Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

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Originally Posted by Umero

or even nicer if they could allow us to see what we have in our retainers inventory without summoning retainers.
it'll definitely save me time from taking screenshots of what my retainers have and then looking them up from the screenshots folder when I need to check what items I really have.

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I wouldn't expect that to be likely in the core game itself. The whole reason games separate inventory into smaller amounts characters can carry around and then larger amounts they can only access in specific locations or under specific circumstances is to reduce the memory load and database transaction load. However, once the game allows plugins (and I believe they're planning to add support for those at some point), I'd expect this to be among the first ones to be made.

(It would essentially work the same way as you've been using your screenshots folder, by capturing a listing of what your retainers have when you access them, storing that info on your local machine, and then showing it to you later. It's simply that the process of updating it would be automated into the act of accessing your retainer's inventory, and the display would be set to something that could be easily brought up within the game.)

I would really like the ability to change "Sound devices" in-game as currently if you want to change say headphones - > speakers you need to restart the game and change it from the sound devices window. Probably not a lot people care about this but would make my life a ton easier!

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

I wouldn't expect that to be likely in the core game itself. The whole reason games separate inventory into smaller amounts characters can carry around and then larger amounts they can only access in specific locations or under specific circumstances is to reduce the memory load and database transaction load. However, once the game allows plugins (and I believe they're planning to add support for those at some point), I'd expect this to be among the first ones to be made.

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At the very least they can and should allow crafting from the retainer without actually accessing it, as numerous other MMOs have. It would be a great QoL improvement.

Speaking of retainer inventories, why are they separate? Why not just have a larger inventory that comprises the available space in both retainers? Sometimes I can't remember on which retainer I put that stack of X item... would be helpful if they shared an inventory.

I don't see any reasons why they should have separate inventories... it doesn't give the player an unfair advantage to have them combined. For unique items, you would be able to store 2 of that item in the same combined inventory (or more depending on how many retainers you have).

(I know a similar suggestion has already been made--just want to reiterate it.)

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Originally Posted by Sanris

Speaking of retainer inventories, why are they separate? Why not just have a larger inventory that comprises the available space in both retainers? Sometimes I can't remember on which retainer I put that stack of X item... would be helpful if they shared an inventory.

I don't see any reasons why they should have separate inventories... it doesn't give the player an unfair advantage to have them combined. For unique items, you would be able to store 2 of that item in the same combined inventory (or more depending on how many retainers you have).

(I know a similar suggestion has already been made--just want to reiterate it.)

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Or give us the ability to summon all our retainers at once. Then we would have 3 inventories all up at the same time: our two retainer inventories and our own. Makes it easy peasy to transfer items between the inventories.

Make cutscenes you have already seen AutoSkip option. On the consoles we are forced to wait a few minutes before we can actually skip the cutscene

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Or give us the ability to summon all our retainers at once. Then we would have 3 inventories all up at the same time: our two retainer inventories and our own. Makes it easy peasy to transfer items between the inventories.

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This is a possibility. I'm not sure which solution would be easier for the developers to implement.

1. Separate history log for FC Chests. Separate lists for items deposit and withdraws and gil deposits and withdraws.

2. Item Preview System. This is really a necessary feature to make the glamour system better. Currently you can't see what an item looks like unless it is equipped.

3. The ability to select the amount of an item from a market board seller that you want instead of being forced to buy the exact stack number up.

4. Get rid of kick/abandon timers. There are times when either someone dcs or its just so obviously a fail group that you just sit there wasting time waiting for the timer to count down so you don't have to take a leave penalty.

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Originally Posted by Izzy1234

1. Separate history log for FC Chests. Separate lists for items deposit and withdraws and gil deposits and withdraws.

2. Item Preview System. This is really a necessary feature to make the glamour system better. Currently you can't see what an item looks like unless it is equipped.

3. The ability to select the amount of an item from a market board seller that you want instead of being forced to buy the exact stack number up.

4. Get rid of kick/abandon timers. There are times when either someone dcs or its just so obviously a fail group that you just sit there wasting time waiting for the timer to count down so you don't have to take a leave penalty.

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I don't like #3 for a lot of reasons, but maybe that's a seller's perspective and yours is a buyer's? I agree with your other suggests. I'm curious though, did they get rid of the leave penalty? I've been the first to leave from a few instances and did not get the penalty.

Also, I'd like to add a few suggestions:

1) Make it possible to ride a different mount while your chocobo is out. I can only ride my chocobo while my companion is out, not my goobue or any of my other mounts.

2) Add a PvP styles stats page at the end of a dungeon so you can see how much damage was dealt, healed, etc. by party members.

3) A relic style quest for crafters that involves the luminary items. You couldn't exactly have it be like the regular relic quest (e.g. kill Titan), it would involve crafting a lot of stuff, perhaps HQ (i.e. getting your luminary weapon) and then doing something special to "+1" it, like crafting even more stuff.

4) A FC recruitment board similar to Party Finder so that people don't have to spam recruitment messages or fill up Party Finder with recruitment messages. Maybe a board for sellers/buyers also (e.g. "Will buy tome mats for X gil).

5) Also, the ability to queue for dungeons with your chocobo out and not having a queue canceled because you forgot and called your chocobo.

It's a little thing I know, but I'd love prices to be listed in the chat log when you buy things.

Right now, we get a chat log message saying "[22:47]You purchase 9 bottles of potash." If you're making a lot of smaller purchases for varying amounts, it can be hard to keep track of what was spent on what. "[22:47]You purchase 9 bottles of potash for 36,000 gil." would make it much easier to keep track of what went where.

I don't think it would add any additional strain either as the game is obviously already accessing the information to find out what you bought, I'm just asking it to also quote for how much.