Switch Position of Recipes with Requested Items on user interface

Not sure who the dev tags are for this, as i spent 99% of my time in game as opposed to reading forums but, if someone thinks this post worthy please put the dev tags in.

This also might be a user interface issue too.

When your crafting, upper left corner you have your requested items on top, and recipes below that to choose from.

I've dont a bit of crafting and I know that most of "our" time spent crafting/grinding comes from non local leve's. So why not streamline synthesis a little bit more and switch the position of those 2.

So that Recipes is at the top and requested items is below, that way when you complete a synth, when your grinding you can just keep on pressing enter while watching tv/movie or w/e instead of having to press down that extra time.

Would definately speed things up a little.


either that or add the same function to regular recipes that they have added to doing local's.... in that when you finish a synth your prompted with a question asking if you want to repeat the same synth.


Either doing one or both of those things would greatly speed up some grinding while crafting.

yes, please

I had this very same thought not too long ago +1

Now that you mention it, this sounds brilliant.

I love the idea!

I was talking about this in Linkshell chat yesterday, totally agree its counterintuitive to have them the way they currently.

IF they are going to make crafting this boring they may as well let me spam the spam button over and over.

Edit:- An alternative would be to have a continue synthesis option when a synth is completed, similar to how local leves do it.

I would image the game would need to calculate the players materials up before the first synth and then give a messages like 2/70 complete, do you wish to continue, yes/no. (but that would be easy right ?)

I get the feeling that the devs are trying to discourage the concept of continuously grinding, so I can't see them implementing the "continue the synth" option. The only reason it worked for the leves is because there is a set limit to how many you can do along with an understanding that you would usually want to do them all at once.

It isnt a suggestion for 'continue synth', it is just swaping position of 2 buttons.

+1

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Originally Posted by Catapult

I get the feeling that the devs are trying to discourage the concept of continuously grinding, so I can't see them implementing the "continue the synth" option. The only reason it worked for the leves is because there is a set limit to how many you can do along with an understanding that you would usually want to do them all at once.

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Are you serious, if you want to get anywhere past rank 30 in a craft you have to grind unless you want to take 1 year to get to 50 using local leves.

I agree. I'd rather having the continue option, but this also works.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Are you serious, if you want to get anywhere past rank 30 in a craft you have to grind unless you want to take 1 year to get to 50 using local leves.

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Of course. This also acts as a discouragement from over-playing the game. If everyone went straight to Rank 50, they'd run out of things to do. It's not like I NEED to be there NOW. And with enough high-level crafters on my server already, if I want something badly I can just buy it.
/end cynicism
/end devil's advocate

But seriously, the game is FULL of dis-incentives for continuous grinding. Take fatigue for instance, but that's getting off-topic. The original topic was about swapping button-placement, which is a good idea since it would help smoothen the UI. Just don't expect them to introduce grinding-incentives, no matter how popular such a move would be.