[dev1064] Macros

Dear devs,

This post is about how we define macros and my frustration with the current system.
Maybe I feel frustrated because I am also a dev myself... but why can't we have something as basic as a auto-complete feature while we type our macros?

Today I spent I don't know how much time back and forth between actions, gears and unofficial forums to figure out what I wanted to do (just swap some equipments/actions...).

I just picked the game 3 days ago and while the similitude in the UI with FFXI is welcomed, I was expecting (on the macros) something a bit better than what we had back then. We are not in 2002 anymore... :/

Anyway, here are also another set of ideas:
- why 10 slots? why not much, much more, say unlimited? You can do whatever you want internally, but for the user why do we need to spread apart the specification of 'one macro' in several one?
- maybe a bit more far fetched, but why don't you allow people to use the existing interface to specify the macros? What I mean is maybe it would be useful to simply say 'I want a snapshot of my current setup of gears/actions/whatever'. Of course this does not mean remove the macro as they are, I am sure that there are occasion in which it is easier to simply specify the command we want.

But really... at the very least please provide us an auto-complete feature.

Best regards,
カステラ

Please post here.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...User-Interface