Please Disable Skills and Abilities in Towns

There is no point in letting people spam things like Holy, Unleash, or whatever other annoying abilities people have to use. Please take away our ability to spam in towns, thank you.

Crafters and Gatherer's will rage though. And Monks can't use their speed up stance anymore.

You could also disable graphics for people not in your party.

Character Configuration > Control Settings > Character > Battle Effects Settings > Others (excl. PvP) > Show None

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Originally Posted by Syhrwyb

There is no point in letting people spam things like Holy

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Uh, what? I'm putting on a light show to entertain people! It's an important job. Someone has to do it!

OP seems like they are very fun at parties.

Just Turn off other people there skill animations o=

I did that over a year ago. cant play with that firework of animations with a party by 4 or even in raids o.O

Then you better find a way for the early Archer quest to be accessible since I remember one class quest has you shooting targets in New Gridania which has you using abilities.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Then you better find a way for the early Archer quest to be accessible since I remember one class quest has you shooting targets in New Gridania which has you using abilities.

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Pugilist has you beating up targets in Uldah for their early quests too.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Then you better find a way for the early Archer quest to be accessible since I remember one class quest has you shooting targets in New Gridania which has you using abilities.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

Pugilist has you beating up targets in Uldah for their early quests too.

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Those skills can't be used anyway unless you have a valid target. OP is talking about Holy and other spammable skills that players can just hit over and over again without a target.

AoE skills should be unusable in the major cities - it could be a new decree from the Eorzean Alliance or something. It can get far too much & not everyone is able to, or wants to, disable graphics just because of the few who spam constantly.

It's something that's always left me divided because it's not a major issue but it can certainly become as annoying as textual or audio spamming.

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Originally Posted by Gilthanis_Tremaine

Those skills can't be used anyway unless you have a valid target. OP is talking about Holy and other spammable skills that players can just hit over and over again without a target.

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But then you have people spamming stuff like Cure spells, Monk's 'boost' (I forgot the XIV name of it right now) move, stance changes, buffs that effect self or targeted others. If you take away the inability to use moves in towns, it prevents people doing those quests, and I can't see them just moving them out of town.

I'd prefer it automatically turned off other's abilities in towns. I don't mind seeing other's out in the world, but there's always one dumb dragoon doing the same move over and over and over and over in every town. It's annoying to keep toggling it on and off.

Everyone has to admit that when the Ninja job and Heavensward were released, the amount of skill spam in towns was ridiculous. I mean sure, we could turn battle effects off, but using skills in towns serves no purpose anyway. Those few quests need targets like others have said.

So yeah, I support this thread, as I have no reason not to.

This is a stupid idea. If you can't be bothered to turn off other peoples spell effects then it's fully on you how annoyed you get. I've taken some pretty cool screenshots of my DRK glamour while using the aoe skill (my dress flies up like an umbrella) and I would like to continue to take animation pics wherever I please, thank you very much. Use the tools provided before asking to take fun things from other players.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

But then you have people spamming stuff like Cure spells, Monk's 'boost' (I forgot the XIV name of it right now) move, stance changes, buffs that effect self or targeted others. If you take away the inability to use moves in towns, it prevents people doing those quests, and I can't see them just moving them out of town.

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It doesn't take away anything or prevent anyone from running those quests as you can't use those skills in a town regardless. SE gives players who are running the quest the necessary means to activate those skills when needed. I doubt it will change if SE ever decides to do what the OP suggests.

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Originally Posted by Gilthanis_Tremaine

It doesn't take away anything or prevent anyone from running those quests as you can't use those skills in a town regardless. SE gives players who are running the quest the necessary means to activate those skills when needed. I doubt it will change if SE ever decides to do what the OP suggests.

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The only reason you can't normally use them, is because there are normally no targets for them. If you take away the ability to say, cure spam people, it will also effect those moves, therefore effecting those quests.

But I like to Stoneskin newbies. ]:

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Originally Posted by Rivxkobe

But I like to Stoneskin newbies. ]:

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Casting Cure and Regen on people who take fall damage or change their class is nice too.

Perhaps there are invisible mobs, that only those select few can see because they are the chosen ones.

When I am trying out a new outfit / glamour, I like to use different skills to see what I will look like while wearing it.
If skills were disabled in towns, I'd have to run outside every time I wanted to do do this. Or I'd have to bring all of the clothes / accessories with me outside.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

The only reason you can't normally use them, is because there are normally no targets for them. If you take away the ability to say, cure spam people, it will also effect those moves, therefore effecting those quests.

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It won't affect anything since SE gives you the needed targets during those quest to activate those skills needed to finish those quests.

Not only are you able to turn off the battle affects of others (even party members and yourself!) but you can also turn off the sound effects of other players, too!


Now I have this compulsion to run around Idyllshire and spam Ring of Thorns.

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Originally Posted by Syhrwyb

There is no point in letting people spam things like Holy, Unleash, or whatever other annoying abilities people have to use. Please take away our ability to spam in towns, thank you.

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Or you could just disable other people's battle effects and sounds, which we already have the option to do.

No need to invest time into a problem that's already got a solution.

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Originally Posted by Gilthanis_Tremaine

It won't affect anything since SE gives you the needed targets during those quest to activate those skills needed to finish those quests.

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How can you not understand that turning moves like cure and all off, that requires targets, would also affect the Arc and Pug moves required for the quest? Since they all follow the <t> rules.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

How can you not understand that turning moves like cure and all off, that requires targets, would also affect the Arc and Pug moves required for the quest? Since they all follow the <t> rules.

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Because they can make to where they follow the targeting rules of the ARC and PUG moves instead of vice versa.

RIP SMN/SCHs who pre summon their pet when their queue pops

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Originally Posted by Phireblast

RIP SMN/SCHs who pre summon their pet when their queue pops

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I don't care either way, but this is the worst reason ever for being against it's implementation xD

While I find it annoying to see whm and drg spam their moves over and over for the purpose to annoy people or because they are THAT bored. Disabling abilities in towns is a bad idea. If it annoys you that much you can just turn off sounds/effects in your window.

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Originally Posted by Settiesama

But then you have people spamming stuff like Cure spells, Monk's 'boost' (I forgot the XIV name of it right now) move, stance changes, buffs that effect self or targeted others. If you take away the inability to use moves in towns, it prevents people doing those quests, and I can't see them just moving them out of town.

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Correct me if I"m wrong, but would these cases held in an instance...away from other players. It seems likely that they wouldput the few that are set in the server proper in an instance and just disable the skills in Towns (and Iddylshire).

I could care less about this but I felt like pointing out that SE can find ways to implement with without changing the quests if they wanted to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWvNI4J7pM

Every time I'm crafting. Every. Time. Must. Not. KILL.

It depends on your server tho. My server never spam any skill and what they do is just crafting.

Ugh! This irks me too. It's not all that bad when done occasionally, but some players will sit there for literally 5-10 minutes spamming their abilities. Some are really inconsiderate, and do their spamming in heavily occupied areas of the zone such as the markets. Not sure what they are trying to accomplish though. I'd imagine not too many are impressed, and I actually go up to them and use my yawn emote before taking off.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

OP seems like they are very fun at parties.

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How bored do you have to be to spam abilities unless it's for screenshots?
Just turn on /afk like everyone else in idyllshire if you've got nothing to do but still stay logged into the game

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Originally Posted by Yasuhiro

How bored do you have to be to spam abilities unless it's for screenshots?
Just turn on /afk like everyone else in idyllshire if you've got nothing to do but still stay logged into the game

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Or you know...they could be waiting for a queue to pop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Originally Posted by Bigcat9715

Or you know...they could be waiting for a queue to pop. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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"If you've got nothing to do"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have a like since you're fishing for them

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Originally Posted by Yasuhiro

"If you've got nothing to do"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have a like since you're fishing for them

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Originally Posted by Yasuhiro

How bored do you have to be to spam abilities unless it's for screenshots?
Just turn on /afk like everyone else in idyllshire if you've got nothing to do but still stay logged into the game

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I do it when I'm waiting for my brothers or something. If someone wants me to stop they can ask. But I see no harm in it. I personally find it to be slightly entertaining. Especially when I use it to annoy said brothers.

So I shouldn't be able to enable an oath stance upon changing jobs in town because some people are irresponsible with skills in town? O_o

...I can't help but think there's a better use of dev time...

There aren't any special targeting rules for those quests. The only special thing is that there are offensive skill targetable objects in town. Targeting is still targeting.

to the op and the one saying the same, i invite you to go into your setting and disable the effect of people outside your group. will save a looot of trouble, especially when you do fate or raid, since you will have way too much effect.
plus it solve this trouble of people doing what they want in town. after all is them right.