Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

Hello,

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Originally Posted by Naria

This has probably been mentioned somewhere else but . . . I'd love it if we could turn off our free company buff icon so they don't show next to our names or that they had a lower priority. Its great that we no longer see everyone else's Free Company buffs but I'd like to be able to see my abilities/self buffs prior to the free company ones.

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We plan on revamping the display order of icons shown on the party list and the following is a message from UI lead Hiroshi Minagawa:

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Originally Posted by Hiroshi_Minagawa

We’ve made edits to the buff icon display on the party list so that the display is the same for you and the rest of your party members on our development server.

Next we’ll be running checks to make sure everything is smooth, and as long as there are no issues we plan on releasing this in patch 2.3.

*Last week was the cut-off for patch 2.28 content, and we were unable to make it into due to the fact we are entering the final check phase.

We’ve been receiving a lot of other requests and feedback regarding buff display, but a lot of these changes require optimization and data work from other teams, so we’ll be addressing these gradually as we are able to lock down times where these other teams are available.

With that said, since the request at hand is something that can be handled by the UI team alone, we will be addressing this first.

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Make sure to include the Sancation buff.

Please display Signs next to their respective target in the mob list?

Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things from the "I want this, I want that, gimme, gimme, gimme, instant gratification" generation.

197 pages and counting.

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Originally Posted by Pure-Wasabi

Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things from the "I want this, I want that, gimme, gimme, gimme, instant gratification" generation.

197 pages and counting.

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w/e.. the dev's ask for suggestions. remember the failure that was 1.0? SE changed philosophy for 2.0 and decided to confer with the player base about things they liked or didn't. just because somebody makes a suggestion doesn't mean they feel entitled to a change. this is simply the "penny for your thoughts thread". take note of how many developer responses this thread has, and how many small changes were made in game because of it.

sounds like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

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Originally Posted by Camate

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Awesome! Thanks!

You know quality of life change I want?

Let me take the system menu off of the escape button.

I spam the escape button to untarget things, and the system menu sometimes comes up, sometimes doesn't. I have it mapped to the - on my numpad as well, which works GREAT, but it doesn't remove it from the escape button. Nothing else in the entire game is hardcoded to one button, is it? I mean, I get that it would be vurr bad to accidentally lock yourself out of the system menu, but can't you also get there from the minimenu in the corner? (spoilers: yes)

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Originally Posted by Pure-Wasabi

Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things from the "I want this, I want that, gimme, gimme, gimme, instant gratification" generation.

197 pages and counting.

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Be glad it is one thread with 197 pages,
instead of 197 threads of "gimme gimme gimme"

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Originally Posted by ForteXX

use /autofacetarget
It doesnt say its doing anything, but it works.
Changed to BLM, have it on, used Fire, faced target. Used /autofacetarget, turned (enemy now at 90 degrees), used Fire, 'Target not in Range'


"/? autofacetarget" says:
[6:55 p.m.]USAGE: /autofacetarget [subcommand]
→Automatically face target when using action.
>>Subcommands:
on Enable auto-face.
off Disable auto-face.
Toggle between on/off when no subcommand is specified.

(if on/off not given, it switches between on/off to the other)

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Thanks!

I wonder how I could have missed it when I looked at all the commands. ^^;

Originally I posted this suggestion in this thread. But I feel posting it here is more relevant and will give it more attention.

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Originally Posted by Riko_Futatabi

I'd really like Coil to not be a lock out when cleared. Simple reason being that I'd like to be able to assist another group in my FC when they are short on members and not have to make a new character and lvl it for this purpose.

As for how looting would work, if you've already cleared the turn once already then you'd have the looting lock out similar to CT.

This suggestion can only make the game better.

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The second post is a reply to some who were confused about what I meant when I mentioned CT.

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Originally Posted by Riko_Futatabi

You misunderstand, maybe I shouldn't have said CT in my original post, since people have clung to it and automatically thought about 1 loot lock out. This is not the case, read my original short post; the word "similar" pops up just before the letters "CT".

An exact copy of the CT loot system would be terrible for Coil, please stop referring to it like this. What I suggested for loot if Coil was not a weekly lock out when cleared was a new system entirely wherein you would get loot locked after clearing regardless if you got loot or not.

This would open up Coil without any major advantages of more loot per week, can't people see? Some have already noticed and posted things that we could do if coil was not a lock out when cleared and only loot was locked.

Things like simply helping an FC member or 2 that have perhaps missed your run and do not want to pug these turns for the rest of the week, you and your group would be able to help them still. Even like someone previously said, helping a group-in-the-making get some good practice(Friends, FC members, w/e.) and a possible clear! You would be able to assist, lol.

Removing the weekly lock out and locking loot once cleared, just makes doing Coil much better. Hell, you could even be apart of multiple groups and you still aren't able to exploit any extra loot. I for one would love to be in some of the other groups in my FC. I enjoy their company and if I can make their runs I'd go for sure! Everyone loves doing Coil, outside of Coil, if I'm being honest, it's rather boring at the moment.

Anyway this was just for clarity on how loot would work. I'd really love if SE would implement this because when you read it and understand it, it just WILL make this game a lot more fun!

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I hope people can understand what I'm suggesting, thanks for reading!

I want a vanity tab and vanity clothes. That means you get the stats of what you are actually wearing but people "see" your character clothed in what is in the vanity tab. If you don't put anything in the vanity tab then appearance shows what you are actually wearing. After implementing a vanity tab I would like to see the game continuously putting out vanity ward ware till dooms day. Get it to the public through event NPC's but make the events timed not associated with a holiday. Cycle the output so you get one outfit a month but once the month is up that outfit will not be available again for an entire year.

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Originally Posted by SunDriedRainbow

You know quality of life change I want?

Let me take the system menu off of the escape button.

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You can remap it under the Keybinds menu. It's under the System tab, "Close all UI compnents".

Not sure if it's been mentioned but I'd LOVE to be able to map mount summon to the L3 button. I can make it sit or draw my weapon, why not call my choco? It would be ideal.

Can we get a /played command that tells us how many month days hours minutes and seconds in the game?

It'd be a simple algorithm that looks at the date you made the character and calculates how long its been to today's date. And I know that info is stored on the server since it tracks veterans rewards. Shouldn't be to hard.
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Would also like defiance on warriors to persist through death and only drop upon canceling the spell or changing the class.
Alternatively instead of changing a spell maybe add a straight just like the deciple of the land where it auto casts and we can cancel it by casting the spell or clicking off the buff or changing our class.
I know that code exists since my botanist has it so that would just be a simple spell swap and level change and a new trait.....

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Also sometimes its hard to see your party members on the main map. This is due to zoom level and how many icons are up. A bigger icon or even a new icon that\\\\\\\\'s easier to see would be nice.
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Can ps4 players get an option to change the text size of the channel selection for your ls fc and standard channels. The text is still tiny and doesn\\\\\\\\'t change when you make the font bigger for your chat log. This is also the case when you are changing tabs as well.
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On the ps4 is there a way to add a few more keybinds to our attack roster when we have our trigger keys up for attacking? Like l2 +l3, l2+r3, r2+r3 and r2+l2.
That would bring our total to 12 and give us the same amount of keybinds as a keyboard for attack icons and the like, they get 1-0, hyphen & equals. It would only be fair in that sense

Suggestion: Duty Status window, that says "Forming party... " and "Reserving instance..." please add the name of the instance being reserved.

Since you allow multiple instances to be selected when selecting duties, it makes it easier to see which instance was selected by the system, and it should be very easy to add... comes in handy if you're keeping an eye on the "status" window and you can see which duty you picked without having to scroll through the entire list.

Thanks!

When in party I find it hard at times to locate another tank in the list.

Could you please sort the party list ALWAYS in the same order?
That way you'd always know where to begin looking for the info you want.

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Originally Posted by Seif

When in party I find it hard at times to locate another tank in the list.

Could you please sort the party list ALWAYS in the same order?
That way you'd always know where to begin looking for the info you want.

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Open your social panel > party tab > click on "sort party list" at the bottom, this will arrange the party list with yourself at the top, followed by tanks>healers>dps

also /psort.

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Originally Posted by Errors

I have a habit of being in a zone where is rains, quite often actually. How about a vanity item/weapon that is an umbrella? When you have your "weapon drawn" your character would hold it like a normal opened umbrella. It would be nice touch since in the next patch weather effects will be shown on your clothes.

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I would like to propose something similar to this. A /umbrella emote that would produce an umbrella and remove the "wet" texture from my character.

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Originally Posted by ddaydj

I would like to propose something similar to this. A /umbrella emote that would produce an umbrella and remove the "wet" texture from my character.

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Could be a gimmick pet. Like the chair or wind up sun.

I wishes to be able to change Pet's stance while mounting.
It is sick Pet keep disappearring by stucking to mob.

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Originally Posted by Darra

Open your social panel > party tab > click on "sort party list" at the bottom, this will arrange the party list with yourself at the top, followed by tanks>healers>dps

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Cool. Will this setting stay on or do I have to re apply it in each part?
Thanks for the tip!

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Originally Posted by ddaydj

I would like to propose something similar to this. A /umbrella emote that would produce an umbrella and remove the "wet" texture from my character.

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Ever since the wet clothes effect was added, they've increased the chance and duration of rainy weather dramatically and it's really annoying. Even Thanalan, which is supposed to be such an arid region, is in a state of near-constant downpour.

As someone who frequently likes to roleplay while questing, this puts me in a bit of a bind, because most of these rainstorms are the sort of torrential downpour I wouldn't go out in except in an emergency (and while a few of our quests provide an "emergency" reason, the majority don't). So I'm stuck with a choice of forgoing any roleplay so I can get on with the quest progression, or spending most of my game time standing in doorways waiting for the rain to let up. Either of those choices removes a great deal of the fun from the game.

An umbrella item or emote (or however else they think best to implement it) would help solve that problem. I could continue questing without having to give up on roleplaying.

(I also think they still need to decrease the frequency of rainstorms, especially in Thanalan.)

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Originally Posted by Seif

Cool. Will this setting stay on or do I have to re apply it in each part?
Thanks for the tip!

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You need to do it every time you join a party.

Not sure if this was suggested already, but I would love to see a sort button for company chest!
And, a for fun suggestion: A dance where we can dance with other players. Like, we target someone and use the emote and then, if the person targeted has the emote too, they can dance, as a crew or as a couple.

Some probably been mentioned countless of times, but still:
1. Show TP of party members. Yes, it's useful mainly for bards, but still
2. Ability to "Summon" chocobo, while riding it. Now it's possible to ride one AFTER summoning, but would be nice of the reverse whould be possible as well.
3. Ability to disable auto-adding of new skills to visible empty slots of hot-bar. Like I have an empty slot in a hot-bar, I get a new skill and its con gets added to to that slot. It annoys me, since I use cross-bar as a main one, but have some other hotbars as well. At least make the "lock" button prevent not only removing actions from a hotbar, but also adding them
4. Ability to select vertical\horizontal hotbars when using gamepad (currently can't be selected and you have to sue mouse\keyboard). Should be optional (not everyone will want this)

5. Recommendations window should be possible to close using a hotkey. On gamepad, I should be able to close it with "A", but I have to scroll to "close"
6. Ability to select actions from vertical\horizontal hotbars using triggers\shoulders on gamepad. Currently this can be done for one of the cross-bars only. Should be customizable through settings. Alternatively add ability to sue not only 2 triggers for cross-bars, but also shoulders (like not only LT + RT, RT+LT, but LT + LB, LT + RB and so on). Maybe the second one is better even.
7. Speed difference for mounts. So far it seems to me like they all run\fly with same speed, which seems a bit odd to me. Speed should not be that different, but still.
8. Small bonuses or afflictions from riding mounts based on "comfort" of riding it. The more comfortable it is the bigger exp bonus, but the bigger, say, speed or accuracy penalty on dismount
9. Temporary speed boost for mounts. Something like "Sprint", but for mounts

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10. Small bonuses for active minions based on minion, current class and current class lvl and current average ilvl. For example cat-like minions could increase dodge slightly for Lancer or Puglist, accuracy for Archer, but reduce strength\dexterity for all 3. Increase Accuracy for Disciples of Magic, but reduce their attack spell strength. Mechanical minions could increase strength\vitality, but reduce movement\skill\spell speed and so on.

24 hour clock please. time stamps are given in 12 or 24 hours. Would be nice to have the in-game clock have the same settings...unless I missed the option somewhere D:

I have two ideas today 1 may seem a common one but very eager to have and another is just cool : 1) I would like to have an alarm clock in game ! moogles have clockss you know , may be a minion or retainer skill that calls you :) , Eorzea time , I point that 2)I guess many asked for that , I mean class / job change during fight / duty , I just want to stress out that sphere change system was introduced in FFX 2 wasnt it ? and its evolving greatly in FFXIIIseries and it has to be introduced for mmorpg ffxiv someday ,its my opinion . may be just once per fight or duty , maybe very costfull in many ways 'costfull' , maybe even you have to die for that or u can use it once a week , but I personally would love to have that option , I mainly dps , but I would lvl up healer or tank if I could use it in hard situations , Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Buraspo

2)I guess many asked for that , I mean class / job change during fight / duty

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Problem with changing during a duty is that people would troll the DF system or piggyback in on their tank roll and switch to DPS. Unless, of course SE manages to put in some nice restrictions like as a DPS you can only swap to another DPS class or can only go from DPS to tank if the tank leaves and the party confirms it. Or, yet again, it's a pre-made party, which would be pretty nice.

During a fight though...it would make people so OP. But during duties would be kind of nice since some tanks just up and leave so that spot could be filled quickly and any tanks queuing can party up with another group of players AND another DPS or healer can fill the slot, possibly get people in through Duties faster, maybe?

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Originally Posted by Barboron

24 hour clock please. time stamps are given in 12 or 24 hours. Would be nice to have the in-game clock have the same settings...unless I missed the option somewhere D:

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Hi,
I am pretty sure, this is tied to your language setting. On the French client, the clock is set as a 24-hour clock (see here). Therefore, this should be quiete an easy improvement to implement.

Glamour

At the moment, with the new soldiery gear some of them are shared between two jobs such as BLM/SMN, WHM/SCH etc. I would like it if the glamour was not shared between them, as it would be nice to have separate appearances per job.

Can we please have /visor command be specific to ON or OFF?

It's very annoying to keep having to use /visor when switching jobs because a specific gear doesn't look good with visor up or down.

At least this way you can always force it to specifically be ON or OFF using a macro.

For example: I macro Shield Oath with /visor for my Cobalt Barbut visor to go down and I also macro my Sword Oath with /visor to go up. Switching from a job that has a helmet that uses the same function or even logging back on the game (since it doesn't remember the visor setting) screws up this macro command and I ALWAYS have to use /visor to reset it correctly.

Finally have my tab target filters set up near perfect... the only issue is as a Keyboard user I have to hold down "X" to keep filters enabled. Is it a possibility to change
Keybinds>System>Target Filter from a key press hold to enable to a Toggle On/Off instead. In dungeons/raids etc I don't need to hold X to enable those filters but if I am out doing FATES I do have to hold X to avoid attacking undesired targets on accident when I tab, when I hold X in FATES only targets I wish to attack become targetable so if this was a Toggle On/Off it would free up a lot of cramping finger pressing when I am ATMA farming. I am sure others would love for this to be a toggle as well.

• A warning for players that one or more of their gear pieces is in bad condition.
  
• Allowing the players to request repairs from another player, even in dungeons.

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Originally Posted by BunnyChain

• A warning for players that one or more of their gear pieces is in bad condition.
• Allowing the players to request repairs from another player, even in dungeons.

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This is already in the game, it gives you a message on your screen at 10% and 0% as well as in your chat log. The second option however would be great for people who don't have their crafters already leveled up to 40+ though and I know people have been begging for it since 2.0 came out.

Without reading the 2000+ posts in this thread, something that's annoyed me to no end since the release of XIV, the Friends List desperately needs to be alphabetized, esp when sending mail to another player. There's nothing more annoying then scrolling through a list looking for 1 specific person when you can't type part of their name and bring up a list based on all names starting with the typed letters, or even being able to scroll through the list and having a general idea of how far down you need to go. When you have over 100 people on your list like I do, you'd rather say screw it and go find/trade them personally than dealing with that complete mess.

Can you please either change the input method for mount dismount OR disable hud?

I used to love riding around just navigating on roads and landmarks but now that those commands overlap I need to always keep the ui stuff on when I need it the least. Please don't take that away like this!

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Originally Posted by Xine

This is already in the game, it gives you a message on your screen at 10% and 0% as well as in your chat log.

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Interesting... then I'd say don't allow them to queue if one or more of their left side items is at or under 10%.