Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[ForteXX]

Hello,

I’d like to share another daily dose of UI comments from Hiroshi Minagawa.

There was also a quick follow-up about the comment made on vanity slots.

Well, both of those chat notifications don't sound decent at all. By default, all 3 of the normal chat tabs are constantly getting messages sent to them. Maybe just have it look for you first/last name, role, or class/job and blink on those (in addition to when you receive a tell)

[Altanas]

Following on from Minagawa's response:

1. Wouldn't it be a fair compromise to simply allow Player Speech bubbles either for a) party/alliance members only and b) within dungeons? If someone is not reading their chat log, they are probably watching the action in the centre of the screen.

2. Alternatively, allow for 100% transparency of chat window UI like in SWTOR so it is not so ugly to place the chat windows around the screen.

[Naunet]

stuff on vanity slots

Please, do not try to be "innovative" with your vanity system.

For the love of all that is holy, just go take a look at Rift's wardrobe system and copy it.

[Bufkus]

It sounds like they are going to go with Aion's vanity system - where you changed the look of your gear by reskinning them with the items you wanted them to look like.

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

[AnnaMolly]

Since this thread seems to have Camate's ear and he has the Dev's ears how about a way to block Free Company invites?

I have an FC picked out but I am waiting for them to start recruiting, two friends are actually in it already. I'm fine waiting patiently, the only issue with waiting is that I keep getting these blind FC invites when I'm just not interested and I have NO way to block them. At one point, I had a search comment up about not being interested in an FC and it was simply disregarded. Please give us an FC Invite block.

[Naunet]

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

You bet I'd complain about that. Why go with a subpar system when perfection already exists?

Of course make limitations like "Class/Job must be able to wear it" or "No seasonal gear".

Why? You mention Rift's system and then champion class/job restrictions in the same breath - that's silly! No restrictions are necessary.

[Klutz64]

That wouldn't be a bad system but I bet a lot of people are going to complain that they can't freely change their looks every time unless they kept buying or farming for the same vanity items.

Yeah... I'm going to be one of those people. I don't like transmutation. Particularly in this game where it's already difficult to keep track of all your equipment. Now I'd have to keep track of which equipment stats are on what piece of gear. And if I want stats from my AF armor on something else will I lose my AF armor? Or is that going to be un-transmutable because of that. And if all the unique high level gear is un-transmutable, that just defeats the purpose of vanity slots to begin with.

I was really hoping for just a simple wardrobe system, like RIFT or LotRO. I feel like that would take just as much processing as one extra gear set, but I don't really know anything about stuff like that.

[Velhart]

I do hope the vanity system is simple also. A intro quest to it is fine, but something like this should be very simple like RIFT's wardrobe system. Of course make limitations like "Class/Job must be able to wear it" or "No seasonal gear". There is no reason to make it needlessly complex.

Why? You mention Rift's system and then champion class/job restrictions in the same breath - that's silly! No restrictions are necessary.

Dev team said themselves they don't want to see mages wearing plate armor. I believe vanity is a good thing, but to say it doesn't need set rules for it is even sillier.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Hello,

I’d like to share another daily dose of UI comments from Hiroshi Minagawa.



There was also a quick follow-up about the comment made on vanity slots.

This is honestly the saddest news given to me today :c

*sigh* oh well, not like any other MMO keeps me entertained.

[Naunet]

Dev team said themselves they don't want to see mages wearing plate armor. I believe vanity is a good thing, but to say it doesn't need set rules for it is even sillier.

I don't think it's silly. It works out just fine in Rift. We have so little variety in armor as it is that restricting what we can use as vanity is just absurd.

Perfection already exists. Unfortunataly you want a vanity system so you can't have perfection.
Have to at the very least try to remain sane at this point

By perfection I mean Rift's wardrobe system. An excellent design is out there already. It makes no sense to go with something different just cause.