Unnecessary therefore essential option

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05-23-2020, 03:46 PM
TabrisOmbrelame

Unnecessary therefore essential option

Hello Square Enix !

I'm here to just make a little suggestion.

When you add someone in your friend list, his name's color change by whatever your have choose in option.

Can we have the same thing but for FC member ? So we can see easily our fellow member when we are in a place with many people without being in party (Like in town for exemple)

Like I said, it's Unnecessary therefore essential xD
05-23-2020, 04:15 PM
kaynide

Not trying to be rude at you in case this is legit, but this is literally a thing in your settings menu.

You know how your party members have a different color? Same deal but you can set specific colors for FC and friends.

Dig around in your settings..same place you can set NPC colors, the PVP teams etc.
05-23-2020, 04:21 PM
AduroT

Isn’t that on by default? I have very few people in my FC or friends list, but when I occasionally see one their name is in orange.
05-23-2020, 04:47 PM
TabrisOmbrelame

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaynide

Not trying to be rude at you in case this is legit, but this is literally a thing in your settings menu.

You know how your party members have a different color? Same deal but you can set specific colors for FC and friends.

Dig around in your settings..same place you can set NPC colors, the PVP teams etc.

I'm sorry, but I must correct you there. Read my post again, I've say that the name change when you have someone in your friendlist. But this option doesn't exist for FC member.
05-23-2020, 05:49 PM
Genz

Yep, it's a common UI feature request since 2.0.

Especially since players-made add-ons for UI was supposed to be a thing, which would have allowed this kind of things to be done easily ; this and million of other small and nice adjustments.
05-23-2020, 06:24 PM
MsQi

Quote:

Originally Posted by AduroT

Isn’t that on by default? I have very few people in my FC or friends list, but when I occasionally see one their name is in orange.

If they are orange they are on your friends list. FC members who are not friends seem to to be the same as any other PC. I haven't found an option to change it.
05-23-2020, 07:08 PM
Allegor

The color options I'm seeing right now are Party, Alliance, Friends, PvP, and Others, which is pretty much literally everyone ...except FC/Linkshell members
05-23-2020, 09:10 PM
einschwartz

It's true. There is no assign color options for FC member. It was the first thing I checked for when I started playing 2 years ago and still waiting for it to be implemented. >:(
05-24-2020, 04:03 AM
Canadane

Yeah I’ve been waiting many years for this.
Wonder if it’ll ever happen.
05-24-2020, 04:17 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canadane

Yeah I’ve been waiting many years for this.
Wonder if it’ll ever happen.

Surprised they didn't revisit this after ps3 support was dropped and the did a lot of upgrades to the ui.
05-24-2020, 05:40 AM
Morningstar1337

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canadane

Yeah I’ve been waiting many years for this.
Wonder if it’ll ever happen.

The cynic in me thinks that it is as likely as more egi glamors or new non-hallway dungeons...or Real life Porxies if we're gonna be on the nose.
05-24-2020, 05:42 AM
Rasikko

so it's essential because it's unnecessary. Yep OP it's time for bed.
05-24-2020, 06:34 AM
Roda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Surprised they didn't revisit this after ps3 support was dropped and the did a lot of upgrades to the ui.

Still waiting for speech bubbles so i can see when someone is talking to me instead of finding out 10 minutes later after i decide to look at the corner of my monitor.
05-24-2020, 06:40 AM
Valkyrie_Lenneth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roda

Still waiting for speech bubbles so i can see when someone is talking to me instead of finding out 10 minutes later after i decide to look at the corner of my monitor.

Personally speech bubbles annoy me, and you can't tell when people are talking to you in a crow anyway, since it'll be flooded with bubbles.

In towns you wouldn't be able to see a thing since the screen would just be riddled with them.
05-24-2020, 07:14 AM
Arngrim_Greyashe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roda

Still waiting for speech bubbles so i can see when someone is talking to me instead of finding out 10 minutes later after i decide to look at the corner of my monitor.

I hope we never get speech bubbles. That would be awful and cheap looking.
05-24-2020, 07:27 AM
Roda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Personally speech bubbles annoy me, and you can't tell when people are talking to you in a crow anyway, since it'll be flooded with bubbles.

In towns you wouldn't be able to see a thing since the screen would just be riddled with them.

And you are really overestimating how talkative people are in channels that go in chat bubbles
BEHOLD! THE UNPLAYABLE SCREEN CLUTTER OF GAMES WITH CHAT BUBBLES!!
https://imgur.com/a/JtujeGI
Oh, there is none.

Most games have culling so the more people there are, the closer the bubbles have to be to render, further features give priority to people in your party/on your friends list/in your guild, and some even highlight your name if someone calls for you.

Also, if you just don't like them, the option is usually there for you to disable them

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arngrim_Greyashe

I hope we never get speech bubbles. That would be awful and cheap looking.

I personally find the audio visualizer in the game cheap looking. But I don't ask for its removal. Instead I just don't turn it on and let the feature help those who find it useful. /shrug

Also, they're already in the game, just npc exclusive.
https://i.imgur.com/9yChkVe.jpg?1
05-24-2020, 07:27 AM
Avidria

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaynide

Not trying to be rude at you in case this is legit, but this is literally a thing in your settings menu.

You know how your party members have a different color? Same deal but you can set specific colors for FC and friends.

Dig around in your settings..same place you can set NPC colors, the PVP teams etc.

Unless I'm more blind than I thought, no this option doesn't exist. I've looked all over.

My friends' names are orange but FC members were no different from anyone else's names before I hid all names entirely.

I want FC members to be an entirely separate option. Right now I have it set to show friend names only, but I want to see friends and FC members in different colors and no other PC names.
05-24-2020, 07:32 AM
Rasikko

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Personally speech bubbles annoy me, and you can't tell when people are talking to you in a crow anyway, since it'll be flooded with bubbles.

In towns you wouldn't be able to see a thing since the screen would just be riddled with them.

You just described Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe, while in the main lobbies. So I don't know if you played those during their hayday, but for those that haven't - you have not truly been annoyed until all you see is CHAT BUBBLES on the entire screen. Like, you can't see nothing else, no characters, no anything, just.big.white.bubbles.of.text.
05-24-2020, 07:52 AM
Arngrim_Greyashe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roda

And you are really overestimating how talkative people are in channels that go in chat bubbles
BEHOLD! THE UNPLAYABLE SCREEN CLUTTER OF GAMES WITH CHAT BUBBLES!!
https://imgur.com/a/JtujeGI
Oh, there is none.

Most games have culling so the more people there are, the closer the bubbles have to be to render, further features give priority to people in your party/on your friends list/in your guild, and some even highlight your name if someone calls for you.

Also, if you just don't like them, the option is usually there for you to disable them

I personally find the audio visualizer in the game cheap looking. But I don't ask for its removal. Instead I just don't turn it on and let the feature help those who find it useful. /shrug

Also, they're already in the game, just npc exclusive.

I think you underestimate the crowded areas of popular servers like Balmung. There'd be so many pop ups that it would be annoying as hell. Also, I'm not asking for the removal of anything. I'm sharing my thoughts on a feature that isn't in the game and hopefully never is.
05-24-2020, 08:07 AM
Roda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arngrim_Greyashe

I think you underestimate the crowded areas of popular servers like Balmung. There'd be so many pop ups that it would be annoying as hell. Also, I'm not asking for the removal of anything. I'm sharing my thoughts on a feature that isn't in the game and hopefully never is.

And I think you underestimate SE's ability to make a UI feature useable. My dude, I'm on balmung, and if chat bubbles work the way I described it, you wouldn't be able to see bubbles outside of your immediate area in the quicksand (say, just the people around your table). Sorry, I misspoke, you wouldn't be able to see any of it because you'd have it turned off. I, on the other hand would be able to clearly see what the people I'm talking to are saying without having to fight the vicious chatscroll. Hell, people mainly RP in /em anyway so it still wouldn't touch your eyeballs.

And I see little difference in the desire to remove an optional accessability feature vs the desire to block an optional accessability feature's implementation. Either way someone finds the game difficult to use/experience.

And also to go on topic, OP you've my total support. I've made a habit of adding all my fc members to my friends list so that I'd see them better, but I'd really prefer it to be native in the FC's features.