Gameplay Requests/Ideas

Just a few ideas. Please +vote if you think they are good/valid.

1. Allow us to put Location markers (waypoints) on our map, to display markers on the minimap.
2. Allow story missions to be played via a group. (I mean come on, this is an MMO after all!)
3. Allow Leve's (Company and Standard) to be ran as a group. Even if it requires a Leve allowance from all party members, that would be more acceptable then running solo all the time. (again, this is an MMO. Please stop making us play alone!)
4. Allow us to talk to NPC's while on a mount. (why can't I talk to someone while on a mount? just doesn't make since)
5. Add multi-person mounts. (not really required, but I do think it would be very cool.)
6. Allow us to feed Chocobos "gysahl Greens" for a speed boost, with mounting.
7. Allow us to mount Chocobos or other mounts, while having Chocobo's fighting with us.Chocobo wouldn't fight while mounted, but please make it so we can dismount, and have chocobo still out and fighting for us at that time.
8. Allow us to place functional items in our house/room, upgrade our house/room, etc. Functional houses was one of the coolest things that kept drawing me back to FFXI. Having similar, but better functions in FFXIV would be great!
9. Auto-dismount when casting spells/starting a fight/using a skill. I don't see a reason to block us from using skills, instead just kick us off our mounts, or even better give us an option to pick if we want to be dismounted when we use a skill.
10. Item-Compare (saw someone else's post with this, liked the idea). yea we can see the + and - for items, but we can't see skills, stats, etc that are + or - . even if we don't have a compare, at least show the stats differences.

Updated on 9/4/2013 based on others feedback.

1. A command and right click menu for the following actions : Add to Blacklist, Report Harassment, Report Gold Seller
2. Item preview - Allow us to see what an item looks like on our character. This is an RPG, I want to be able to SEE what my character can choose to look like when thinking about choosing loot/rolling on something/crafting.
3. Allow Mailing to your alts, or add a feature to allow your retainer to be Shared between all your alts, and share items that way as well.
4. Allow people to change class/jobs during a dungeon etc IF someone leaves the group. It is incredibly frustrating sitting there waiting on a healer that never comes while the dungeon sloooowly times out, and you sit there having a perfectly good healing class out of reach. Could not be abused, restrict it to only being active while short members, and out of combat.
5. Allow vanity pets to be summoned in dungeons. Nothing beats sitting around waiting while commenting on pets.
6. Allow all bag slots to be opened at once if desired.
7. Add true "Sorting" option to inventory and retainers, with the option to sort by either Name, or Level, or Type of item, etc.
8. Limit Break tutorial. Soo many people don't know they exist, or how to use them efficiently. Have a story quest put new players into an instanced solo scenario that shows them the ideal time to use their limitbreak, and the ones for other roles.

The following links will take you to a Google Docs created form to vote on these ideas. If there are any missing, please send me the topics so I can get them added. Lets keep this post going, and get the votes tallied so we can get them to SE for the enhancements that we truly want!

Voting Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XIs...BlBVk/viewform

Voting Analytics:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XIs.../viewanalytics

Voting up most of the points you raise.
Story missions able to be played in a group would also help to reduce the number of active instances at any one moment.
Talking to NPC's while mounted would be nice, but I believe that they won't let you do that because of a few issues, such as needing to be standing, not covering the npc with a large mount etc...
Multi person mounts would be very nice, but I would prefer a LOT more changes to the game before then.
Chocobo riding abilities such as sprint, digging etc.. would be nice as well. Maybe as an extension to the chocobo farm for housing. Teaching new abilities.
I agree with 7 as well. Even if you have your chocobo fighting, that doesn't mean out of combat you can't just climb ontop of it. Just seems kind of silly not to allow this.
I do believe they are implementing 8.
Agree with 9 too, definitely an option needed for that.
10. Is NEEDED, must have! I'm sick of it simply showing armor increases, not ACTUAL stats.

As for my (and others) ideas not on this post.

A. Item preview - Allow us to see what an item looks like on our character. This is an RPG, I want to be able to SEE what my character can choose to look like when thinking about choosing loot/rolling on something/crafting. Top priority for me.

B. Allow Mailing to your alts... I know people are worried about items stuck in mail for storage purposes.. but.. it is REALLY hindering gameplay for people with multiple characters...

C. Allow people to change class/jobs during a dungeon etc IF someone leaves the group. It is incredibly frustrating sitting there waiting on a healer that never comes while the dungeon sloooowly times out, and you sit there having a perfectly good healing class out of reach. Could not be abused, restrict it to only being active while short members, and out of combat.

D. Tab targeting options allowing classic tabbing order, not just forward/reverse indiscriminate of distance.

E. Class mounts, like the unicorn. Opens up soo many nice possibilities that you have to earn. Such as summoner on Fenrir etc...

F. Allow vanity pets to be summoned in dungeons. Nothing beats sitting around waiting while commenting on pets.

G. Allow bag slots to be opened at once, allowing for easier sorting of items.

H. PROPER summoner avatars... these "egi's" look silly compared to what we got in XI... and other games.. The reason soo many people played summoner was to be in control of these massive entities. They just don't have the same "feeling".
IF for some reason there is a good reason not to have these... then perhaps just as a summoner Limitbreak, summoning a random Primal version of the Egi's you have.
Which brings me to the next point...

Is there a voice comms option in the game? Many of us use game pads and it would make it easier if voice comms was supported in game instead of having to use a separate program or just use the text chat.

~~~ Posting for Yobtar, Forum limit reached, and couldn't log back in this morning ~~~

I: individual Limit Breaks for classes. Still based off role, but themed. Like the summoner suggestion above ^.

J: finally what I can remember... Limit Break tutorial. Soo many people don't know they exist, or how to use them efficiently. Have a story quest put new players into an instanced solo scenario that shows them the ideal time to use their limitbreak, and the ones for other roles.
Trying to teach a new player how to use it/when to use it is difficult because when you realize they don't know, its at a heated time in a fight.

That's all I got for now, but a lot of huge improvements to the game which I would love to see.

I just want a Q'n system.

Guys and gals please do me a favor. If you like and support my ideas below, please LIKE my posts so it gets the dev team's attention. I tried starting a new thread but got a system message saying that my main char level is too low. I guess 35 levels into the game is still a noob lol, go figure :p

Also I had to post these separately due to the character limit. So please bear with me.

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To Yoshida-dono and the Dev Team,

In resonating others' suggestions about booting the afkers, please consider taking a step further and implementing the following command:

/report [type] [name]

• AFK
• RMT
• BULLY

• AFK- Automatically starts a 1 hour timer behind the scene and kick the player if he/she doesn't return when the timer expires.
  
  First of all, kuddos to SE for beefing up the resources to sustain the number of players. I was able to log in within 3 minutes shortly after the maintenance. That being said, I personally believe the game will only get more popular due to positive reviews and word-of-mouth from players such as myself. To avoid seeing the dreadful 1017 and 2002 error codes in the future, please allow active players to police the community and report people who deliberately stayed logged in for no good reason.
  
  I understand it is a personal choice to stay logged in (because you don't pay your own utility bill? Sorry, had to be sarcastic here) or log out when you're done playing. But the fact is AFKers are taxing the system resources.

• RMT - If a minimum of 5 (arbitrarily picked) different players report someone engaging in RMT activities, a 1-hour ban will be enforced for first offense, and a temporary (with no time limit) ban will be enforced for repeated offense with an investigation underway. Once investigated and confirmed by GM, permanently ban their SE account once and for all. To deter pranking and blackmailing, the whistle-blowers should be recorded by the system for future reference. Once proven innocent, the prankers should in turn receive a 3-hour ban on their SE account (i.e. across all characters in all worlds) as a reprimand.
  
  One week after the game is launched, despite the login restrictions and server limitations, we're already seeing /shouts and even /tells like "... buy gils from ff14goldmall.com...". Just google "buy FF14 gils" and there's easily multiple hits. Not only are the RMTs ruining the economy and everyone's gaming experience, but they're also contributing to the login problems and taking up valuable spots when they should be banned for good.