Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

The devs themselves interact with the Japanese player base 2-5x per week. They have even been opening up a bit and answering direct, stat-related player questions. Most of the past months' Login Campaign prizes were by (Japanese) player request. The vast majority of information coming out of SE regarding this game at this point is being released on these very forums, but in the Japanese language only. Sicycre has not functioned as an interface between us and the devs for far too long to qualify as anything close to the position/title that we are talking about. There really isn't much of anything to indicate there is even a real person behind the name anymore since she's gotten relegated to only translating patch notes for the past several years. I don't like saying any of this since I know it sounds quite negative, but facts are facts and there is no one on the payroll right now. orz

It is a fact that the company posted job listings for a Community Manager to handle the FFXI forums last year (which went unfilled) and this year (not known for sure, but the posting seemed to expire rather than being taken down..)

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This makes me so sad. I feel like we are just talking amongst ourselves. :/

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

The devs themselves interact with the Japanese player base 2-5x per week. They have even been opening up a bit and answering direct, stat-related player questions. Most of the past months' Login Campaign prizes were by (Japanese) player request. The vast majority of information coming out of SE regarding this game at this point is being released on these very forums, but in the Japanese language only. Sicycre has not functioned as an interface between us and the devs for far too long to qualify as anything close to the position/title that we are talking about. There really isn't much of anything to indicate there is even a real person behind the name anymore since she's gotten relegated to only translating patch notes for the past several years. I don't like saying any of this since I know it sounds quite negative, but facts are facts and there is no one on the payroll right now. orz

It is a fact that the company posted job listings for a Community Manager to handle the FFXI forums last year (which went unfilled) and this year (not known for sure, but the posting seemed to expire rather than being taken down..)

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two guys in a garage, can't expect square enix to afford a CM for multiple languages

I would like to have an Ambuscade Icon, instead of KI

Somewhere like where the inventory icons are, add V1 and V2 icons.

I'm really tired of people not having their KI and 5 minutes later FINALLY realizing they didn't have it. I would like it displayed 24/7 so that it's idiot-proof

I would also like to reiterate how desperately we need the game to tell EVERYONE in the party who the ONE GUY is that didn't empty his VW box. Also, An easier item to turn accolades into gil. If you aren't going to nerf sparks and accolades, at least give us something easier than prize powders. I'll settle for prize powders stacking to 99. In fact, make everything that stacks, 99. No more 12.

Also, do -not- make empyrean items single job +2 and +3, you cannot afford to add another 220 items to inventories. Do. Not. Do. It.

is there anyway we can just trade like blank number of items times 15 coalitions and be done with it, and get all the points? or something that speeds it up, doing it every 3 days is getting annoying.

Hell no FFXI is fine as it is no more waiting for ages just to do contant.

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Originally Posted by chiefhunglo

Hell no FFXI is fine as it is no more waiting for ages just to do contant.

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are you contant with that answer?

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Originally Posted by Cyriack

are you contant with that answer?

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Don't feed the troll. >.> I believe he is on a quest to get himself banned from here atm.

how about gear for the mog garden that gets you 3x the quantity and quality of items.

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Originally Posted by Cyriack

how about gear for the mog garden that gets you 3x the quantity and quality of items.

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Wouldst you need like 90 free spots in your inventory to be able to harvest that?

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Originally Posted by Sirmarki

Wouldst you need like 90 free spots in your inventory to be able to harvest that?

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well you could do it in sections do 3 mines then sort, then 3 mines then sort, might be time consuming but for good free stuff its worth it.

Since they do plan to add more cheers, I agree with increasing the rates for Furrow/Grove/Pond/Net/Rocks

Garden is a serious time waste, and takes about a month to even get access to monster rearing. That's really unacceptable. If the new cheers they add are even a little "good" expect a TON of complaining about the Garden.

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Originally Posted by Halley

Since they do plan to add more cheers, I agree with increasing the rates for Furrow/Grove/Pond/Net/Rocks

Garden is a serious time waste, and takes about a month to even get access to monster rearing. That's really unacceptable. If the new cheers they add are even a little "good" expect a TON of complaining about the Garden.

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Should only take ~2 weeks to rank everything up to to rank 4. Anything more than that and you are basically slowing yourself down unnecessarily. You can be totally done with gardens in less than 2mon, though I forget the actual bare minimum.

Technically, Furrows can be the fastest. The devs just fail utterly at explaining how these things work to us, so if you only do the once-daily routine, they will indeed take forever. Theoretically, you could max out Furrows to rank 7 levels in less than 24hrs. It would just take an insane amount of effort and bayld to do so. Getting up to rank4 just to unlock rearing tho is relatively simpler. Just need ~50-60x Grow-M-Good's, and there's rank4 as fast as you can roll thru the harvest cycle. The catch is they're 45k-50k bayld each. Alternatively, using specific seeds (Revival Roots, 1hr / Arborscent Seeds, 2hr) and make some 1/2 grow-time fertilizer (Miracle Mulch, 13 alchemy), you should be able to hit rank4 in 30hrs of camping your garden. If you got the Arborscent route, you'd have enough time between harvests to be worthwhile leaving your garden so wouldn't be quite as camp-y.

Personally, I want to be able to "harvest" nodes for growth credit w/o clogging up my inventory. And some method to reduce the loading time to enter Mog Garden. -_-;; That loading time is a killer and is a strong discouragement for me to bother w/ the garden after rank7.

how about harvesting gear that extends your harvesting abilities x10, so that you are able to do more per hour. otherwise harvesting and mining are a total waste, the limit ruined having fun there, or making any money whatsoever. i understand stopping rmt, but ruining fun for pay customers is not cool. also should change limit on chocobo digging so something more suitable. like for example you can dig for 5 hours and then fatigue for 3. this will stop the bots but allow new diggers to come out of the framework.

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Originally Posted by Halley

Since they do plan to add more cheers, I agree with increasing the rates for Furrow/Grove/Pond/Net/Rocks

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Are they actually doing it via the monster rearing/gardening system though, or another method?

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Originally Posted by Sirmarki

Are they actually doing it via the monster rearing/gardening system though, or another method?

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They are planning on adding new monsters to raise this year, so by extension, that should unlock some actual new Cheers.

the roe that says successful synthesis attempts should be 3x what it is, and alot more accolades.

save charcter option in pol, need one for each character. im not sure if u can technically do this, but it would save a lot of time energy and effort if we ever have to reinstall the game, which seems to be the thing that the help desk keeps pushing each time I contact them.

I meant save option to server. sorry for the misclarification. the other ones are deleted when you restart the game from scratch.

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Originally Posted by Cyriack

save charcter option in pol, need one for each character. im not sure if u can technically do this, but it would save a lot of time energy and effort if we ever have to reinstall the game, which seems to be the thing that the help desk keeps pushing each time I contact them.

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I don't know what you mean? You can already save your macros to server.

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Originally Posted by Sirmarki

I don't know what you mean? You can already save your macros to server.

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when you click on the save to server it saves the highlighted character and all his/her macros, it does not however do all your mules so if you have a lot of macros with them they are lost when you reformat your pc.

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Originally Posted by Cyriack

when you click on the save to server it saves the highlighted character and all his/her macros, it does not however do all your mules so if you have a lot of macros with them they are lost when you reformat your pc.

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If you want to save those too, then I believe you should be able to so already by highlighting each character, then saving to server.

when you look at the name it only has one character, is that going to be deleted if I save another character?

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Originally Posted by Cyriack

when you look at the name it only has one character, is that going to be deleted if I save another character?

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I don't know. Never tried myself.

I tested it, when you save one char it says the last save char that is saved in that spot. it overrides your main save to save other saves on server. I was hoping they would make it so each char saves to its own server slot.

Hey there,


Long-time lurker (and by long-time, I mean like 12+ years). Not here to annoy anyone, so apologies in advance if this post does.

I've conducted a cursory search on 'race change/name change,' and it appears that the biggest underlying issue is of a technical nature, where devs have stated that with the technology used for this game makes it nearly impossible to implement.

I use the word 'impossible' to emphasize that it would pose some exponentially difficult or titanic effort to move forward on, but I am rather curious as to what this would be. The reason I ask is because how I read their rationale is that there simply is not infrastructure built to implement the system, and that they would not like to invest additional dollars into building something where the assumed cost outweighs the assumed benefit (assuming that players would not use the feature and that devs would be placed into a position where they allocated billables toward building something that just cost money and serves no purpose).

But is this actually true? Has there been some statistical research done on whether or not players would actually use it? The race change request goes back all the way to the late 2000's, up until two days ago. There definitely is a desire for it, so why can't devs invest into whatever it is that needs to be built to implement? If it is due to the sheer amount of people that may use it, just stagger how world transfers used to be (hell, tell people their race change won't happen for 1 week from the time the request is made).

Not only will race/name changes add replay value, but would also be an additional source of income that would work itself once the system actually was built.

With modern tech and know-how, I seriously cannot imagine this being an impossible feat. Would it be difficult for the lead dev to lobby for this? There's definitely demand, why not address that demand with something beyond "sorry can't be done," or at least say something like, "we're looking into whether this could be done in the future"?

Thanks for reading.

- A fan and huge lover of FFXI.

If they are saying that, then honestly they have too much spaghetti code tying together various aspects into your race and/or gender for each character. Have to untangle mass amounts of code and what it affects database-wise would definitely be a struggle for a developer of something that was designed from the start to be concrete. Don't forget that the system was built upon old technology, and never really improved much past that point (they had to buy all of the PS2 devkits at one point to continue developing for us).

What if they made it a system that doesn't have an ingame explanation? Just have us select the race on our accounts page and we log in to a char recreation menu?

I've looked through their responses as well and I kind of get the read that they dont want to go messing with any of the char creation coding. They can already promp the recreation menu for a name change. So why not just give us a warning that any JSE gear would become unequippable, and have us use a system that is "less involved" to initiate the race change? This can bypass having to do as much new coding as was discussed, they just rip out the intro cutscene and let us spawn in as our new form.

It honestly doesn't matter what solutions are proposed for race change since the devs have absolutely no intention of working on it. They just restated that recently, and have yet to give any indication at all even after all these years that they are even willing to consider considering it.

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Originally Posted by Leocon

So... I apologize for going a little off topic, but I can't reply on the actual post, so I'm going to put it somewhere hopefully it'll be seen.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...e-and-Cutscene

The way this bug report has been handled is incredibly unnerving. If this happened to me I would be absolutely furious. I can think of plenty of times my internet has gone out on me in the middle of fights and cutscenes, or my power has gone out while playing. The fact that bugs like this can happen and it's been two weeks without the guy receiving any actual help really makes me question the integrity of this team and company as a whole.

I'm incredibly unimpressed with how SE has handled such a literal game breaking bug.

Forget confidence in the dev team's creativity, this is ruining my confidence in your ability to even maintain the game period.

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This needs to be fixed, as well as the persons character sent to home point so he can play again. What's wrong with SE support these days?

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

It honestly doesn't matter what solutions are proposed for race change since the devs have absolutely no intention of working on it. They just restated that recently, and have yet to give any indication at all even after all these years that they are even willing to consider considering it.

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They can't add it, it's not that they don't want to.

They don't have the kind of programming specialists on the update team that can do that.

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Originally Posted by Kazaki

This needs to be fixed, as well as the persons character sent to home point so he can play again. What's wrong with SE support these days?

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From what I've been reading it's an issue with windows 10, so it's not a problem with the game itself but a new OS that is causing issues. They do need to address it but that's why it's only an issue in the past year or two.

Simple suggestion from my time playing Warframe.

Add a simple double digit number in the UI over the players head, maybe over the top of the linkshell icon that shows how many mastered jobs a player has. Status stuff like this is fairly easy to add and does give people a reason to master jobs they don't use that much. Easy addition for the most hardcore grindy players.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Simple suggestion from my time playing Warframe.

Add a simple double digit number in the UI over the players head, maybe over the top of the linkshell icon that shows how many mastered jobs a player has. Status stuff like this is fairly easy to add and does give people a reason to master jobs they don't use that much. Easy addition for the most hardcore grindy players.

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Stars are bad enough. There's no need for this and the extra screen clutter would honestly be quite annoying for me personally. I also can't think of any actual benefit for adding something like this. :/ There is zero bearing on how many mastered jobs a character has since all that applies to anything is what they are currently playing as.

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Originally Posted by Nyarlko

Stars are bad enough. There's no need for this and the extra screen clutter would honestly be quite annoying for me personally. I also can't think of any actual benefit for adding something like this. :/ There is zero bearing on how many mastered jobs a character has since all that applies to anything is what they are currently playing as.

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If you've never played Warframe, it's a game that has practically zero endgame yet people have been playing if for 4-5+ years. The only reason people play it for years is to increase their mastery rank, which is an interpretation of how many jobs they have levels to max, how many weapons they have levels to max (weapons are leveled in the same way we level jobs) etc. It's meaningless but it does make the hardcore grinders keep logging in and invested, they literally level weapons they will never use just for the mastery points.

The main problem with ffxi right now is these kinds of people are running out of things to do, even though to you and me it's probably meaningless to them it won't be and it's easy to add.

I think if the development of ffxi is lower then they need to look at other games that keep large numbers of people invested, warframe is a really good example. MMORPGS are all about status, the top tier, hardcore grinders would love something like this. It has to be shown off to everyone, it has to be really hard to increase.

It can even be added as text above the bazaar message if it's not able to be added to the UI over peoples heads, it can be written above a persons bazaar. "Mastery rank calculated by number of jobs at 99 + number of jobs fully capped on job points + number of REMA with afterglow" etc

This stuff is easy to add and it does really drive the hardest of hardcore to stick around and keep on grinding stuff.

People are running out of things to do because you can make a brand new char aeonic viable in like 3 months and AC burn your aeonics then have nothing to do.

On top of that, there's zero reason to make the vast majority of emps, relics, and mythics which is a huge amount of content and stuff to do, thanks to aeonics being so overpowered(and easy to obtain) as well as crafted weapons completely invalidating many melee RME's.

It's like they tried to make this a modern MMO where you can be "raid viable" in a month and then raid and beat the game but forgot that this game gets ONE form of content a year while modern MMO's get multiple raid tiers a year.

My question concerns the reforge process for relic gear for Dynamis Divergence. Why is it that players have to enter this battle ground on different jobs to be allowed to upgrade their relic armor for each job class?

It's very time consuming to have to enter on each job in each area to be able to upgrade a particular job, especially on jobs that other players aren't wanting to take in their groups. What's the possibility of re-configuring this content to allow players the ability to reforge any relic armor after earning the win within that specific zone for any job that they have the relic for?

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Cheers

wcd

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Originally Posted by crusher

Why is it that players have to enter this battle ground on different jobs to be allowed to upgrade their relic armor for each job class?

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You answered your own question.

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Originally Posted by crusher

It's very time consuming

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This content had to be designed to waste YEAR(s), not weeks.

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Originally Posted by crusher

What's the possibility of re-configuring this content to allow players the ability to reforge any relic armor after earning the win within that specific zone for any job that they have the relic for?

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Absolute zero

Do you think... we could ever... maybe, just maybe, get a 'take all' button on delivery boxes?

That would be such a small, easy, significant quality of life addition.

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Originally Posted by Halley

Do you think... we could ever... maybe, just maybe, get a 'take all' button on delivery boxes?

That would be such a small, easy, significant quality of life addition.

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Originally Posted by Sirmarki

Maybe a delivery box option "Retrieve all"?

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Yeh, I mentioned this too, as a suggestion, back in January.

Please add cute /lockstyle bobble-hat pyjama costumes for Automatons to wear over their battle armour frames. ^^

:)