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Do reports need to be translated for the STF and if so, would it be possible to get a STF in each region? This would allow for these teams to take care of the rampant cheating plaguing this game faster and they could still collect any information the main STF team is after.
Non-RMT botters are still around in many servers even after they have been reported multiple times by different players, typically botters that are obvious and disrupt the market board and server economy for personal gain while demotivating future Disciple of the Land/Hand levelers trying to enter the economy of trade. Are you able to explain why they are still around and what can we do as a community to solve this issue? The reporting function does not seem to benefit us.
Improper use of Party Finder by RMT Content Sellers
Hello, a sizable percentage of party finder groups every hour of every day are RMT solicitations for clearing content like Primal/Raid/Ultimate and advertise using party finder via either (/tell) or the user name of a 3rd party app like Discord to promote and complete RMT transactions of your content. These usually involve players sharing login information (which is against ToS) and then after content has been cleared, real money is being traded. Unfortunately these people cannot be properly reported as RMT because they set the solicitation ilv in Party Finder too high so that they cannot be reported or blacklisted and they are profiting with real money from your game. They are not exchanging gil as all of these solicitations are cross-server and are only transacted via real money.
Is there any way to address reporting these people similar to how we can currently report RMT gil sellers with a simple right click bypassing the ilv restriction and have the STF investigate their party finder entries? Also can this type of activity be made firmly against ToS and a ban-worthy offense to both buyer and seller?
Hey there! I am a migrant from Mabinogi and other games.
I came to this game world to be with friends, and I have a lot of interest in the music system, (I plan to be one of the greatest bards ever!~) so here are my questions:
1. The new interface is nice, but absolutely having to use Shift/CTRL to switch octaves really messed up a lot of people who used the old system. Can we please have both??
2. You disabled MIDI instruments. This made a lot of bards sad. People who really play piano can't ply their art... Can they come back please?
3. Will it be possible to play chords of 2 or 3 notes in the future?
4. Are more instrument voices on the way?
Thanks.
When a large number of players are fighting a NM in Eureka, actions that require you to be in combat often don't function, even though you are clearly in combat. It's very frustrating to fight NMs as a Machinist in Eureka, because you cannot use Barrel Stabilizer, and Flamethrower does not generate heat, locking you out of 20%+ of your damage for about a minute until you can manually build up 50 heat (at which point the NM is probably dead). Is it possible to get this fixed?
Could we see another instrument like drums that play along with the bard? It would be very neat if we could start seeing ingame bands that play music together!
Players using illicit bot programs have become far more rampart on multiple servers in the crafting and gathering sphere. Cactuar has a particularly notorious botter who produces thousands upon thousands of Grade 2 Infusions in the span of mere days. Despite reports from numerous people who have caught and/or recorded their program breaking, they remain uninterrupted. Can you explain why such activity is allowed to continue and what measures you may be looking to prevent further exploitation?
For reference sake please glance through the following at your convenience:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4627993
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4628128
Edit: Would perhaps extending the Right Click Report feature to suspected bots help the STF flag suspicious individuals?
Can we increase the damage dealt by damage dealers (DPS)?
The difference between top damage dealers and top tanks is not big. Tanks DPs is very close to damage dealers DPs. Tanks are slightly behind damage dealers. If a damage dealer dies or takes damage down, a tank can easily surpass them in dealing damage.
DPs role is responsible for bringing damage. But when tanks are catching up to damage dealers in DPs. It doesn't feel quite right.
The same thing can be said about the differences between tanks and healers DPs. Even between damage dealers themselves.
I understand that we are working with small margins, I'm asking for this margin to change. Can we please have the numbers adjusted?
Can you make it possible to exchange more than 1 Anemos Crystal at a time in Eureka? It hurts my hands a lot every time I spam the same button over and over.
While NM fate trains are the fastest way to lvl up would it be possible to make it so that other people can't claim your mobs in there unless you call for help similar to the FFXI system? It's very annoying for people who think they are helping when in reality they are not.
As a bosst of xp for those who can't find NM tarin parties or are tired of being used by AFK players, would it be possible to get exclusive non fate nms to spawn so that individual groups can get an xp boost and can't be claimed by outside groups? perhaps after each kill lower the wait times on normal fate for up to a maximum of 30 min?
Would it be possible to perhaps give the relic gear full anemo gear set an exclusive boost ion the Eureka areas to help balance the lack of support from higher levels who have completed Pazuzu fate.
As someone who also works in a NOC, I've noticed that the NTT hubs tend to have a lot of packet loss. Can you elaborate on some of the monitoring methods that the SE NOC uses when checking for server and network stability?
Are there any plans to implement any new systems to eliminate RMT spam or are things just 'stay the course' at this point?
Do you have any plan to introduce a new race in the next expansion?
it would be really nice if we have some kind of daily/weekly/khloe style mission or something to do with your fc, there are a lot of content to do, but i think will be great have a content to do with and for your fc to get fc point, furnish or something like that. Do you have any plan to add something like that?
Since the shirogane update there was some problems with clickable furnish in house, to reduce the problem i think it was a good idea remove the clickable from food, as i know, noobody want they eat their decoration, so it will be a good way to reduce this problem.
So please take in consideration.
- is there any chance in the future that we can buy the old Minions from the Mercandise products that are not available anymore? (Mog Station)
- is there any chance in the future that we can get the old Feast Season Mounts that are not available anymore?
Will wrinkles ever be available as a cosmetic option in character creation? I wanna look old!
I have 3 questions, and one of them is more of a suggestion which i hope it may be taken into consideration.
1. Will there be any actual buffs for dark knight coming?
2. Is there a way to add low level fates for low level players in eureka?
3. (mostly a suggestion) Can you guys give ninja a slight buff without decreasing anything ? i.e an extra 5 seconds to the shadow fang damage over time?
Thank you
Great game!! Now I main Dark Knight, and I have for a while now. When 4.2 came out though I fell in love with the changes of WAR and questioned why didn't Dark Knight get that same attention? I went back to Dark Knight and still sticking to my main even though I feel that Dark Knight could use a little something more. Why isn't Dark Knight the highest DPS tank? even though it's offensive kit and MP cost pretty much call for it to be. Yoshie admitted that Warrior is really strong, and it is but it cost nothing to be that strong right now which is surprising while Dark Knight it cost's valuable MP to put out damage, and as of right now it isn't even the strongest. Also if Dark knight is really getting looked at, bring back Scourge with a higher potency and same additional effect would make Dark Knight a truly unique tank that i fell in love with the first time. What has the progress been on Dark Knight? When will we see these changes that was discussed last Live Letter?
The last thing I ever expected for relics to have were Materia slots, let alone 5. What was the reason behind that?
Do you have any plans on Making the Ability to use Glamour Plates in locations other than the City-States such as Sanctuaries? I understand that there may be issues surrounding a this matter but I personally have found myself annoyed at the fact that whenever I obtain a new piece of gear as a quest or dungeon reward, I have to sit through the loading screen of entering a City, then cast the Glamour from the Plate, and sit through ANOTHER loading screen so I can get beck to where I was in the first place.:mad:
Diadem gathering nodes moved to Eureka with updated Stormblood items
1. Any updates on plans for the future or destruction of Diadem now that Eureka will be at the forefront of continued updates? There were considerations for Diadem to be closed entirely but many players still find it to be a useful zone to gather large quantities of items for workshop projects and other miscellaneous crafts. If Diadem won’t be repurposed as a zone to focused on gathering large amounts of unspoiled node items and eventually closed down for good, would the same nodes players visit the zone to gather from be made available in a future zone of Eureka?
2. Please consider allowing players to begin from floor 101 in Palace of the Dead. I like the prospect of the challenge to 200, but dread time having to spend from floor 51.
1) Are the developers even aware of the problem with bots in pvp?
2) Are they going to make pvp fun ever?
Will there be new rewards for us to spend this "currency"?
There has been ongoing issues with lag on the Chaos servers for months now. It has been especially bad this past month, leading to wipes in savage on several occasions and making the game unbearable to play some days. Is anything being done to fix this? We have been vocal about this issue for a long time now, but there hasn't been any response or acknowledgement from the XIV-team. If this lag is not fixed or at least adressed by the time Ultimate is released, Chaos will be at a severe disadvantage in the race (and it will also be a great disturbance for anyone trying to clear the fight, since it already is a challenge in itself).
Rampant bot activity
There have been reports of players using 3rd party software in order to gather materials for crafting as well as participating in PvP. This has lead to a lot of frustration amongst the player base and deterred them from participating in crafting/gathering, as well as PvP. We have been told that there needs to be sufficient evidence for an investigation into said activities, yet we are allowed to provide next to none due to being unable to use video or screenshots because of possible tampering. How can anyone get a handle on this situation if we are unable to provide what would be credible evidence?
When can we expect the next increase of outdoor and indoor capacity? :o
When contacting GMs about RMT, botting or really any other illicit activity that doesn't involve chat logs, they suggest contacting the STF or they place a report to the STF on your behalf. Are there any plans to give GMs more authority when dealing with these matters?
When we submit an incident ticket for a specific bug in-game, how come we do not get an acknowledge or history of this bug via our support desk?
When we submit a bug on the forum and placed in the Accept section, is this a graveyard section? We do not get an update or know what is the next course of action.
What is a reasonable turnaround time that a player can expect when submitting an incident? For example, item lost via the armoire bug - item stored, cannot be found in remove tab
It's said the STF and the GM team will not accept evidence such as screenshots or videos as they can be altered. Not taking action as a result of such evidence is understandable, but is this true even when the evidence is used to better convey what is being observed (is such evidence always ignored entirely)?
You can place several reports to the STF of obvious illicit activity, but you'll continue to see the reported parties performing the same activities weeks, months and perhaps even years later. This could be because the reports aren't specific enough, it could be the reported activity isn't against the ToS, it could be the punishment for such activities never results in a permanent ban or it could be the STF never even received the reports to begin with. Are there any plans to change the lack of feedback provided by the STF?
The lack of action regarding RMT, botting and other illicit activities doesn't just have those activities continue - it wastes the time of any players filing reports. Would you consider disabling the function to report various forms of illicit activity?
I'm curious as to why reports pertaining to cheating and glitches are never responded to, because if I don't receive a response, how can I even know if someone is actually reading my report?
The GMs have oft assured me that they'd be forwarding my reports to the STF when I opted to contact them directly, but when I see the same painfully obvious bots running around despite months of scattered reports against them, it makes feel like they're just blowing them off at this point.
If there was two way communication, it would likely help with getting people properly punished for cheating.
Also, as an aside, this is not the place to be asking questions about things like class balance and other gameplay features.
As stated in the first post, these questions are for Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi, who oversees the Community Team that handles live events and broadcasts, the Support Team that handles inquiries from players, the Special Task Force (STF) Team that handles illicit activities, the NOC Team which observes real-time tasks like server status, and various other teams related to the community.
Use this chance to speak out about the sheer amount of inaction towards botters, hackers, and other cheaters, since it's likely the only one we'll get for a long while.
Report Followups
When we make a report unrelated to harassment, it'd be nice to have human feedback to confirm the issue or to be assured things are working as intended. It doesn't need to be soon or even live conversation like harassment reports, but I don't want to put in a bug report and have it still be an issue months later, without any human interaction concerning the issue. A pop-up window saying my report will be reviewed tells me nothing.
I think this is especially important considering the recent Ungarmax fiasco.
Will we ever see more Cross-over event? in the future.. like for example with DQ11, Nier, Persona, Fire Emblem or other Jrpgs.
STF:
How come nothing is being done to gather and crafter bots not involved in RMT?
General GM question:
Can there be better methods of appeal (English law definition "apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court")in regards to GM action from the player in specific severe circumstance that warrant it?
Extra details for question for clarity:
Basically I am asking for a way for a player to seek higher GM in command for an action reversal when a player can provide ample proof why it should be looked at. I feel these are always ignored and there are some questionable GM actions time to time that warrant reversal.
When can we get Linkshells for cross-severs?
They would be great for Eureka. Just wanted to add a little bit more of FFXI in to Eureka.