Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII! (Exploring Patch 4.2)

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Originally Posted by urban

also could you bring back the three main city music theme from 1.0 or at least make it a orchestration scroll thank you

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iirc, they drop from the original aquapolis.

- Will there be reparations for those who lost their opportunity to relocate solely due to coding errors?

- Will we ever see housing truly fixed where every player can have a house or 99 instances of each ward (should be coded to merge wards if a population is too low in one, and create a new ward if more space is needed)?

- Will you ever change the 5 yr old patch model of two extreme dungeons, a primal, either a new 8-man raid or a 24-man raid, and a few story quest?

- 25 NA servers and 2 NA Data centers is too much for the active population, when will servers be merged?

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Originally Posted by Mozerlam

Are there any plans to be able to take our Squadron Members out as a companion so we can have something else other than a Chocobo?

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not a bad idea...doing fates with squadrons..sound cool.

Are there any plans to add the Level 50 Nameless Armor (Samurai) and Red Attire (Red Mage) sets, the ones obtained from the job unlock quests, to the Calamity Salvager?

Why are Disciple of the Hand and Disciple of the Land gear locked to their respective class roles in Stormblood and it's subsequent patches? In A Realm Reborn and Heavensward many of the sets released for those professions were available for glamour and they gave a lot more variety in terms of simply providing more options. However, all of the Stormblood leveling sets are just as unique; one literally being the robe from the Steppes—a highly desired top for Xaela players, yet you chose to lock them due to what I could only assume was paranoia over spiritbonding. Why would you choose to limit creativity in such overbearing ways, especially when you could pursue a change to the Spiritbond system that checks to see if you are the appropriate role to gain spiritbond when equipping said gear?

Projects

Would it be possible to allow more than a set limit per contribution to a set digit amount. Example instead of 3 at a time give us control of how many we want to contribute?

With this is mine please think about removing the required amount of people needed to be in a party or in FC workshop. Maybe allow us to get NPC crafters to help instead?

Airship
Please raise the airship frame limit. It would be nice to have a full set of the last airship.

Optional services for accounts;

Perhaps hire Ironwork staff as an option to additional services to help compensate for us crafters not having enough people or having to shout.

With the recent issues with instanced battles and Raubahn Ex, I'm worried you might cut down on instanced battles. They provide some of the most memorable battles of the game, and I would miss them. Could it be possible to use the old guildhest system for some of the battles? Having players going in together would cut down on how many people are trying to get into the content, and would add some replayability too.

Will we get more MSQs per patch? Even without voice, it would be nice to get more world building and lore. Some MSQs in 4.1 felt "wasted" for stuff like Skalla. MSQ gets so many ressources and the Skalla questline could have been just a sidequest.

Can you add a "Partial Match" to the crafting/gathering/housing item menu when searching for an item, like how there's one on the market board?

Is removing the headband piece from the Tamamo Headband possible? They would look much better if they were made without it, like the Werewolf ears from Halloween.

Can we please see word put in for Square to increase the budget enough for voice acting all major cutscenes? The game loses so much immersion and impact when we're seeing a dramatically voiced cutscene which then abruptly just cuts right back out to text windows. Or when Kefka dramatically shows up with such an amazing intro, and then loses a ton of weight when the lines are just placed over the screen. In relation to this, it feels really, really bad to have nothing but the MSQ even partially voiced (Trials aside), leaving raids, sidequests, and job quests by the wayside.

For any new future jobs... could we have some sort of Magitek themed jobs. Like Magitek knight, Magitek solider/mage, and/or Magitek Medic. I would rather it NOT look like FFVII type of influence. Something from FFVI would probably be better. Drawing from FF TACTICS.. it would just be a cool idea.

When will Summoner get more Egi glamour options for their pets? Will scholar be able to glamour pets as well in the future? (Such as using the Anima Fairy from the relic quest and carbuncles?)

Can you please look into players selling content on the PF? Honestly, it’s obnoxious and it reeks of RMT due to discussions that can take place outside the game on platforms like Discord? And having to see this brought up almost immediately when looking at the PF is distasteful and undermines the integrity of actually accomplishing content and the merits of doing so.

I co-own a cottage in Shirogane with someone but they haven't logged in, in months. Since housing reclamation started up again, I've been stressing about the house being taken and barred from purchasing for an indefinite amount of time. Compared to the person that I share the house with, I log in practically everyday.

My question is: Would it be possible if co-owned houses could transfer ownership to the next active player should the original owner not return within the demolition time frame?

Hello! With the advent of the events that took place in the 4.2 story line, for good and for bad, can we expect more friendly Garleans sharing their influence with us, and with it their armaments for ourselves? And without giving spoilers; will we see developments for them to join up with us as a playable race and/or class combo?

Thanks!

We can buy various replicas of our Relic Weapons throughout the different stages of the weapon. But can we also get an option to buy a 'furniture version' of those weapons for those of us who want to mount a version of the completed items on the walls of our room?

Like instead of having sacrificed our Realm Reborn relic into the creation of the Heavensward one, we can pretend we retired them and put them on our wall instead.

Can we have either a mount roulette where we can choose a certain selection of mounts to use or a way to macro something similar?

It's been months since you've promised the housemaid attire. When are you going to release it on the mog station?

Will you allow us to buy hellhound mounts with a sufficient number of wolf collars ?

You still have problems with houses, why not put a weekly subscription on a house? The problem with people who sell houses for real money would be over, in patch 4.2 there were only houses for FC and the possibility to move the cottage for those who already had cottages, this is not fair because most of them moved to large and medium-sized houses, and FC which have made it big, and those that are not in small or medium averages. Why not also make small private houses for players, divide the settlements into those for FC and private? It would solve the problem of many players. I hope you will take this into account, some of you wait a long time to buy your first house, and unfortunately they do not have as they are at work or school. Best Regards

PS. I forgot to add that the rule should be one house for one player (including alt and excluding the trial account (he can't buy any house)). The guild leader should have one guild house and one private.

Sorta off topic.. but you know how we can log off at inns? (PC goes to sleep on the bed)
Will there be a chance when we can log off through our personal beds? I initially bought an apartment just so I can do the same thing; but I was disappointed when I couldn't. My request is a minor detail, but it could add more immersion into the game

is there any chance the devs could move away for glamour for everything? it seem to be more like glamour this glamour for that glamour for beast master pets. is they chance that devs team focus to much on glamour?

Given the increased focus on PvP, will the developers add in-game information on the rules of engagement for The Feast game mode to help new game players?

Having played ranked Feast in the past couple seasons it is abundantly clear that many new players to Feast do not care enough to look at The Feast play guide located on the Lodestone which leads to them making terrible decisions.

Will we ever see a race similar to Viera added to the game as a playable race? I know it has previously been cited that the nature of their feet (the high heel) creates a challenge for with gear, but could there be a consideration for a race similar to them but with a less exaggerated heel?

Regarding raid weapons

Is there a reason they are RNG stat based like the rest of the gear? / Can Raid weapons have the BEST stats for the job that weapon is for?

Yoshi-p even said before "Raid weapons will be the strongest" yet like with Monk weapon right now, it is weaker than the upgraded tome weapon even though it is higher ilvl because of its terrible stat allocation. I see that the development team has seen this oversight and is upgrading the weapon damage on physical jobs by +1 for the raid weapons. This is a decent band-aid fix but the raid weapons should have the best stat allocation for the job to begin with. Stuff like determination/skill speed should never be on a Monk weapon, etc.

My wife and I tend to gather and exchange items on a regular basis. Would it be possible to see a shared bank system between married couples to make the transfer of items easier on the both of us?

I like the idea of Orchestrion rolls but unless you go to the inn or own a property you can't listen to your music. Would it be possible for our characters to have the option to have a portable orchestrion player on them? It would make those long chocobo back rides a little nicer...

Can we pretty please have the race unlock for the Hempen set styles? It was brought up on March 22rd that it would be coming out in a future patch but we havn't heard much about it since. Maybe have a special NPC that sells these in the game, something we can craft or maybe in the Mog shop. So many fans would love to see this. :3

will there be any more boots like Wolfseye Thighboots / Wolfliege Thighboots (blm pvp) where they have horse hooves? love these boots but it just sucks i can only wear them on blm and not any other job.

Thank you for the glamour dresser system. However, when will we be able to change plates anywhere? I like to scare my party members by changing to my Garlean glamour ;x

The fourth comment in this thread asks a similar question regarding the Marid mount, but I felt this was still worth requesting. The flying animation for the battle lion mount is extremely lackluster. Given the extra work put into mounts like the flying tortoise, it\\\\\\\\'s disappointing that the battle lion\\\\\\\\'s flight looks so out of place. But it\\\\\\\\'s almost insulting to have it fly in such a ridiculous way considering the amount of effort required to acquire the mount. After grinding the achievement for it, due to my excitement upon seeing the battle lion on land in a pre-4.0 Live Letter, I was severely saddened by the reward for my time and hard work once I took flight with it.

I can\\\\\\\\'t help but think even something simple like wings expanding out from the sides of its metal armor (similar to the Garo PvP mounts) would go long way toward making this mount feel and look like something worth working toward. At present, it insults the players\\\\\\\\' time.

Hi there! I wanted to ask if

1) Could we have more items like Republican Signifer's Fingerless Gloves that have tattoos on the arms for more classes or even a level 1 item. I really like this gear piece but I main Warrior and White Mage. It would be a cool idea to even make accessories like this for the neck. I think you all did an amazing job on this piece of gear (all of the PVP gear for 4.2) I would be very grateful/happy if you guys made more gear with body tattoos! I can not have tattoos in real life so I think it would be awesome if my in game character would be able to have them (hence the pink hair of my character)

Thanks again!

Will ilvl on current gear apply to eureka?

Ps- can we just make drk a melee dps and introduce a new tank?

Would it be possible for the new DRK relic to change into the legendary greatsword, "Save the Queen?" A number of well-known FF greatsword names have already been used up during ARR's relic prior to DRK's creation, and it would be nice to keep at least one of the classics.

Will Paladin ever get a gap closer / charge attack?

Can we get Krille's outfit on the mogstation

Can DRK have some form of knock back prevention?