Linkshell Member online notifications.

[Arcon]

What if I don't always want people to know I just logged on [..]

Set your status to invisible.

Also, if you wanna know who's on theres a linkshell list.

That's completely unrelated. The LS list is not only slow to update and can miss people when zoning, it also has to be activated manually. It would be a big improvement to simply see it in the log when someone comes online so you don't have to check every two minutes.

This is another one of those things that literally have no downside to anyone. If you don't wanna see others, filter it. If you don't want others to see you, set your status to invisible (which is what you'd do in that case anyway, I presume), or SE could possibly even add an additional settings property just for that. It's something many people would want and something that has no negative impact to anyone who doesn't (because they could change it so it behaves exactly the same as it does now).

[Dazusu]

What if I don't always want people to know I just logged on @_@

Set yourself to /invisible, then no one will be notified that you're online. Gives you the privacy, no?

edit: beaten by arcon

[Godofgods]

It is an overall good idea actually. I'm sure a lot of ppl would like this feature. And if they don't, a filter option would mean they don't have to deal with it.

The only real issue would be if you don't want others to see when you log on. While you can go 'Invisible' you cant do that before logging in.

[Dazusu]

While you can go 'Invisible' you cant do that before logging in.

Yes you can

[Elgorian]

By all means theres an invisible feature, but that would also effect my friends list not just the LS.

And personally, I like not having something every other MMO has, because.... FFXI isn't other MMO's it's better.
We've gone what, 10 years now without it? People seem to be doing fine.

Edit:

Also, with all the things that the Dev team really need to work on like getting the promised Storage access everywhere, and the X is too far away losing TP, as well as other things, I'd rather not see them waste there time on a system that already works and work on something that really needs attention.

[Arcon]

And personally, I like not having something every other MMO has, because.... FFXI isn't other MMO's it's better.
We've gone what, 10 years now without it? People seem to be doing fine.

Honestly, your argument made a lot more sense when you just said "I don't want it". FFXI is better because it doesn't show when people log on? Is that a defining quality? And in general, if another game does something better, should FFXI not get it because it's not FFXI? We've gone 10 years with the current game, why change anything at all? Why fix TP loss on too far away, when people have become accustomed to it? Why change blinking when it's part of the game? Why change chatlog loss on zoning? Do you really not want to change anything because it's been like that forever?

Yes, it's been like that for almost a decade, and it's a crying shame. FFXI has suffered from childhood diseases for ages that haven't been addressed in all that time. That doesn't make them good or a "part of FFXI", it just means it's about damn time to do something about it.

Also, with all the things that the Dev team really need to work on like getting the promised Storage access everywhere, and the X is too far away losing TP, as well as other things, I'd rather not see them waste there time on a system that already works and work on something that really needs attention.

I'm really tired of hearing this argument. People bring it up in every thread, and it's just as pointless every time I hear it. Did you know people brought the same argument in several "TP lost" threads? It's because of two reasons. Firstly, everyone has a different idea of what matters more. To someone this may be more important than the TP loss (me, for one, even though I started the first thread on the TP loss matter).

Secondly people act like changing things takes ages and if they do one thing they can't do another. Yes, I'm aware that they're running XI on a skeleton crew these days, but I consider myself qualified to judge what takes a long time to implement and what doesn't. This, for one thing, wouldn't take much. They already have the LS-chat facilities, they would just have to emulate a LS chat line being sent on login, with an additional flag to signal a status-message. They could even expand this to accept several flags for other status messages (like send a seperate chat line when someone is losing their connection). Admitted, this isn't quite as quick and easy as changing a variable, but I'm still positive it could be done by one person in a few hours (a few minutes to code it and some time to test it, possibly with other people, and, if necessary, expand it).

[Godofgods]

While you can go 'Invisible' you cant do that before logging in.

Yes you can

how is that?

[Unleashhell]

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a feature to notify (in the chat log) when a Linkshell Member has equipped their Linkpearl (or just come online with the Linkpearl already equipped) Most other MMO's I've played have this basic function. Also an option to filter this information so you can't see it if you don't want to be notified.

#playerName# has entered #linkshellName#.

I made a post about this mid 2011. unfortunately did not get many replies back from other players or from SE. Some of the people that replied might even be replying to your post. Thumbs up imo.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...bers-entering.

[Dazusu]

how is that?

Like this:

[macross]

just drop your shell before you log on every day