Quality of Life Thread [Patch 4.2 and beyond]

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Originally Posted by D-chan

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While understanding that you want to get the word out, remember that naming and shaming on the forums regardless of the person in question will still more likely end up in a suspension/ban on you.

Please--for the love of god--add a mark beside purchasable Orchestrion rolls so we know which ones we have already acquired and added to our song list without having to actually go to the Orchestrion menu and look through every song listed to double check.

Ditto for loot items in dungeons. I'm still waiting for some form of tiny visual indicator telling me "You already have this item in a retainer." I don't need duplicates clogging up my inventories because I had the gear salted away in a retainer instead of on me at the moment, so the system let me (stupidly) roll on it even though it's supposed to be unique.

Finally, please please please let us select quantities to buy from the marketboard. I hate having to pay excessive amounts for 99x stacks of crafting mats that I only needed like ten of just because people were too lazy to separate their stacks while listing them for sale.

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Originally Posted by D-chan

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The removal of any and all materia.
The removal of positional requirements.
Places like City States, Idyllshire, Rhalger's Reach, Doman Enclave and Kugane to be free to teleport to.
Increase in current tomestone cap to 900 so it doesn't take two stupid weeks to get a piece of gear.
For tome weapons to either need 7 weeks of Normal 8 man raid or 1000 new tomes. Not both.
Things that are one time use such as Triple Triad cards or Orcestrian rolls or Mount drops that you already have to be greyed out and and unpurchasable or unable to lot on.
Personal Housing and Grand Companies to have a workshop for individuals for 1 airhsip and 1 submarine.
For chests from primals, raids and dungeons to drop more pieces of gear from the chests since there are so many jobs now.
The ability to use more than 1 5 star card in our decks. three 3 star, two 4 star and one 5 star would be a nice upgrade.

Give the ability to put face items (eyepatches, glasses, masks, bandannas, fake facial hair, etc.) on earrings or necklace slots, so we can wear them with head gear like hats or helmets.

Make crafter gear for all roles.

Add dungeon drops, tomestone gear & raid gear to either Armoire or Calamity Salvager. If we are forced to destroy items in Dresser, then we need a way to get them back easily rather than re-farming again.

Not having to destroy our items in dresser. Give us the ability to put our items in and out of dresser into our inventory.

If the last 2 aren't good enough, then finally give us a glamour book!

In Lodestone, add more memory in file management, so I can add more pictures. It's been at maximum capacity for a couple years now.

Make original rare inks sellable. I have inks I'll never use, but can't sell them. I won't scrap them, so let me sell them to people who could use them.

Let us join multiple FCs.

Make people sync down to Hunt rank levels, so that they aren't Zerged to Death in seconds. It'll be more fun that way, in my opinion.

Add more prizes like weapons or mounts to Fate bosses. Have the weapons themed like Odin axe, or Behemoth Book, etc. Coeurlregina mount, Tamamo whatever mount, etc. maybe even gear themed like them. Give us a reason to continue doing these fights. They are fun, but no more prizes to collect.

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Originally Posted by D-chan

You're entitled to your opinions on the rest, and you're even entitled to the opinion that Balmung should be unlocked, but the notion that RP is now more difficult to find on Balmung is not an opinion but a totally incorrect "fact." As someone who is on Balmung, RP is still as easy to find as it used to be, whether it's by attending the numerous RP events every week, doing walk-ups at the Quicksand, joining RP LS's and FC's, or utilizing the RPC and tumblr to make connections. I've played actively on Balmung since launch, put myself out there and networked a ton, and I still meet new faces in Balmung's RP community even this long into the server lock. Unless you're perhaps someone with a known history of being rude and inconsiderate to other people who can only rely on fresh blood to the community who are unaware of your attitude and reputation, in which case it sounds as if the issue would be you and not the server, you should have no issue on Balmung. If you think the grass is greener on Mateus, you don't have to transfer, you can just roll an alt there, since it's not like you need to immediately have a maxed out character just to RP. Cheers!

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Whether you are correct or not about the individual and their known history, the rest of this is a bit skewed. If you don't mind throw away RP, then sure! There's tons to be had by walking into the Quicksand. Of course you are likely to have a giant Xaela walk up and offer you some rather ridiculous unwanted anatomy. Now, if you want quality RP with long-lasting connections, character arcs, and stories you are a lot more limited. And if you are in to something like Keeper RP or just tribal/shroud stuff, you have two options on the RPC. One is dead and the other is so inactive it will only provide role play once every few months.

There are no other options and starting a new FC right now is extremely difficult precisely because there is no new blood coming into the server. If you like the FC you are in or enjoy pickup RP at the Quicksand, then great! For everyone else that doesn't fall into that bucket though it is a pretty serious problem.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

If it’s so hard to code, then why change it when no one asked for it in the first place?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...i_minagawa_on/

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

If you’re not actually on Balmung, I don’t think you have room to talk. Balmung IS dying for some of us.

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How ironic. I know it's hard for some ppl to grasp, but there was a large amount of us that server transferred off Balmung the months after ARR release. Due to the influx of overall rude and over entitled players trying to dictate the server and its players. Amazing how such an influx of a small % of these types (nonrp included) kill the fun for others. Yet these players, many OG Balmungers didn't make demands on the forums, they moved on.

Balmung's locked state is simple, its overcrowded, effects server and datacenter performance for everyone on Aether, and its not viable for them to waste resources to make one server "work".

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Originally Posted by ReplicaX

How ironic. I know it's hard for some ppl to grasp, but there was a large amount of us that server transferred off Balmung the months after ARR release. Due to the influx of overall rude and over entitled players trying to dictate the server and its players. Amazing how such an influx of a small % of these types (nonrp included) kill the fun for others. Yet these players, many OG Balmungers didn't make demands on the forums, they moved on.

Balmung's locked state is simple, its overcrowded, effects server and datacenter performance for everyone on Aether, and its not viable for them to waste resources to make one server "work".

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I payed to be here, so I disagree with you. I think it should work the way a lot of us expected it to.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

- Return the run action to the way it used to be
- Unlock Balmung before our server dies
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You mean 1.0 running No thanks I hated the slide.
Balmung is full how is it dying?

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

Balmung is full how is it dying?

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RPers who want it unlocked seem to be under the impression they have RP'd with everyone on the server, and need new RPers in the server to liven it up... Not realising it'll be the exact same as it is now while making the entire Data Centre unstable due to the influx of RPers being told to come in.

Most of the complaints come from ERPers though, so... there's that.

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Originally Posted by Rhysati

There are no other options and starting a new FC right now is extremely difficult precisely because there is no new blood coming into the server. If you like the FC you are in or enjoy pickup RP at the Quicksand, then great! For everyone else that doesn't fall into that bucket though it is a pretty serious problem.

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Why does it seem alot of RPers forget or don't realise Linkshells are a thing?

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Originally Posted by D-chan

Pure Gold

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Thank you for this

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

Why does it seem alot of RPers forget or don't realise Linkshells are a thing?

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It's not even that. We have an entire network on tumblr that posts events every week, with a huge amount of variety to be had. http://balmungrpcalendar.tumblr.com/ Yes, the events aren't as crowded as before the lock but we're /far/ from dying or lacking in things to do. In fact we have more events /now/ than we used to.

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Originally Posted by Cylla

No.
Balmung is no where near dying. Go to Ul'dah if your that lonely lol

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I do. I can’t find any LGBT+ guys to RP with. Most of them moved to Mateus.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I do. I can’t find any LGBT+ guys to RP with. Most of them moved to Mateus.

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That is a "you" problem, not a server problem. I find it impossible to believe Balmung is lacking LGBT RPers.

- SUM needs a UI for pet glamours I have to look up the text command every time i want to change them (have they said anything about adding more than just carby? could have sworn they said they would contiune to add more in furture patches but i haven't heard anything since the carby release.)
- let us hold dyes in the currency menu or something similar
- remove glamour restrictions on non AF gear (really why are they so scared of mages in armor when tanks can run around in swimsuits?)
- Let players change their Chocobo's color without having a house
- let us disable fate music
- let us enter the diadam solo (I've never even been inside cause it died too fast both times.)
- let us change glamour plates in the field
- And one that will NEVER happen but I really want. Let us us all skills/abilities we have even when lvl synced

Also not to be rude but you people really need to stop asking for Bulmung to be unlock. You have been told what needs to happen for it to be unlock and you as a community have ignored it.

Turn all Hidden and Rare gathering items on nodes to just regular items on nodes.
Decrease the Crystal gathering wards to 200 or 100 gp, or better yet just have them be a permanent ability or a trait.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

We have received a ton of changes to the game since the last thread, and so I thought I’d make a new one.

- Return the run action to the way it used to be
- Shiva emote, and Odin emote in the cash shop.

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Please, God, No. The sprint change saves lives and my TP in savage/extreme trials. It makes sprint viable to saving your ass if your teammate screwed up a mechanic and put something way too close to you.

And the shiva/odin emotes ARE in a cash shop, just Square Enix's cash shop, and come with statues.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

That is a "you" problem, not a server problem. I find it impossible to believe Balmung is lacking LGBT RPers.

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I want Balmung unlocked, and whether you agree with me or not, I am not changing my stance.

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Originally Posted by Nora_of_Mira

Please, God, No. The sprint change saves lives and my TP in savage/extreme trials. It makes sprint viable to saving your ass if your teammate screwed up a mechanic and put something way too close to you.

And the shiva/odin emotes ARE in a cash shop, just Square Enix's cash shop, and come with statues.

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It’s really annoying when you’re in a city, and you have to wait for a 60 second cool down. The old one was fine. It’s also obnoxious on new characters. Either they need to remove the Chocobo restrictions for them, or just make the run action work like it used to outside of duty.

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Originally Posted by Rhysati

If you don't mind throw away RP, then sure! There's tons to be had by walking into the Quicksand. Of course you are likely to have a giant Xaela walk up and offer you some rather ridiculous unwanted anatomy. Now, if you want quality RP with long-lasting connections, character arcs, and stories you are a lot more limited. And if you are in to something like Keeper RP or just tribal/shroud stuff, you have two options on the RPC. One is dead and the other is so inactive it will only provide role play once every few months.

There are no other options and starting a new FC right now is extremely difficult precisely because there is no new blood coming into the server. If you like the FC you are in or enjoy pickup RP at the Quicksand, then great!

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I don't think that's the case at all. There is more to be found at the Quicksand than "throwaway RP" or ERP, so if that's all you've found there, I don't know what to tell you, because the experiences of myself and others have been different. I have made quality connections there. It may not always work out or even be the norm, and sometimes you have to wade through a few creepers or RPers who just may not be up to your standards, but if you put in quality RP of your own, communicate OOC, and make an effort to stay in touch and uphold your part of the relationship, you can make lasting connections even at the Quicksand. Do you ever think maybe you aren't finding the RP you'd like because you are so quick to automatically dismiss certain RP venues and the people there are not being "quality," or making the assumption that those who enjoy them somehow have lower standards than you?

The RPC is not just a FC/LS directory. It's an entire forum with a chatroom and plenty of subforums for finding RP in various ways. You want Keeper clan RP or Shroud-centric RP? Make a thread looking for connections of that type. Make a LS for these things and advertise it there--as someone else already replied to you, linkshells are a thing, they are much easier to run than FC's and much easier to get a member-base for. Don't want to deal with running something in game? Make a Discord for Keeper/Shroud related role-players, toss up a permanent invite link on the RPC and you don't even have to deal with inviting people. Organize an RP event on the RPC for some sort of festival celebrating the Black Shroud and its people. Even FC's are still an option, at least if you are fine having an FC that isn't huge. Even with no new players incoming, people are still returning to the game from long breaks, FC's are still disbanding, people are still FC-hopping or waiting around FC-less as they search for their perfect fit; there are still people to be recruited.

If you can't find the RP you want, make it. You can't be upset that others aren't doing the thing you're not doing, either. Or heck, if you don't want to take charge yourself, just make a thread on the RPC stating your interest. Others might step up to the plate themselves if they see there is a want for it, or they can maybe even suggest groups that exist on the server but aren't currently listed on the RPC. A lot of people use tumblr (as Enla several posts above linked one of the great Balmung tumblr resources) or the numerous community Discords and don't often touch the RPC, so the RPC is definitely not a perfect representation of everything that's on the server.

You have to put in a little work to find the RP you want, especially if you want to be picky about "quality" or hone in on specific themes that may not be appealing to a large portion of the community, but that does not at all mean that the server and RP community are dead.