Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IX!

[Anapingofness]

There was a thread made asking SE to remove Odin and Behemoth as fates since those zones can be come so overpopulated on some servers that people start to crash. I think this is something that needs to be addressed. What are your plans for Odin and Behemoth? Will they be made into instanced battles or will they be left as is?

A major issue with a lot of zones is that they bottleneck players into playing in one specific part. As a result, a lot of lag is created. This lag becomes even worse when high level Fates are involved such as Odin and Behemoth.
Are there any plans to expand the number of sanctuaries and places that give leves?
Currently there are a lot of places in this game where players level through but aren't considered sanctuaries. For example, Red Rooster Stead, The Observatorium, Buscarrons Druthers, etc etc.
Those places could also contain leves for all of the classes including GC leves. In that respect, would it be possible to expand the areas where leves take place on the map?
Much like the bottleneck for quests and leves alike it is an issue that when players do pick up leves they are all sent to the same patch of the map. This also creates a large amount of lag and the QoL diminishes.
Another aftereffect of the bottlenecking that is happening in the game is that the world ends up feeling a lot smaller since the players never make use of the majority of the map.
Are there any plans to address this?

Thanks for your time!

[Marik]

It is unfortunate that Oceania Players that live far from the two server locations are experiencing latency issues with FFXIV. When the server sync was implemented it helped when server is not so busy. However, when the servers gets busy lag starts to get more apparent. People may be able to compensate the lag but it's really disheartening to see your character run out of the AOE circle before mob's casting finishes and still get hit, especially in the end-game bosses. As a tank I do my best to preemptively prepare to dodge the attacks but there is only so much I can do.

Also, when trying to action a skill, I see skills gets cut off half way when I'm not getting attacked by mobs. when gathering, the break between each harvest is noticeably longer than the person that is just next to me gathering on the same node. These issues are most apparent when the server gets busy.

Is there any way or any plans to address the latency issues due to busy periods of the servers?

Thanks

[Anapingofness]

Will we see the return of Hildebrand in 2.1?

Also, can you give the Miner's Guild their "Flower Girls" back! It's just not the same without them! Why, some of those poor lads have turned to alcohol as a way to cope!

[Zchu]

Why can't we be barefoot?
I don't understand why taking shoes off puts on some sandal/pumps. its really annoying when I want to be barefoot on the beach or go to bed barefoot. Please remove the shoes that appear when you unequip your footwear slot. Thank you

[Zchu]

1) May we please have chiseled/soft and ear size sliders for all races?
2) Also, may we please have waist sliders (for all races too…)?
3) May the Elezen please have a couple of ear shape options similar to the Lalafell 1 and 4?
4) Will we ever see less brick or hulking like faces for Highland Hyur males and Roegadyn (more like Midland Hyur and male Miqo’te), and if not why? Also… why can’t Midland Hyur have brick/hulking faces (not that I personally want them… just asking)?
5) Will Elezen shoulders ever stop drooping and looking like they are slouched, enhancing the already too long necks?
6) May we please have a way to position our legacy tattoos on our characters? I didn't even know what that was until I read a post here in questions... I'm not fond of tattoos myself and was surprised it was even on my character.

This! Yes I think its weird we don't have muscle options on all races. Id like my Lallafell to be more slender. She looks a little bloated honestly =/

Miqo'te also need more ear options, maybe even some hairless ones!

I would like to see Elezen improved. There heads are too small period. Why cant we look like those two white haired twins you see in the opening movie in the carriage? They look like nice proportioned elf=esque. They don't look like Eleven at all <.<

And while im typing lets throw in more sitting poses! Or at least be able to choose your sitting pose rather then race specific.

[Kavaskous]

When you are Fixing the lagg?

I have many Free Company members that are considering leaving the server because they cannot do content due to lag; after much comparison and testing we've determined as much as a 5 second delay in some cases that causes people to wipe on content such as Titan, not because they are bad, but because despite being "out" of an AoE, the server sees it otherwise - this is unfair and a lot of FCs will surely suffer great losses to their community because of it. One might argue "Then the community wasn't that great" but there is a line for every player, and every player has the right to pick and choose where to draw lines and what they deem acceptable to their gameplay experience. Please help Q_Q

[Anapingofness]

Is it possible to add job/class specific emotes? =D

[jeffc88]

I would like to be able to split the bags and see them all at once, sometimes its a hassle to switch between the tabs and sort by craft/gather/gear etc.

[jeffc88]

Will we ever be able to toggle quests in quest journal?

[xXRaineXx]

DYE SYSTEM + Fishing Class

Would it be possible to add the option to dye items which currently don't have that option? Also to improve dyes on some items such as Gryphonskin items, for example 'Gryphonskin Trousers' have the option to dye but only the latter part of the model changes and the white part of the thighs don't change and once you wear the shoes you can't even see the latter part. I think many others who enjoy the dye customization would like the current dye system improved. Personally, as I got to end-game content I found the lack of dye customize on end-game items to be very disappointing.

Possibly could make different parts of the item to be colored colors. Like metal has a separate node to the leather area, or even something like the dye system introduced in Lightning Returns.

Also, this one is a request by a friend 'Lyex Starshadow' - With many support from others, this member noted how 'tackleboxes' should be implemented for the fisher class as a offhand item to store bait.