Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

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While some checks can be done client side, the server should always need to validate it too otherwise it make the game far too easy to hack.

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The moment your gameplay suffers because of 'security reasons' you got to ask yourself if this is the right way.
Not everything has to be client side, but when it comes to responsiveness it should be.
Think of clicking items/registering damage/registering your position and activating instant spells.
Most other MMO's are fine with this setup including that one with what was it 7 million subs praised for it's smooth game play.

You can still play the game and dodge but it's a quality of life that everything is crisp and smooth and most of all responsive.

Not sure if this has already been said, but being able to apply helm visibility on a per set basis would be cool.

maybe this can be added to the topic >P

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ition-priority

I don't know where to put this, and I'm sure there's another thread somewhere, but this one is getting enough attention to warrant a post here:
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/118...-admittedly%29
and http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...50_im_nervous/
Non-legacy servers don't have enough gil being generated (especially those with closed character creation), repair costs too high and not enough reward to offset them.

Sorry I didn't buy this game to sit in town doing nothing, I expect to go out and kill things.

One thing that would be nice is if the game would let me start a leve by myself if I have party members in other zones, rather than telling me that they're "too far away" and not letting me start the leve. If they're not in the same zone as me, I'm probably not trying to do the leve with them after all.

Sometimes I'm not in a party to do stuff with people, just to have an easily accessible conversation channel with friends without having to leave my LS chat.

The usefulness of bags and storage as inventory for items over the mmo years has become more and more cumbersome as games get larger and require more materials for crafting.

I would propose introducing a new way to manage inventory that removes all the clutter and organizational nightmares from the traditional bag system. It's an idea stolen from an indy mmo called eden eternal.

The basic concept is every crafting material is shown in a window (even items you dont own) they start out dark (you can still see what it is but attention is not brought to the item). If you own an item it simply shows the amount you have and lights up the picture. Since the list is always the same for all player applying filters is easy, such as miner would show you all items related to mining and the amount (if any) you possess.

This will keep bags clear for consumables and important quest items and neatly organize the 1000s of crafting materials.

I would like to receive a notification when i get a letter.

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Originally Posted by FluffyM

- Make minions unclickable by the owner (not sure this is feasible, but they do get in the way. A lot).

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We currently have a target setting that will allow you to filter out what can be targeted by pressing the X key. However, we've determined that there is a bug with this setting which is scheduled to be addressed in the next hot fix.

Once this has been addressed, you should be able to use the X key as a target filter button and you can customize this to ignore minions.

We'll let you know once this has been addressed and we apologize for any inconvenience.

I would really like to see region hunting logs for all levels and for the different jobs and add more quest to do through out each little hub area.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

We currently have a target setting that will allow you to filter out what can be targeted by pressing the X key. However, we've determined that there is a bug with this setting which is scheduled to be addressed in the next hot fix.

Once this has been addressed, you should be able to use the X key as a target filter button and you can customize this to ignore minions.

We'll let you know once this has been addressed and we apologize for any inconvenience.

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Will this also apply to ARN/SMN/SCH pets when using the A/cross button on a controller? cause targetting ifrit-egi while selecting next tank target while target mode is set to enemies is getting old.

What about a target filter that allows to target party member's pets? Because at the moment gamepad healer cant play with allied titan-egi or topaz carbuncle being on important tanking duty.

Please let us add people, we meet in Duty Finder, to the friend list and a way to play with them again.

Would it some day be possible to wear a mask AND a cowl?

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Originally Posted by GinTama

Please let us add people, we meet in Duty Finder, to the friend list and a way to play with them again.

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This is a great idea. I've met some awesome people via the duty finder, and it always sucks saying goodbye because I know I'll never play with them again.

I would love it if instead of getting an error message if we try to do something we're not allowed to do while mounted, it would just automatically dismount us. For example, abilities/teleport/return as well as talking to NPCs.

If you can add this suggestion to your list

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Originally Posted by Rak_Boy

Is it possible to filter the quests shown in the map so that it shows only quests at my lvl or 5 lvls blow .. I dont want quests lvl 10 when I'm at 40s !!

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Originally Posted by Onri

Or vice versa, I don't wanna see level 35 quests on my level 20 subjob.

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- Let us skip the game-opening when creating new characters after the first

can you imagine how many more gil sellers we'd have to deal with if they didnt have to go through the opening? I think its a good deterrent and most legit players will only see it once or twice, theres no need for multiple alts.

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Originally Posted by Kenze

can you imagine how many more gil sellers we'd have to deal with if they didnt have to go through the opening?

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Do you really think that's the one thing holding back a massive flood of gilsellers?

Why do we have to make sacrifices in convenience because it also marginally inconveniences the gilsellers? Why aren't we allowed to mail things to our own characters for this reason when gilsellers don't work alone and can mail things TO EACH OTHER in order to transfer between their characters?

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Originally Posted by Phafi

Will this also apply to ARN/SMN/SCH pets when using the A/cross button on a controller? cause targetting ifrit-egi while selecting next tank target while target mode is set to enemies is getting old.

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This. A million times more.

The number of times I have auto targetted the damn egis... And not just against mobs, but also trying to target NPCs. Why are these pets, which have nothing to do with me, being prioritized as a target. Even for an ACN/SMN/SCH, they can (on the gamepad) just select them like selecting a party members.

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Originally Posted by Rak_Boy

Is it possible to filter the quests shown in the map so that it shows only quests at my lvl or 5 lvls blow .. I dont want quests lvl 10 when I'm at 40s !!

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I don't understand why this was even removed. It was such a nice feature to have. At the very least, it could show which quests you had that were applicable to your current class, so that when you swapped to a lv20, your lv45+ quests would be hidden (but still viewable in the Journal). The only quest that should stay, possibly, is the main story quest that you are on. To remind you that you still have Eorzea to save.

could we possibly have a cut scenes disabled option for those of us who have seen it once? its rather distracting and interferes on casting heals on people when a cs pops up while casting but it dosent stop the mob from doing dmg. wouldent the easyist thing to do is make those in the cs remain invulnerable as long as there in the cs?

Please for the love of god give us the ability to toggle auto casting of pet abilities on and off. I'm not talking an all or nothing option either I want to be able to toggle auto casting of pet abilities per ability. Nothing is more annoying in a dungeon for one of my stupid ass pets to break a CC because it decided to use an aoe or cone attack. I honestly can't believe that something so basic isn't already in place.

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Originally Posted by Eamil

Do you really think that's the one thing holding back a massive flood of gilsellers?

Why do we have to make sacrifices in convenience because it also marginally inconveniences the gilsellers? Why aren't we allowed to mail things to our own characters for this reason when gilsellers don't work alone and can mail things TO EACH OTHER in order to transfer between their characters?

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i said its a deterrent, you know in that part of my statement you left out. Maybe what we should be addressing is Why are you making so many alts that you needs to skip the opening?

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Originally Posted by Violent_Vengeance

Please for the love of god give us the ability to toggle auto casting of pet abilities on and off. I'm not talking an all or nothing option either I want to be able to toggle auto casting of pet abilities per ability. Nothing is more annoying in a dungeon for one of my stupid ass pets to break a CC because it decided to use an aoe or cone attack. I honestly can't believe that something so basic isn't already in place.

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there is a button on the pet bar that stops the pet from attacking until you tell it too. why not use that in dungeons?

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Originally Posted by Frothylager

The basic concept is every crafting material is shown in a window (even items you dont own) they start out dark (you can still see what it is but attention is not brought to the item). If you own an item it simply shows the amount you have and lights up the picture.

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This! You have the right idea, lady! I loved this feature as it was presented in GW2, as bag management became infinitely easier when materials had THEIR OWN SPOTS! Especially with the HQ system that is currently in the game, I literally have hundreds upon hundreds of materials, all from only gathering nodes up to level 20 (this includes monster drops, which also come in regular and HQ varieties). Both of my retainers are almost full, and I love the DoL classes so much, I don't want to run out of space. It's a simple feature with a BIG impact. Please take note, SE. Your gathering and crafting players will love you forever!

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Originally Posted by Kenze

there is a button on the pet bar that stops the pet from attacking until you tell it too. why not use that in dungeons?

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So I'm just supposed to not use my pet at all in multi mob pulls? Considering that my pet is a good chunk of my damage that's not really a viable option. I shouldn't have to gimp myself just because they failed to have something so simple already in place.

*Edit* The option you posted won't solve the problem. All it does is stop them from doing anything at all but as soon as I have him make 1 attack it cancel that stance out and the pet will fire off all skills that are not on cooldown.

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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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So is there a way to transfer the whole gil amount from a retainer to you with a single click?

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Originally Posted by Kenze

there is a button on the pet bar that stops the pet from attacking until you tell it too. why not use that in dungeons?

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The problem is that it is horrible. It reset each time you encounter another group, and as such needs to be used EVERY time. It also doesn't help that pet skills can't be used while you're casting any of your own abilities, so aside from it being a massive hassle of doing it each time, it also has to be the first thing you every time, otherwise the skills have potentially gone off already. If you could at least permanently set the pet's AI, this would be a massive improvement. Of course, if you could macro these skills into your 'opening' moves, the hassle would again be removed.

Lots of QoL love is needed for Pets/pet ui/interaction etc.

yes sontawila just go into your retainer enter the withdraw/deposit section and click on the - to get max amount then just click on proceed

I would love it if we could get a mailbox near all the summoning bells in the major cities. when clearing my bank out it is a pain to have to run across town to mail things off.

Recommended quest fix. I'm being recommended level 40 quests on my level 24 arcanist, it's basically useless

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Originally Posted by Kenze

i said its a deterrent, you know in that part of my statement you left out.

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So does that somehow magically cancel out the part where you said there'd be tons more gilsellers without said deterrent? Did you say that and immediately contradict yourself?

I don't think you did. So I'm responding to that assertion by saying I don't think it's as much of a deterrent as you think it is. We get annoyed about little things like that because they eat into the time we have to play this game, which we do for fun. The gilsellers probably couldn't care less because they don't DO this for fun. It's their job. It's not supposed to be fun. They'll gladly sit through the intro a hundred times, it doesn't really affect them.

So maybe you could actually answer my question. Why do we have to be inconvenienced by anything just because it marginally inconveniences gilsellers as well?

Edit: I'm sorry for the hostile attitude, by the way, but I'm really bothered by this attitude that "anything that inconveniences gilsellers is ok because it inconveniences gilsellers." You could justify pretty much anything with that. "Well, the servers are locking people out with 1017 twelve hours a day but let's not fix that 'cause it's keeping the gilsellers out too!" I already feel like the mail restrictions cross a line in that regard.

While doing some fates the other night, I found myself wishing for a filter that would allow targeting only players with less than some percentage of their health remaining.

There were probably 20 to 30 people all clumped together, and maybe 3 taking real damage, and trying to select one of the latter required hitting the d-pad many times; the worst is when they start running because they think they aren't going to get healed, and then it's basically impossible to target them.

I'd like to see the following points:
1) Possibility to save different HUD combinations. For example one for dungeons, other for normal leveling. May include possibility to put the big map permanently in the HUD as an element.
2) The option to disable that Turn left/right + Right Mouse Button = Strafe Left/Right
3) A special icon when you are about to accept a quest that your current character cannot hand in levelwise.
4) Be able to blacklist someone by right-clicking him in the chat.
5) Being able to link items/locations in the chat.
6) Ability to see the FATE progress on the big map.

Suggestion from a friend:
1) Possibility to add Hunting Log Quests to the regular quest tracker.

I would just like to reiterate request for the ability on the PS3 in particular to easily report GIL sellers. I just created a new character in Uldah on Fairie and it was horrible. From the moment I joined, till the moment I quit about 25 minutes later the chat log was non-stop gil rmt spam. It went by so fast and constantly (and under multiple names) there was no way on the PS3 to catch the names of the offending players either, much less try and copy them. Moreover the last time I did try and report one of them, the report form didn't even let me type. Even if we had right click to report, right now it would be very hard to catch the name because it is happening so fast.

I propose 3 things to help with this:
1) A quick way to pause the log built into the chat up arrow used to navigate (i.e. if you start navigating, stop auto-scrolling until exiting of the chat box)
2) right click/square click to report which prompts with a form autofilled out and a check box that must be checked before submitting (are you sure you wish to report).
3) Improved keyboard interfacing.

I have noticed for many forms on the PS3 it never pulls up the onscreen keyboard, making it very hard to navigate if you are using the controller. I have a keyboard. but having to suddenly stop and switch to mouse and keyboard just to report a spammer is not a very good interface, and honestly leads me to simply ignore it and leave.. I bring it up because it is in my experience much harder on the PS3 than the PC to actually do something about this.

With this probably being said before in this thread, I want to add my vote in on one suggestion:

PLEASE let us blacklist someone by right-clicking their name. The gold spammers in this game have so much freedom to spam with hardly any break in-between their shouts/yells/tells. It is such a bother to have so many gold selling spammers and yet we must open a menu and type in their names manually. These names are sometimes things like "Gfshbkre Filnhwaln" and that is a very irritating name to have to manually type in.

Please let us blacklist people by right clicking their name.

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Originally Posted by Rixan

With this probably being said before in this thread, I want to add my vote in on one suggestion:

PLEASE let us blacklist someone by right-clicking their name. The gold spammers in this game have so much freedom to spam with hardly any break in-between their shouts/yells/tells. It is such a both to have so many gold selling spammers and yet we must open a menu and type in their names manually. These names are sometimes things like "Gfshbkre Filnhwaln" and that is a very irritating name to have to manually type in.

Please let us blacklist people by right clicking their name.

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In addition, maybe we could also incorporate some sort of shout timer. Nothing horrendous, but maybe 5 seconds apart at the very least? The goldspammers hit so hard and fast that sometimes I lose a great deal of information in the process and have to scour the wall of "buy gil, sucky sucky" text just to find what someone real said.

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Originally Posted by GilbertLapine

Only thing I have to add is a request for functionality to hide earrings.

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So I took a close look at my character and this was the first thing that came to mind...

http://i.imgur.com/iDygXLR.jpg

I just wanted to reiterate the need for a vote to kick option to remove someone from the party. I've had quite a few dungeon runs be ruined because one person would get upset and AFK, disconnect, or is just really terrible.

Another thing about the dungeon finder that would be wonderful is the ability to requeue for the same dungeon with the same people. I've had a few really great parties where we wanted to keep farming the same dungeon or primal fight for extra points and gear, but we had to say goodbye once we were done. If it would be possible to queue for other dungeons with the same people as well, that would be even better! :D

I don't know if this is already in the game or not, but the ability to lock my UI in place so windows can't be accidently moved around would be nice. I do this a lot while trying to close something.

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Originally Posted by Rixan

With this probably being said before in this thread, I want to add my vote in on one suggestion:

PLEASE let us blacklist someone by right-clicking their name. The gold spammers in this game have so much freedom to spam with hardly any break in-between their shouts/yells/tells. It is such a bother to have so many gold selling spammers and yet we must open a menu and type in their names manually. These names are sometimes things like "Gfshbkre Filnhwaln" and that is a very irritating name to have to manually type in.

Please let us blacklist people by right clicking their name.

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In addition to this, a right-click->Report Spam option would be ideal.

Edit: Out of posts for today so I'm adding these here.

Two more things I just thought of, don't know if they've been mentioned yet.

1) The linkshell window has a "Move online players to top of list" setting, but this setting does not save, which makes it completely pointless. I don't know if this is intentional or a bug but either way it needs to change.

2) When you use a / command to change chat channels (like /l or /p or /sh, or sending a particular person a /tell) make the chat stay in that channel instead of going back to what it was.

I would like a way to NOT target peoples summon pets. If there is a way now I am not aware of it. I have played with the targeting tools but it seems to make me not target much of anything if I turn them off, including mobs. I would like to keep my targeting the way it is just NOT target peoples summoned pets.