Little things I really hope they implement soon

[Shioban]

- Being able to talk to NPCs while mounted. Or at least auto dismount us when we attempt to talk to an NPC

They already answered this one I think, where they felt everyone would do this and it would break the 'immersion' basically.
They won't be changing this.

- Able to accept party invites, FC/LS invites, and friend requests while in a menu (shopping, character, market board, etc)

Yup, not 100% sure why it does this, some sort of UI update limitation or something of the like.

- An option to auto sort the party member list by roles each time you join a pt. Or at least let me swap my position from the top to anywhere I'd like. I know we can manually move people around, btw.

I agree completely, most games would sort it Tanks > Healers > DPS automatically, this is the first game i've seen that just throws them in randomly.

- Able to look for more members when in an instance with people from the same server. Having one person rage quit mid dungeon and having to exit to find a new members sucks. I know you can look for a replacement, but at the moment, you can't if you're in a pre-made party.

The chocobo thing might fix this, where let's say you're 3/4 into Sastatcha and a healer or DPS drops out, you can summon your chocobo to fight along side you, filling the extra role, they said this would be slated to be released soon(ish).

Not sure they'd do this based on memory consumption, but you never know, the reason they're using icons instead of text is actually based off memory consumption, where the icons use less memory than text oddly enough.

[Curagaja]

Not sure they'd do this based on memory consumption, but you never know, the reason they're using icons instead of text is actually based off memory consumption, where the icons use less memory than text oddly enough.

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