Please introduce Flying Text filters

I do not need to know every time a BLM in my group refreshes his Astral Fire III.
I do not need to know every time a Monk changes their stances.
I don't need to know when everyone else's cooldowns wear off.
I don't need to see every speck of damage landing on a mob.

Please, allow me to turn off everyone else's flying text so that I can better pay attention to my own!

Agreed. Fly text customization would be one of the first things that will come with addons but knows when they will get here.

Just being able to turn off others so you could concentrate on your own would be a huge qol feature.

Agreed. This is why I dont use the flying text option, But I would if there were some sort of filter.

Edit: For example, I know lots of players hate to compare, but, on FFXIV 1.23b, we had some sort of "flying text/dropping", but instead of flying up/dropping down it will just pop up quickly, it will give you the damage/status effect/etc, and then just go. It will probably be 1 second or 2 at most on the screen. I won't link aything here for sake of not cluttering with links, but feel free to check 1.23b videos and check what I am talking about.

I would love that back, the "pop in place (aka don't go up/down the screen) then fade", instead of "pop ands fly up/down all over".

100% agree with this.

This is a problem? No, really, I have seen the flying (dropping?) text and it's never been an issue. It flies (drops?) off their characters and unless I'm staring at their character I don't even notice it. Usually cause I'm busy watching for AoE, enemy casting if my silence is ready and it's a bad spell that should be stopped... you know, the battle in general. You must have alot of free time in a fight to notice this stuff.

I mean, I agree there should be a filter, but it's not entirely distracting when your flying text is bright orange and everyone else is a dark purple... very easy to keep track of yourself.

I noticed last night it can be a little annoying.. played around with my HUD on the fly and put status effects where negative ones would be right above my character in t7..... well, lol, let's just say a few people got stoned... didn't notice it due to all the text falling right through it lol

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This is a problem? No, really, I have seen the flying (dropping?) text and it's never been an issue. It flies (drops?) off their characters and unless I'm staring at their character I don't even notice it. Usually cause I'm busy watching for AoE, enemy casting if my silence is ready and it's a bad spell that should be stopped... you know, the battle in general. You must have alot of free time in a fight to notice this stuff.

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It's probably more noticeble/annoying while playing with less resolution, where everything is huge, even with items in the HUD on 60% normal size. Like I said before, I don't really mind, because i just don't use the flying text, but if i had an option to instead of flying up/down, there would be a "pop up 1-2 secs, then fade" option without the text going up/down, It would be easier to check that my buffs/actions/etc actually went off, instead of having to watch the action bar, chat bars, buffs/debuffs bar, etc.

But that is just prefernce I guess.

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Also I do not need to see everything I gather on botanist in giant blue letters in the middle of my screen, it's already in my chat log.

It s a shame that nothing has been done sonce the launch of the game ... I mean i clearly not so hard to dev and it s something that people ask very ofen ...
I meam playing tank with the text on is complety impossible ... So many number in so few seconde that you actually don t understand anything ...

Put some filter ... Let some other dev addon to make filter if yiu are to lazy for it ... But damn it do something looool

Agreed. Combat text should be customizable.

There is the option to turn off flying text for enfeeblements and enhancements. Under UI settings -> HUD -> Flying Text.

EDIT: Nevermind. This toggles the "Status Effects" HUD element. Confusing. I'd expect to see these "Display HUD elements" window while "HUD Customization" is enabled. Instead you see a window with one small drop down menu containing over twenty HUD elements in a menu that only shows five elements at a time, a"Default" button that reset your entire HUD, not the element listed just above it, and a "Save" button. I'll admit, the "Save" button does what I'd expect.

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Also I do not need to see everything I gather on botanist in giant blue letters in the middle of my screen, it's already in my chat log.

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Then turn it off while gathering.

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Also I do not need to see everything I gather on botanist in giant blue letters in the middle of my screen, it's already in my chat log.

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This^ please allow us to turn off this notification in the middle of our screens for both gathering and when something sells on the markets.

I agree. Especially for buffs like mnk/blms that refresh almost every cast.

In T6 the flying texts really gave me a headache lol. I turned all effects off and names only initials to ease the pain but since you stand very close to each other for the entire fight, the flying texts still made it a mess for the eye. Especially Eos. I like her healing but she is veeery talkative. :xd So big Yes for customizable flying texts. All on, all off, own/others on/off and I am happy. ;)

Add ons. SE - save yourselves a lot of development time. Introduce a kit. Let US handle this mundane work for you, and break anything you don't like.

Take this VERY IMPORTANT page out of the Blizzard development handbook, and do yourselves a favor and don't do a half-ass job like Trion did.

This is a winning formula for gaining many more players who like a customizable UI and smooth gameplay experience.

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Add ons. SE - save yourselves a lot of development time. Introduce a kit. Let US handle this mundane work for you, and break anything you don't like.

Take this VERY IMPORTANT page out of the Blizzard development handbook, and do yourselves a favor and don't do a half-ass job like Trion did.

This is a winning formula for gaining many more players who like a customizable UI and smooth gameplay experience.

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This of course assumes that UI modification in this game is as easy as in those other games. Given the way that SE operates, I wouldn't be surprised to find that the UI is embedded completely in the rest of the code, rather than a separate system that calls the game code.

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Add ons. SE - save yourselves a lot of development time. Introduce a kit. Let US handle this mundane work for you, and break anything you don't like.

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While I do hope they add add-on support, it wouldn't get them out of taking care of all the UI issues themselves. Too many players won't have access to add-ons if they can't be used on the console systems.

+1 for the OP
I was just discussing this with my FC members today. It would be a great addition!

Greetings,

While we would like to look into setting display options for various types of flying text, we are currently addressing other aspects that have a high priority, so we do not have any specific plans for this at the moment.

We’ll let you know if the status of this changes.

High priority like the July 29 hunt fix wherein the same mob can't repeat twice in a row for the weekly elite hunt.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

While we would like to look into setting display options for various types of flying text, we are currently addressing other aspects that have a high priority, so we do not have any specific plans for this at the moment.

We’ll let you know if the status of this changes.

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Ty for the response on this, though as for its priority I think a lot of people have been asking for this since 2.0 no? Anyways keep up the good work :D

It would at least be good if the messages would be put on que during a cutscene and be displayed when the cs is over.

It kinda ruins the dramatic impact of sad and quiet scenes when the text "A slab of marmot fat has sold for 1 gil" covers the screen.

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Originally Posted by Jeryhn

I do not need to know every time a BLM in my group refreshes his Astral Fire III.
I do not need to know every time a Monk changes their stances.
I don't need to know when everyone else's cooldowns wear off.

Please, allow me to turn off everyone else's flying text so that I can better pay attention to my own!

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Hi hi... YOU DO NEED, to know everything! At least if you don't want to be a useless blind player like this noob writing here :3

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High priority like the July 29 hunt fix wherein the same mob can't repeat twice in a row for the weekly elite hunt.

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There's no end to the hostility of these forums is there?

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings,

While we would like to look into setting display options for various types of flying text, we are currently addressing other aspects that have a high priority, so we do not have any specific plans for this at the moment.

We’ll let you know if the status of this changes.

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But this is high priority for me. Personal housing or new minions can wait, if you ask me.

I would love this! If we could change to just show our own that would be a huge help.

Hit us with the updates Camate

And damage floaters too please. I feel like we could get a substantial FPS bump by turning off all the useless shit that's enforced in the UI.

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Originally Posted by Catsby

useless shit that's enforced in the UI.

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My thoughts.

At least let us display only your own damage like it is in every other MMO that FF is competing with in the market.

I really having a hard time understanding how seeing the flying text of others, which is displayed much smaller than your own, is some how obstructing the screen. You can lower or disable the flashy battle effects of others. Have you people tried this? It helps considerably.

Such a good UI bound by limits filtering... Why have it when 95% of the players have this turned off due to showing absolutely EVERYTHING. You allow filters on your chat/battle/events, and hardly anyone looks at battle/event chats...