Things that NEED to happen

[Ri_ri]

I'm going to have to disagree on the talking to npc's while mounted. NPC's can already get crowded in some areas. Add everyone's mount, with behemoth barding and what have you, and there would be no way to see the npc.

Talking to npc's while mounted should never happen.

This. Even worse is when almost everyone is already running on Magiteks.

Also, mounting is already too convenient. When I attuned for Garuda, at one point I had at least five Ixali following me, and they couldn't do a thing. I didn't even tried to avoid them - just run until they leash back.

Agree with the rest, though. Also, I'd like a cross-world blist, to avoid all the grievers and quitters.

[EllieTomo]

Are you kidding me? Are you really serious?

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Why can you ride a chocobo around inside of a building but you can't talk to an NPC while on it?

Make a quote pyramid out of this post too, they're pretty edgy these days.

[Amnesia]

(...) most of the suggested things would make the game more enjoyable.

No argument. But your thread title talked about "NEED" (in all caps)

[Linadae]

[1]Give us an option to ignore the player in chat (right click, ignore).
[2]Let us preview and compare the gear.
[3]Allow us to talk to NPCs while mounted.
[4]Auto-dismount when casting a spell.
[5]Let us stay in channel unless specified otherwise (/fc for example). Also remove case sensitivity on slash commands.
[6]Remove the forum restrictions.

The first two are actually coming in 2.1 if I recall correctly. You already can do the 5th. They have no desire to change the 6th because it makes their moderation duties a bit easier. There's been no mention of 3 and 4 but I for one would like 4 because I mainly play casters.

[Tooth]

I'm not sure what you mean by "need". These appear to be things that you want to happen.

Your suggestions 1, 3 and 6 have been mentioned many times.

If they don't cater to what a large, if not huge, amount of their player base wants, their game will fail and they'll lose tons of money and credit for it.

[Uldi]

[LIST][*]Give us an option to ignore the player in chat (right click, ignore).

That's what the blist is for. If it's a /tell, type /blist add <r>. You can even macro it. If it's in shout, highlight the name, then ctrl-c, then /blist add ctrl-v.

[*]Let us preview and compare the gear.

Already planned.

[*]Allow us to talk to NPCs while mounted.

No. It would block the NPC. The translation for "it would break immersion" is really "certain types of players would be jerks and would deliberately stand on the NPC while mounted to block other players from using it."

[*]Auto-dismount when casting a spell.

Why can't you just click the 'Mount' button, then immediately cast a spell? Is that one extra button just that inconvenient when grinding FATE? That is the reason, isn't it? So that you can tag a FATE mob a little bit faster?

[*]Let us stay in channel unless specified otherwise (/fc for example). Also remove case sensitivity on slash commands.

Clicking that little speech bubble and selecting a different chat channel isn't that hard. Also, are you running around with caps-lock on or something? That's the only thing I can think of for the latter being an issue.

[*]Remove these ridiculous forum restrictions.

They don't want people spending most of their time here.

[KupoNuts]

No. It would block the NPC. The translation for "it would break immersion" is really "certain types of players would be jerks and would deliberately stand on the NPC while mounted to block other players from using it."

They can add collision then? You can enter the house with dismounting anyway and go through mobs so people already can do what you just said.

They don't want people spending most of their time here.

Isn't that the reason why 1.0 failed? Feedback not coming to the developers? If they want the game to be successful they should listen to their paying playerbase, not limit it.

[Sunarie]

They can add collision then? You can enter the house with dismounting anyway and go through mobs so people already can do what you just said.

Oh please no... I don't need someone pushing me away from an NPC, nor do I need to not be able to access it because there's a wall of people I can't get through to actually click on the NPC.

I think the better solution would be talking to an NPC auto-dismounts you. Less button clicks for you, no NPCs blocked by gigantic mounts for us.

They have been listening to their player base a fair amount, which is where a lot of the changes in 2.1 are coming from (I like to think). The player base doesn't always agree with what should or shouldn't be added. I will agree with you on the forum restrictions being a bit much though.

[Rivienne]

Isn't that the reason why 1.0 failed? Feedback not coming to the developers? If they want the game to be successful they should listen to their paying playerbase, not limit it.

They do listen to and respond to the player base, and the tech support thread has fewer restrictions for obvious reasons.

As for responding to ideas and complaints they do quite well. They haven't responded to everything, and they try to not respond to issues until they have a good developer response.

The forum restrictions are more about spam and forum moderation: notice there isn't any spam. By using the game as the baseline, generic spam is eliminated, as well as a lot of general forum problems. I do agree the restrictions are a bit overly tight right now, but they shouldn't remove them altogether. They probably could lessen them at the least however, on that I definitely agree. The 5, 10, 20 thing especially annoys me whenever I have to switch my main character just to post. If I have a character at 40/50, why does it matter if it isn't my main when I want to post more than 5? The 1000 limitation... I honestly don't see the point since it is only on first post, and you can edit to the length you desire, and apparently they have no objections to this.

[3]Allow us to talk to NPCs while mounted.
[4]Auto-dismount when casting a spell.

There's been no mention of 3 and 4 but I for one would like 4 because I mainly play casters.

They didn't directly respond to 4 yet, but yes in fact they did respond to 3 on the quality of life thread I pointed to before. Which I pointed to because most of these types of ideas have been brought up there, and the community reps have in fact passed them on to the devs. With or without a response to individual ideas, the fact is these ideas are being passed on to the developers. They aren't simply being ignored.

We're currently placing emphasis on the world and how the characters inhabit it, and talking while on chocobo is prohibited. This is because there is a possibility that the atmosphere of events and such will be destroyed. While this is possible system-wise, we'd like to look into this carefully while taking these conditions into consideration.

So as I read this: they can do it but they are worried about the same issues as TrystWildkey pointed to above.

But note: they did not say outright "no". Just "we'd like to look into this carefully" which is a good answer because if they do it, they will want to do it right.

[Pandastirfry]

• Give us an option to ignore the player in chat (right click, ignore).
• Let us preview and compare the gear.
• Allow us to talk to NPCs while mounted.
• Auto-dismount when casting a spell.
• Let us stay in channel unless specified otherwise (/fc for example). Also remove case sensitivity on slash commands.
• Remove these ridiculous forum restrictions.

yeah... the fact that the gear compare we have only compares the base P. Def. and M. Def and none of the actual stats is annoying to say the absolute least ( preview I could take or leave, the icons are pretty close to exactly what the item will look like, unlike WoW where they could look WILDLY different)

and auto dismount would be wonderful, don't know why it wasn't already in.