Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

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Originally Posted by Zehira

It's okay. Asura is very strong and probably running on multiple servers while the rest of others run on shared servers. I won't feel the same way without Asura. As long as you are happy to be in a big linkshell what else should you worry. Nobody's fault for telling anyone to go to Asura and that's why we have the developers to take care of.

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No. Every server uses the same system. One server is actually a bunch of connected computer nodes that each handle parts of the game. This is why your item and character data needs to be retransferred every time you change areas. Each computer node handles some number of different areas. No matter how many or few people there are on a server, the same number of machines is used to maintain all the different areas,m even if nobody is in them.

The only exception is the cloned ambuscade/ WOTG layer zones. They created copies of these areas (which likely required another server instance if not another machine) primarily because Asura had absurd lines to get into contents that used those areas. Other servers actually did have lines for Ambu sometimes, but mostly just after a new update. Every server has the cloned zones though, but they are only really needed on Asura.

Asura is not "very strong." It's very messed up with a multitude of problems that are worse there than any other server ever had, even several years ago. It is plain and simple overpopulated. The game was not designed for Asura's population.

Man, I remember when the adventuring fellow came out, people actually formed a single file line up to the battlefield entrance for the quest and it took forever because only one person could do it at a time. I can only imagine how bad it could have been on Asura. And Pixela is right about the solo player thing. Part of the reason for Asura's problems is the trend of people doing most things by themselves, which puts more pressure on certain contents. This actually lowers the effective optimal population of a server when people aren't grouping anywhere near as much as we did back in the day.

Seriously, stop defending Asura. It's compromised the game experience for so many, both on and off of it. The server populations need to be balanced.

I wasn't serious about how servers are handling but I know what you mean.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Asura is not "very strong." It's very messed up with a multitude of problems that are worse there than any other server ever had, even several years ago. It is plain and simple overpopulated. The game was not designed for Asura's population.

Man, I remember when the adventuring fellow came out, people actually formed a single file line up to the battlefield entrance for the quest and it took forever because only one person could do it at a time. I can only imagine how bad it could have been on Asura. And Pixela is right about the solo player thing. Part of the reason for Asura's problems is the trend of people doing most things by themselves, which puts more pressure on certain contents. This actually lowers the effective optimal population of a server when people aren't grouping anywhere near as much as we did back in the day.

Seriously, stop defending Asura. It's compromised the game experience for so many, both on and off of it. The server populations need to be balanced.

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Pixela is right about the solo players and also is right about like to be around a large community. They may feel comfortable about themselves without worrying about people who couldn't take their mind off someone, therefore the reputation is meaningless. Everyone makes a mistake and it's easier to get away with.

As I have pointed out many times, the trust system is a beautiful feature that has changed Vana'diel. This wonderful new feature has helped people to start creating more new bots and RMTs. Maybe, I should have watched out for it while I was away from Vana'diel but you all solo players love it so much like it's no problem. Okay.

I am not defending Asura (you can try offering them a free one-time pass for the world transfer to get them out of Asura and it will expire within a month after they obtain it. Try make your new thread to see who cares lol). I have seen several times that people who aren't happy to be on Asura were suggested to move to a smaller one than Asura and they said nah because they considered the small servers are designed for anti-social people (/shrug) they don't want to. It's just the fact that we have our own community called Asura (silly community). If you think the game wasn't designed for Asura's population then why is SE letting it opened?

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As I have pointed out many times, the trust system is a beautiful feature that has changed Vana'diel. This wonderful new feature has helped people to start creating more new bots and RMTs. Maybe, I should have watched out for it while I was away from Vana'diel but you all solo players love it so much like it's no problem. Okay.

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I like Trust, but the proliferation of solo play means fewer players are needed for the server to feel the same level of fullness.

"small servers are for antisocial people" lol, that's the biggest falsehood I've ever heard. If anything, smaller servers have more close-knit communities who actually help each other more out of necessity.

But neither small or big is the best thing. "Just Right" is the best thing.

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If you think the game wasn't designed for Asura's population then why is SE letting it opened?

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For years, they didn't. They merely conceded that the world pass system was too big of a barrier to friends trying to play with each other. The World Pass saystem was originally created to help keep server populations balanced- which it did, for as long as it was a thing. Then it was removed, and ppl started saying their server is better than another and imbalances crept in, and magnified over time. Putting the system back in now wouldn't solve the problem, it would take way too long with the number of actual new players entering the game to have any impact on population balance. Only current players can solve this problem now.

Add instant logout in towns, if you want people to have lots of gobbie alts you should allow us to logout faster.

And change jobs in town too, for those of us who don't need to spend 20 minutes muleing gear at least :p

(Aside: There have been times you could find a fake moogle in Lower Jeuno, and you actually get the nomad moogle menu when you click on it, but you can still only view your storage and the change job function doesn't actually do it- suggesting that this functionality is keyed to the zone you're in)

Pardon me if this has already been requested--can we please have Omen job cards be storable somewhere in an NPC? I'm running out of space and don't have the heart to /toss them !!!! Please help!

I suggested they add a new treasure box to mog gardnes, with 80 storage. I dunno why they don't do that. Also make it only viewable when you select it, so it doesn't load anywhere else and cause more lag.

Let me / us keep the most awesome sauce trust: Mastui-P for ever !?

Add a warp point to the exit point of Sacrificial Chamber BCNM, the long walk around just encourages people to cheat.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add a warp point to the exit point of Sacrificial Chamber BCNM, the long walk around just encourages people to cheat.

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is it really that hard to just warp and home point back?

or even better, set the entrance as your home point and just warp. The warp ring will recharge during the fight.

I notice that there's a distinct lack of any mention of a porter moogle for the new odyssey preparation area. Many players won't have space for changing gear on various jobs because of inventory issue if there isn't one.

I'm still even curious as to why OP request regarding quest markers on NPC still not being made available. Is it really because of system/server limitation?

Because that would require reworking the core code of the game, and they don't have anyone anymore that can do that kind of complex work.

It's also not really worth the effort and would ruin the art style.

PLEASE FIX UNITY CHAT!

It sucks people cannot get on unity chat to finish the RoE objective and see where DI is, all you have to do is add a cloned unity option for the most used unities, Apururu 1 and apururu2 etc. Choosing another unity is not an option because you made the unity trusts too good and unique.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Because that would require reworking the core code of the game, and they don't have anyone anymore that can do that kind of complex work.

It's also not really worth the effort and would ruin the art style.

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That really sux. I still hope there would be QoL for it in future tho.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

PLEASE FIX UNITY CHAT!

It sucks people cannot get on unity chat to finish the RoE objective and see where DI is, all you have to do is add a cloned unity option for the most used unities, Apururu 1 and apururu2 etc. Choosing another unity is not an option because you made the unity trusts too good and unique.

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I joined Yoran UC for some years and it is also terrible as well. What I did is just rejoining chat from Status > Unity menu, so far it doesn't really take long for me to be able doing that Unity chat RoE. If I'm lazy, I can just resume adventuring till I saw being able to join chat after zoning then clearing that RoE. Not really big deal, but then again, situation over Asura probably way more congested.
Another solution is to try getting that Monberaux trust from monthly deeds, then hopefully you can ditch whatever great unity healers & pick much less popular unity, hence way less congested unity chat. ;)

Granted, unity chat situation kinda very similar to FF14's novice network where it's congested most of time & I can only rejoin after lesser active population for the day, which in this case, personally think unity chat situation wasn't really that bad.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Because that would require reworking the core code of the game, and they don't have anyone anymore that can do that kind of complex work.

It's also not really worth the effort and would ruin the art style.

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Partially true, partially not. The system is capable of having various icons on nameplates. Even NPC nameplates have these icons, . So while there's probably nothing in the c ode to check NPCs as they load in to see if they have a quest available, we do have the systems to display icons and this is already widely used on NPCs for various purposes. Just not for quests. So I think it's more a concious decision not to have quest markers on NPCs.

Add storage chests to 2nd floor of mog houses that are actual caskets and that are unlocked by talking to the moogle (also add a moogle to the 2nd floor), as we have with gil in mog garden.

These storage chests can only be accessed when on the 2nd floor of mog house (and do not load anywhere else in any way as to not cause lag - including lock style), and only accept non weapon / armor items and no R/E items to cause issues with checking if you own an item already. Second floor can then be used as a storage room of your mog house, not only is this an amazing boon to a lot of players but it feels right too because right now most people have little use for the 2nd floor.

Crafers, hoarders and long time players need this! My inventory issues are crippling me and I don't want more lag and/or mog wardrobes. I just want a large amount of inventory space that is just storage.

I play open world survival / building games like the forest and very often I make 2nd floors to my houses and fill them with chests, just to put all my wood, rocks etc in Lets have something like that on ffxi!

I want to start off with I know very little (aka nothing) about coding, or if this would be possible. This is a thought I had that, in my head, would maybe work? Make (8+) wardrobes that are only accessible in the mog house (iirc before they said loading more wardrobes in every zone would be a problem with loading/corruption, but moghouse doesn't have much to load, I assume.) Then, have basically have 2, 80 slot "wardrobes" tied with the job you are on that you can set items from the wardrobe to, kind of like setting blu spells, but you can only set them in your moghouse. However, you cannot remove any items from these (as they are just set, they are actually in your wardrobe in the moghouse). That would reduce your item load times from what currently is (I noticed a huge increase in item accessibility times when I added wardrobe 3-4). I don't think any job uses more then 160 pieces. With this Sheol Gaol content, I would really like to gear every job, but currently I'm limited to 9ish jobs (including mog safes etc.). The rest are retired on mules due to space. If possible, it would be nice if equipsets were setup like the above mentioned. Give each job 15+ equipset slots, only editable when your on that job. Anyone have any thoughts?

The game always loads all of your normally-functioning inventory spaces, it just does this in two phases: main inventory + wardrobes 1-4, and then everything else.

This all boils down to the more items you have, the more data has to be transferred whenever your character moves between areas. Part of the reason this happens every time is because each "server" in the game is actually a collection of server machines, each one handling different areas and so every time you move areas, the data has to be transferred not just to you but also between server machines. The transfer rate could be increased, but it's not as simple as ust changing a number because a lot of things in the game were designed around parameters that were normal 20 years ago but are obviously out of date today. So being unable to speed up the transfer because it would break other stuff, they chose to split it in phases so that you'd get access to the important stuff sooner and then it can keep loading the rest in the background.

It's also partly because this game was developed originally on PS2 dev hardware, together with the way the game was originally designed this makes changing even seemingly simple things a lot more difficult than they really should be.

The only thing you can do to help this is to free up inventory space. The time it takes the inventory to load directly correlates with the total number of items in all your main inventory spaces.

the chocobo training coupons dont work i spent millions like 20 on each of my 2 chars and it did jack squat. i dont feel like doing a bug report bc it takes like an hour, and u never get any results or know if they fixed it so whats the point.

Turn /hidetrust on automatically when a player has Elvorseal in Domain Invasion (give a message saying so).

There is no need for us to see other players trusts in DI and a lot of players don't know the command exists (and never will). Turning this on when Elovorseal is on should be a no brainer.

Would there ever be an option to see /yells in mog house / mog garden / out of town?

/yell being town only ensures people stand in town all day, due to FearOfMissingOut.

alot probably already says or even complained about this, but I just wanna re-up this issue again:
Please change/re-purpose Yorcia Weald map. While I respect it's archaic design, it's kinda near zero in usability to view your locations.

Add an NPC in each nation, that tells the player where the Domain Invasion Dragon is due to spawn next.

A lot of people cannot get onto unity chat often, this is something that really needs to be added as new players (and a lot of older ones) often have no way outside of continually spamming to get on unity chat and waiting for a message have no way to know where it is.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add an NPC in each nation, that tells the player where the Domain Invasion Dragon is due to spawn next.

A lot of people cannot get onto unity chat often, this is something that really needs to be added as new players (and a lot of older ones) often have no way outside of continually spamming to get on unity chat and waiting for a message have no way to know where it is.

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Or, you know, fix the failure that is unity chat, just sayin.

Kick people who've been idle in the channel for 30 minutes. It's that easy. And/or change the default to unity off. 99% of people in unity don't need to be there, the chat only exists to see the dragon, so once you've done it you need to turn it off. But people won't because that's extra effort. Do it for them.

Of the two options, the easiest is to add an NPC. There is a hard cap on how many can be in the chat (64?) and if they do what you suggest someone will just make an "app" to keep them active or something anyway.

There's no point to being in the chat, if anything needs to be made its the "app" to kick them out, but not tell them it was added. Unity chat needs to be Opt in, not Opt out, that, is the easiest fix, it requires almost nothing. No one is going to make an addon to get into and stay into unity chat. but, honestly, they should, just to force square to do something.

There are 3k-4k people on Asura, the chat limit it 64 and only 2-3 Unity are good.

There will still be the same issues.

Well, that's an easy fix too. Make more channels and remove the only good unity trusts.......... from unity. There's no point to forcing you into a whm unity because the only good whms are unity specific. But that's an entirely different complaint, that just happens to fix the problem.

Yoran Apuru Sylvie etc should all be normal trust and there should be just 100 open unity channels or none, or pretty much absolutely anything other than what they've done. Change the way the dragon is announced, remove all the actual unity chat from the unity leaders so the data isn't an issue. Streamline it.

You're coming with all these things to fix, just add an NPC to tell you where DI is. It would take 20 minutes.

It doesn't fix anything. It just makes a new npc for a thousand people to afk next to. Why ADD something, when you can FIX something. Instead of adding another NPC, how about acknowledging why it's a problem, and addressing it like a company should.

I know. A radical, crazy idea, to FIX A PROBLEM BY FIXING IT.

But why would people AFK there? Once you know there the dragon is, you leave and go to the dragon. It's not like people are waiting for a certain spawn or anything.

Also, the unity chat thing is only a major problem on exactly one server.

All the people being on that one server is a problem they need to fix, too

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Originally Posted by Leny

All the people being on that one server is a problem they need to fix, too

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People wanted this way, they paid to goto that server. Some peopel want a busy server, some people want a quiet server with friends.

What you call a "fix" others would call forcing people away from what they want.

Why are you on Asura?

Asura is a prison, I don't chose to be here, I'm there because I don't have a choice. Could I bail myself out of said prison? Sure. I would have to come back, there is no choice.

Rather not give square endless amounts of money to come and go.

What are you even talking about.

Regardless, Asura does not exist to pleasure you alone. Most people on the server like it how it is.

Most isn't good enough. if those people are happy. They're happy. Give the people who aren't a non-monetary solution.

If you pay the transfer, you get a free month sub. Simple and easy. They still get money, just not free money they don't deserve.

As I

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Originally Posted by Pixela

What are you even talking about.

Regardless, Asura does not exist to pleasure you alone. Most people on the server like it how it is.

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As I've written in the past, SE should be offering free transfers from high pop servers to low pop servers. i.e. the top three to any of the others.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

As I've written in the past, SE should be offering free transfers from high pop servers to low pop servers. i.e. the top three to any of the others.

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I agree, although I don't think just free transfers would be enough. Even if you can leave at no charge, what's the incentive? Clearly some people enjoy a packed server and wouldn't leave without some major changes to the game like, for example, linked AHs or cross-server party finder. Especially considering they could very well lose their name in the process.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

I agree, although I don't think just free transfers would be enough. Even if you can leave at no charge, what's the incentive? Clearly some people enjoy a packed server and wouldn't leave without some major changes to the game like, for example, linked AHs or cross-server party finder. Especially considering they could very well lose their name in the process.

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"Hi there, yeah just put a turbo booster, air conditioning, modern suspension and a surround sound music system in my Model T ford. Thanks!"

They can't add these things to FFXI, it's impossible.

They won't give free transfers because most of the people on Asura paid to go there, they want to be there. They don't want to be on your server at all.

Nobody playing FFXI is unable to pay $5 for a server transfer, being free is irrelevant. If they wanted to come to your server, they would be there. If anything free transfers would just lead to auction house harvesting to a greater degree.

Trying to force people off a busy server so you get more on yours is against their wishes and would probably lead to people quitting.

If you want a busier server than Levi that is still fairly small, Bahamut is there for you. Entire shells have been transferring there for this reason over the past year.