Suggestion: Hide own name.

[Liniont]

bumping because I'm sad this wasn't added in 1.19 I really hate my name blocking the center of my view >.< I know who I am and I love my name but I don't need it displayed 24/7 while I play...

[Konachibi]

Signing this. Our names are displayed in our health bar, don't see why it's necessary to have it hovering over our heads too, especially since we can't switch it off without switching off everyone elses name too.

[Dreadnought]

i actually like playing with all names (except party members!) off.

the problem with doing that in this game is when doing a leve quest there is no distinction between leve mobs and regular mobs when a mob is highlighted.
the parchment insignia only appears next to the mobs hovering name, not your targets name.... did that make sense?

[AlphaDragoon]

Yeah, I was really sad that this didn't end up in 1.19. Maybe next patch, hopefully.

[Akira_Tenshi]

Yeah it's a shame they still aren't adding this. One of mine and many other peoples suggestions is being added though, repair and merchant npcs at camps, so happy to see that. They do listen to us. Perhaps this feature is more complicated to add then we realise.

[Deminia]

I like seeing my hp bar because that is useful to me while fighting monsters. However, seeing my own name displayed directly above my head isn't really necessary most of the time.

I also agree that being able to see which linkshell I am currently in is helpful, and if I have a repair/bazaar listed. My name is the only thing I often don't need to see.

A toggle on/off would be a good option for hiding the name.

[Liniont]

I bump again because I'm still sad that this wasn't added in patch 1.19a Honestly is this really hard to implement? I just want to know I'm not criticizing, if it's really difficult to implement then I'll simply be quite and continue hoping.

But just incase the devs look at this I want to explain in detail what we want.

----For the Devs----
This would only be client side so it will only effect what we see not what everyone else sees.

So right now we can toggle to display all player names off or on.
We don't want to toggle every one else's name plates just our own.

So instead of hide all player names (which includes our own)
we would like our name which hovers above our own character's head to be available for toggling off and on. But client side so we are the only ones who don't see it. Unless the other players have all player names toggled to hide then they'll still see our name plates.

For an example, when you first added "/display main off" which hides our main weapon and it only worked on our side which we were the only ones who saw it the rest of the players still saw our weapons on there sides.

-------I hope this was easy to understand---------

[Betelgeuzah]

It may not be difficult, but when you have a gazillion "not so hard" features to implement you still need to prioritize.

[AliceKaye]

I am so glad that I saw this post because I was just about to post my own suggestion about this. I have no need of seeing my characters name above my head 24/7. In fact, as far as the linkshell shield goes, I guess (simply so that someone knows which they're active in at that moment) it could be moved elsewhere, maybe smaller, on the screen - perhaps next to the mini map or next to whatever class you are at the moment (exp bar area).

Regardless, I'm glad someone posted about it and also glad to see that someone important had responded on the very first page. Awesome!

[Adol]

I am so glad that I saw this post because I was just about to post my own suggestion about this. I have no need of seeing my characters name above my head 24/7. In fact, as far as the linkshell shield goes, I guess (simply so that someone knows which they're active in at that moment) it could be moved elsewhere, maybe smaller, on the screen - perhaps next to the mini map or next to whatever class you are at the moment (exp bar area).

Regardless, I'm glad someone posted about it and also glad to see that someone important had responded on the very first page. Awesome!

Going on from what you said about relocating the linkshell crest, it could quite easily be placed down on the micro menu. This could allow players to switch active linkshells from there instead of having to go through the main menu.