobbie bag, I can carry several stacks of logs... :D

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This.

If i can shove 80 full sized Royal beds into my gobbie bag, there is no logical reason something like a small chunk of copper or zinc ore can't stack...

I don't bother with collecting ores and synthing them not because they don't stack but because I find mining unenjoyable. Stackable ore won't make finding mining points any less inane.

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

I don't bother with collecting ores and synthing them not because they don't stack but because I find mining unenjoyable. Stackable ore won't make finding mining points any less inane.

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But it will make worm parties and getting Norg fame less annoying!

(I know entirely too many people who got all the BB items and then realized they didn't have enough Norg fame to flag the quest...)

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Originally Posted by Camate

Stuff about stacks

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Yes please, yes please, yes please. Can you add potions, drinks and foods to that list? Honestly please make everything except the former list stack. Being able to carry a stack of yagudo drink or melon juice isn't gamebreaking, it's just pleasant. Also the number of unstackable foods is one of the things holding me back from cooking. Thank you!

Yes please! If I can effortlessly carry 3840 anvils in my undies and look none the worse for it, I should be able to do the same with things like yagudo necklaces and ores.

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Originally Posted by Olor

Yes please, yes please, yes please. Can you add potions, drinks and foods to that list? Honestly please make everything except the former list stack. Being able to carry a stack of yagudo drink or melon juice isn't gamebreaking, it's just pleasant. Also the number of unstackable foods is one of the things holding me back from cooking. Thank you!

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If you are willing to gamble, you can try your luck farming caskets in east altepa desert for a casaba melon tank. 50 charges to dispense melon juice. Overall, the zone has been pretty kind to me if I go to get a new one. But then again, it could turn out to be a 3 day affair like I ended up doing for herders subligar.

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Originally Posted by Xantavia

If you are willing to gamble, you can try your luck farming caskets in east altepa desert for a casaba melon tank. 50 charges to dispense melon juice. Overall, the zone has been pretty kind to me if I go to get a new one. But then again, it could turn out to be a 3 day affair like I ended up doing for herders subligar.

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Sadly you have to equip the tank and use it to get the juice out of it. Not useful in an urgent situation.

Hurray for stackable logs and ores!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Xantavia

If you are willing to gamble, you can try your luck farming caskets in east altepa desert for a casaba melon tank. 50 charges to dispense melon juice. Overall, the zone has been pretty kind to me if I go to get a new one. But then again, it could turn out to be a 3 day affair like I ended up doing for herders subligar.

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Mostly I just want to be able to stack juices I make. Juices would be great to level up cooking with if I didn't have to NPC them all. It seems so wasteful when I could be popping them for some smn leveling fun instead

here is my thought on this: only armor & other equipment shouldn't be able to be stacked. Everything else should be able to stack to 99, now I know we have the 12 stack system which is fine too. as long as it stacks in some way. Our gobbie bags are "magical" bags that allow us to carry a whole house worth of furnishings and lots and lots and lots of weapons armor, so as I understand that it seems like lore should play a part ... ummm it is a game ... in a game you can do what you want to do ... a stack of 12 logs or 12 ores is not that far fetched when as it have been mentioned previously several times we can carry things much larger in our bags. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Mr. Akihiko Matsui make the call, give us stacks! it will help with the inventory/storage room problems.

Okay I thought of something as I was going to bed. The ability to still see LS chat while zoning. I doubt this can be put in since it would have to include the ability to open up/keep open the chat log while zoning. I just wish we wouldn't have to wait to type something to our LS while zoning or to guess when another is done zoning so they don't miss something directed to them. I had thought of something else but at the moment I don't remember what it is.

To bring in an idea from another thread the ability to change hair/face styles.

Just remembered what my other idea was. Chocobo whistle, everyone needs one to ride their personal chocobo but you won't be able to have one if you accidentally forgot about your 1st chocobo during the time you are trying to find the person the lost chocobo belongs to. Soon after that is when you solve the handkerchief your chocobo found issue too and thus getting the whistle after that. There should be made a way to get the whistle even if you forgot about your 1st chocobo because let's face it raising one is boring even with the CS skip when doing the reports.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Just remembered what my other idea was. Chocobo whistle, everyone needs one to ride their personal chocobo but you won't be able to have one if you accidentally forgot about your 1st chocobo during the time you are trying to find the person the lost chocobo belongs to. Soon after that is when you solve the handkerchief your chocobo found issue too and thus getting the whistle after that. There should be made a way to get the whistle even if you forgot about your 1st chocobo because let's face it raising one is boring even with the CS skip when doing the reports.

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I can run faster than a Chocobo now (with appropriate gear / job) I'd like to see the rental / 1st class STR END Chocobo's speed upped considerably to be faster than players can run.

Yes but I think for most people riding a chocobo it being their own or a rental is for the music and not being hit by mobs. Also wish the chocobo song lasted til maybe five minutes left in the ride or something. Most zones don't have their own music so when the song ends with how it is now you end up with most of your trip in nothingness.

Should just be allowed to switch between once and repeat in some menu.

I know being able to get some maps can be hard to get even solo. One I think needs a change of some kind is getting the map of bostaunieux oubliette quest. Either have pirate attacks happen more often or raise the drop rate of the sand charm dropping off the skeletons or even the NM skeletons that can pop with these attacks. Another if they haven't changed this already is getting the map for old town movopolis as the chest could pop in a section where you still had to use another person to help you get to the chest.

A lot of the older maps that had quests to get them are actually buyable now in the starting nations at the map vendor, that's how I got my Bost<tab> map.

How about SE just gets rid of the NPC fellow system, and makes whatever fellow we create through the unlock quest part of our trust spells.

Make the summoning process use the trust system, sure, but I don't want to lose the ability to change their roles and weapons. Instead, I just want them to get access to a lot stronger weapons.

finally able to stack more stuff, thank you! it always irked me that huge ingots could stack but little itty bitty rings/earrings could not.

Okay took me awhile, but another suggestion popped into my head.

-How about a better/easier way to keep track of how many points or weapon skills are needed to complete the first set of quested weaponskills (i.e; Savage Blade, Empyreal Arrow, Decimation, Evisceration, etc.) Could be a counter system like with the magian trial where you can keep track of how many times you've used the weapon skills.

This could be really useful for those of us who might start the trial, but suddenly lose count from things such as real life distractions, disconnection from game, or having to log out for the day.

Greetings,

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Originally Posted by Demonjustin

Is there a way you can add a new form of marker such as a red one to go with the green & purple we already have, and let this new marker show the location of quest NPCs on your map? I understand being unable to show icons directly on the screen above a NPCs head, but I think this sounds more feasible and much less in the way.

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Unfortunately, the current client only allows 10 map markers to be displayed at the same time. Additionally, if we were to increase the amount of marker icons and colors there would consequently be an increase in lag. Due to this implementation of this suggestion is difficult.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Yes but I think for most people riding a chocobo it being their own or a rental is for the music and not being hit by mobs. Also wish the chocobo song lasted til maybe five minutes left in the ride or something. Most zones don't have their own music so when the song ends with how it is now you end up with most of your trip in nothingness.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Should just be allowed to switch between once and repeat in some menu.

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While this is possible from a technical standpoint, the development team would like to prioritize other tasks for the time being, and they do not have plans to do this at the moment.

So sometime down the road we will get the option of a longer chocobo music if we want to or not.

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Originally Posted by SilentSteel

A lot of the older maps that had quests to get them are actually buyable now in the starting nations at the map vendor, that's how I got my Bost<tab> map.

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Gosh, didn't know that, very cool thanks.

Okay thought of another QoL and it's all thanks to the campaign changes. Need to either place the npcs at the fortifications where the C.A's are or make the window pop ups for joining a union, turning in tags to either retag, or because you have to leave before the campaign is over quicker. I don't know how many times I couldn't do these things because of AoE spam by attackers or being buffed to the point where something finally realizes I have tags on or the AoEs kill me before I can finish.

What ever happened to the Dev note that said we will some day be able to further merit SP abilities down to 30min?

Also any plans for further job adjustments namely new job abilities? It feels like 95-99 most jobs didn't get much in terms of spells or JA, some jobs only got a buff to some useless trait like Crit Def Bonus(for DRG) while others got powerful spells like Meteor or Arise. Any plans to give some jobs a JA 95-99? Also maybe an NM or event dropped spell for RDM? Gravity II hardly seems like an ultimate RDM spell compared to Arise/Meteor. Maybe Temper II(castable on others), Brave/Faith/Reflect/Might, you know, those spells in the .dat files that have animations but were never implemented? Those could be used to make RDM more interesting. A shared timer Job Ability with Super Jump would be neat. It could be a 3min recast like Super Jump and share its timer but instead of removing enmity and removing the Dragoon from combat, it would instead deal triple damage and give back 4x TP. An offensive alternative to Super Jump :)

To make Magian weapons serve a purpose other than now ignoring them completely, would it be possible to transfer the augment buff to an equivalent Eminent Weapon? (Would make Magian trials worth doing again, make Geodes and avatarites be something more than vendor trash)

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Originally Posted by Teraniku

To make Magian weapons serve a purpose other than now ignoring them completely, would it be possible to transfer the augment buff to an equivalent Eminent Weapon? (Would make Magian trials worth doing again, make Geodes and avatarites be something more than vendor trash)

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I'd actually prefer it if they let us keep building them to additional ilvls, make them slightly better than eminent weapons.

New suggestion: Consolidate some currencies.

Take a peek at the Currencies list and you'll see just how ridiculous the growing list of currencies is. I'm aware that many of them had their uses at one point, but can't many of them be combined?

Assault points really don't need to be separated by zone anymore, now that the gear is irrelevant. (edit: Hell, roll it all up with Imperial Standing as well)
Sparks, Tabs, and Kinetic Units could be combined into one without much difficulty since they all have a fairly low cap, and are meant to be gathered starting at a low level. (edit: maybe even conquest points)
Conquest points by nation could be combined because, again, the gear is irrelevant.
Zeni and Jettons could go together since they're loosely related.
Three kinds of Chocobucks and Wizened Worms? Five battle trophies?

And just the stuff from Adoulin:
Bayld
Obsidian Fragments
Two kinds of wings
Plasm

I didn't even mention points that come from a multitude of other events. How about instead of every single event giving its own (sometimes several different types of) points, do some consolidation and let us do what we find fun to make progress. Promote doing a variety of content using KIs for guaranteed rewards like WKRs, or just unique drops.

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Also, consider consolidating some battle systems:
Fov, GoV, and RoE could be combined into one.
Combine the Abyssea and Voidwatch NPCs.

Or transportation options. Currently, we have:
Home points (gil)
Outpost warps (gil or CP)
Valor warps (tabs)
Survival guides (gil)
Tenshodo warper (gil)
Abyssea warpers (cruor)
VW warpers (cruor)
Waypoints (kinetic units)
Staging points (imperial standing)
Conquest warpers (allied notes)

I'll agree that some things make sense (staging points), having so many different ways to get around, all with different starting points, is a little silly.

I agree with the assault points all be combined and the jettons with the zeni. I don't agree with the Cp stuff. Part of the whole bit with conquest besides braging rights is how long signet is and which shops that are effected by a country's rank stock choices are. Along with what things you can get from the signet npcs depending again on rank. Also the gear might be irrelevant to you but maybe not to a new player or someone who is taking their time levelling up a new job.

I would be fine if the shops stayed the way they work now if the gear bought via CP no longer has the you must be of that country while it's ranked higher than last part removed that would be nice.

I also don't think sparks, tag, and kinetic units should be combined just because of how low their cap is (I haven't hit the cap yet on units yet and I have a stupid amount) or that you can start it at low levels. If those are the reason then let's just combine them with the seals.

SE can only put so much onto a npc without breaking the npc in some fashion. Now it's time for me to go all grrr mode because there was something else I had thought of as an idea for something, but it has eluded me.

Regarding the Trust NPC menu:

Since the Trust NPCs cannot be summoned while in a party, there is really no reason they should be visible in the magic menu under those conditions. On the caster jobs having 15+ Trust NPC spells (and growing) cluttering up the spell list make finding spells in a pinch cumbersome. It makes me reluctant to collect the new ones for this reason.

Would it be difficult to add an additional section on the menu. Something like:

Chat
Magic
Abilities
Items
TRUST
Trade
Check

Trust is really unique and fun, but the way it clogs up the spell list makes it much less enjoyable.

Yet you summon them. The only two jobs that are getting more spells right now are blue and smn. Also they automatically are at the end of the list. Guess I'm just failing to see how trying to find spells you normally use is hard when all trusts go to the bottom. Though having their own slot could be usefull.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I don't agree with the Cp stuff. Part of the whole bit with conquest besides braging rights is how long signet is and which shops that are effected by a country's rank stock choices are. Along with what things you can get from the signet npcs depending again on rank. Also the gear might be irrelevant to you but maybe not to a new player or someone who is taking their time levelling up a new job.

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I wasn't trying to say to get rid of CP gear, just that the same points should be available to use if you switch nations, rather than having three different totals, much like Allied Notes.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I would be fine if the shops stayed the way they work now if the gear bought via CP no longer has the you must be of that country while it's ranked higher than last part removed that would be nice.

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I agree with this, but I'd take it a step further. Make everything available to everyone from all three nations, just with higher prices for other cities. It would encourage nation loyalty when wanting something from elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I also don't think sparks, tag, and kinetic units should be combined just because of how low their cap is (I haven't hit the cap yet on units yet and I have a stupid amount) or that you can start it at low levels. If those are the reason then let's just combine them with the seals.

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Those weren't the only criteria I used. F/GoV and RoE (questing in any other MMO) are such similar systems, I think they'd consolidate well. I'll admit Kinetic Units don't fit, and I just threw them in there for convenience. All three have a limit of 50k

I suppose I'll put this here as well, I think a good q.o.l. would be to have aggro and maybe even sales music to the game. Aggro music obviously for when you are either aggroed and/or about to be and they can just adapt one of the calls for it. This way if you step away you at least know if/when something is getting you or about to and can hurry back and save yourself. Sales also can be adapted from one of the calls I think and would just be a nice function for people bazaaring stuff.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I also don't think sparks, tag, and kinetic units should be combined just because of how low their cap is (I haven't hit the cap yet on units yet and I have a stupid amount) or that you can start it at low levels. If those are the reason then let's just combine them with the seals.

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All 3 of them cap at 50,000. Either way I object to it because you can cap out with I believe around 40 Dark Clusters or something like that, but in general Crystals are the reason I say not to do it, if you thought few people did some of the MPBCNMs now, just wait until people can farm Clusters, trade them to a waypoint, then go to their nearest RoE NPC and pick up 3~6 pages for upgrading their RF gear.

That being said I have no problems with Kinetic and Tags being shared. They are both harmless, the main thing people use Tags for now days is to warp around, which is all we use Kinetic units for, besides that it can provide buffs at the books but no one uses that really so it's a minor thing to bring up.

Sorry my brain went dumb when I was thinking about tags as in the colonization tags not fov tags. Or well tablets. And you already get tossed a higher price when you can but CP gear from other nations signet givers.

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Originally Posted by Demonjustin

All 3 of them cap at 50,000. Either way I object to it because you can cap out with I believe around 40 Dark Clusters or something like that, but in general Crystals are the reason I say not to do it, if you thought few people did some of the MPBCNMs now, just wait until people can farm Clusters, trade them to a waypoint, then go to their nearest RoE NPC and pick up 3~6 pages for upgrading their RF gear.

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If such a consolidation were to occur, they could eliminate crystal-trading as a source, in the name of balance, since the points come from elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

And you already get tossed a higher price when you can but CP gear from other nations signet givers.

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Unless I'm mistaken, there's an item in each level that's only available to their own citizens while they're in first.