Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

I had an idea that I've been sitting on for few days now, but was reluctant in posting it since I think it may be too late in the game's life to add it. It's not so much as a quality of life addition (at least I don't think it is), but I was thinking how a new starter city/nation already for Altana's sake? I don't know it's been like what...twelve years now and we've been introduced to Aht Urghan and Adoulin and not one has offered a chance to start and explore the world from a new point of view. Maybe perhaps if and/or whenever SE decides to take us to the "Talked about so much" Far East we'll get the chance, but then again like I said...it may be too late in the game's life to do.

Yes, but you misunderstood my first response in that I would keep shops like Rosel's armoury how they are and still have the you must be from this nation to get the items available when Sandy is Rank 1. While removing that from the conquest bought items like the musketeer commander's falchion which is bastok residents only.

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Originally Posted by Blah

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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Aggro already has a notification. Every mob type in the game has a sound effect for when it aggros. You can hear it if your volume is loud enough.

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Originally Posted by bungiefanNA

Aggro already has a notification. Every mob type in the game has a sound effect for when it aggros. You can hear it if your volume is loud enough.

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I beg to differ.and not everyone can jack up the volume that loud. but what I am mostly trying to get at is that after they start attacking there's nothing, just the attack which most times can't be heard if the volume is low or is covered up by the areas' music. Not only that but wouldn't it just be better to have a little chime or bell or something when you're too close to aggro monsters? Of course if they all aggro that could be a problem...? I realize it might seem redundant but what I'm trying to suggest is just a much better alert system, a chime or bell is much better and (Hopefully) more alerting than just the noise they make when they spot you and since it IS actually suppose to alert it can be adapted to alert BEFORE you're spotted. And then once you start getting attacked play aggro music.

Other than the sound effect, if you don't have anything targeted when you get aggro'd the target will automatically shift to the monster.

Honestly all SE has to do is balance out all the content to reflect a level cap 99. cut out alliance option, so 18 people aren't standing around killing ghouls for 4 hours, or going to Abyssea after level 30+ and leeching exp til their useful. if more the 6 people are needed for a event, use a system like old style dynamis where a glass was given to each member entering the zone or battlefield. also there are too many ways to teleport or warp, put all that content in one place via npc or device per zone, it's dumb to have one npc to warp/teleport one place and another to warp/teleport 10 steps away from the 1st place. Add option in campaign so players can be on the side of the beastmen, adding abit of pvp would make that content more exciting. make besieged harder, make us work.... as players we mit complain this is a pain and that is sooooo hard, but deep done we will enjoy it, and the same could be said for almost all the content. Chocobo Racing content should have rewards that are a must have, so players will want to do it. I love the idea of trust npcs, let players summon 5 of them, but also give a pt of 6 players a exp bonus of 25% or so, so if u wanna solo u can, but still u have a reason to exp with real players. also with trust npcs, let players create our own trust npc's and gear them too, that will give us as players something to do, by leveling our own trust npc's jobs and gearing them, we will feel like we truely done something. Let players carry more then one linkshell and add special linkshells for players that want to help new players, and give new players the special linkshell at the beginning, if they wanna use it they can, or they can disable it if they wish. Make all gear upgradable, if I wanna use my lvl 1 sword forever, I should be able to upgrade it, it will give players the option of creating their own personal look. and honestly give ffxiv players ffxi for $1 per content ID, give them some reason to come back to ffxi and make a little money too.

Could someone else reply to the wall of text that looks like it's a missed place rely to another thread and then becomes a qol suggestion please? I would but I'm not feeling well today. :/

Ummm ok....I don't agree with what it seems to be saying. There, is that enough? Sorry girl but I like all the warp options and isn't what you're suggesting for campaign counterproductive to what everyone in that campaign thread is complaining about?

can we get crystals to be stackable to 99 instead of 12, i don't see why they are not stackable to 99

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Originally Posted by Rifaran

can we get crystals to be stackable to 99 instead of 12, i don't see why they are not stackable to 99

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You'd have to collect 99 of them to put them on the AH.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

You'd have to collect 99 of them to put them on the AH.

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ok so what? ok then give me a reason why Iron Plates are only stackable to 12, you can't sell/trade/ah/bazaar them so no reason for them to be 12. there is still no reason for crystals to only be 12, they should be stackable to 99 along with iron plates.

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Originally Posted by Rifaran

ok so what? ok then give me a reason why Iron Plates are only stackable to 12, you can't sell/trade/ah/bazaar them so no reason for them to be 12. there is still no reason for crystals to only be 12, they should be stackable to 99 along with iron plates.

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Iron plates or any other Ex magian item SHOULD stack to 99. In my opinion however, the AH problem is reason enough to keep crystals at 12.

Could we please have all of the doors that we don't have to get permission for to open or the ones the npcs behind them are CS only to just open by their selves? This doesn't really effect PC users, but those of us who still play this on the Xbox when we're zoning back to Aht Urhgan after doing NI, or assaults, or salvage even if we get to the door from the portal it ends up closing on us once the pause after zoning bit is done. Though I'm sure everyone wouldn't mind not having to click on all of the doors in this game. Specially when you are just slower than the last person who clicked the door open only to have it try to close on you while you would be in it.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Could we please have all of the doors that we don't have to get permission for to open or the ones the npcs behind them are CS only to just open by their selves?

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This would break the user experience, as some doors will need to be clicked to open but not others, simply because a particular door might play an event under particular conditions.

And the various times you get a CS because you got to close to the grand dutchy's doors while on the way to see maat, or zoning into Bastok Markets [S], or any of the various other CS that jump you the instant you zone into where ever doesn't? Please tell me of any door you can freely go through that doesn't have a load time to it that has an event tied to it that would break the experience for you

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-FFXIV-and-DQX

So a JP Magazine did an interview with the producers of FFXIV, FFXI, and DQX. It gives a bit of insight into why they're doing all these QoL improvements lately, and what else we may expect.

Yeah it's a nice read and full of Lols.

I am trying to give ideas to make the content useful.... useful enough for people to wanna do it, and useful to keep people playing ffxi.

Granted, I haven't read the entire thread, so if this has been asked about already, forgive me.

What I'd like to see is a way to augment any existing weapon in game just to bring it to item level 117. There are a number of older weapons in game that had situational uses, but can't be applied to content that's over lv 99, simply because of the missing skill+. A magians trial would really be nice for things like honebami, lv 99 magian weapons, or even just weapons we thought looked nice or had cool names (save the queen? arondight? coffinmaker? kinkobo? rampager? hornetneedle?).

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Originally Posted by Lambtor

Granted, I haven't read the entire thread, so if this has been asked about already, forgive me.

What I'd like to see is a way to augment any existing weapon in game just to bring it to item level 117. There are a number of older weapons in game that had situational uses, but can't be applied to content that's over lv 99, simply because of the missing skill+. A magians trial would really be nice for things like honebami, lv 99 magian weapons, or even just weapons we thought looked nice or had cool names (save the queen? arondight? coffinmaker? kinkobo? rampager? hornetneedle?).

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I'd also like this. If they were kept well below the strength of 'up-to-date' weapons I can't see any harm in it. Even make it all one magian trial for each weapon type and have it just add a set amount of skill and DMG+ for each kind of weapon so that say you could upgrade a "ceremonial dagger" but it would still have crap DPS - reflecting the base weapon - but still you could toodle about with it.

I think about people with stuff like sagasinger or the pulse weapons - it would be nice for them to bring them up to the point where they are at least relatively usable - even if they would still not be the best weapon to use.

SE already shot that one down in another thread unfortunately, but they did say we would be getting replacements.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

SE already shot that one down in another thread unfortunately, but they did say we would be getting replacements.

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Yeah I saw that, I still like the idea though.

So do many others. :/

Greetings,

As a continuation to the quality-of-life adjustments made to the auction house in the March version update, in the April version update we’ll be making it so when selling items on the auction house the number of items up for sale, the item help text, and the item category will be displayed.

Thanks! That's great.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

As a continuation to the quality-of-life adjustments made to the auction house in the March version update, in the April version update we’ll be making it so when selling items on the auction house the number of items you’ve put up for sale, the item help text, and the item category will be displayed.

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Trust NPCS in WoTG Zones yes? btw how comes the /checkparam dosn work on a single NPC in the past?! you guys ar very lazy anyhow...

Including the item help text is superfluous, as you already have it on your screen when you pick it from your inventory to sell it.

Instead, what I'd find useful is seeing how many others are currently for sale. Knowing how much competition there is can help in picking an asking price.

that "item category" bit will be very much welcomed in particular.

not a priority but a request: as long as you are working on these things could we have a "forward" option added to the delivery box? fairly often I receive something I want to go directly to a mule and my inventory tends to be fairly full-12 jobs and alot of non muling R/Ex gear. same thing happens with craftables i wish to send to a shellmate. no hurry, it would just make life easier to send it without having to take it into my active inventory 1st. Thanks for any consideration.

one other request, I'm sure it's been asked before but could you PLEASE get Trust NPCs affected by ALL party buffs? avatar's favor isn't a huge thing but for Geo those auras are over half the job. Trust NPCs not being affected is why I've abandoned playing it.

my GEO buffs hit the NPC'S I seen my regen and refresh work on them.

Really bright? like I said, I abandonned the job outside Aby, so I've only run without trust in the last month on a skill-up. do you know when it started? because I've been watching for an announcement and never seen one. granted, my geo skills are way under level so maybe they simply can't move the needle in ilevel 99+ content

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Really bright? like I said, I abandonned the job outside Aby, so I've only run without trust in the last month on a skill-up. do you know when it started? because I've been watching for an announcement and never seen one. granted, my geo skills are way under level so maybe they simply can't move the needle in ilevel 99+ content

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They had said they would fix it awhile ago so I am assuming they have... pretty sure my dnc sambas work now.

Seeing as how Trust NPCs are so useful, how about adjusting how Adventuring Fellow NPCs work?

I suggest that when you are a lower level than what can earn your npc experience, then summoning him/her should not use up the six hour recast timer.

Also your fellow npc should not eat up a portion of your earned exp unless it is actually going towards a level.

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Originally Posted by radicaldreamer

Seeing as how Trust NPCs are so useful, how about adjusting how Adventuring Fellow NPCs work?

I suggest that when you are a lower level than what can earn your npc experience, then summoning him/her should not use up the six hour recast timer.

Also your fellow npc should not eat up a portion of your earned exp unless it is actually going towards a level.

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Agreed. It would also be nice if the Adventuring Fellow could be included in the TRUST party so that they can receive heals and buffs.

I can tell you for sure that my trusts gained haste samba when I played earlier today.

I said trusts in plural, but in reality there was only one that was attacking because Ulmia and Cherukiki buffing me is gonna increase damage way more than a gimpy trust DD is gonna be able to do.

I've got two ideas for quality of life improvements that I've recently encountered:

1. Create a key item that would allow players to open the Operating Levers in Halvung solo. Gurfurlur the Menacing doesn't require six players now to defeat, and having to bring along extras just to open the door to get to him is inconvenient for other players (similar to needing people to press the switches in Garlaige Citadel back in the day). This would also apply to fighting Reacton, a ZNM needed for mythic acquisition and upgrading to 99, since his spawn is past an Operating Lever, I believe.

2. I'm not sure if this has been addressed by a developer or not (I welcome a link if so), but allow porter slips to become Key Items. Currently, if you store gear on a slip and throw away the slip, all of the items stored are lost. While I realize that most players wouldn't do something that reckless, having that extra safety net would be nice. Talking to a Porter Moogle would let you retrieve gear from a particular slip, and trading any of the storable pieces would cause the Porter Moogle to store them and they could be retrieved from their particular slip when talking to the Moogle to retrieve them.

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Originally Posted by Athen

2. I'm not sure if this has been addressed by a developer or not (I welcome a link if so), but allow porter slips to become Key Items. Currently, if you store gear on a slip and throw away the slip, all of the items stored are lost. While I realize that most players wouldn't do something that reckless, having that extra safety net would be nice. Talking to a Porter Moogle would let you retrieve gear from a particular slip, and trading any of the storable pieces would cause the Porter Moogle to store them and they could be retrieved from their particular slip when talking to the Moogle to retrieve them.

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They've already said key item data is identical for every player. The storage slips they had at first for armor were for entire sets, you had to store the complete set at once, and retrieve the complete set at once. Those NPCs are still around. An inventory item can have additional unique data attached, like augments. IIRC, slips were patched a while ago so you can't throw them away if any item is stored in them.

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Originally Posted by bungiefanNA

They've already said key item data is identical for every player. The storage slips they had at first for armor were for entire sets, you had to store the complete set at once, and retrieve the complete set at once. Those NPCs are still around. An inventory item can have additional unique data attached, like augments. IIRC, slips were patched a while ago so you can't throw them away if any item is stored in them.

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Thank you for the clarification, bungiefanNA. I was not aware of the fact that slips couldn't be thrown if there were items stored in them.

I thought of another possible improvement that would be nice (it may have been brought up in the past as well): reduce the minimum required amount of people to do Einherjar. Please? :D

Erm I guess a good qol would be to let thief get their testimony from all thieving scumbags, not just 2. I mean ya have to steal it either way why only 2 to get it?