Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE LX (UI Designer Kei Odagiri)

Hello,

Can you add a feature that will allow us to trade items between our alt characters within the same account? Thank you.

Is it posible to add a black box option (similar to the chat UI) behind certain UI elements to help increase visibilty?

There are times with all the various backgrounds of the game that words or numbers can blend in.

Could we get a seperate size adjustment for the Dialogue, besides changing the base size for all of the UI.

Would it be posible to add a preview of the UI elements at their full capacity (full part list, max buffs, etc) to the HUD layout?

Targeting aetherites on a map with the PS4 controller (maybe PS5 soon) is not as easy as doing so with a mouse. Could we see changes to make it easier?

Perhaps along the lines of clicking anywhere in a larger area around the aetherites will teleport to said aetherite.

Could more features be added to optimize "target buff bar"?

Left align / Right align and adding a more detalied filter would be very appreciated.

What are your thoughts on enhancing the game client such that it allows users to place UI elements on a second monitor? I would love to be able to keep a large map open on my second screen while watching for a FATE to spawn in an area, for example.

Why do we not have the option to automatically cloud save/load/sync our hotbars and such? Players that regularly play on multiple devices currently have to log out of their character, return to character selection, and manually upload the data after every play session.

We have a lot of emotes very clearly designed to be done with a partner (such as hugging or the new high five). Are you working to implement a system that allows players to actually do these together rather? As it stands now, both timing and positioning is very troublesome, resulting in very late hugs that involve your arms missing their targets. We could even do it with more than two players for dance synchronization.

Would it be particularly challenging to give us the option to display enemies' targets on the enemy list? As it stands now, we can only see who the target is for a single enemy at a time. This makes it very challenging when trying to cooperate with another tank or two to see if a target is being tanked by a tank or is running amok and attacking a healer or DPS instead. While we're at it, color coding these targets by role would be great.

Why does much of the dialogue not display in the chat box? For example, text that appears in chat bubbles over NPC characters when your character approaches them only shows there and only for a few seconds. So, if we read it too slowly, we miss it. It would be great if we could get a new chat filter option to select what tab we want such text to go to. Likewise, this would be great for a lot of the NPC chatter that we're supposed to somehow read in the middle of running through alliance raids or participating in FATEs.

Can you give us an option to control/prevent players that logged out on another world from being automatically placed above all players that logged out on the same world? This is an issue on the free company members list and the friends list.

Functionality that replaces a hotbar with special actions (such as some mounts that have their own actions or some duties where we control a different character than our own) currently only applies to the hotbar numbered "1." Can we get configuration to select which hotbar this applies to? Personally, I have adjusted my keybinds so that the most easily-accessed hotbar no longer happens to be the one that's technically identified as Hotbar 1.

Could we get the option to minimize UI windows to the notification area? I often find myself navigating through a specific crafting log entry, opening its recipe tree, performing an item search, and then needing to close the windows to get one of the ingredients from a retainer only to have to open them all over again for the next ingredient. Plus, I sometimes get distracted during the process and have to repeat the search because I don't remember specifically where it said the item was.

When we perform an item search to find an item, it can still be a bit challenging figuring out where exactly it is amidst other items on the same tab. Could we get it highlighted with a brightly colored square or something?

Rather than having to point to each stack of ore to figure out which one is the precise type I'm looking for, could we have the option to see a list of items in our inventory, on a retainer, in our saddlebag, and in the free company chest as a list of text (perhaps with the icons beside the text)? We could then add alphabetical sorting, too.

I love being able to use the Lodestone to search for items with advanced criteria (for example, to see all the gear a specific job can wear now that it has reached a new level). Why do we not have this option in game?

Can we get UI to view, filter, and sort the database of gear in game? For example, when my friend asks me to help them make a new piece of gear but isn't sure exactly what they should be wearing at their current level, the best way I can currently find is to go to the market board and search based on their job, their level, and the gear slot. This has a lot of problems, though, since it requires me to go to a market board and only lists items that are not market restricted. It would be great to easily also see untradeable items from vendors, duties, and such. It would also be great to actually filter gear that is actually intended for a job (so I can filter out low level crafting gear when I'm trying to find the best combat gear, for example).

Can we get an easy way to preview gear from the online store? As it is now, people just try to find someone that already bought it to link it.

Can we get options to see what hairstyles look like without having to already own the hairstyle? Ideally both in the aesthetician interface and at vendors that sell the hairstyles.

Can we get a search box to find items like game configuration options? As it stands now, we often have to dig through varying levels of menus, submenus, windows, sections, tabs, and so forth to try to find a specific setting. It would be great if we could just have a search box to type "mouse pointer size" or "nameplate colors."

The scenario guide pointing players to their current/next job quest is great. Unfortunately, it breaks after the job-specific Level 70 quest. It should then show the relevant role quest. And after that, it should show the Level 80 job-specific quest. Can you fix this?

The current UI seems to have some sort of target selection filters, but this does nothing for me. No matter what I select there, it still includes enemies that are not already aggro'd on the party, for example. Can you make this actually work please? Also, while we're talking about target cycling with the tab key, can we also have the option to make it actually go in order of ascending distance?

Is there any way to have Free Company members who logged-off while cross-server not be automatically sorted to the top of your offline members on the Members List? As it stands now, these members (who can be offline for days/weeks) show up at the top of the list over members who have only been offline for minutes/hours.

Can we get a spot to put a message that automatically gets shown when a new member joins our free company? There's a long list of things we want new members to know like "you now have a new option on your teleport menu" that we just have to try to remember to type out every time.

The Lodestone shows us if a player is on our friends list, in our free company, and (perhaps most importantly) in which of our linkshells they are in. Why do we not have this same functionality in game?

Would it be possible to implement something similar to the "Back Up Character Data" -which saves your Config, Hotbars, etc, but for player inventories? For players that don't utilize the "sort" option for their inventories and prefer to customize and manually organize them, changing PCs or platforms (PC to PS4 and vice versa) will cause the inventory to seemingly randomly shuffle their items around.

Or even a new type of Sort that you can customize by types of items in an order you prefer rather than the limited (and vague) options under "Item Settings" in the Character Configuration?

Why can we not lock our hotbars in place, but can only lock the buttons themselves? Is this something that can be changed in the near future?

Currently when you "try on" gear or preview dyes the "display gear" toggle is off by default, showing you naked on the rest of the body. Could this option be turned "on" by default or remember the setting after closing the game?

While doing beast tribe quests that have a npc handling crafting materials or letting you ride a mount those npcs are marked with a blue icon with an exclamation mark ( ! ) on the map. When clicking a quest on the duty list to display the current destination on the map those npcs are also considered "objectives", so the map will usually be centered in the middle of nowhere to try to display the *real* destination(s) and those npcs at the same time, even though those npcs already fulfilled their purpose. That makes it confusing to find the real destination, as the map gets zoomed out to cover a large distance, especially on large areas like The Sea of Clouds. Could those npcs be ignored as "objectives" after taking what they provide?

Edit: added a picture of an example. The real quest objective (which is by the bottom right corner) isn't even displayed properly because it's trying to display at the same time the npc who gave me the materials to make the item I already crafted (on the top left corner). It should be noted that the quest objective already switched from "craft the item" to "deliver the item".

https://i.imgur.com/HJJUWpL.png

In the Glamour Dresser, can a display filter be added that will only show non-gender or class locked gear? When I am trying to come up with a new glamour look sometimes i'd like to be able to only see gear that has no gender and/or class restrictions.

Hello,

Can you please add the ability to copy a saved UI layout from one character and paste it to another character? For many of us players who play multiple alts this would be a great time-saver. Thank you.

Could you please allow account access to housing? It could be made into a option for the home owner to allow. Which would grant access for the entire account. If it's too complicated to do. Could you then enable our own account alts to come up the top of the friends list? So I can add my alts to the guest list. I like how macros have a shared tab. I hope you could expand that line of thought bit more for us multi character types. Thank you for looking. Forever a fan!

First, thank you for all of the work that you and your team do.

Question: For inventory storage purposes why do we have 3 grids (105 slots) dedicated to Key Items (quest items/ turn-ins, key tools etc.), and can a section or two (35 or 70 slots) be given back to players to increase storage that we are able to access?

From 2.0 to now, I have never completely filled the key items sections, even when maxing out the number of current quests. I am not sure about the degree of resources that this change requires, but I assume that since players already have these slots, granting access to write to/ place items in the slots should not be too taxing on the platform.

First, thank you for all of the work that you and your team do.

Question: Without a tackle box, storing bait/ tackle in our inventories is difficult with limited slots. Since we have to use the “Bait” ability to change bait types, can all bait in the game be reclassified as a key item and stored in the key item section of our inventories? We currently have 105 key item slots, so I don’t believe storing them there will interfere with quest key items.

First, thank you for all of the work that you and your team do.

Question: Can a position lock function be added to prevent the accidental moving of the message/ chat box? I’m not sure if a method exists on PS4, but more often than naught I have found myself in the middle of battle and I accidentally move my chat box to the worst possible location. This causes me to panic as I try to hastily restore it.

First, thank you for all of the work that you and your team do.

Question: Can an alert or warning be added to alert users when they place an item up for sale below the vendor selling price, or can the lowest offered price (“price floor”) be locked at the vendor selling price?

I’d like to always think the best of others, but I often run into examples of people intentionally/ unintentionally trying to “crash” the MB economics. This hurts the games economics as a whole, and detracts from all of the investment that has been put into revamping the crafting and gathering jobs.

First, thank you for all of the work that you and your team do.

Question: I’m not sure if this is strictly UI related but is there a way to switch to a glamoured job in the open world and maintain our linked glamours for that job? It’s a little cumbersome to have to go back to a city area to successfully change jobs and retain the glamour.

Could there be an "Eorzean" chat mode added that outputs anything written in it into the chatlog as Eorzean script instead of real world languages? I just think it'd be fun.

In the loot window, can we get the option to select multiple pieces of loot and hit the button to roll need/greed/pass just one time? Instead of having to roll each item individually.