[Request] Please add to item settings "Do not prompt confirmation" when discarding

As the title says, for unique/untradeable items. Toggle option of course.

Reason: Although a purely selfish one, it also stems from when I'm cleaning inventories. The cleaning does not happen often but when it does, I tend to throw out of lot of things ( I make sure to put all the stuff I'm going to discard in a separate window) and then, I find myself having to throw them one by one, clicking the confirm button.

I understand why the prompt is there and I do like it for that 1-5 things I might discard in the hour or day but it actually becomes a true index finger exercise when I do it in bulk. I would actually request the ability to select multiple things at once, like in a similar fashion to re-using the trade window slots also for discards but I'd rather have the actual option of disabling confirmation prompt.

Good luck. Some people here really seems to enjoy flaming optional features being suggested if that's not what they want for the game.

on topic: I'd love that, would make cleaning inventories more practical!

I got no problem with this if it's a setting to turn off and on. Removing it from the game though? No way. That prompt is what makes me actually look at what I'm tossing. In FFXI, I can tell you this would have be SO NICE to have.

It's ridiculous the amount of confirmation messages this game has. Even more ridiculous when the default answer is "no". I never needed them.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Good luck. Some people here really seems to enjoy flaming optional features being suggested if that's not what they want for the game.

on topic: I'd love that, would make cleaning inventories more practical!

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Cleanse the salt from your wound and be practical. This is something that already exists, they are asking for it to be allocated for another purpose. There is nothing to add. See housing, and character settings. You can turn off the Item Bind prompt when placing items as well as a certain type of prompts.

I like this idea, would go perfect in Character settings.

As long as that's a toggle and not a feature removed from the game I'm fine with it. With my luck, I would be that person who inadvertently destroyed a very expensive piece of penta melded crafting gear while cleaning out her armory chest. This has actually nearly happened more than once and that warning saved me. So as long as it's an option that isn't default on, and I have to make actual effort to turn off in character settings, and can't accidentally click it off... go for it.

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Originally Posted by Raikai

Good luck. Some people here really seems to enjoy flaming optional features being suggested if that's not what they want for the game.

on topic: I'd love that, would make cleaning inventories more practical!

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As you can see from the responses thus far in this thread, that isn't the case. Fact is that there are many players who will defend SE and their decision making. That doesn't mean that they think everything about the game and all those decisions are a-ok, but they will claw back at those who disguise their disgust with the game in "suggestions". Those type of threads typically do have a suggestion, while simultaneously bashing something, which brings a huge amount of negativity not only in the thread before it can take off, but also the community.

In this case, along with her suggestion, the OP clearly states that she understands why the confirmation is there, mentions why it is an issue, and also provides a solution. THOSE are the kind of suggestion threads the devs are looking for, and they are few and far between on the English forums. Many of us only want what is good for the game, and when we think a suggestion is harmful towards it and/or the community, we will try to explain why. It's a lot easier to brand someone a post flammer than it is to understand their reasoning.

I am for this change as well. My only issue with it is I know I will end up tossing something I did not mean to because of forgetting to turn the toggle feature off. I am definitely one of those derpy people who would forget their head if not attached to their necks. That's a me thing though, and I totally get that most people don't need x1001 prompts to confirm their decisions.

*see that I did in bold there? How I oh so subtly threw a jab in there?* People don't usually think about things like that when they post, but it's little things like that, that can completely change the way a person responds to a post.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

As you can see from the responses thus far in this thread, that isn't the case. Fact is that there are many players who will defend SE and their decision making. That doesn't mean that they think everything about the game and all those decisions are a-ok, but they will claw back at those who disguise their disgust with the game in "suggestions". Those type of threads typically do have a suggestion, while simultaneously bashing something, which brings a huge amount of negativity not only in the thread before it can take off, but also the community.

In this case, along with her suggestion, the OP clearly states that she understands why the confirmation is there, mentions why it is an issue, and also provides a solution. THOSE are the kind of suggestion threads the devs are looking for, and they are few and far between on the English forums. Many of us only want what is good for the game, and when we think a suggestion is harmful towards it and/or the community, we will try to explain why. It's a lot easier to brand someone a post flammer than it is to understand their reasoning.

I am for this change as well. My only issue with it is I know I will end up tossing something I did not mean to because of forgetting to turn the toggle feature off. I am definitely one of those derpy people who would forget their head if not attached to their necks. That's a me thing though, and I totally get that most people don't need x1001 prompts to confirm their decisions.

*see that I did in bold there? How I oh so subtly threw a jab in there?* People don't usually think about things like that when they post, but it's little things like that, that can completely change the way a person responds to a post.

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Thank you for pointing the bolded part out. I've thought about this but I don't know if it's something they could do with the game but maybe they can make it so that upon exiting the game, that particular toggle resets itself back to default. That way, for example, say you were mass discarding stuff on Monday, leave the game, come back say...Saturday? And totally forgot you disabled confirmation prompt, the reset feature could prevent that sort of accident.

Y'know, I actually was going to disagree because I'm one of those people who would accidentally throw out their raid chests or gear doing clean-up, but after reading the thread I can get behind it, especially an optional setting that defaults back to "off". Wouldn't affect me in the slightest and would make things better for some people.

I would agree on one condition

No threads about accidentally throwing away rare items cuz the prompt was turned off.

Can I have a setting to disable confirmations for dungeon doors?

"Do you want to continue with the dungeon? I mean I know you clicked the door, but really?"

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Originally Posted by Callinon

Can I have a setting to disable confirmations for dungeon doors?

"Do you want to continue with the dungeon? I mean I know you clicked the door, but really?"

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Now this I can 100% get behind.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

Those type of threads typically do have a suggestion, while simultaneously bashing something, which brings a huge amount of negativity not only in the thread before it can take off, but also the community.

In this case, along with her suggestion, the OP clearly states that she understands why the confirmation is there, mentions why it is an issue, and also provides a solution. THOSE are the kind of suggestion threads the devs are looking for, and they are few and far between on the English forums.

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You mean like, presenting that it's a problem that you can't easily locate who is talking to you by looking around and then providing a solution to it.

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Originally Posted by Pokelong

I think this game lacks of speech bubbles. They would improve the conversations going on in the cities. When I see someone writing in chat, I have no clue where that guy/girl is standing.
Further speech bubbles would improve roleplaying and hanging around and socializing in the big cities.

This feature is for example already in gw2 and it makes socializing at random places really fun.

I hope you can implement speech bubbles in this game as well someday, it would be a beneficial addition to ff14.

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There was nothing negative about this suggestion that could be an optional feature but people find excuse after excuse to be against it.

At least it's just a checkbox. In WoW you have to actually type the word "delete" to delete a blue or purple item.

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

As the title says, for unique/untradeable items. Toggle option of course.

Reason: Although a purely selfish one, it also stems from when I'm cleaning inventories. The cleaning does not happen often but when it does, I tend to throw out of lot of things ( I make sure to put all the stuff I'm going to discard in a separate window) and then, I find myself having to throw them one by one, clicking the confirm button.

I understand why the prompt is there and I do like it for that 1-5 things I might discard in the hour or day but it actually becomes a true index finger exercise when I do it in bulk. I would actually request the ability to select multiple things at once, like in a similar fashion to re-using the trade window slots also for discards but I'd rather have the actual option of disabling confirmation prompt.

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I'd rather have an auto pass/discard on loot feature, but that's a nice start.

Agreed. It's rather poor design, really - clearly intended for a different era in which unique / untradeable items weren't nearly as common as they are now.

Still, I'd rather see this as part of a broader UI redesign. Clean up the layouts a bit if possible, and make response times snappier. Flatten the appearance to align it with the new launcher and generally modernize the experience. Implement that multi-select feature you mentioned, which would be a huge benefit for selling items to NPCs or desynthing en masse. Fix those weird scenarios like Triple Triad in which menus cannot be opened (all menus should be accessible at all times unless there's some database-related reason why they can't be, i.e. the Chocobo Saddlebag). Give us the ability to remove all confirmation prompts, not just when discarding unique / untradeable items (should be able to desynth or convert items without a prompt; shouldn't see a second prompt when declining the option to turn in additional Levequest items on the repeat quests; etc.). I'm sure there are any other number of things that can and should be modernized.

SE has spent a couple of expansions now working on the job abilities, so I think a similar effort oriented around the UI shouldn't be out of the question. So long as they continue to empower the player with their efforts - which they've really done a stellar job of so far, in all fairness - I see only upside to such an effort.

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Originally Posted by Feronar

At least it's just a checkbox. In WoW you have to actually type the word "delete" to delete a blue or purple item.

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Eww


That's just gross lol

Worst confirmation is beats tribes when capped lol
The amount of times I go throug the text only to hit “you will not receive any tomestones of x as you are capped. Proceed? No”
Gods damn it! Now I need to go though it all again and watch their animations and will probably hit no again a second time.

So yea, less confirmations the better. Same with desynth and discard.

Along with the previously-mentioned dungeon progression prompts, something I would really like to see gone (or at very least set to yes by default) is Gold Saucer minigames. It's a one MGP entry fee; do I really need to confirm it every time?

And then you accidentally throw out something that you need and rage.

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Originally Posted by Magnedeus

And then you accidentally throw out something that you need and rage.

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And then the fault is 100% with the player, not the system. They chose to turn it off, therefore it is entirely their fault for not being more careful. It's like running with heels on. You chose to put those stilettos on, it's not Gucci's fault you tripped and broke your ankle.

And the system already exists with housing. You choose to put down a furnishing item and have it bound. You can choose to turn off the item bind prompt. If you mess up, even with furniture preview now, it's entirely not a problem with the option itself.