FFXI needs UI improvements

[Kensagaku]

@ OP, I'll address each one in the order you did:

1) This would seem completely unnecessary and unwieldy. When you consider buffs in Abyssea, we have stats (2-7), atma (1-3) not to mention self-buffs, shadows, buffs from our mages, etc we would have far too many to deal with at once. Honestly it would be way too overwhelming unless it blinked between HP/MP and stats, and that in itself would cause its own difficulties.

2) Don't really have much to say about this, I'm on the fence myself. It could be useful, but at the same time it could make the screen cluttered.

3) This one I'm certainly in favor of. Having some sort of mark that indicates you're under a status ailment is useful, though it might end up being a bit annoying if you're using, say, Poison Potions to avoid a sleep-spamming mob or to negate a more potent poison. Still, it sounds very viable.

4) Again, this would just add so much clutter to our screen. With how many buffs we have on us or debuffs an enemy may have on them, our screen will just get messy and make things hard to discern, which in turn will just make things much more difficult. Filter your logs, when you see something wear off, recast it.

5) TP and MP for the whole alliance sound reasonable. It would be nice rather than having to ask "hey, BLM party, do you guys have enough MP?" or checking if your SC partner has TP. Yes, people still Skillchain. D:<

Overall, the concept isn't bad, I just think that we need to reduce how much we get changed simply because it causes a huge mess of clutter.

EDIT:

so what? Saying something is useless because people don't do it is not valid, I would like to see people's tp since others do with third party tools.

So... would you like to see a mob's corpse and watch it vanish when it respawns, or be able to see through walls, etc, just because a third party tool can? Not trying to flame you, simply pointing out that it seems to be faulty reasoning.

[Lordscyon]

Won't Happend sorry "PS2 Limitation"
If they Finally remove the ps2 server
Everyone will have advance Stuff on ffxi
They shouldn't have a problem doing this since they force us too change payment method without a long period of time too think about it
Ps2 servers should get remove by force as well & say "Please upgrade your current ps2 console too "PC OR XBOX360" and give them 1 month TOPS too change it or they will be SOL.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Won't Happend sorry "PS2 Limitation"
If they Finally remove the ps2 server
Everyone will have advance Stuff on ffxi
They shouldn't have a problem doing this since they force us too change payment method without a long period of time too think about it
Ps2 servers should get remove by force as well & say "Please upgrade your current ps2 console too "PC OR XBOX360" and give them 1 month TOPS too change it or they will be SOL.

PS2 Server? They're not on a special server.

[Greatguardian]

Seeing other people's TP can come in handy.

Mainly so you can turn around and ask "Why in the world have you been sitting at 300TP for the past 10 minutes?"

It maintains a bit of accountability.

[Deadvinta]

Seeing other people's TP can come in handy.

Mainly so you can turn around and ask "Why in the world have you been sitting at 300TP for the past 10 minutes?"

It maintains a bit of accountability.

This is why my argument would be:

My TP is no one's business.

[Rhianu]

I want an on-screen EXP bar like the one in FFXIV.

[Greatguardian]

I want a built-in DPS plugin so I know how much damage I'm doing.

What I really mean is I want a built-in DPS plugin so other people know how much less damage they're doing so that they might take a moment to stop and think about why in the world they're doing so little damage compared to everyone else.

Cause, you know, some people still think Haste gear and macros are useless and such.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I want a built-in DPS plugin so I know how much damage I'm doing.

Devs already said no to this.

[Rhianu]

Devs already said no to this.

Then they need to change their mind.

[Valonquar]

I want a magical flying carpet from AU so I can fly above it all and look down on the peasants complaining about UI issues and laugh.