Suggestion: Restorable Relic/Mythic/Empyreal Weapons

[Kincard]

Call me jaded, but I now find it amusing when people say "There's so much else they could be doing instead of this!" to an adjustment to the game, as if they were blaming the people that support/suggest an idea they don't agree with, when it's becoming more and more apparent the dev team just cherry pick threads for things they were already going to do anyway.

By the way, I say this from the perspective of someone who actually reads the JP forums every now and again. It's even worse on the NA side because we basically just get translations of what the dev team posts in Japanese a couple hours after when they post it, resulting in me wondering if the devs actually read a single thing the EN community team passes to them or they just do whatever the hell they want and have the EN community team just translate it and then deal with the disgruntled playerbase on their own.

So much of the mad on these boards could be solved if devs would just plain tell us how their responses to thread are handled so we actually can understand why they only seem to answer mostly inconsequential problems brought up by the players. Then we can focus on being mad at the nonsensical nature of the excuse "we can't change parameters of a world that we created".

[Nawesemo]

O.o oops, i just dropped my E/M/R, may I please have another....... This just doesn't happen, an if it did, to me..... Lol no it just wouldn't, if you weren't careful enough to pay attention to something that took you weeks to build, then doom on you.....

Seriously, who wakes up and thinks this stuff up....

[Mirage]

Good evening!

We took note that some of you would like to have some of your most valued items such as relic, empyrean, and mythic weapons set in a manner that it would not be possible to accidentally drop. We spoke with the Development Team and it is likely possible to do this through utilizing item flags. However, please note that we must then determine what kind of interface should be used for these flagged items, how the server should handle this information, and other restrictions from the server and client. Taking that into consideration it may take some time to implement but please feel free to let us know your thoughts in the meantime!

It is good to hear that the development team is looking into ways to prevent accidental item loss.

While I am sure some of the developers have thought of the same as me, my suggestion would be an interface where you would get a list over all your equipment (from all item bags, inventory, sack, satchel, safe and storage), and selecting an item in this interface would give you an option to put a lock on any piece of gear you have on you, disabling dropping, trading or selling the item. If you changed your mind and wanted to get rid of it at a later time, you would have to enter this separate interface to turn the lock off again.

I think this feature should be available for all items, not just rare/ex/aug gear. There are some items that are currently sellable and tradable that are extremely expensive, and it would be nice to be able to lock these too.

[Nawesemo]

O.o asking us twice if we are sure isn't good enough? It's a safety feature that works, this whole thread is about as silly as putting a safe, in a safe, and that safe in a vault, and paying someone to watch it, 42 posts about not being careful with some of the games most sought after items..... Be more careful. /end thread

[Kincard]

The problem with that safety feature is that it becomes useless because for people that play regularly the double confirmation becomes a nuisance rather than a safety measure, as it's applied to every single EX item in the game. If you had a open 2 safes to get your socks every morning you'd probably get into the habit of firing lasers to open them and run the risk of accidentally burning your map to the Ark of the Covenant at some point, yeah.

[Mirage]

Exactly. When you're discarding a lot of useless r/e gear, things start going on auto-pilot.

I'm sorry if you're some sort of perfect individual who never screws up anything in your life ever, Nawesemo, but I think you're in the minority.

I've never actually thrown away something really expensive, but it makes me stressed when there are such items close to the items I'm throwing/selling, especially if it is a randomly augmented item that have the same name/price as items I'm selling. Being able to lock the ones with the good augments would be a pleasant change.

On the topic of that, it would also be fantastic if we could rename augmented items, so that they can actually be used properly in macros. It would be fine if the renaming would just apply client-side as well, not showing up different for other players.

[Demon6324236]

it makes me stressed when there are such items close to the items I'm throwing/selling, especially if it is a randomly augmented item that have the same name/price as items I'm selling.

I have almost sold my Treasure Hunter Tarutaru Sash like that about 3 or 4 times, never actually sold it thankfully.

[Mirage]

Oh, actually, that reminds me. I did actually accidentally sell a TH sash sometime when Abyssea was new. I didn't think it was that big a deal back then because thf couldn't use it anyway. I've found another one since then though.

[Nawesemo]

lol whatever.

1. Anyone stupid enough to press yes twice on the uberly important weapon, is stupid.
2. Anyone stupid enough to have done that didn't deserve their weapon in the first place.
3. Anyone thinking that this feature is a must have option is lazy, ignorant, and yes... stupid.

Be more careful with your important items, your accounts, and your keyboards from curious children. Play at your own risk.

Asking a development team who is well known overworked as is, for a safety feature for in game items, is as goofy as rich kids bitching about the color of their car. And you know it.

This thread is dumb.

[Mirage]

I'm looking forwards to the day you drop something of importance. I hope it will be a 99-2 .