Wishlist for new UI enhancements after announcements

[Grebeny]

To be fair, you can have a hyperminimal UI without also being limited to a hyperminimum of available information.

On WoW, for instance, my only visible UI outside of combat (areas) was my mini-map, a line of buffs (filtered) at the bottom-center of my screen, and a minimized party/raid list. The last appeared as simply portraits and a counter; those within 80 yards got portraits, increasing slightly in size until within 40 yards, while the rest were reduced to a +<n> counter. Mousing over the area would expand it to show all others, so I could easily right click on them for whispers, promote them to leader, etc.

I would say that(and I am totally for it) there should be easy way to change wayout of FF UI. But there is option to create 4 diffrent UIs and change between them at any point. There are few elements that cannot be tweaked and this should be fixed from a long time now... But addons are not the way, we should be a bit more vocal about the issues we have with it (and allow us to have more UI presets ffs 4 really...) because for people like me, I play on 2k on ps5 and 1080p on the pc, I kind of need my presets on both platforms. It is super annoyong right now when I make some changes for one reason or another and I need to tweak the system settings two times saparately.

[Shurrikhan]

There are few elements that cannot be tweaked and this should be fixed from a long time now...

I feel like there's still an ocean of difference, though, between "let's give these few restricted elements the same (very limited) options available to the other elements" and being able to truly customize one's UI. The latter is a matter of being freely able to create and attribute any element one wants.

Imagine, for instance, upon selecting "Create Element," you could then select from among...

>> Element Type

[Number], [Icon], [Bar Gauge], [Diamonds Gauge], [Chevron Gauge], [Custom Gauge], [Cursor Overlay]

>> Element Set

[No Set], [<Set 1>], [<Set 2>], [<Set 3>]

>> Visibility

[Always], [Show Only When...], [Hide When...], [Replace... When...]

>> Attach To...

[Free-Standing], [Select Parent Element], [Select Parent Set], [(Copy Parent Scale)]

>> Parent Anchor

[Top-Left], [Top], [Top-Right], [Left], [Center], [Right], [Bottom-Left], [Bottom], [Bottom-Right]

>> Element's Anchor

[Top-Left], [Top], [Top-Right], [Left], [Center], [Right], [Bottom-Left], [Bottom], [Bottom-Right]

>> Offset

[X-Offset], [Y-Offset]

>> Dimensions

[Length], [Width], [Height], [Padding]

>> Styling

[Direction], [Fill Direction], ([Fill Starting Position]), [Background Color], [Border Style], [Border Thickness], [Border Color], [Fill Color], ([Fill Color 2]), ([Fill Color 3]), [Gradient], ([Highlight Color]), ([Cooldown Style]), [Glow Appearance], [Flash Appearance]

>> Attributes

[Timer], [Resource], [Unit Value], [Other]

etc.

If you want to show your Bloodletter charges as a few red diamonds (a la Addersting count under SGE's Simple Mode gauge) but have them be vertical and fill clockwise starting from 3:00, instead of showing only after completion, you can.

You just go Diamonds -> None -> Show Only When... (Cooling + In Combat OR Applicable Target) -> Hotbar 1 -> 90° | Clockwise | 0° | Black (30% Alpha) | Black | 1 pixel | Red (#8B0000) -> Timer (Bloodletter).

Voila, custom timer created, all using the stock XIV assets.

But addons are not the way, we should be a bit more vocal about the issues we have with it (and allow us to have more UI presets ffs 4 really...) because for people like me, I play on 2k on ps5 and 1080p on the pc, I kind of need my presets on both platforms. It is super annoying right now when I make some changes for one reason or another and I need to tweak the system settings two times separately.

As long as XIV does enough to make redundant the plugins we can generally consider benign, I'd be fine with there no being no addons. But, for now, there's a large gap between the two experiences even in terms of basic QoL and accessibility. There's a lot of work to do for a game that's been largely complacent about its 2000s-era UI to catch up with enthusiastic modders who actually care, quite specifically, about the particular QoL features they provide.