Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Tarmarkvar]

The thing is that it's pretty standard for software developers not to support use cases outside their normal design. At my work, part of what I maintain is a system used by customer service representatives to generate work orders for our warehouse people based on what a customer requests. At some point, people in the customer service department got this idea to use the system to keep track of requests to dispose of unwanted inventory. That's a novel use of the software outside of what we intended, so we don't provide support. We don't make enhancements to that process, and we don't troubleshoot when something goes wrong with it.

It's one thing to look the other way on something like this -- that really requires no time and effort by the company. It's another thing entirely to start expending effort to support it.

[Sirmarki]

It's not nonsensical at all, lots of people use modded maps and if they make it so people can't make modded maps it will hurt the game.

Unlikely.....

[Pixela]

Escha Zitah used a duplicated map with a new dat location, there was no reason to actually do this.

If they had just linked to the same dat, there would be no modded maps for escha zitah (just an example).

The point in bringing it up is if they didn't think of this, maybe they would do it differently. If they don't want to, that's fine too.

[Alhanelem]

It's not nonsensical at all, lots of people use modded maps and if they make it so people can't make modded maps it will hurt the game.

"Lots of people break the rules" is not a good reason to facilitate breaking the rules more.

And doing so would effectively mean that SE is stating that the rules don't matter, which would invite more people to test the limits of this.

[Pixela]

If that mattered ff14 wouldn't exist anymore.

[Alhanelem]

If that mattered ff14 wouldn't exist anymore.

There is absolutely no logic behind this comment whatsoever.

[Pixela]

The players who mod and cheat on ff14 have been very vocal they will quit the game if they block modding and cheating and so it's rampant (even down to players modding in cash shop outfits for free). All the producer can do now is says how sad he is people do it, which he does very often.

They have accepted they can't block this without hurting player numbers and profits, so they choose to not add anti cheat systems every other modern mmorpg has even though those things it would hurt are against the ToS.

As such they made development choices to protect things that are actually against the ToS.

For the record I agree with what they are doing, it makes perfect business sense.

[Uriah]

Addle and Nocturne need their effect increased (at least doubled, maybe tripled, before bonuses)

Frazzle should add some amount of MDB- in addition to MEVA-

[Voidstorm]

Allow the item, Bottled Pixie, to stack to 99. And remove the rare tag.
It would be nice to see pixies running around the original areas all the time, and I get probably a dozen or more bottled pixies doing my daily digging every day. However, since it's rare, I am not so interested as to zone a couple dozen times to get them while digging up the zone of my choice.
I expect among diggers, there are a few others who would also be willing to spend 5 minutes at the spring releasing pixies weekly to bring them into present day starter zones if only they could hoard them while digging instead of get one, and watch the rest hit the floor.

In addition, to promote gathering & digging in general, I would like to see materials such as Azure Leaf, Cyan Coral, Moonbow Stone, etc added to several places around the world for gathering & digging. Obviously given extreme rarity too.

Exemplar points grind: I am unwilling to bot. Please remove the Locus mobs from Crawler's Nest [S]. It was a camp actually worth the time to make a party and grind exemplar points. I see people bot the points anytime I run through certain areas, but the only place that was good for people who don't want to bot was taken from us. Please undo the change.

[Eth]

Allow the item, Bottled Pixie, to stack to 99. And remove the rare tag.
It would be nice to see pixies running around the original areas all the time, and I get probably a dozen or more bottled pixies doing my daily digging every day. However, since it's rare, I am not so interested as to zone a couple dozen times to get them while digging up the zone of my choice.
I expect among diggers, there are a few others who would also be willing to spend 5 minutes at the spring releasing pixies weekly to bring them into present day starter zones if only they could hoard them while digging instead of get one, and watch the rest hit the floor.

In addition, to promote gathering & digging in general, I would like to see materials such as Azure Leaf, Cyan Coral, Moonbow Stone, etc added to several places around the world for gathering & digging. Obviously given extreme rarity too.

Exemplar points grind: I am unwilling to bot. Please remove the Locus mobs from Crawler's Nest [S]. It was a camp actually worth the time to make a party and grind exemplar points. I see people bot the points anytime I run through certain areas, but the only place that was good for people who don't want to bot was taken from us. Please undo the change.

+1. Congestion and one or a few groups taking all mobs was a problem, but the solution did not work. Killing a large number of apex mobs with AoE was actually fun. By taking that away from the game, you encouraged botting even more. Please restore Crawler's Nest [S] to its former state, and solve the congestion problem by adding apex camps to other "dead" zones.