17 Suggestions from an MMO vet

[Martyr]

I've heard a lot of these before. Someone even went through the trouble of making a .pdf for it. Thread's a little old, now. Half thinking about necro-bumping it, if only to go over things that were in the file that are now fixed.

Here's the thread.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...estive-Changes

I agree with quite a few of these points, though. Think it would be nice to have some sort of idle animation. I mean, not constantly fidgeting, but if you stand still for awhile, would be nice to do something. Kind of creepy running by Ul'dah's steps and just seeing a bunch of motionless Miqo'tes, all sitting in the exact same position, doing nothing at all.

Of course, would be a pain for RPers if you were doing a scene and your character started kicking dirt off their boot or humming something, so a simple /idle on and /idle off would be welcome for that.

However, I'm a little confused about:

14) you’ve got to change the fact that you can’t move with WSAD and type at the same time. Other MMOs do it, you figure it out.

I can't think of an MMO where you can type and run with WSAD without either putting on auto-run or using the mouse. I mean, honestly, I would be rather annoyed trying to type a sentence and have my character flail around in random directions whenever I happened to type one of those characters. I do remember someone recommending they add the ability to move by clicking down both the right and left mouse buttons. Is that kind of what you mean? So you can be in the middle of typing, use the mouse to move out of the way of something, then continue typing?

[nmekiller]

I can't think of an MMO where you can type and run with WSAD without either putting on auto-run or using the mouse. I mean, honestly, I would be rather annoyed trying to type a sentence and have my character flail around in random directions whenever I happened to type one of those characters. I do remember someone recommending they add the ability to move by clicking down both the right and left mouse buttons. Is that kind of what you mean? So you can be in the middle of typing, use the mouse to move out of the way of something, then continue typing?

To use WoW as a popular example, as long as you didn't let go of whatever WSAD key you were using when you started typing, you could keep moving without switching on auto run. The only problem with that was if you needed "W""S""A" or "D" in what you were typing. It's not really important though and 14 can easily be forgotten.


I would like to take this opportunity to reemphasize my points about adding chat channels, a mail system, and an AH.

If those systems were level restricted so that only high level players could use them, it would serve as a reward for playing through the game to that point, and be an answer to the demands for these systems in game. You could compare it to the airship pass in FFXI as a benchmark for character progression and reward.

Actually, now that i think of it, why not build epic quest lines around opening up these 3 systems to players?