Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

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Originally Posted by morruin

There really need to be a way to 'esc' dialouge options, rather than having to click all teh way to the end.

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Or you could try reading the lore and enjoying the game

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Originally Posted by Juran

Or you could try reading the lore and enjoying the game

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That's fun unless you've done it already. Why is this a response though? xD For those of us who like alt characters, it seems overly tedious to play because of the small things that take up time like the endless amount of cutscenes/dialogues that I've seen three-four times already. Because you want to skip over something doesn't mean you don't care about what it is showing 100% of the time.

A Q-o-L change I would like to see is being able to dye more parts of armors instead of just one section. I think that'd be neat. ^^

A "hood down" option visually for cowls.
auto-sort for retainers.

I'd like to make a few surgestions as well:

- Make all gears in the game dyeable, except for AFs. And not just the main color but 1-2 sub colors for smaller parts as well.
- DoM robes need more details & varieties, I've seen a lot of NPCs ropes that are far more better than player's robes.
- The fate reward popup should appear on the side of the screen instead of right in my face, along with pt teleport popup, or at least make them available to customize in HUD layout.
- Make it possible to choose which quest to track, & add filters like hunting log, side quests, dungeons to Recommendation list, cause things usually got hide away if there aren't enough space to list them.
- Allow players to queue DF as solo while in a pt doing FATEs, or using chocobo companion, & make levesquests don't appear to other pt members as well, since no one else can get any benefits from them anyways.
- The in-game connection status (next to the clock) need to be in ms latency. It's easier to understand by most players, instead of sending & receiving.
- Marketboard need to be in other crowded camps like quarrymill or dragon head, ect... instead of just the 3 starting cities.
- /hood.

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Originally Posted by AsakuraVN

I'd like to make a few surgestions as well:
- The fate reward popup should appear on the side of the screen instead of right in my face, along with pt teleport popup, or at least make them available to customize in HUD layout.
- Make it possible to choose which quest to track, & add filters like hunting log, side quests, dungeons to Recommendation list, cause things usually got hide away if there aren't enough space to list them.
- The in-game connection status (next to the clock) need to be in ms latency. It's easier to understand by most players, instead of sending & receiving.
- Marketboard need to be in other crowded camps like quarrymill or dragon head, ect... instead of just the 3 starting cities.
- /hood.
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I agree with these suggestions.
However, fate reward window can be moved already, just need to click and drag. :)

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Originally Posted by Rabb

I think the biggest thing that I would like to see added is the ability to select the sound device. I have to shut down the game to switch from my headset to my speakers. Its so annoying because when you exit you cant get back in because server is full.

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+1 would love to see this, I play the game sound out of my speakers normally but sometimes throw website streams (twitch, niconico etc) on the TV with sound output there & would prefer to keep the game sound set to my normal PC speakers (non-default in this instance).

Sorry if I'm re-suggesting. 70+ pages

I would love to be able to play multiplayer in my MMO ^_^

- Don't force us to play solo, allow parties to do the main story
- Don't force us to party to do the main story, allow any sized party (attempt) to do Dungeons

I'm not saying I want the main story easier, but the biggest reason my wife and I got this game was to play through the story together and not have to disband for every instance fight. On the flip-side, I don't like being forced into a "Light Party" for the Dungeons, to progress the story as well (this isn't as big of a deal for me, as the other seeing as this is a MMO).

P.S. - Allow all forms of Leve-sharing, couldn't even be in a party while doing them with Botanist.

I managed to pick up my AF gear in 1.0. I had to do the AF quests again in ARR. If you leave AF pieces from 1.0 in your Armoire while you're doing the AF quests in ARR, you get duplicate pieces of AF gear. However, you can't sell the duplicates, you can't put them in your Armoire (the Armoire will only store one of each AF piece), and you can't discard them. So those duplicate AF pieces are forever stuck in your inventory.

Same thing with swimsuits from the Summer Festival. I picked up a few swimsuits, not knowing that they were identical to the ones from 1.0. Again, you can't sell them, store duplicates in your Armoire, or discard them.

Please, SE, make it possible to discard duplicate AF gear/swimsuits. I've got about 11 pieces of duplicate gear that I can't get rid of, and which are currently taking up slots in my inventory. Thanks.

Please,

Add chat bubble font size adjustments for those with bad eyesight.

Allow UI scaling.
--Same reason as above.

Allow Right Click, Report so we can report Gil Spammers directly, also add them to the Blacklist.
--Makes for one stop shopping. The report could tag the chat channel for +/- a small amount of time.

I'd like to suggest the addition of CG cutscenes to make the story more dynamic and more at home to a numbered Final Fantasy game. I'd also like in-game cutscenes to add more voice acting, because it was sad to hear only a few select scenes voiced. I hope this is considered! :(

Please add a npc in all sanctuaries and some smaller hubs, That sells generic items and gyashl green aswell as repairs your equipment instead of just in certain areas.

Please give certain monsters and quests/levequests that give/drop materia.

The character limit for the chat box in /say and /em needs to be increased and/or needs to have the actual visible limit match up with the cutoff i.e. it prevents you from entering any more text when the chat buffer is full for that post without just eating your entire post and printing out a post that only you can see but no one else can.

Currently you can type whatever you want into the chat box but the 'physical' chat limiter is far longer than the actual limit put on text posts in game. If you exceed this 'invisible limiter' in the chat box it will gobble up your entire post and post nothing to anyone else but you will see on your screen the text printing out as if nothing is wrong, just no one else will be able to see you. This is kind of a huge oversight. The physical limit needs to be THE limit. The invisible limit needs to go.

edit: so the 'testing' I did shows that the "Hard Limit" (where it prevents you from typing anymore) is 500 characters (including spaces). However the 'real limit' (where it prevents others from seeing your posts at all and yet still prints it up on your own screen is roughly around 400 characters. Though to be honest I couldn't pinpoint a number since it would vary with every addition or subtraction of characters.

This kind of really screams of a massive bug with the chat system. I do know that there's probably some more pressing issues but this is the Quality of Life thread and having my chat posts gobbled up where no one else can read them and leaving me wondering if they went through every time is really frustrating.

Players should be able to die from falling.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Players should be able to die from falling.

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you CAN (if you are in battle mode)

- Tab targeting is completely broken - it's totally random. Enemy selection should be closest->farthest and front->side in order of importance.
- Chocobos are useless. Made them so we can queue for duty and ride them when they're summoned for fights.
- Let us buy a desired quantity from market stacks.
- Get rid of the old, outdated, frustrating RNG system. A mixed drop/token system is the best option.
- Make Quick Synthesis worthy... as it is, it's totally useless because it fails too many synthesis and gives WAY less xp than manual synthesis. Synthetizing large stacks of items (es. converting 500 logs into lumber) it's an EXTREMLY long, boring and annoying process

When will be our title can be shown to others?
It's been pretty useless now known that we can't make it appears on screen to others to see.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Happy Friday, everyone! :)

I have a message to share from User Interface lead Hiroshi Minagawa in regards to a minor UI addition, as well as an explanation about why features are added on a patch by patch basis instead of ahead of time when they are ready.

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how about autorun on that button? i had to actually manually edit the config file to stick autorun on the button, and now i also haveto press it to page-left. -_- can't we just set buttons for ALL the actions please. :-P it's not hard... u're already running code to check against binds, just more variables/enums needed plzzzzz.

Can we please get the HUD elements to stop snapping when arranging them? It doesn't snap to the provided grid but seemingly to random locations. It takes me three times as long as it should to get everything pixel perfect because the elements are stupidly snapping randomly and you cannot move them one pixel at a time.

Additionally can we get some more dev responses here? This is garbage communication compared to other mmos.

just wanted to throw my hat in the ring for the hide earrings option

k thanks.

I hope to see sorting of party list.

Provide a small button in the party list popup window to configure preferred sorting order.
Can configure the order of sequence based on category of classes.
For instance:
1. dps
2. healers
3. tanks

Either the game will auto sort the party list as members are added into party or provide a sort button in the party list popup window for player to click on.

Maybe increase the payouts of Leve's so that they are viable for soloing if you do not want to do fates all day for gil

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Originally Posted by Cenewulf

Maybe increase the payouts of Leve's so that they are viable for soloing if you do not want to do fates all day for gil

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Bump for increasing Leve rewards! Or perhaps after completing a series of Leves offer an EPIC Leve that gives rewards on par with the 20k exp you can get from some fates.

NM Leves! Then we can have proper monster hunt challenges. Some can be solo and others should require a small party.

Allow players to send mail to their alts.

So I got a Corsair Vengeance M95 mouse. It has 15 programmable buttons. However, FF:ARR only recognizes up to button 5. Anything after I have to use the mouse gaming software to program a macro to use the default keys.

Is there a fix to this or is there plans to add this support? Im sure Im not the only one out there wondering this....

Option to hide Earrings, like Headgear.

Forgive me if one is available later on, but I would love a tackle box or something for fishers to keep their bait in an inventory separate from the main inventory.

Please fix the mail system its terrible.

I can only mail people on my friend list...i guess this is to prevent spammers. At least allow us to message people in our FC as well. maybe even our linkshells please.

Right now its WAY TO RESTRICTED.

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ALSO...allow us to invite people to our FC by just right clicking on their name instead of having to friend them first and then add them or forcing us to be right their in front of them...thats inconvineant to.

Thank you

Also please allow people to deposit gil instead of needing full privileged into the FC bank

Let players DISABLE FC Invites!

They're getting to be as bad as gilspammers, and what's worse is that we don't know who is doing it so we can't blacklist them!

Please give all classes/jobs the ability to use a simple distance attack like throw stone or something like that, it's hard to hit a moving target when you need to up close.

Saddle bags for our chocobos. When I'm out mining I would love some extra storage with me.

Can we please get the hotbars from PC? I mean i can basically play mouse and keyboard on my PS3, I just need the hotbars to input skills.

PLEASE SE PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I want to heal so bad!

How about a way to compare gear? And by that I mean the Attribute part, not just the physical and magical defense of which I'm sure no one really cares about.

there is no way to use target focus with the gamepad atm

I've got 2 suggestions I didn't see listed, or missed.

NPC Dialogue Text Size:
I current play FFXIV on my computer and every so often I like to hook my pc up to my 47" 1080 LED HDTV. It looks great on my TV but I find I notice the Text size on the NPC dialogue is very small and hard to read. I've found ways to change the chat font size, the quest accept boxes but not the NPC dialogue.

Additional Controller Hotbar:
Maybe I'm just not used to changing between sets quite yet but I feel like having just one more additional hotbar cross would do wonders for the controls. This might be a lot more difficult to implement than it is to say but you could add one more additional hotbar to the controller scheme giving you 8 more options per set. I've included an image showing what I mean.

http://imgur.com/zo9Rwja

Various things, including bugs:

Make it so that Esuna does not remove the Leaden status caused by slime in Tam-tara Deepcroft (not usable much except the last bit of hallway where its 1 large puddle), or make the goo reapply Leaden every tick or something.

To slightly counter the Fate rushing for XP, make it so that finishing a FATE with target enemies gives a gil bonus for finishing it faster. (Adds can be the 'xp bonus', while actually doing the FATE gives the gil bonus)

Change enemy AI to not aim their skills at players mid-Raise. As a counter for this, perhaps make Raise/Resurrection add extra enmity to the player using it (I dont know how Raise/Res enmity works as I just recently was able to use it during battle).

Perhaps add a status, something like 'Reviving', that is in effect (on the one being revived, not the caster) from the time the character appears after a Raise/Res until they gain their HP back from the animation ending. The status would cause the player to be unable to be healed or damaged until it ended. This would counter the ability to use an AoE Heal to make the player gain HP mid-animation, and not receive the Weakness debuff since they never gain HP from being brought back.

Make Summons/Pets (hate that name btw) appear in party list. Add a small space under each party entry, that has the name of the pet and a Red/Yellow/Green(or blue) dot beside it so that healers/etc that use the party list to target can use that (and can tell when the pet actually needs it).

And last a personal one, just because.
Id like to have the ability to make a cross-clan character. It would be the same as normal character creation, but certain parts of the character would have a checkbox for crossing, and when making a character you can only pick 1 cross look (in my case, Mi'qote would have cross checkboxes at Eyes, Mouth, and Tattoos/Ear clip at least). Thought of this yesterday when I got through the story and noticed only Seekers of the Sun had Cat eyes (which I knew already), but only Keepers of the Moon had fangs, so now I think it looks odd.
While Tattoos/Ear clip may not be doable due to "memory issues", at least eyes and mouth could be done without as much of a hit. for simplicity, Im thinking the game like just lists a number or something for say... which eye you picked (1-6). To cross them, just make it so the checkbox perhaps... makes the number negative, and have each clans negative versions just be the other clans equivalent of that thing. This would just take a small increase in the size of a couple options (or the type of a variable), and whatever texture changes would be needed to add the look to the model.
^Of course I could be completely wrong about how it handles things, not part of SE Dev after all.

Post limit: Change this to be the level of all fighting classes, not just the one you started with. Im still currently able to do 2 posts a day, while my total (fighting) level is over 130.

Please, make in-game search for FC. I get some random invites a lot and it would be awesome if I could look up FC's info before declining or accepting.
Also, I think mannequins (like ones you see in crafting quests) would be nice thing for houses for patch 2.1. It would be nice to if gear you don't use anymore (like af gear) could be put on them and they could be placed in houses. Below is what I mean.
http://i43.tinypic.com/2urmnuv.jpg

Please allow other classes/jobs the use of the upgraded skills that are unlocked on the original class/job that are on the cross-class skill option.

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Originally Posted by DemonForest

Allow UI scaling.
--Same reason as above.

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This is doable. In the HUD Editor, select which part of the HUD you want to resize and type Ctrl+Home and you can make it larger or smaller.

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Originally Posted by Kuroi_Tsuki

Please, make in-game search for FC. I get some random invites a lot and it would be awesome if I could look up FC's info before declining or accepting.
Also, I think mannequins (like ones you see in crafting quests) would be nice thing for houses for patch 2.1. It would be nice to if gear you don't use anymore (like af gear) could be put on them and they could be placed in houses.

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It's not optimal, but you can always just look up the FC on the Lodestone.

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Originally Posted by Mistoltin

It's not optimal, but you can always just look up the FC on the Lodestone.

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I know, that's why I actually said "In-game" ;)

Also, please increase slots for trade and mail. 5 are not enough. Make it 10 or something.