Yoshi Pls

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Originally Posted by Paladinleeds

Yeah. They dared to try something new with Alexander 11. And while it was just a QTE, I liked it. It was something new, something exciting. More of that would be grand.

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The more they can stray away from these circular arena fights, the better. Don't even need to jump straight to Savage fights with these. Test the waters out in dungeons or other easier content and if it gets good feedback, try to apply it into the raiding scene.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

The more they can stray away from these circular arena fights, the better. Don't even need to jump straight to Savage fights with these. Test the waters out in dungeons or other easier content and if it gets good feedback, try to apply it into the raiding scene.

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They have "tested the waters in dungeons and other easy content." Many of our old dungeons (especially those from 1.0) didn't have circular arenas. For whatever reason, they decided to stop doing that - but there presumably was a reason.

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Originally Posted by OniKimoto

I understand, but I just feel like receiving tells in duty would be better.

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To be fair, you included this feature as something that would be 'super beneficial', it's clearly not, and is more about convenience than anything else. The potential for abuse in terms of harassment and/or RMT abuse are both great reasons to disallow Tells in dungeons.

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Originally Posted by OniKimoto

As for the diff server thing, well that's just strange. I feel like it's important an FC mate or someone should be able to convey a message to you regardless if it falls under harassment or not hence the blacklist. Also the extra 30 seconds, I find people still find a reason to nag if you take too long to reach the end, perhaps instead of a mount.. make the short cut actually take you to the point you need to be?

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FC and LS mates can hit you on the FC or LS channels, /tell is not needed for that.

You mentioned seeing the company profile (of others?) in dungeon and claimed it would be helpful for many reasons. The only one I can think of is cross server friends, and even then I am not sure that it would be any more helpful than remembering a player's name and looking them up since you can't send them a moogle mail, tell or anything else in-game anyway. Of course you could take 20 seconds and look the player and their FC up on the lodestone. Not sure what that would gain you either as the player still needs a character on your server to interact in any meaningful manner.

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Originally Posted by Priya

You're right in that it's just turned off, but it's off because of players harassing players. People still pay more attention to LS/FC chat than the duty half the time anyway. I feel that's a poor reason to keep it off.

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By that logic, it would be better to disable FC and LS chat as well once you are in a dungeon, since you are *in* a dungeon. Kind of like driving in a tunnel, or heading out into the mountains or a cave system, you have no link pearl...er...I mean cell phone, access anyway. So why do those work in dungeons? I say, disable them both.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

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I feel like SE had much more grand designs for the Lodestone in mind than what we actually use it for. Like I said, I think it was supposed to be a sort of self-contained social media site where people make friends, follow others, post blogs about their FFXIV experiences, and so forth. A neat idea, but something I think is plainly not a service most players would utilize.

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Originally Posted by SessionZero

I feel like SE had much more grand designs for the Lodestone in mind than what we actually use it for. Like I said, I think it was supposed to be a sort of self-contained social media site where people make friends, follow others, post blogs about their FFXIV experiences, and so forth. A neat idea, but something I think is plainly not a service most players would utilize.

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Agreed. If the Lodestone was accessible in-game, and if their mobile app every takes flight properly, the Lodestone could be what you're suggesting, and if it went in that direction, it would be hugely beneficial to players. IMHO it would be several orders of magnitude more beneficial than the suggestions made by the OP. Making the Lodestone accessible in-game would give FCs and individuals so many more communication options, the benefits are very high, and it only requires a in-game micro-browser specific to the Lodestone to accomplish.

Not to mention that the Lodestone is entirely global, so it's cross world across all data centers.

If there is something that the players should be asking for, the above ideas are exactly the things we should be targeting.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

By that logic, it would be better to disable FC and LS chat as well once you are in a dungeon, since you are *in* a dungeon. Kind of like driving in a tunnel, or heading out into the mountains or a cave system, you have no link pearl...er...I mean cell phone, access anyway. So why do those work in dungeons? I say, disable them both.

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In an all or nothing approach, I prefer the all, but it's others' prerogative to prefer the nothing. That's at least a better argument than leaning on "you have FC/LS, you don't need tells" or various other excuses to not have them.

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Originally Posted by Priya

In an all or nothing approach, I prefer the all, but it's others' prerogative to prefer the nothing. That's at least a better argument than leaning on "you have FC/LS, you don't need tells" or various other excuses to not have them.

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I'll lean on wanting the Lodestone in-game, and keeping dungeon interiors off-the-grid.

Mount as some mechanic in the dungeon is fine I guess, like Praetorium?. I guess it add some extra funsies to the dungeon.

Yoshi plz.

Add laughter to the sounds you hear as you run back in shame after a wipe. Place hidden bear traps in the path. Increase the volume and number of laughing voices heard every time a trap is sprung.

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Have Y'shtola (*sigh*) pick the player up in a golfcart at the entrance to the instance. Perhaps make a minigame for the cart race back.

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Originally Posted by Talraen

They have "tested the waters in dungeons and other easy content." Many of our old dungeons (especially those from 1.0) didn't have circular arenas. For whatever reason, they decided to stop doing that - but there presumably was a reason.

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This team didn't design most of that stuff in 1.0.

Everything from this team is cookie cutter don't shake things up type stuff for the most part. They have done a few things outside their standard but most things might as well be cut & pasted with new skins.

I'd be fine with mounts in *certain* dungeons, such as if built in a way as to be purposely expansive and too, say, multilinear for shortcuts to do the trick. Improving somewhat on the shortcuts themselves would otherwise serve the same function (as the OP mentioned a few posts down).

Absolutely agreed on tells (and access to the LS/FC windows) in duty.

Given how little stealth is involved in PvP as is, I'd argue it doesn't warrant a restriction from LS or FC chat either. By the time it does become a big deal, I hope we'll have moved beyond the 'the faction least doubled against generally wins' paradigm for many of our PvP duties, at which point only trolls could giving away "key" information about your team to an LS mate would in turn harm your chances, rather than become information by which a pincer against the remaining team could, potentially, be made. If they're going to go that far to throw their friends on the other team a bone, their trolling will likely be obvious enough to report them—in which case, what's the harm in allowing social chat even in PvP?

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Originally Posted by Sigmar_Heldenhammer

Mount in duty is unnecessary, the rest is solid.
I would love to see more cross realm communication. I hate being in a great DF run and then never seeing the people again.

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I'm bugged constantly by a friend to transfer to his world in another server, yet I'm part of an FC I'd rather not be without. I'd imagine it'd be asking too much to perk up that request of realm communication to cross-server communication, but one can dream.

Wow, I couldn't read all comments but I appreciate everyone's insight especially the snarky jerks. However, I simply suggested mounts because whenever I take a short cut I still have to go quite a bit of ways to get to my destination point. Yes, true it's not THAT bad but still it's not fun being rushed and bullied that you're too slow and plus I can understand because people have work/school maybe instead of mounts they can IMPROVE where the shortcut directs you!- Moving on.. Regarding opening FC profile, maybe it would be a nice feature to remove someone harassing some people in the Company or just to check who is online. Regardless I don't see why this restriction is even necessary or why we are unable to send/receive tells due to being in a different "place" and even if someone was harassing you. Extend the blacklist and it won't be an issue.

And I will add that I never even played let alone wasted time on WoW.

No to Mounts in dngs the mojarity of them are small and linear regardless. As for tells I also have to disgree too. Base on what you said your FC mate can msg you in FC chat and Linkshell are their as well. If you want someone to msg you that isnt apart of the FC/LS either write a msg in the mailbox or just wait until your done. I always tell people in /tells Im inquene for DF and about to go in. We dont need people to be distracted DF run with more things that aren't Sensual to the event.

I do find it strange we can talk in /fc and /l but not open their windows. Sometimes it's hindered me for whatever little reason I instinctively tried top open them up in duty (like seeing who of my fc is where in prep for another duty instance in my head, see who's not busy themselves and such). Then again, perhaps they closed these off because it would be too distracting... xP Not that I personally have much trouble with dungeons, but it's just a potentially little extra distraction on top of everything else I wager. :)

Didn't the devs recently say that they cut out needlessinformation while in duty for data purposes or something?