Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (FFXIV: ARR)

Would you please consider modifying the “<wait>” macro command to operate in fractions of seconds (decimals) rather than whole seconds?

Back in Final Fantasy XI, it was possible to write macros and use a "wait” command line that would accept decimals and operate in tenths of a second, rather than whole seconds.

I'd like to see the same for FFXIV, so I can write macros for Ninja like this:

/macroicon "Suiton"
/ac "Ten" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Chi" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Jin" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Ninjutsu" <t>

The reason being is that the Global Cooldown for Mudras is half a second (0.5 secs). However, the shortest time a macro can execute the next line is one second (1 sec). Which means that currently using a macro to execute Ninjutsu is actually slower than doing so manually. Some Cross Bar users want to optimize their hotbars for fast reaction times and quick DPS with fewer amounts of buttons to press and skills to activate.

Are you adding more Subdivisions anytime soon? Plots of land for housing have been steadily evaporating as a result, and there are many who would still like to buy a house.

Can you please make High-Level Gathering Nodes that yield large sums of Crystal Shards?

Some gatherers are reluctant to gather Shards because they take too long to farm in massive quantities. This negatively effects the Crafting Economy when serious crafters have to pay large sums of Gil for shards—further compounding the fact that high-demand crafted items typically require a lot of shards to craft, thus causing players to either spend endless hours gathering at a slow rate or spending even more large sums of money to buy more shards.

What’s worse is that because Low Level Gathering Nodes will yield shards, the RMT players will take advantage of that by creating new accounts with low-level MIN / BTN.

High level nodes that offer larger quantities of shards would hamper the RMT market by making it harder for low-level gathers to get shards in huge bulks at one time while simultaneously rewarding high level gatherers by giving them actual incentive to farm shards.

I read recently that the Chinese server for the game will be removing level sync from the lower level dungeons. Do you have any plans to incorporate this into the NA or EU servers and if so, will it be forced or optional (such as a 'join party in progress' box)?

Will we ever see the return of Hamlet Defense, Chocobo Caravans, Skirmish or at least similar types of events?

Lately, it seems that RMT /tell advertisement spamming has been occurring in much greater frequencies. So fast that I've had them happen from 5 different accounts within a 30 second time frame.

The only temporary fix is to set yourself to /busy status. Which is something players shouldn't have to do.

Is the Dev Team planning to address this in some way? Because this seems to be an ongoing source of frustration for many players.

The item "Moonlet Earring" was from from an event back from 1.0 days. Will adventurers ever see a chance of obtaining the this earring again, even if that is through a cash shop purchase?

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

In a previous live letter (Letter From the Producer LIVE Part XVI) you talked about the possibility of a weapon and armour log. Have you got any updates on this?

Most of the mages armors look horrible and there is no diversity at all between them, and adding something to an existing set or changing the color do not make some of there set "new" at all, so stop reusing old stuff all the time. People are tired of the wizard hat and robe look, which make them look like hobos and not like casters, and want different set of armors for their mages that are pretty, elegant, and has style with practical touches, especially for the males (some robes suit better the females sure but not male mages at all). The war jobs get pretty set of armors while the magic jobs get horrible set instead. What do you have to say about that and your plan about it?