Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (Assitant Director Takai)

[Mrhappy1227]

If you could add one Job into the game, what would it be?

[Solfleur]

Love the game so far. Any chance of getting more realistic physical characteristics ie butt slider? Characters are out of balance physically, and I say this AS a female medical professional.

I do not think it was Square-Enix's intent to make the stronger allegedly female characters look like cross dressers, though the option is a very nice nod to the LGBT community and appreciated I am sure.

[Mrhappy1227]

How did the team decide the system for dealing damage and healing over time? It seems a bit unorthodox to apply all of this damage and healing on an invisible clock the players cannot immediately see or interact with.

[AceUnbound]

Also, is there a way to add another form of PvP that's more objective based? Or hell, Blitzball?

On that note, is there any way to make matchmaking a bit more fair. I started off fighting fully geared / skilled people and was blown out of the water forcing me to continue losing until I ranked up and got some of the necessary skills to actually get one win.

[AceUnbound]

We know that Ninja is in the works currently but there are no dual-wielding classes as of yet so will it come from a current class or will a new class be introduced that will offshoot into this? (That is, if Ninja will be imagined as our current dual wielding vision and not reborn as some all new awesome job),

In addition, there was a mention of hybrid classes at one point, I'm curious if these will be unlocked later on and if the method will be similar to old FFs where you would max two classes to make the third "advanced class". For instance, Black Mage + Paladin would make Dark Knight or something like that. Could you expand more on these hybrid classes you mentioned? If not completely then at least a glimpse to whet our whistles.

[AceUnbound]

Finally, can you explain why Eos and Selene's pathings have become so odd? I remember them moving a lot sooner when I would dodge an AOE giving them a chance to dodge it as well. But now, I've noticed them kind of just waiting there and staring like they want to die in the blast. It's odd that our fabled fey can't follow as well as my pudgy puk minion who does absolutely nothing in battle.

[Deathgiver]

Finally, can you explain why Eos and Selene's pathings have become so odd? I remember them moving a lot sooner when I would dodge an AOE giving them a chance to dodge it as well. But now, I've noticed them kind of just waiting there and staring like they want to die in the blast. It's odd that our fabled fey can't follow as well as my pudgy puk minion who does absolutely nothing in battle.

The reason that your minion appears to follow better than your fairy is pretty simple: Minion pathing and interactions are all calculated client side, but because the fairy is actually subject to battle environments their interactions are calculated server side. This can be observed if you have 2 people playing on monitors side by side, especially with the interaction between the wolf pup and couerl cub.

[StealthTai]

First off I'd like to offer a Thank You to you and the rest of the Dev Team for your work on FFXIV so far and your continued work on the game.

1. As far as questions, what has your experience been like working on a game that flopped in its original iteration and bringing it back to a game many of us love today? as well as your experience working with the team as a whole?

2. I know many people have asked Yoshi-P, but what is your personal vision for the future of the game and the design of it?

[StealthTai]

3. Is there any plans for making "The Grind" a bit less grindy? I have quite a number of friends who will do a bit and try to get at least half of their tomes and want to get geared, but don't want to spend philos on DL because they know they are just going to replace it in a very small time frame with Myth/CT gear or would prefer to do other things instead of repeating the same dungeon over and over just to cap.

Thank You for your time and I am looking forward to the Live Letter!