Please Disable Skills and Abilities in Towns

[Lemuria]

I do it when I'm waiting for my brothers or something. If someone wants me to stop they can ask. But I see no harm in it. I personally find it to be slightly entertaining. Especially when I use it to annoy said brothers.

Errm... you realise you basically admitted that it's annoying as heck, right?

Let's be honest, skill spam is nothing but another form of in-game harassment. The people who do it know exactly why they're doing it, and know full well that no one likes it. so let's not try and make it look any more honourable than it actually is. You can argue that people can turn off in-game effects all you want, but there's actually a REASON why someone might actually want the effects on, especially if you're crafting and need to watch out for excellent/good conditions because the visual effect appears more quickly than the 'good' label does in the crafting box.

So, basically you're saying if they don't like it they don't have to put up with it, but they still need to diminish their enjoyment in some way. Why? Because some idiot randomly decided s/he was going to be a public nuisance? Fat chance.

Asking people to stop is like throwing water onto a grease fire in most cases. They WANT to get a rise out of people, they want you to be annoyed. Telling them to stop validates their reason for being a pain, so they'll continue to do so with more gusto, usually right next to where the hapless crafter is working just for added nuisance. For the rare situations that this actually works, it's great, but it's not very common and I almost always end up reporting them for harassment.

However, turning off skills in towns is not the way to go about it. There are plenty of good reasons to use skills in these areas which have been covered in this thread, and many more besides. What would be nice is a blacklist function which disables that person's effects and ONLY that person's effects. That would solve everyone's problems, and avoid heated arguments.

[Felis]

You can argue that people can turn off in-game effects all you want, but there's actually a REASON why someone might actually want the effects on, especially if you're crafting and need to watch out for excellent/good conditions because the visual effect appears more quickly than the 'good' label does in the crafting box.

Just let your own effects on while tuning off the effects from strangers?

[Lemuria]

Just let your own effects on while tuning off the effects from strangers?

I see you're a master of cherry picking, rather than addressing the actual problem here. The point is it shouldn't be necessary. If I'm in a queue waiting to do a dungeon, it means going back in and re-enabling all of the effects every time. Why should the player be inconvenienced because of a single spammer?

Just make it a blacklist feature and we can all be happy.

[Ashkendor]

If I'm in a queue waiting to do a dungeon, it means going back in and re-enabling all of the effects every time.

Unless you're managing to get into dungeons with people that you aren't partied with, it shouldn't be an issue.

[cougarel]

Can we please have some real threads? It's filled with useless requests and kitty issues instead on focusing on important issues of the game.If you are that annoyed , please go outside town or stay in the house, there is no reason to request this as long as you do have options to turn it off. Also some people do find it fun, it's not only about your person , it's a freackin mmorpg, you play with other people (get the hint?).This period with political correctness has to stop and no, no one cares about your personal issues. It's a an issue, get over it as many of us living and working in the real world besides playing ff are doing.
My 2 cents.

[Kacho_Nacho]

What? I like the light shows! Cheaper than real life fireworks. Makes for some amazing screenshots too!

As has already been pointed out, it's no biggie to set your own settings to block them if you don't care for them.

Can we please have some real threads? It's filled with useless requests and kitty issues instead on focusing on important issues of the game.If you are that annoyed , please go outside town or stay in the house, there is no reason to request this as long as you do have options to turn it off. Also some people do find it fun, it's not only about your person , it's a freackin mmorpg, you play with other people (get the hint?).This period with political correctness has to stop and no, no one cares about your personal issues. It's a an issue, get over it as many of us living and working in the real world besides playing ff are doing.
My 2 cents.

Careful. What may seem to be a useless request to you may be important to another player. Just as you wrote, you play with other players, and they all have different opinions.

You seem to be a person with a passion for FFXIV. Why don't you make a thread about one of the issues of the game you feel the developers should focus on?

[RyuSaarva]

Can we please have some real threads? It's filled with useless requests and kitty issues instead on focusing on important issues of the game.If you are that annoyed , please go outside town or stay in the house, there is no reason to request this as long as you do have options to turn it off. Also some people do find it fun, it's not only about your person , it's a freackin mmorpg, you play with other people (get the hint?).This period with political correctness has to stop and no, no one cares about your personal issues. It's a an issue, get over it as many of us living and working in the real world besides playing ff are doing.
My 2 cents.

square has my permission to skip all next patch dungeons if they make this happen.

[Canadane]

Whenever I attend a wedding, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one not spamming AOEs in the couples faces as they try to say their vows.
I mean, they're not even hitched yet, sit down.

[Lucinda_Lecore]

No thank you. I like to summon as soon as I log on, which is usually in towns. Saves me doing it later and possibly forgetting and running into a mob by mistake.

[Lemuria]

Unless you're managing to get into dungeons with people that you aren't partied with, it shouldn't be an issue.

Uh huh, and what about alliance matches? Yup, it disables those effects for the other two teams as well. Look, you can pretend your magic bullet works flawlessly or we can admit there's a problem that has an easy fix.