Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[coldreactive]

Please make it so when we hover over the number of allowances we have in the quest log dialog, we see how much time left we have until we get more.

[Kelvani]

I would love to see an EASY way to report gil sellers. I cannot believe how many are shouting and pming their services! Currently I am adding them to the blacklist to keep from having to deal with their spamm. It would be great to have a feature implemented that would serve the purpose of reporting them and ignoring them!

I could see using something like this: /report In my vision it would automatically copy the last thing they said that you could see (shout or say or pm) and then put them on ignore. Easy for us, and documentation for you!

[coldreactive]

Allow us to separately turn off battle music from the normal BGM.

[ChrysaorUSon]

I want you guys to know that when you do install the idle timer that people will make a macro to move X amount of minutes right before the timer goes off so that they can stay logged in. You can combat this action by running or making a program that watches for the same actions over and over. For example: If someone makes a macro to move every 15 minutes when the idle timer is 20 minutes they move on 15 everytime and your program will know this, or if they just go random like 5 they move 10 minute they move 15 minute they move etc. This is a pattern, make the program to recognize pattern based attempts. Just a big big big suggestion!

[Arkista]

I want you guys to know that when you do install the idle timer that people will make a macro to move X amount of minutes right before the timer goes off so that they can stay logged in. You can combat this action by running or making a program that watches for the same actions over and over. For example: If someone makes a macro to move every 15 minutes when the idle timer is 20 minutes they move on 15 everytime and your program will know this, or if they just go random like 5 they move 10 minute they move 15 minute they move etc. This is a pattern, make the program to recognize pattern based attempts. Just a big big big suggestion!

In FFXI Bot fishing got so bad that GMs would send you a tell and if you didn't answer within a few mins or so you would get banned. All it will take is an auto log off in your Inn even if you are mashing buttons or getting stuff out of your chest cause I know that's where everyone will try to afk at cause no one can see them. So 20-30mins auto log off when your in the Inn no matter what. And then if you happen to see someone AFK that is in the same spot jumping or running into a wall then a GM call can be placed and they can take action and disconnect them. I'll admit some times I need to AFK cook dinner, clean, get my kid off the bus nothing that takes more than 10-15mins and if I need to run to town I just log out. But all the people saying I'm staying logged in while I'm at school, work or sleeping ever thought that if other people had a chance to get on and play do what they want get tired or has to go to work or school would have got their time in and would be happy and maybe we wouldn't have all these server issues.

[Bewoulf]

You can already set your chat channel default to something else.

[Phantasmid]

Allow us to pre-queue healing spells similar to that of damage spells. (IE: Able to press the button / skill / spell halfway after the healing spell is done casting.) It's a bit annoying to be forced to press the cure button a second time after the previous cure is done with.

Do you use a macro to have <mo> -> <t> -> <me> priority or something? You can queue heals just fine, but you CANNOT queue macros for some reason. It would be great if you could queue them, and disable on-screen error messages on actions performed in a macro as long as one of the actions works. The problem you're having is almost definitely with the macro, though.

Controller Mapping
The ability to freely map controller buttons would be wonderful.

Currently, for example, lock/unlock target can only be mapped to either of the two thumbstick buttons, and not to any others.

I don't quite understand why this shouldn't be mappable to any of the available buttons on a controller.

To expand on this, I'd like the option for a focus target button. Set it to right stick and you can use auto-run + right stick to set your focus target, right stick to target it, and maybe even right stick again while the focus target is targeted to target his target. ...too many "targets."

Cross Hotbar UI
I like the cross hotbar. Its great for PS3 players, and people like myself who use a controller on PC. Switching between cross hotbar sets mid-combat could be improved upon if when quick-swapping sets by single clicking the set swap button it only cycled through bars that were NOT set as shared.

This way, you can set it so that when quick-swapping sets you only toggle between cross hotbars with actions relevant to your current class with a single button press, and can still select shared hotbars by holding the switch sets button and selecting the corresponding set from the popup menu.

You can do this already, however. Cross hotbar filtering, I think it's on the third page of your hotbar options? I currently play with two shared hotbars at the end for menu shortcuts and limit break + enemy signs, but only my first hotbar enabled in the filter so tapping RB immediately returns to it no matter which hotbar I've switched to.

Targeting using a Controller
I've noticed that when clicking the target button, the UI seems to select targets based on the direction your character is facing. At times while trying to target the retainer bell in Ul'dah, for example, I often end up targeting an NPC off to the left or right of my field of view even when the bell is dead center and closer to my character, just because my character wasn't facing the same direction as my camera.

By basing target selection on the direction the camera is facing instead, it would make selecting the target you want a lot easier when using a controller.

You know, I couldn't even believe this wasn't already an option!

[Caelesti]

dont know if this has been said yet (cuz i dont feel like reading 31 pages of forum), but plz add a feature to report/ignore players (specifically gold spammers) by clicking on their names in the chat window

[AceUnbound]

Kind of a weird one but after trying out materia creating for a while, I realized that I had deconstructed some of the gear that I had gear-set for other classes. For instance, looked at a level 1 pair of gloves while on my lvl 30 ACN. Went, why do I have those again? Meh, destroy! Later on, I switch to my CNJ to lvl it up some more and have an error in my gear set and no gloves on.

If there was a warning saying something like, "This piece is currently in gearset 15 CNJ, are you sure you want to turn to materia?" I think it would benefit silly people like me quite a bit. I find it taxing to switch between sets or memorize all the gear I use in each set just to avoid accidentally destroying a piece that I worked hard to get. Just a thought. And as for item sorting, thank god lol....

[Obysuca]

Please make it so when we hover over the number of allowances we have in the quest log dialog, we see how much time left we have until we get more.

Hit the duty window in the menu and click timers and it shows when you get your next allowances