Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

While most of these suggestions are obvious to us players you guys seem to forget the one deciding factor for all these things that should be "obvious" in the game.
We are dealing with an asian game with asian developers....I don't want to bash my brothers across the pacific but I am married to a chinese and I lived around Koreans
for a while and have been around Japanese also and this is what it boils down too....why else do you think all this stuff passed "quality control" it's working as intended

anyways nice suggestions and I agree with almost all of them and I could probably throw some more up there.

Some things I've noticed while playing:

I'd like the old functionality of the auto translate function back. If I know a phrase I should be able to type out the whole phrase and press tab to convert it to auto translate like back in 1.0 and FFXI. As it is right now, when I press tab it only recognizes the last word I typed and gives me suggestions based on that word alone rather than the whole phrase. This causes me to have to scroll through an entire list of phrases I already know in order to display the one I want in the chat log.

Not that it's a huge deal but I'd also like a way to rearrange the order in which my characters are displayed upon log in. None of them are in the same order they were in 1.0 and I'd like the ability to move them up and down on the list based on how often I use them. As of right now my most used character is third on my list and I'd rather it be listed first. I don't want to have to delete/recreate the character as I wouldn't have access to the Gobbue mount and other items I had earned in 1.0.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Lunasea

MISC UI:
- Better indicator for your buffs, or just outright ability to filter out all but your own applied buffs and debuffs.

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This! Forgot to mention it before, but it can be quite difficult to watch your DoTs timers as a ACN/SCH/SMN when the number of any of these class/jobs increase in the party/raid. It is especially troublesome when the difficulty/intensity of boss mechanics ramp up, or if you're attempting to optimize your 'rotation' to keep them up/refresh them as they fall off (again made harder by some boss mechanics).

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Originally Posted by FluffyM

Chat:
- Make pressing ESC clear chat box, pressing ESC again remove chat from focus (thanks Randalthor)

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OMG, THIS! A hundred times, this! The chat bar annoys me to no end.

The "life" bar that indicates the percentage of a Fate event remaining should be indicated on the map for people who aren't in the Fate to see the rate at which it is being defeated, this will allow players to decide if it is worth the attempt to make it to the Fate before it ends. A simple way of achieving this would be to have a second colored circle which irises open or closed (based on the percentage of completion) on top of the initial map circle that represents the Fate's boundaries. Thanks for taking the time to read our suggestions!

My main gripe is tab targeting is horrible. It's making this game very frustrating. Most especially during Fates. And auto select target when you hit an offensive ability never seems to work. Also movement is rather odd and annoying as well. I typically point my camera in the direction i wish to move. Instead the game goes forward in the direction of your toons facing. This also makes it difficult to chase after mobs as your toon faces the mob but when the mob moves you're still facing north when the mob moved west for example.

All 3 make combat in the game annoying and not very enjoyable at all.

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Originally Posted by Lunasea

[Snip] - Make the threat list not be almost completely useless for threat management. Right now our only indication is this red or yellow ball that says if we have threat or not. I’d like some type of bar that shows my threat relative to the next highest person (when I’m a tank). Or relative to the tank when I’m any other class.

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While this only works for the single mob you're focusing on (I think, I avoid combat stuff where possible and don't pay all that much attention, I'm a crafter/gatherer rather than a whacker), you can see your hate as compared to others in the fight.

Next time you're in a party and are in a fight, look at the party list. Find the icons to the left of all the names and look at the bottom of those icons. Everyone with hate will have a white bar and a letter A or a number 2+. The white bar is how much the enemy is focusing on that person (the tank should have a white bar all the way across their icon) and the A/# is what rank they are on that hate list, with A being most under threat, 2 being second most hated, 3 being less hated, etc.

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Originally Posted by Tannlore

I'll add one!

Allow purchase of single items from a stack of items in the market board. No... I don't want to buy 99 Crow feather lures, just.. one...

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Hell no, if I'm selling an item I want complete control over how much I'm selling it and for what price, no way am I going to play a game where people get the luxury of just buying a couple of my items if they choose to do so. If I put 99 of something up on the market board for a base price, I should have the full option to only sell it in bulk and nothing more. You can't walk into a store and say "Oh, I just want two pieces of bread from this loaf", you have to buy the entire thing.

If they add an option to allow people to buy amounts off of a stack, sure, but this is a horrible idea to just give you the option with out considering the seller.

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Originally Posted by Rakashu

[Snip]If they add an option to allow people to buy amounts off of a stack, sure, but this is a horrible idea to just give you the option with out considering the seller.

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The system in 1.xx had you choose to either sell all the items in a bunch at once or have a bunch of items that people could buy as many as they wanted. Bulk selling as an option isn't bad, it allows charging less but getting more, but I don't want it to be the only option. I hope they bring back the old system of optionally selling in bulk or selling individually without one stack of items taking up 5 retainers worth of selling slots just to cater to those who wish to buy less than 99 of something. It's also far more convenient as a buyer to buy 20 of something out of a stack by inputting the number 20 (like you would for buying things out of an NPC run store) than it is to individually go through the whole purchase process 20 times individually... 1017 isn't the only thing giving people RSI.

I agree with everything so far but adding in the ability to more easily decipher your own dots on a target would be great.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

Find the icons to the left of all the names and look at the bottom of those icons. Everyone with hate will have a white bar and a letter A or a number 2+. The white bar is how much the enemy is focusing on that person (the tank should have a white bar all the way across their icon) and the A/# is what rank they are on that hate list, with A being most under threat, 2 being second most hated,..

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I was wondering what those were! I was also noticing how awkward they are to look at as a quick glancing reference... Single target threat I have absolutely no issues with. Even most packs I don't. When I'm dealing with 4 or 5 monsters, and that jackhole of a Dragoon starts jumping on everything he can, pulls aggro, runs to the healer, healers saves his life, pulls aggro, I'm now hemorrhaging resources trying to get things back to normal...

Actually scratch this, even with a threat meter, I'd still want to punch him in the face.

I think the FC UI needs alot of work we need to be able to sort members either by class or alphabetical order in the FC log also there should be a way to set permanent info in the log such as vent/mumble info whitout using the spot where is what you could call the message of the day because it is the message that prompts when a member first logs into the game and even the it can only be a few carachters long. Masters and officers should have a log for the FC chest where they can keep track of contributing members of the FC so that promotion would be alot easyer. Also being able to set comment next to members name would be a big plus as other than rick clicking every simgle member there is no way to know there crafting classe's or even main class for dungeons grouping.

You can sell max with a single click, if you click the minus sign at 1 it populates it to the maximum that you have... No need to address this issue further.

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Originally Posted by Camate

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-Add a single click way to add the maximum amount of an item for vendors, banks, etc. rather than manually typing the exact number.

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The team is currently looking into making this process easier.

We'll continue to provide responses as we get them!

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Silly Camate, you already said this last time, and I already said this was already in game so there isn't really an easier way to do a single click LOL

Also using middle scroll on the mouse over the quantity in vendor can assign amounts much faster than pressing +/-

DoT icons keep moving around. I can't keep track of my DoTs. It hurts my eyes. My DoTs should be large icons and stationary so I don't have to hurt myself trying to sift through a lot of icons that are shuffling all over the place. Thank you!

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

I’m back yet again with a couple more updates from the development team in regards to your feedback and requests:


The development team understands the need for this and is currently looking into implementation for an item linking feature.


We are currently looking into making this process easier. :)

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Were you able to mention putting a <mouseui> macro command? I keep accidentally healing people that are standing around when I only want to heal when the mouse is over the party list.

in the Recommended quest box
what about putting the minimal Quest Level needed to do it, as well as the quest name in the box

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Originally Posted by TreyZerODM

You can sell max with a single click, if you click the minus sign at 1 it populates it to the maximum that you have... No need to address this issue further.

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Seconded in case anyone missed it.

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Originally Posted by mbncd

Silly Camate, you already said this last time, and I already said this was already in game so there isn't really an easier way to do a single click LOL

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Ack! You're right! Sorry about that. I didn't think I informed you all on that already. ><

We're still following up with the development team about various other feedback in this thread, and when we receive word back we'll be sure to share! :)

I like a lot of the suggestions here. The only one I would add is this:

-Make tooltips for skills on the hotkey bar default to appearing on the right instead of the left (or have an option to swap this).

The reason for this is that if you hold the mouse over a skill (as I commonly find myself while crafting/gathering), the tooltip most of the time will largely cover up the chat box. I've missed plenty of FC chat messages due to the combination of this and the large amount of spam that comes with crafting/gathering. Basically, clicking 2 skills without checking the chat in between will always cause any messages I didn't see to scroll off the top where I most likely won't ever see them.

I know exactly what you mean. That drove me so crazy. Luckily there is already an option to adjust this. It's just in a not so obvious place.

Go to Character Configuration > UI Settings

Here you will see a subsection called Help. There is a dropdown box beside the action help option. Change that from "Next to cursor" to fixed, apply changes, and check it out. I think it's perfect that way.

Can we please have a Keybind or command for Level Sync? Thanks.

Okay, been a long time since I posted in this thread, but since this is starting to look like the official feedback thread more and more everyday ...

Here it goes ... sorry if it has been said ...

"AoE Indicator vs Lag" aka "Still gets hit after running out of AoE zone"

One of the issue I am having, and I know this is because of how I have HUD setup as default on this, is the AoE GFX is usually way too slow for a player to actually have time to react to due to lag. As many players has indicated, the ONLY way to be 100% sure you can avoid an AoE skill, is by watching the casting scale and you run out of the AoE zone before it reaches the end.

The major issue players, myself included, have on this is we are usually paying most of our attention to the monster and party bars when we are in battle, and our eyes aren't consistently fixed to the monster's HP bar. But that is where the casting bar shows up.

My suggestion here is, break out the mob casting bar, or if not possible, give us a 2nd mob casting bar, so we can move that bar to where our eyes are most likely to be focusing on. For an example, original HP bar stays on top, but a 2nd mob casting bar can be placed right above our own HP bar. This should allow us to have a much quicker battle-to-eye indication so we can react within the 2.5 seconds allowed and not be worrying about lags killing 2 seconds and wonder why we are still losing 1/2 of our HP even tho we ran at least 10 steps out of the AoE zone. Btw, this happened to me quite often during the Titan battle.

HTHs.

jc

Why not a /hood command (ie like /visor) for mages, I'm looking at you White Mage robes.

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Originally Posted by AttacKat

"AoE Indicator vs Lag" aka "Still gets hit after running out of AoE zone"

One of the issue I am having, and I know this is because of how I have HUD setup as default on this, is the AoE GFX is usually way too slow for a player to actually have time to react to due to lag. As many players has indicated, the ONLY way to be 100% sure you can avoid an AoE skill, is by watching the casting scale and you run out of the AoE zone before it reaches the end.
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Had this same problem myself, and was getting incredibly frustrated with it. The solution I found was, when entering a fight with heavy hitting AOE, to turn all of my in-game shadows off. Did that, and killed Titan on the first try after wiping probably 30 times due to the healer (me) getting knocked off. Something about the way the game engine draws the circles is slowed down by shadows, I guess.

Reduce, or eliminate the gate fee for Limsa Lominsa.

I can walk from Ul'dah to Gridania and back for free, but if I want to get to Limsa Lominsa, I can take the ferry for 200 gil, or the airship for 200 gil, or teleport there for... ~200 gil. It's making leveling blacksmith and miner a huge pain.

Sort guild members in the guild window by things like achievement points or date joined.
Allow some achievements to be broadcast to the guild
Add date completed to finished achievements.

Kick AFK players after 5-10 minutes

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Originally Posted by Zayne

Kick AFK players after 5-10 minutes

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Too short..

What happens if it was a long poop.

Um... Maybe this would help just a bit. I want something next to the servers during character creation to tell you which servers have a high population. I say this because I did not realize that having Excalibur as my main server would basically mean that any friends I have will not get to play with me as they are just now joining the game. They can't make a character there because it is almost always full. We don't have time to sit and wait for it to open while hitting the refresh icon every three minutes. Even after the server fixes it is still not allowing new characters. At this point I am very disappointed. I'm waiting for it to get fixed so I can actually play with my friends and trying to be patient but... I'm just waiting because I have no other choice.

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Originally Posted by Zayne

Kick AFK players after 5-10 minutes

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This is pretty stupid idea.

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Originally Posted by Kirisunna

I want something next to the servers during character creation to tell you which servers have a high population. [Snip]

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When you create a character and get to the server choice list, look under (I think it was under, might have been beside, don't remember well enough) each server name for 3 long thin pale lines. All 3 lines being a brighter colour (full) means the server is very crowded, less lines means less population. Try going for ones with paler lines, one or two bars only.

Good luck.


Edit: Scrap that, I found the lines under each server name but they don't seem to be working as they once did. Either that or every world (including the 3 new ones) is already very crowded.

Did anyone mention adding Icons for botanists/miners on the map in general? xD I do hate staring off into the upper right hand corner of my screen to look at the lil map. D:

Got a new one, chat spam filter for shouts and tells so gold spammers can /tell me 20 times in 20 seconds.

If you use focus target the bar indicating what move the mob is using is obscured and unreadable. Not having 2 lines of text overlapping that would be nice.

I like that you can't talk to NPCs while mounted, for obvious reasons. Less trolling, less missing your FATE turnins, etc.

My big one: The ability to mount a summoned chocobo. I want to hop on the combat companion and off again without having to use greens constantly. I mostly haven't been leveling my chocobo because it is such a hassle. You burn through greens or you run/sprint everywhere. I would love to rightclick the chocobo to hop on, attack or rightclick the buff to hop off. If arcanists can have their pets out while mounted it shouldn't be hard to hide the chocobo when you mount and make it combat ready when you hop off.

I also support the suggestion for chat bubbles. Optional of course, I know it annoys some people.

A little map would be nice when trying to teleport or use an aetheryte. Specialy with the in-city teleport system.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Ack! You're right! Sorry about that. I didn't think I informed you all on that already. ><

We're still following up with the development team about various other feedback in this thread, and when we receive word back we'll be sure to share! :)

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Just to let anyone know if you press the Minus symbol (-) when its on 1 it goes all the way to the max amount that you got.

Thats almost a single click. :cool:

Can we please add a right click to ignore/report players for gold spam? I realize that many Asian games consider this perfectly acceptable, but if you're going to cater to a North American crowd, this needs to be addressed quickly. I played Aion once upon a time, and watched the gold farmers/spammers literally decimate the populations of mobs needed for many quests, so that they became uncompletable due to the number of bots you were fighting against. Ruined the game, and I stopped playing very quickly afterwards due to their policy on encouraging this obnoxious practice. That little ability probably did more to help WoW cut down on it's gold selling problem than many of the other countermeasures implemented, and is really important in this game, since it took me 10 minutes to type i this one farmer's obnoxiously spelled name into my blacklist yesterday. 2 names, spelled something like walyaiknawefi ihjiArefikcie are NOT fun to manually block!