Please save gear sets to server, not locally.

I hope this is the right place to make a request to Square Enix. I just had to wipe my pc clean and upon re-installing and running FFXIV, I was surprised to see that my gear sets that were saved were gone! I expected to have to re-setup my UI, but not have to re-setup, and created new saves for each of my battle, crafting and gathering classes. Granted I don't have as many as a lot of people do, but can't our armor sets be saved to the servers so we don't have to do this every time we're on a different pc, or have to wipe out ours?

I found where I think the files are to copy them, but not sure which folder is which character's, they don't have the toon names in them. Please consider this SE!

Agree x1000. I have 3 different PC's that I play on given the day/time of day and having to re-tool my gear sets, hotbars, and UI for each one each time is tedious.

Agree too.

It's the same for playing on PC then swapping to PS3.
I have to re-do all my gear sets and hot bars.

Please can they be saved server side.

I'm with this. In addition it would be nice if the tooltip told you that a piece of gear was part of a gear set. I hate trying to clean out and organize my armory chest without knowing what im actually using.

I travel a fair amount for work so I have XIV on my desktop and laptop. I just copy the following files over and it results in having all information on both computers:

FFXIV.cfg
FFXIV_BOOT.cfg
FFXIV_CHAR_01.dat
As well as the CHR folder that houses the rest of the data.

It takes a few seconds, and I never have to play with gear sets or the UI. While I agree server side would be nice, this is a pretty simply fix. ;)

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Originally Posted by Wyyote

I travel a fair amount for work so I have XIV on my desktop and laptop. I just copy the following files over and it results in having all information on both computers:

FFXIV.cfg
FFXIV_BOOT.cfg
FFXIV_CHAR_01.dat
As well as the CHR folder that houses the rest of the data.

It takes a few seconds, and I never have to play with gear sets or the UI. While I agree server side would be nice, this is a pretty simply fix. ;)

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Thanks for that, Wyyote. I'll start backing up those files. I see they are in the root of the 'FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn' folder - do you know if these files cover all created character's data?

Another thing I just found out is saved locally, is when you design a brand new character and can save the appearance data, to load into another newly created character later on - those were also gone. Maybe this is also covered in those ^^ three files.

Ahh maybe those three files do not cover everything, I made a new toon on another server and the UI was defaulted :(

I agree.

Please allow us the option in the settings to have this information saved on the server or our machine. Same for controls (separately from the sets).

Just a side note, you can save your folders and re-use data for other computers if you save them to a cloud drive.

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Originally Posted by Gray_Spy

Just a side note, you can save your folders and re-use data for other computers if you save them to a cloud drive.

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Yep! You can also dropbox them, then just set it to sync when you load, and voila!

Same here, I prefer to craft and do less intense or repetitive battles on laptop and do more endgame on my desktop. Major pain each time I'm on laptop and discover something else that should've been saved on server to begin with.

Totally agree! Save all UI settings on server! This is very important game defect!

this is extremely important actually.. for ppl who play on pc and ps3. this downright an insult to players, why should we waste 6-7 hours setting up 9 jobs, and 19 classes gearsets and actions repeatedly b/c u guys refuse to make it server side?

Very much everything said here I agree with. Please SE make this possible.

Please, please, please... THIS. I think this thread should get bumped EVERY time someone has to do a file transfer between computers.

Have you guys tried putting the FF14 folder in dropbox (or something that can sync files). It works for me for games that I can play on mobile and PC. Maybe it would work for FF14 too.

Please do not do this!

I fully approve of efforts to save user settings, but it can't be as simple as "just saving it on the server." If you do that, you will have a problem on rendering devices that require a different UI (i.e. low res PS4 bigscreen vs high res PC monitor). Instead, if the server can save profiles for multiple UIs, that would be far more desirable. In addition, it would allow saving a different UI for a healer, or a miner for example. And 24 man configs are likely to require some differences as well.

Fortunately, I saw some posts already hinting that developers are doing it "my" way (profiles) and that this feedback has been heard. But details haven't been delivered to us yet.

Agreed. Had the same problem with my ps3. Yellow light of death, burned out my system. Bought a new one, re-installef the game and I was overjoyed to see my character still there. But all my settings were wiped. Had to remake my macros, adjust all my HUD info, redo hotbars, and save gear sets all over again.

Still I was thrilled to be back and have my character, weapons, armor, items, etc.

There was a dev post a while back saying that they were looking into this...

How do I set up my saves/ gear set saves and hotbar settings to a cloud storage? so it cna later be loaded without having to start all setting and ui/ gearsets again and again each time i log in. anyone can set me up or go step by step?

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Originally Posted by Yowyow

this is extremely important actually.. for ppl who play on pc and ps3. this downright an insult to players, why should we waste 6-7 hours setting up 9 jobs, and 19 classes gearsets and actions repeatedly b/c u guys refuse to make it server side?

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LOL?

for people on PS3, maybe but for PC users? Just copy the game folder in My documents > My Games, copy it all and bang, all HUD, Hotbars, Keybinds, Macros, graphical settings.

Simple >< the folder isn't even hidden ><

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Originally Posted by Laurima

LOL?

for people on PS3, maybe but for PC users? Just copy the game folder in My documents > My Games, copy it all and bang, all HUD, Hotbars, Keybinds, Macros, graphical settings.

Simple >< the folder isn't even hidden ><

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He'd explicitly mentioned "for ppl who play on pc and ps3". (The same would hold true if it were a PC and PS4 combination now that the game's available for that as well.) That backup does nothing for anyone with multiple platforms. You still have to re-create everything separately on every platform, both initially and also every time you make a change to one of them. (Well, the backup does help protect the PC-exclusive portion from a hard drive crash, but that's it.)

The long necro of this thread also brings up the fact that it had been a long time ago that SE had said they were looking into fixing this issue. So why has it still not been fixed yet, not even after all this time? (It's the main thing that's preventing me from buying the PC version. I'd like to have multiple versions available, but not if they can't be coordinated with each other.)

Would be nice if at least the save folder helped us tell which belongs to what character.
You can probably add a text file with the character name inside the folder to keep tabs on it, though.