Request: More Information in the Equipment Window

[Unleashhell]

Greetings!

We definitely understand how many of you would like to see other stat values displayed, besides just attack and defense. Unfortunately, at the current time it is a bit difficult. This information is not kept client side and in order for this information to be displayed it would be necessary to increase the amount of information that is sent from the server to the client.

Increasing this amount of information sent to the client means an increase in the amount of data traffic, so the reason it is difficult is due to the fact that we are considering the risk of lag this could cause.

The same reason holds true for some other requests we have seen, such as displaying party member’s status ailments and other information.

Again, we realize the necessity for these things, but please understand that at the moment it is very difficult to do.

Even with everyone having high speed internet these days? I think it is just easier to say it will add more lag to the game to get out of having to change the interface and do more programming. Not for nothing but this information should have been implemented in the first place.

[Raksha]

I think they're more worried about sending out more data, not so much about us receiving more data.

[Karbuncle]

I think they're more worried about sending out more data, not so much about us receiving more data.

Thats what I'm thinking. I think their servers are still as crappy as they were when the game was released. They need to update those.

That said, What byrth Said. Party member MP/TP is already sent to us, Can we get that displayed?

[Kaisha]

Why not just have a separate menu that explicitly requests an update on the desired information from the server so it's not something being added to the routine data being sent every second?

The game already does a similar thing when you check your Status information, or waiting on player markers on your map to appear.

[Asymptotic]

Have you all considered only sending elemental resistance data client-side if it differs from 0?

[Helel]

There is no reason why "attack" should be displayed, and not "ranged attack." If it's really that much of an issue (in terms of lag), make a button in the config to display one or the other.

[Alhanelem]

There's like 70-80% less server traffic in FFXI than there was 8 years due to the ffxi population dropping from like 2mil to 300k, with that extra bandwidth couldn't they use it to display these?

It's increasing bandwidth required to play the game, meaning anything that increases data that it sent to the client has to be considered carefully, because technically, FFXI still supports dialup.

[Dazusu]

There's like 70-80% less server traffic in FFXI than there was 8 years due to the ffxi population dropping from like 2mil to 300k, with that extra bandwidth couldn't they use it to display these?

Hi, my name is Ophannus, I pull random percentages and numbers out of my behind then state them as fact.

It's increasing bandwidth required to play the game, meaning anything that increases data that it sent to the client has to be considered carefully, because technically, FFXI still supports dialup.

The data can be tagged onto existing packets which aren't already full, and are padded with null characters (aka wasted space). Not to mention the protocol the game uses could be compressed and cleaned up a hell of a lot.

In addition to that, the data only needs to be sent when someone opens the window to display such information. Such as when pressing CTRL+E. The data required to display such information would amount to less than 1KB (it's a bunch of integers -- or at least, can be sent as such and processed client side to show %ages if so desired.)

Sounds like a poor excuse not to add them to me.

[Duelle]

The game ran fine on my old 128k ISDN line. I can't imagine there are a lot of 56ks around. Just make the enhanced GUI optional. I imagine you can select which packets are sent to a person based on some criteria.

This would probably be the best way to do it. I've never been fond of the amount of guesswork needed to measure accuracy and such, so any way the game can actually show us these values as part of the UI would be greatly appreciated.

[Asymptotic]

You guys need to learn to speak DEV-ese. What they're saying is they can't just flip a switch and implement it. It's something they realize that they need to implement, but the actual implementation is going to involve dealing with some low-level coding structures, so it's going to be a while before they can find a working solution.

I do agree however that having a moogle capable of telling you things like your Accuracy, Evasion, Magic Evasion, Magic Accuracy, Magic Defense, Ranged Accuracy, and Ranged Attack would be a great temporary solution.