FFXIV flashing in taskbar when duty is found

Hi there.

Often enough I've found myself wishing that, when I minimize FFXIV on the PC while being signed up in the Duty Finder, I would receive some sort of notification if a duty was found, in order not to accidentally miss it.

I've no idea how hard it would be to make this a reality from a programmer's view, I just know that some games nowadays have a similiar function, and it's very useful.

Sometimes queues just take so long that I'll look through the internet (sometimes this forum [like right now]) to pass some time, only to find that I missed the queue while I wasn't looking.


I'm curious if other people would welcome something like this as well.

<I am happy to report I did not miss my queue pop while making this thread.>

This would be convenient. As it is you can enable sound to play while the game is minimized, but sometimes you don't want to listen to all the background noise/music while you wait, and you don't want to shut it off when you'll want it back when you return to playing. I've done the same thing maaany times.

It's rather easy to implement coding/development wise just probably not on their top 10 list of things to do. I'm semi spoiled running dual monitors so I can do other things while waiting on Que's.

I really hope SE will consider this, it would make waiting in queue a lot more bearable - and it would prevent a lot of queues from being missed, I'm sure.

I just missed one again just a few minutes ago. Sorry to anyone who was hoping to get in! I didn't do it out of spite, I promise!

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Originally Posted by Riepah

I really hope SE will consider this, it would make waiting in queue a lot more bearable - and it would prevent a lot of queues from being missed, I'm sure.

I just missed one again just a few minutes ago. Sorry to anyone who was hoping to get in! I didn't do it out of spite, I promise!

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Barring the fact that I do know Riepah. XD

If you have any old 4:3 lcd monitors sitting around or can get one for cheap, I highly recommend using that as a second monitor to browse the web while playing.

Better yet, give me a function that sends me a text message to a cell number (simple as an email SE, come on!)

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Originally Posted by Nghthawk

It's rather easy to implement coding/development wise just probably not on their top 10 list of things to do. I'm semi spoiled running dual monitors so I can do other things while waiting on Que's.

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Sadly, this only works if you play in windowed mode. If you use full screen, it auto-minimizes when you tab out of the game.

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

Sadly, this only works if you play in windowed mode. If you use full screen, it auto-minimizes when you tab out of the game.

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I play in windowed mode with the game sized to fill the screen anyway (custom size is not quite 1920x1080 but close). I get the best of both worlds, since I can dock my browser to the left and still see the game in the background where the duty confirmation pops up on the right. But for someone that just can't stand seeing the taskbar and title bar while they play, you can just swap to windowed mode after queueing up, and then swap back to full screen when you see the duty confirmation.

Since missing 3 queues in a day will now be penalized, this thread of mine has become more relevant and I would really like to see this implemented to prevent myself and others from accidentally missing queues in the future, and to avoid getting locked out of DF for whatever period of time SE has in mind for this.

Glad I wasn't the first person to want this sort of thing. Maybe I'm spoiled rotten from other popular modern games like DotA flashing your taskbar and doing a global sound when you don't even have focus on the game, but just sitting and watching the game window when I could be doing something else is maddening.

If only PCs had picture-in-picture.

For now, what you can do is:

- Go to the sound settings (Ctrl+K) and mute all sound except the notification sound (the game will be silent unless a Duty Finder window pops up).
- Alt+Tab and enjoy not playing FFXIV.
- Once you hear the Duty Finder sound, just click on the "Cancel" button to reset the settings as they were.

Blinking taskbar would be convenient though.

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Originally Posted by DreamEyes

For now, what you can do is:

- Go to the sound settings (Ctrl+K) and mute all sound except the notification sound (the game will be silent unless a Duty Finder window pops up).
- Alt+Tab and enjoy not playing FFXIV.
- Once you hear the Duty Finder sound, just click on the "Cancel" button to reset the settings as they were.

Blinking taskbar would be convenient though.

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This is what I do as well. Turn master volume and notification sound up to 100, mute everything else and turn on "Play sounds when window is not active". Then I just do whatever until the queue pops. It is a valid concern though, since all of those missed queues are not spiteful.

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Originally Posted by DreamEyes

For now, what you can do is:

- Go to the sound settings (Ctrl+K) and mute all sound except the notification sound (the game will be silent unless a Duty Finder window pops up).
- Alt+Tab and enjoy not playing FFXIV.
- Once you hear the Duty Finder sound, just click on the "Cancel" button to reset the settings as they were.

Blinking taskbar would be convenient though.

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You don't even have to click the "Cancel" button when your queue pops, your settings will return to normal once your start loading into the instance. It's convenient because: 1. You have to click one less time 2. If someone backs out of the dungeon causing you to wait even longer, your temporary sound settings are still there and you don't have to navigate though menus again.

RIFT does this and it's a very nice feature. I'd love to have it implemented in this one.

My god, WHY don't we have this?

Why didn't I see this being talked about before now?!

Would be very nice to see, especially since I tab out when waiting for long queues (mostly as a DPS) I would love to see more notification instead of checking in every 40 seconds to see if it popped.

Definitely something I and many others would appreciate.

Why not just turn on the sound while tabbing out?

A good friend, who is hearing impaired, doesn't really have much benefit from -any- sound cues. The flashing would be a big help. Already we looked into anything that could help, but the one thing that was helpful has been eliminated by Square Enix.
So I hope they read this. I hope they know they're actually making it impossible for deaf and otherwise hard of hearing people to for instance quickly read up on tactics before the (long line of the) dungeon or raid pops.
Really, a pity.

PS: Sorry for necroing this, but it's still relevant.

a certain launcher has a QoL improvement like that

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Originally Posted by Rinhi

a certain launcher has a QoL improvement like that

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i heard it's also a very quick launcher