Suggestion: Hide own name.

[Benji]

Hey everyone, can you give me some more details about the suggestion? Is it that you simply want an option to "hide own character name"? What about the HP bar for your character? Would that be hidden along with it, or would it need to be a separate thing? Lemme know and I'll compile your thoughts for the dev. team!

Please make them separate options. We should be able to turn off our name OR turn off the HP bar under our name. For example, I like having my name on. I like having HP bars on mobs. I don't like having an HP bar under my name.

[Lusavari]

I have a few related, though slightly off topic suggestions.

Personally, I'd like the option to hide all sorts of parts of the UI. Like I never use the buttons for the mouse in the bottom right corner (Menu, Loot, Emotes, you know, that one) and it bugs me that I can't get rid of it. I really feel boxed in by everything when I'm trying to view things. I also wish I could have the camera stay where ever I put it when I'm locked on a target. I'm a roegadyn, and I block my view a lot, and it really irritates me in combat that my camera ALWAYS tries to rotate behind me.

And then there's the chat lot... I like the chatlog hide option, but I wish I could set the time for it to disappear, or at least beable to hit a command to hide it at will. Also, in the chat box field... Can I have some control over which of the 2 boxes NPCs talk in? I keep 1 box for all around general chat, and 1 for chat only, and I hate that NPCs can only show up in my general box.

On the name topic, I like being able to see my name, people names, their ls, and if they're bazaaring. I understand people are wanting to just turn their own name off instead of doing /names which is already in the game to remove everything.

Also, while it's on my mind, and I'm thinking about it in a place I know it will get read, can where we move certain windows to PLEASE stay in memory? I hate the default location of the synthesis window as it VERY frequently blocks my view of the color of the orb. I have all sorts of problems with camera and window locations... :<

[Roaran]

I would like the option to hide both, as I know what my name is and I already have a huge health bar on the screen for myself. And I would like to use the new HP bars, but I don't because I don't like seeing the HP bar above my characters head.

[ObeiKinstar]

I would like the option to toggle my name on/off, linkshell crest on/off, bazarr icon on/off, hp bar on/off

also would like to see a toggle for other players names to be either standard size or toggle to 50% size reduction (or another % that looks ok, not really sure about 50% exactly) When I'm in crowded areas, Uldah, theres so many ppl around my whole screen is filled with names, I know i can turn off all names, but i want to be able to see others names, just make them smaller to occupy lees room on my screen.

I think the main thing is ppl want customization to the UI in general, everybody has a different way that the like to play and no one is wrong thats why its imporatant to be able to toggle a lot of different things, that way everyone is happy

Myself for instance, I would LOVE to see the option to toggle the (!) icons above ppls heads on screen, but keep the (!) in my mini map. In fact getting rid of the (!) above ppls heads would just about make me one f'n happy camper

[CrystalArisia]

Uhm.. i thought the command "/names off" hid your name or are we talking /anon like in FFXI?

[Akira_Tenshi]

Uhm.. i thought the command "/names off" hid your name or are we talking /anon like in FFXI?

Currently you can only hide all names. This is about being able to hide only your own name and keep the others.

[CrystalArisia]

Ah right. Oki doki.~

[Hotohori]

I have a few related, though slightly off topic suggestions.

Personally, I'd like the option to hide all sorts of parts of the UI. Like I never use the buttons for the mouse in the bottom right corner (Menu, Loot, Emotes, you know, that one) and it bugs me that I can't get rid of it. I really feel boxed in by everything when I'm trying to view things. I also wish I could have the camera stay where ever I put it when I'm locked on a target. I'm a roegadyn, and I block my view a lot, and it really irritates me in combat that my camera ALWAYS tries to rotate behind me.

And then there's the chat lot... I like the chatlog hide option, but I wish I could set the time for it to disappear, or at least beable to hit a command to hide it at will. Also, in the chat box field... Can I have some control over which of the 2 boxes NPCs talk in? I keep 1 box for all around general chat, and 1 for chat only, and I hate that NPCs can only show up in my general box.

On the name topic, I like being able to see my name, people names, their ls, and if they're bazaaring. I understand people are wanting to just turn their own name off instead of doing /names which is already in the game to remove everything.

Also, while it's on my mind, and I'm thinking about it in a place I know it will get read, can where we move certain windows to PLEASE stay in memory? I hate the default location of the synthesis window as it VERY frequently blocks my view of the color of the orb. I have all sorts of problems with camera and window locations... :<

I agree with you greatly on much of your post about the UI and ability to toggle certain widgets off which have very little or no use to me. The mouse click widget is shoved into the corner of my screen personally and I wish I could simply disable it. Also the new targeting mode widget which becomes essentially worthless when in targeting mode a is always there as well for me. (All, Friendly, Enemy, Party, this widget)

Also agree on the chat log stuff. I made a post on certain filters which need to be changed as well but it seemed to be completely ignored. I'll say it here again though.

Players eating foods information is currently filtered under "System Messages" which is something most players cannot afford to filter in any chat. If I want to filter "Player X drinks a bottle of apple juice." I need to filter a variety of important information dialogues such as synthesis results, equipping weapons and gear, the items sold to NPC, and more.

Other players ranking/leveling up information and learned abilities is filtered under "Skills earned/actions learned by self". It's more then just common sense that these chat filter subjects should have been separated. I can't see my own skill point gains if I want to filter such dialogue spam like other players ranking up and learning skills which can appear as many lines.

My original post here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...36-Chat-Filter

As for the point of toggling my name on or off alone, if I had the choice I would turn my own name off for preference sake and to increase visibility of the area in front of me. Some peoples names could be very long with a long surname and block a decent amount of the horizon when moving forward. But the whole thing isn't a huge issue for me that needs to be stressed.

Although I would not be opposed to a way that filters off just all player names or just all NPC names for options sake. /names is too indiscriminate to use as a viable filter for the screen. More options the better when it comes to harmless features such as screen customization.

[Tahlia]

I'm not too bothered about toggling my name on/off. Although it would be nice to have that option for player and mob names have seperate toggle options and then a seperate toggle for your own name. I would also like to be able to turn the hp bar off for my character. The patch that made the hp smaller and less intrusive looking was a big help though the option would still be nice. As the number of these options grow, it would be great to have them eventually added to the config menu.

What would be nice for me to see is linkshell name. Since some linkshell crests that people have picked for their shells look so much alike I'd like a toggle on/off of the linkshell name underneath your own name. This is a feature in other MMOs however I do admit in the existing examples I've seen the guild names are horribly displayed. I'm sure though in ffxiv that it could be made to look presentable and still easy to read.

Another little idea which is more stupid and unneeded (not to mention more clutter around the character) would be to display your highest ranked or favoured craft next to your name somewhere. It would let people needing something repaired or crafted spot someone with that craft without really needing to shout or research online. And then go up to that person and ask them directly.

[Aztecguy82]

make it like Aion and RIFT you have an options to turn off and on more specific stuff