Suggestion: Save UI Config / Gear Sets / Etc Automagically

[WindyGamer]

Do you not back up your documents? Otherwise, pull the hard drive out and grab the xiv folder.

Blacklists are saved because they are server side. Character ui, gear sets, and hotbars are all local saved in your documents folder.

Yes. I am a retired Software Engineer. I know this and the recovery procedures. Basically replacing the PS on a 2 day ship will be the quickest way to get all this back. I'm suggesting [ arguing ] that all this stuff should be saved server side because it takes a ton of time to recover and is updated quite frequently. For example to be more clear, Gear Sets keeps all gear updates So very time you click the up/down arrows - what do you call them - to update a gear set, you need to go back to the character screen and do the manual click to save that data for that character. Or mark it down on your fridge black board to do it before you log out. Saving data in the MMO database is mostly a matter of saving us TIME in the game. Right? Recovering XP is really just a matter of spending time. But they are very careful to save items and XP to save us time and effort, but apparently we have forgotten all these other things that take a lot of time to recover because we call them Configuration, and save them locally. I suggest it is a big mistake to save GAME stuff locally. Save stuff that is dependent on the local computer locally, fine. Save character information locally, Mistake.

ANd yes, I use carbonite. BUt not from this computer, but from a central computer on my network of more than 10 machines. And I frequently, manually, backup local documents to my central server. But my "documents" don't change several times a day. My gear sets change many times a day.