Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

[Rwolf]

They could avoid a lot of this regarding any invisible targets if they just added an official mini-map (not the compass) into the game's UI. Given that we can't move anything as players in the current UI, it could open in the left of the menu and be turned off if that's just not your cup of tea. We already know that data of where players, NPCs and monsters currently are (compass) is being sent to us, so it won't increase traffic. It would be a great alternative to see ??? just by walking in range on the mini-map and make also make it easier to know where you are without opening the map. Just another quality of life step from adding map positions.

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

I'm obviously not Camate but the time you would shave off from being able to Soul Voice and Wild Card every run would likely far exceed the time lost from having to recast inside the battlefield.

That wouldn't be entirely true for every job just to rely on two jobs to this and since I wasn't just discussing job ability recasts but magic recasting as well for buffs and besides they were stating all resets to be automatic and including erasing all magics upon entering to restart every time you enter instead of having more time from the start when you can do all the buffs outside of the battlefield before entering kinda like Aht Urhgans Assault Mission Battlefield entrances or it maybe a different area battlefield entrances i'm thinking of were you can do this all before hand then enter the fight or what ever takes place inside. Dont forget there also attempting to make it possible to fix this to do the battlefield with you and trusts or trusts and 2 players entering the battlefield where soul voice and wild card wouldnt fit into this type of play as of yet even if they did help in anyway with those 2 abilities.

[Karbuncle]

...so what? Just make them glow anyways. You don't need to be able to turn them off.

I'm actually pretty against half the zone sparkling, do you know how many ???'s exist lol?

I mean, take a walk through Tavnazia Safehold, theres about 20 ???'s on the first floor alone.

It'd be nice if they could find a way to make it sparkle when you're on the quest though, would be helpful to new folks, but I imagine that would require reworking every single quest that involves a ???.

[elqplau]

I'm actually pretty against half the zone sparkling, do you know how many ???'s exist lol?

I mean, take a walk through Tavnazia Safehold, theres about 20 ???'s on the first floor alone.

It'd be nice if they could find a way to make it sparkle when you're on the quest though, would be helpful to new folks, but I imagine that would require reworking every single quest that involves a ???.

It would be a programming nightmare.....in some areas the ??? shifts from place to place there is one of these in Kuftal tunnel

[bungiefanNA]

It would be a programming nightmare.....in some areas the ??? shifts from place to place there is one of these in Kuftal tunnel

XI's game engine isn't made like XIV, where you can see some items and other players can't. XIV was made so that a quest could make items appear on your screen that everyone else doesn't see. XI shows the same thing to every player, so you can't have selectively sparkling NPCs based on a quest. An engine overhaul would have to be done, which would be like making a new game, and you'd need the people that understand all the code, like the original development team. Many of the original development team have moved on to other games or other companies.

[Okita]

I think it's just about time for server merges. Shouts here on Cerberus are getting more and more sparse. At peak Cerberus is about 600 people, far from its Hay Day. So are devs considering server merges anytime soon? Because it looks like the game needs it.

[Babekeke]

I think it's just about time for server merges. Shouts here on Cerberus are getting more and more sparse. At peak Cerberus is about 600 people, far from its Hay Day. So are devs considering server merges anytime soon? Because it looks like the game needs it.

I've said it before, and I'll repeat it. Server merges need to be thought very carefully. Most servers don't need it, and would actually find them detrimental. It's possible that even the lower populated servers are still more than half of the population of the others, so even putting 2 lowest servers together would cause too much congestion.

Perhaps the best way would be to take the lowest server, and announce a closure, that brings with it a free world transfer service from it, to the other lower populated servers. Any characters that are not active during the closure period are automatically moved to one of the lower populated servers, with the option of a free transfer upon their next login.

[Ramzi]

Why do most, if not all conversation options with NPC's default to "No" instead of "Yes"? Why not default to yes instead so it's less button presses for us? If we are having the conversation with the npc, and are at the stage to choose an option, chances are we want yes... it's just one of those incredibly tedious things which would be improved by making a simple change.

[Damane]

Why do most, if not all conversation options with NPC's default to "No" instead of "Yes"? Why not default to yes instead so it's less button presses for us? If we are having the conversation with the npc, and are at the stage to choose an option, chances are we want yes... it's just one of those incredibly tedious things which would be improved by making a simple change.

they explained that allready, they dont want people to use points/currency/etc. by mistake on something they dont want because they missclicked, thats why there is allways a confirm window placed with the marker on no

[Babekeke]

they explained that allready, they dont want people to use points/currency/etc. by mistake on something they dont want because they missclicked, thats why there is allways a confirm window placed with the marker on no

Simply having the confirmation window should be enough.

Do you want to do this? >> Yes!

Where do we stop to prevent stupid people from being stupid?

Do you want to do this? >> Yes! >> Are you sure? >> Yes! >> Really sure? >> Yes FFS!