Small QoL Improvements

The "Recommendations" window shows quests (and other things) in your current region, and for regular sidequests, that's fine. But could it be updated to always show where your next Main Scenario Quest is located regardless of region? Lots of people seem to lose track of where they left off after they've spent a while doing other things. (Help with finding the next quest is a recurring question in Novice chat.)

Perhaps other important ones could be included too, like if someone isn't up to date on their class or job quests, show that as well regardless of where they're at.

Thank you for taking our suggestions!

New suggestion: More camera keybinds

Give us more camera distance keybinds. Currently there's only the "return to default position" keybind. Would be nice if there were more like Camera position 1, 2, 3 and then we could keybind them. This helps for when we're flying (having to always scroll back is a bit tiring). It also helps a lot in normal fights, sometimes we have to zoom out quickly, being able to hit one button to zoom out would help a lot.

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Currently there's only the "return to default position" keybind.

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There's also "Save Current Camera Position" and "Return Camera to Saved Position", however, the Return bind always swings back behind my character, regardless of where it was when I used the Save bind. (It maintains the same distance and height, but always swings behind instead of keeping the angle relative to my character at the time of save.

Those binds would be great if they could be fixed to work as expected (i.e., whatever position the camera is relative to my character when I hit Save, Return should send it back to that position). So if I save the camera at a 3/4 angle zoomed way out, so I can see things to the side of and behind me, then I move around, Return should send the camera back at a 3/4 angle zoomed way out, rather than always swinging behind me.

I respectfully submit that the functionality of this pair of binds should be fixed before we start adding more camera angle save slots, lest we end up with more camera angle save slots that all exhibit the current behaviour.

If it hasnt been succested yet :)

I would like to have a way to lock up the hotbars on the current positions , sometimes in the heat of battle its easy to missclick something and move the hotbar from its current position with the mouse.
Might be nice for the chat box too ^^

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Originally Posted by Khemorex

If it hasnt been succested yet :)

I would like to have a way to lock up the hotbars on the current positions , sometimes in the heat of battle its easy to missclick something and move the hotbar from its current position with the mouse.
Might be nice for the chat box too ^^

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There should be a lock/unlock icon to the right of hotbar 1. Admittedly though, a /hblock or /barlock command would be nice so we could hide said icon and still have access to the toggle.

Expanding on the cursor thing I mentioned on the last page, it's happened a lot recently that I've found myself scrambling to find my cursor. I rely on point-and-click on the party frame when healing, and when playing at high resolution, I keep losing the mouse cursor while in combat (it is a tiny white speck floating around--when many abilities produce tons of effects that look similar).

There are some options that I have in mind:

• Create a variety of cursors to choose from, with many different shapes and patterns.
• Allow cursor size to be expanded or contracted.
• Allow us to adjust the color, opacity, outline, shadow, and glow of the cursor.
• Create an option that will highlight the cursor's location (either through contracting radials or through some other visual--possibly a toggle).
• Create an option that will allow us to snap the cursor to any of specific UI elements (alternately, create a "cursor return" spot in the UI where we can send the cursor with a hotkey press).

Ultimately, I know it's a difficult challenge, but especially as screen and render resolutions climb to 2K, 4K, and 8K, a set-pixel-size mouse cursor will become increasingly difficult to find, which will be an incumberance to playing the game.

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Originally Posted by Khemorex

If it hasnt been succested yet :)

I would like to have a way to lock up the hotbars on the current positions , sometimes in the heat of battle its easy to missclick something and move the hotbar from its current position with the mouse.
Might be nice for the chat box too ^^

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I don't know about the chatboxes, but hotbars can be locked from the options menu (there are a lot of options there).

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I've found myself scrambling to find my cursor. I rely on point-and-click on the party frame when healing, and when playing at high resolution, I keep losing the mouse cursor while in combat (it is a tiny white speck floating around--when many abilities produce tons of effects that look similar).

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I'm not saying that we couldn't use some better visibility options for the cursor (we could). But I do have a recommendation based on my own personal habits of working with three or more screens at once.

You suggested

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Originally Posted by Jpec07

Create an option that will highlight the cursor's location (either through contracting radials or through some other visual--possibly a toggle).

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and Windows can handle this natively.

1. Press [Windows] key.
2. Type "mouse" and press [Enter].
3. In the window that appears, click "Additional mouse options."
4. On the "Pointer Options" tab, enable "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key".
5. Click "OK" or "Apply".

From then on, pressing either CTRL key will cause a big circle to appear around the mouse and then collapse inward on it.

It's not perfect, due mostly to it being restricted specifically to the CTRL keys, but it's a decent workaround until such time as we get a more visible cursor in game. Personally, I would like to add the request:

Please give an option to disable mouse pointer hiding. Currently, the mouse pointer disappears when typing or otherwise using keyboard controls. I would prefer to be able to see it at all times.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

From then on, pressing either CTRL key will cause a big circle to appear around the mouse and then collapse inward on it.

It's not perfect, due mostly to it being restricted specifically to the CTRL keys, but it's a decent workaround until such time as we get a more visible cursor in game. Personally, I would like to add the request:

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My experience with using this feature with graphically intensive programs like FFXIV that use DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan overlays is that it is jerky at best and introduces framerate lag at worst. Even with a powerful machine, the implementation is so drastically imperfect that it will stutter and sometimes just not work. I'd thought to try it in FFXIV, but my experience with overlays tells me it won't work out.

Still, thanks for the tip! I hadn't found where they hid the setting in Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Can you make it where you can lock your chat boxes position/size? In other words, be able to disable click and drag for the general tab so you don't move the entire chat box on accident, and to disable the top right chat box arrow so you don't resize it on accident... Thank you! It's really annoying lol, especially the click and drag problem for the general tab.

With the expansion of inventory, but not retainer inventory, can become a future problem too. And we will have the same GearSets problems - you can't store all sets collection, so my suggestion has two aspects.

1. Add a grimorie Glamour (like many times we said), for completion it can be very very fun, people will run old content everyday to farm it, but in term of space, the gear can be registered and after discard (or consume by the grimorie).

(but.. if option 1 cannot be.. because of Retainer Bussines to SE) at least.. take this in consideration.. and with the new that no more space for Reatiners...

2. Add a Wardrobe with a max capacity of 40 - 50 gearsets, to each retainer, in this way we can have all space organized.... and maybe (only if SE) it could double the slot on retainers (letting it.. to not completed gear, and materials, and unique items, craft..)

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Add FISHERS BAITS BOX (have all baits in one slot or something similar) xD

Thanks and sorry for my English ^^

Remove the one second delay between starting and ending a crafting session.

Allow players to set the number of items that they want to craft, this way instead of forcing players to keep clicking "Synthesis", the system would immediately allow you to start the next item after completing a synthesis.

I started having problems with my retinas starting august last year. vision started to get worst and worst over time. I recently had surgery that is restoring some of my sight but I still have issues with overy bright fields, especially white backgrounds. Not requesting changes in lighting but, I'd like to see an alternate background option for the journal and dialogue boxes in the game. dark backgrounds with white or lighter colored text. It would go a long way of making the story accessible to those that don't necessarily have visual impairments like I do.

A Glamour Catalogue:
A Window (like the one for Character, Companions,etc) where all the weapons/equips a player gets are registered as soon as s/he unlocks it. Players could then use it (alongside glamour prisms) to change appearance, so people won’t need to put old armors in retainers, inventory, company chest, etc because they like that piece of equipment and want to glamour it.

Armory Chest Improvement:
Make the Armory Chest accept 1 copy of all untradeable/market prohibited weapons/equipment.

More Roulettes:
I feel that new people who want to try old dungeon contents feel a little let down with the timers for them, like coils or extreme. How about an “Extreme Roulette” and a “Raid Level 50” and “Raid Level 60” Roulette? That way the probability of new people going to those contents would increase.

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Originally Posted by Jpec07

• Create an option that will highlight the cursor's location (either through contracting radials or through some other visual--possibly a toggle).

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Originally Posted by Rongway

and Windows can handle this natively.

1. Press [Windows] key.
2. Type "mouse" and press [Enter].
3. In the window that appears, click "Additional mouse options."
4. On the "Pointer Options" tab, enable "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key".
5. Click "OK" or "Apply".

From then on, pressing either CTRL key will cause a big circle to appear around the mouse and then collapse inward on it.

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There's an option ingame that does exactly this. Keybind >> System >> Mouse Sonar. It's a bit obnoxious (okay, very obnoxious), but it certainly draws attention to the cursor.

Awhile ago i asked if we were able to lock/unlock the click and drag for your general tab and top right resize arrow because it was an issue. BUT, i just thought of another amazing idea that would fix a miss-typing issue. Can you make it where you're able to automatically switch to a certain type of chat for each chat tab?! For example, i have a chat tab that is only for party/linkshell chat and a chat tab for free company chat. Let's say i click on my free company chat tab, it should be able to automatically change to free company typing, so when i type in the chat box it'll send it to the free company chat instead of me having to manually switch it to free company typing, so i don't accidentally send it to another chat tab that it wasn't meant for. This should work for customized chat tabs, and would help with "wrong chat" moments.

For the area where it shows sending and receiving information could we have the option for it to show our ping to the server instead so we can see how our connection is doing?

We also need to be able to have more than 4 chat tabs. I want to create one just for private messages only, but i can't because the only 4 chat tabs i have are for everything else.

I found another issue when healing as a healer. Since i don't use keybinds to switch between party members for healing, and instead i manually click through the party list with my mouse cursor, i'm sometimes having trouble clicking on the players names. For instance, sometimes when i click on a players name in the party list the "view search info" box will pop up which interrupts my ability to click. I also cannot click on a party member if my mouse cursor is hovering over their buff/debuff icons... Can you PLEASE make it whenever you're in "battle only", that you can't bring up the "view search info" when you click on a players name, and that you can still click on a players name even when you're hovering over their buff/debuff icons on the party list?! Thanks! It would help a lot.

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A Glamour Catalogue:
A Window (like the one for Character, Companions,etc) where all the weapons/equips a player gets are registered as soon as s/he unlocks it. Players could then use it (alongside glamour prisms) to change appearance, so people won’t need to put old armors in retainers, inventory, company chest, etc because they like that piece of equipment and want to glamour it.

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This. There are plenty of precedents in other games. WoW and Diablo have Transmogs, DCUO Styles, CoH costumes, etc. Allow anything that we bind (or is BoP that we loot, trade tomestones for, etc) to be saved to a menu to allow us to transmog and dye that item. This alone would free up SO much inventory for us. Get with the times and work on this, inventory management games are the opposite of fun.

Also, how about a new retainer interface menu. Click on the bell and have all the retainers be managed through one menu instead of having to summon them individually.

I really like the new map interface, but one issue persists: It's very hard for me to see the white cursor on the yellow background. This is really annoying when trying to quickly teleport to a linked Hunt or FATE. Please give us the option to make the cursor black.

Also, when lotting for loot, can you make the number we roll show up either above or below the loot? Some pieces of loot have the same or similar colour to the text of the number we roll, making it very hard to see what we've rolled.

The above are both PS4 issues, since I'm not right in front of my screen.

*** Please Add the ability to change instances faster than leaving a zone then returning and picking which of the three instances you would like to go to. It's very challenging for Hunts to get to the correct instance before you get to the correct location. Simply add an cue at the nearest Aetheryte that allows you to select which instance you want to get into as same as it is while you are trying walk/ride into the zone and then select the instance you want to move to.

Currently it is only possible to look at fishing spots from the Fishing Log and see where they are located:
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...60f3755af5.jpg

What I would suggest as a quality of life improvement is this:
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...48175a8b17.jpg

Allow teleportation via Fishing Log maps. Botanist and Miner already get the location of the area to pop up on the real map when they click the Gathering Log locations, why not allow Fisher to use their Fishing Log as real map as well? :o

Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.

reason:
I play on PS4 and like to take lots of screenshots. I recently copied a bunch of them to my computer and find it really frustrating to go through them, because they won't sort correctly. Although when viewing them on the PS4 itself, it can display them in date/time order, when copied to a thumb drive for transfer, it sets the filedate to the time they're copied rather than when they were taken, and they're copied in a random order.

That issue by itself is Sony's doing and there's nothing SE can do about it, but I expect that SE can quite easily give us a simple workaround. The file names already include the date and time they were taken, along with the name of the character we were playing at the time, like "Y'kayah Tia 07_24_2017 00_37_19.jpg". Since it includes our character name, I'm pretty sure the game itself (rather than the PS4 OS) is choosing the filename to use, in which case it should be a simple matter for SE to change the order in which the pieces are included. Changing the date portion of the filename from "07_24_2017" to "2017_07_24" would make the files sort correctly. (It's also a more universal international standard for dates, anyway.)

Allow us to resize the cursor without enabling the laggy software cursor.

With the upcoming increase of stack sizes to 999 could we finally get the option to purchase only part of a stack on the market board? And also can we please get the ability to mail to our alts (it is very annoying to have to bug a friend to mail a crafted item etc to an alt character).

I would also like to request that holiday synthesis items like the battered fish for moonfire faire be quick synthable. It seems weird that you need several but can only craft them one by one.

Don't close the game when for some reason you couldn't connect to servers at the main menu.

Don't make you use the One Time Password for every time you login. A register location/device feature could fix this.

Still logged in error haunts me since 2.0 how about you fix this?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...UI-setup/page5
This ^ This ^ This ^ PLEASE THIS ^

It was partially implemented... but REALLY REALLY would LOVE to be able to sync between PC and PS4... Enough to actually buy Heaven's Ward and Stormblood a second time for PC (I have A Realm Reborn PC already lol).

Not asking for live sync, just something like Save Appearance data that would be restorable on any version of the game (PS4 / Steam / PC)

I necro-bumped it a bit with some Ideas... but Camate isn't around anymore (in an official capacity)

Buff DRK its a broken mess

Necroing this little gem as there are tons of good ideas throughout this thread that the developers should start looking at.

Can we get an option in the gear preview window to show a glamoured item's base appearance? (Essentially, preview what a Glamour Dispeller would do without using one?) I've got some items I've glamoured long enough that I've forgotten what they actually look like.

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Can we get an option in the gear preview window to show a glamoured item's base appearance? (Essentially, preview what a Glamour Dispeller would do without using one?) I've got some items I've glamoured long enough that I've forgotten what they actually look like.

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Until they add a button for this, you can search for the item, then use the chat link to preview it unglamoured.

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Can we get an option in the gear preview window to show a glamoured item's base appearance? (Essentially, preview what a Glamour Dispeller would do without using one?) I've got some items I've glamoured long enough that I've forgotten what they actually look like.

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You can do this now with the mass dispel feature they added in 4.3. Open the glamour plates menu and click the button next to the "10" plate and it'll bring up a dispeller feature and show you what the base appearance of your current glamours are.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.

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SE shouldn't have any problem fixing this on PC, our ffxiv_DDMMYYY_HHMMSS.png is even less sortable. Come on, SE, you're a Japanese company, you already use the perfect YYYYMMDD order in everyday life, why aren't you using it on screenshots?

I was cleaning out the messages in my box (bah) just now.

Which brings me to my idea. Please devs, could you put in a option/button with moogle mail to allow a person to delete all open mail/already read mail at once? I think a lot of people that do not stay on top of it would appreciate that. ^^

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Can we get an option in the gear preview window to show a glamoured item's base appearance? (Essentially, preview what a Glamour Dispeller would do without using one?) I've got some items I've glamoured long enough that I've forgotten what they actually look like.

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I do this by another method: When you try on an item, it prints a line to your chat log that is like '[19:19]You try on the pair of mythrite goggles of gathering.' I right-click the item link in the chat log and try it on from there. It then displays the base item in the Fitting Room window rather than the glamoured appearance.

However, a button would be nice, too.

Hey, I left here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...hysical-damage

a suggestion to make damage types (physical/magical) easy to recognize. This could be easily implemented by having the different types be of different colors in the enemies' cast bar. Further details in the link.

I have finally figured out that one of the things which has stopped me from doing the daily hunt marks is simply the interface for looking at the list of marks. The "stack of mark bills" in my Key Items is nice for immersion, but on a practical level I find it difficult to remember which marks I've completed, which I have left to do, and where I need to go for them -- especially since they are infinitely rotating. I would LOVE the option to "view all" - either summarized in a window like the hunting log, or just spread out over the screen somehow so I can see all the bills at once. Bonus if it can include the weekly B-rank in the list, too.

Simple Mode UI for more things
Only the job gauges have a simple mode, but I would love it if more things had the option to make the UI more uniform and clean. The first thing which comes to mind is having our personal Progress Bar match the look of when you're targeting someone and they cast something. I don't need the icon, I just want clean, simple bar, cast time, and maybe the name.

Event Icons
I feel like the icon above a quest giver's head should be noticeably different when it's for a limited time event, like the Make It Rain campaign going on right now. It's indistinguishable from every other quest, so it may be ignored by passerbyers. Maybe have it glow and have a small clock on it, in place of something like the + they sometimes have.

World select changes
It's a very minor thing, but I have to deal with it so often and find it annoying. Whenever I log into a different data center, it always takes me to the same character and it's not the one I play ever. I would love it if we have multiple characters on a DC in different worlds we could have a preferred one to start on. I only have characters on Cactuar and Siren for Aether, for example, so why aren't those two always at the top of the list, which seems to be ordered randomly every time, and starting at the one I played last?

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Swap Keybinds Based on Current Job
As of now all keybinds are shared across jobs, I'd really love to be able to save individual keybinds to each job.

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But why? What system level keybinds would you change only for certain jobs?