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Since the team seems to be sprucing up the UI elements can we please get an overhaul to the Teleport Menu? First things first, a favorites list at the top, obviously. Second, I would love to see beautiful pictures of each place, similar to the Aether current menu, this could also include maps area to the right like the new city Aetherite menus. Maybe some info like vendors, achievements, unlockable quests, weather etc. Displayed in a sidebar of some kind. Thanks team. You rock.
In re: favorites, you can pin locations to the top of the History tab with "Save to History".
In re: additional information, that's a lot of unnecessary information. At most, the current weather would be maybe okay; even then, the vast majority of people who need to teleport somewhere at a given time are probably not participating in an activity that is weather sensitive; and those who are should have their travels planned in advance because weather changes on a predictable schedule (exactly every 0000, 0800, 1600 Eorzea Time).
If you want a map to go with your teleports, there's the main map. It'll even open up to the right zone if you click one of your objectives in the quest tracker, and if you hold Ctrl the aetherytes will float over all the other map icons so you can select them without clicking some other icon. When you're questing, this makes it really to get around without even opening the teleport window.
The teleport menu would benefit from some slight re-categorization of some of the destinations, Endwalker locations in particular, but it's a teleport menu. Your goal in the window should be to open it, choose your destination, and then watch it close. The Aethernet menus needed a new map interface because previously you had to memorize shard locations or you had to cross-reference with the main map. The teleport window doesn't need an integrated map because the main map has integrated teleportation. And it's worth reminding that with the addition of the map to the Aethernet menus, it's actually slower to use when you already know your destination because when you select a location from the list, the first click now centers the map on that shard, and a second click teleports you to it. If they added a map to the teleport menu, they would probably make it do the same thing there: one click to center the map on the selected aetheryte, then another click to teleport. If that's the case--and it's an easy bet it would be--then adding a map to the teleport menu would be a nuisance.
This has everything to do mostly with design aesthetics. Obviously a basic list of teleportation areas is easy and fast but that's not at all what I'm talking about. This is the most popular MMO in the world almost and a simple teleportation list is a bit boring especially when they have key art of every single area in the game. I'm a professional designer and just want some of the menu UI elements of the game to look a little nicer, which they have already been doing.
I don't want a jazzed up teleport list unless you have the option to revert to the plain text version – which is not the case for the Aethernet menu. I found the old one quicker to navigate and I dislike the way the map shifts around as you scroll down the list on PS4. It takes more button presses to get where I want to go, and (somewhat counterintuitively) having it start on your current point in the list takes longer because you have to orient yourself every time.
Previously if I wanted to go the Aftcastle I knew you teleported to Limsa, click the aetheryte, Aethernet, single press down, off you go. Anywhere else in Limsa, two presses down. Now they've moved it further down the list and I have to look and see where it is relative to where I am.
The only change I want to the main teleport list is putting "Ishgard" somewhere in the Foundation title, and better breaking up the later zones – Norvrandt in particular.