Can I get a clock?

[Ava]

Checked with the dev. team about displaying the time in-game (aside from the manual display method, of course). They said that if there is a major call for it to be added, they'll discuss its implementation. So... is there a huge desire for this?

I was under the impression the UI is built with LUA. If this is the case, it should take like 5 minutes for a professional UI coder to put a clock up. In response to "Is there a huge desire for this?", I'd just like to ask... Why not? It's a clock, a simple feature, most people play video games fullscreen and cannot see desktop clocks. I'm not a professional coder but I have played a lot with LUA and it's a very simple language and adding a clock should probably take less than 5 lines of code.

Alternatively, let us code our own addons so we can make our own clocks.

[VydarrTyr]

In response to "Is there a huge desire for this?", I'd just like to ask... Why not?

As Chloe Ardarose/Dream said, there's no reason to clutter up the UI with unnecessary widgets, and I think a clock is unnecessary. So I'd vote no.

Having said that, I'd be fine with it if you could toggle it off, or if it was listed under the /clock command.

I'm not a professional coder but I have played a lot with LUA and it's a very simple language and adding a clock should probably take less than 5 lines of code.

Would it be complicated by the fact that so many people play in different time zones? So maybe the time would need to be pulled from the individual player's CPU, or it would require some timezone function to be coded in. (But I really have no idea what I'm talking about.)

[thedevilsjester]

Would it be complicated by the fact that so many people play in different time zones? So maybe the time would need to be pulled from the individual player's CPU, or it would require some timezone function to be coded in. (But I really have no idea what I'm talking about.)

It is quite easy to get whatever time the PC is currently set to. This makes it simple for developers to implement client side features like in game clocks (its no good for server side timing of course).

I'm so-so about this feature.
It's good to have but not really necessary.
I need the Dev team to focus on other matters and streamline the UI

I agree that they should focus on bigger things first, but this is quite important to me (not that I would stop playing if it didnt get implemented, I am not that fickle) but a lot of people give solutions that they use (for nice overlay clocks, or running FFXIV in a window, etc...), that will NOT be an option on the PS3 version.

Capital! Problem solved, then!

Have you read the OP? It is not about being able to see what the real world time is when you think about it. Its about having an on screen, constant reminder, of what time it is so that "time will not fly" when you are having fun.

Vote no from me. I don't want more on-screen HUD clutter. The more I can do with less, the better.

A simple toggle for the existing on screen clock to show real world vs game world time, would not clutter up the UI at all, or if it became a separate UI, a toggle switch (which we should have for all UI elements IMHO as there are a lot of clutter items that I would love to remove) would not hinder your UI at all if you choose not to have it (off by default even).

Checked with the dev. team about displaying the time in-game (aside from the manual display method, of course). They said that if there is a major call for it to be added, they'll discuss its implementation. So... is there a huge desire for this?

I very much appreciate having my request heard and passed on and hope that enough people would desire such a feature that it would make it into the client at least before the PS3 release. Even a hidden text command toggle to switch the in game clock would be nice, like /clock real and /clock game would be great.

[Ava]

As Chloe Ardarose/Dream said, there's no reason to clutter up the UI with unnecessary widgets, and I think a clock is unnecessary. So I'd vote no.

Having said that, I'd be fine with it if you could toggle it off, or if it was listed under the /clock command.
Would it be complicated by the fact that so many people play in different time zones? So maybe the time would need to be pulled from the individual player's CPU, or it would require some timezone function to be coded in. (But I really have no idea what I'm talking about.)

No, it wouldn't be complicated. http://www.lua.org/pil/22.1.html. It's literally 1 line of code to pull from the OS. I would assume the code is already in since there is a /clock command, they would just need to create a small container for the string and anchor it to the minimap. About cluttering the UI, that is just silly. It could be simply 4 digits with 8 to 10 pt font under the minimap. It would literally consume less than 1% of the UI space.

So again, why not? =| It doesn't need to be a full size clock that clutters the UI, I don't think anyone is asking for that...