Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Zenion]

I don't want to complain about Shami's Trove since it's new and kind of nice, but... can Shami's dialogue about it be disabled either after you've heard it once, or if you have a Shami's Key in your key items or Lungo-Nango's Thesis in your inventory? I don't need the sales pitch, Shami, I need to buy another Phobos Orb.

[radar]

Please consider changing Chocobo Racing, by removing the cut-scene during races. Taking control away from players and forcing them to watch a cut-scene in an mmorpg is a cardinal sin and they hate it. If you allow the race to progress, and the player gets a limited view from where they stand it will be far better. At least offer them the option to watch the cut-scene or not.

I often even refuse to do the monthly, because taking control away from me and making me watch the cut-scene is so obnoxious.

[Alhanelem]

The race happens IN the cutscene. Without the cutscene there is no race. This isn't FFXIV, it won't work the way it does in that game.

[radar]

I posted this in the RoE improvements thread but I'll post it here too.

Add some low level accessories to RoE rewards, with large amounts of haste on it. Low level combat is far too slow, adding accessories with haste on it will make combat faster and more interesting.

The reason combat was originally designed to be so slow, was because they wanted players to communicate in the party. They aren't in a party anymore, there is no reason for the combat to be so slow for new players. It does not need to be spammy, but it can be better than it is.

[BobbinT]

I posted this in the RoE improvements thread but I'll post it here too.

Add some low level accessories to RoE rewards, with large amounts of haste on it. Low level combat is far too slow, adding accessories with haste on it will make combat faster and more interesting.

The reason combat was originally designed to be so slow, was because they wanted players to communicate in the party. They aren't in a party anymore, there is no reason for the combat to be so slow for new players. It does not need to be spammy, but it can be better than it is.

While this initially might be a good idea, these days we have trusts to speed up the process. Also, some prefer get PLed fast since one can just cap it in mere 1 hour-ish, this is due to another grind we would have to deal with, starting with the old skilling, which ilvl gears on 99 would greatly helps with survival (or spam skill books from RoE or AH cheaply), and there's the actual current grind that is job mastery & master level, each has about the similar time/effort length (maybe even more) with the old manual lvl grinds. This doesn't really help with current limited dev resources SE have with this game atm.

& yeah, gonna be blatant about this with things been going for some years, since PLing also serves as double purposes for capping weekly RoE sparks & unity accolades on others, combined with places usually camped, which is better if ppl forming parties to reap benefit together rather than fighting for spots, capping accolades might be even more important due to the need of it for spamming unity NMs as well. Orher benefits including fast capping merit points for spamming HTMB & job mastery grind as well, albeit much more effective with apex mobs. But yea, mainly PLing in conjunction with sparks/accolade weekly fast capping.

[radar]

There is constant yell spam on Asura, selling stuff. If you're trying to read the story its terrible.

This is the experience on Asura when you're trying to watch a cut-scene and follow the story, you can turn on a yell filter but new players are not going to know how to do that in the maze of menus.

If there was a 3rd window purely for story it would not be a problem, or it was filtered during cut-scenes.

For a story based mmorpg, this is terrible (it's mainly an Asura problem, but it still should not work this way where all text is mashed together for new players. Awful new player experience, if they care about story.

I don't have a problem with merc selling stuff, but the spam and how it interferes with the story is the problem. Not only that, none of this yell chat is even useful to a new player anyway.

[Alhanelem]

This is the experience on Asura when you're trying to watch a cut-scene and follow the story, you can turn on a yell filter but new players are not going to know how to do that in the maze of menus.

If only there was a person in game who could tell them these things, or a dedicated chat channel for that very puprose... oh wait. There are and there is.

Better solution IMO: simply have it off by default and have the game mention it somewhere in the tutorial NPCs.

[BobbinT]

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lol

Thank goodness in FF14, you have chat bubbles in cutscenes & had chatbox hidden automatically, at least that way can get more immersed with story. Kinda wish SE would do the same with FF11.

iirc I googled somewhere, there might be unofficial addon that add chat bubbles, not sure if it exist or not. But yea... maybe SE need to implement this officially.

[Fahzewn]

Not sure how much it would affect Pankration, but please consider reducing the Jetton cost on the Soultrapper 2000 and plates.

Also, it would be nice to turn in more than one Soul Plate at a time to Sanraku for Zeni currency.

[Loraiine]

So under map you can change floors but you have to go through the list of zones to do so. SE should add an Change Flr option that takes your straight to your current zone list of maps!