If you were in charge of ffxiv for one day and could change anything.....

More music choices. 100 times more

Given I have 0 knowledge of the internal workings behind the game, I'd be too scared out of my wits to do anything the whole day... I'd probably just steal a harmless souvineir (pen/pens?) from yoshi-P's desk...

I'd make all player tarus I mean lalafel:D

I would fix the lag :p

I'd add Ninja as a playable class & job

I would put in a slider for NPC/PC Render Distance and Angle!!!! ARGH i hate not being able to render all characters on-screen while playing on a PC

I would change the restrictions on player made videos so the game has a creative avenue for advertising through the playerbase.

Add ability modifiers on weapons and armor

I'd make NMs drop good stuff. Minions? Really?

*throws away yet another infant imp*

Increase difficulty by not letting you zoom out.

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Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon

I would change the restrictions on player made videos so the game has a creative avenue for advertising through the playerbase.

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I was under the impression they lifted the restrictions right after the game launched. How else do you explain all the twitch feeds and tutorial videos on youtube?

I'd give my kitty a tooshie lol....na probably nothing since I wouldn't know what to do or how to do it. Tell everyone to start making more open world content? O I know, I'd give everyone the day off.

Make Cure III have a wider AoE radius, more MP than Cure II with a lower cure potency and only 4 yalms isn't that useful. Even if it's just upped to 5y it will be better...

Also make them temporarily set aside Musketeer in favor of pushing Red Mage to the next new job.

Kidnap all the Lala's and make them serve me.

I'd fire whoever came up with the idea to launch the game with no vanity system. Then force my team to get off their butts and finish what they should have had done at launch.

Then I would add it. Thats all clothes wearable by all classes, and an option to turn it off for those who just "can't stand" to see a DRG in a SMN robe or whatever the hell they have against it...

After that I would probably add 2.1 on scedule y'know, promises made and all that. Then its straight to designing 2-4-8 man content all day until we have a huge amount for the next update.

In my perfect world anyways...I am sure people could find flaws with my plans but hey you asked lol...

1. I would redesign 2 piece Darklight sets to be 1 piece per slot.
2. I would add dye slots to every piece of gear in the game without one.
3. I would redesign overmelding so that you have a chance to lose the materia on a fail instead of 100% losing it.
4. I would fix the hard coded server timer on checking player xyz coordinates to be near immediate.
5. I would remove myth from the game entirely and make AF 1.5 acquired via Tokens that drop from BCB. Gloves Token on Turn1, Pants Token on Turn 2. I would add a boss to turn 3 and drop Feet Token on Turn 3. Chest Token on Turn 4, and Helm Token on Turn 5. So 3 things would drop from each turn. To compensate the horrific drop rates, I'd move 1/5th of the loot pool on turn 1, 2, 4, 5 to turn 3's new boss. Each turn would drop 2 pieces and an AF 1.5 Token.
6. Relic + 1 would be acquired by clearing BCB on that character
7. I'd change the lockout on BCB to a loot lockout. And you would only be locked on loot if you acquired a piece of gear. Thus allowing you to acquire 1 piece a week and run it as much as necessary to get that one piece (if you should so choose). Even if you acquired loot you'd still be able to run it to help friends etc.

I'd need an army to do this in a day.

I forgot about vanity system. 2nd that

Bring back 1.0's fishing until something better could be implemented. And I mean actually better, none of this garbage we've got in 2.0.

The one thing I could do if I had a change?

Change the coil lockout. It's archaic and it ruins FCs and statics. I would probably change it to be like CT.

if I could change one more thing after that... I would remove the echo buff and introduce a piece of code that never allows it in endgame ever.

I'd add a freaking gameguard so that hackers and botters can't easily get through inside the game, seriously SE?! Why you haz no gameguard?

Gameguard doesn't really stop anything. Only a Script Kiddy with a memory editor would have issues getting around game gaurd. Any seasoned hacker with Dynamic Root Kitting skills would effectively disable the game guard in a day.

Burn the forums and never think of them again?

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Originally Posted by Ryios

Gameguard doesn't really stop anything. Only a Script Kiddy with a memory editor would have issues getting around game gaurd. Any seasoned hacker with Dynamic Root Kitting skills would effectively disable the game guard in a day.

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Well, atleast add similar to that, yes? Unlike now where even a player who has no experience in hacking can freely bot / hack inside the game with these free 3PP roaming around the Internet.

I would make the game open source; Client and Server. Then everyone would be free to tailor it to their own tastes.

Stop developing fluff quests and put emphasis on actual storytelling.

Seems to me that a lot of you would get in the door and waste development time. I'm glad something like this would never happen.

Some people also seem to think they can get a crap load of work done in a single day. These people likely have no respect or understanding for software development and its intricacies.

I would create plans for at least one open world dungeon in each area.

And non-fate NM's too.

I'd redo the entire game to remove instancing from one zone to the next.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Seems to me that a lot of you would get in the door and waste development time. I'm glad something like this would never happen.

Some people also seem to think they can get a crap load of work done in a single day. These people likely have no respect or understanding for software development and its intricacies.

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Could have thrown in some of your own ideas instead of just crapping on other peoples.

I'd give player characters back their butts.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

I was under the impression they lifted the restrictions right after the game launched. How else do you explain all the twitch feeds and tutorial videos on youtube?

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you can stream and make videos but you must adhere to this.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...la=1&tag=authc

Which restricts things like these that no matter who i showed to back in the day made them interested in XI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3-K2aRwQY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7pZLCYx0o

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Seems to me that a lot of you would get in the door and waste development time. I'm glad something like this would never happen.

Some people also seem to think they can get a crap load of work done in a single day. These people likely have no respect or understanding for software development and its intricacies.

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it also seems hardware and infastructure limitations, and I don't mean PS3, I mean half of these would turn the servers to slag.

Are you saying I would have UNLIMITED POWAH?!

I would perform an emergency 24 hour maintenance, not to fix anything, but just to watch the forums blow up in rage.

There's not much of anything that exists in-game that you could change in a day...


But, I'd go straight to the planning documents and tweak or add stuff to the future plans of the game:

• Plans for gear progression would change from linear to horizontal once lvl caps are reached. (more procs, variety, skill boosts). -- basically add incomparable stats and abilities to gear
• See the plans for future materia types, and add suggestions for ones that enhance skills/abilities.
• Get Akihiko Yoshida to work on new FFXIV-themed designs for the Zodiac espers *for all I know, he might have done this already
• Add plans for dungeons of the 4 fiends (FFI) and hard mode versions with the Archfiends (FFIV)
• Add plans to introduce the Ark Angels (FFXI-Divine Might) to the game at some point -- either storyline fight or primal-style battle.
• Edit plans for some of the future zones to be more expansive and open -- similar to the Velt (FFVI), the Calm Lands (FFX), La Theine Plateu (FFXI) or Archylte Steppe (FFXIII)
• Introduce plans for unique limit break animations for each job.

The hardcore Final Fantasy fanbase that keeps defending everything no matter how bad it actually is and thus the real issues will never get fixed.

I would browse the forums and decide from there who to bring the banhammer out on.

I'd make a ONE LEVEL penalty to people who leave Duty Finder at the first mistake.
And I mean a real level down.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

Seems to me that a lot of you would get in the door and waste development time. I'm glad something like this would never happen.

Some people also seem to think they can get a crap load of work done in a single day. These people likely have no respect or understanding for software development and its intricacies.

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http://i.imgur.com/ZtzGjwN.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rezoslip

If you were in charge of ffxiv for one day and could change anything.....

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.... i would get rid of the official Forums and focus on developing the Game the way i and SE wants it. And don't let Armchair devs and their delusional reasoning ruin it even more.