[DEV1010] (Discussion)

[Felren]

I don't understand why they keep adding things like FoV books, Dom ops, etc. Interacting with an npc is the most painful thing to do in FFXI. It takes so long to get through the dialog and also takes so long for the dialog to load. I used to play this game on dialup years ago, and I thought that was the reason communicating with NPCs was so slow. But low and behold, I get on a fast connection and its still painfully slow and tedious to things like get a FoV regime.

The only way I see a system like this not being painful is if they make the pages (or whatever they are for this system) repeat themselves. What I mean is after you complete lets say a five monster page, if it would automatically give you a new page for those monsters without having to go back to the NPC to go through the dialog yet again and pick the one page you want, it would give a much nicer flow to exping.

As it stands right now, Dom Ops is the least fun I've ever had exping in FFXI. This isn't because its slow or anything, its actually insanely fast. I hate it because it is such a pain to go have to fight through dialog to set a page ~10-20 times an hour. I much rather be fighting a monster still than have to go back and forth between a camp and a book.

[Catsby]

I don't understand why they keep adding things like FoV books, Dom ops, etc. Interacting with an npc is the most painful thing to do in FFXI. It takes so long to get through the dialog and also takes so long for the dialog to load. I used to play this game on dialup years ago, and I thought that was the reason communicating with NPCs was so slow. But low and behold, I get on a fast connection and its still painfully slow and tedious to things like get a FoV regime.

The only way I see a system like this not being painful is if they make the pages (or whatever they are for this system) repeat themselves. What I mean is after you complete lets say a five monster page, if it would automatically give you a new page for those monsters without having to go back to the NPC to go through the dialog yet again and pick the one page you want, it would give a much nicer flow to exping.

As it stands right now, Dom Ops is the least fun I've ever had exping in FFXI. This isn't because its slow or anything, its actually insanely fast. I hate it because it is such a pain to go have to fight through dialog to set a page ~10-20 times an hour. I much rather be fighting a monster still than have to go back and forth between a camp and a book.

Welcome to usability engineering. This game fails at it.