Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (General)

[Krisom]

Can we have important abilities such as Defensive Cooldowns/Crowd Control(stuns, silences etc) be instant and ignore animation lock?

[Ninjaii]

Is there ever any plans to rebuild the number of Datacenters for Instance servers as advertised, or is the method of continuously lowering the number of servers connected the 'fix-all' mindset while making queues longer and longer?

[Gilraen]

Is there a Tank Job planned for the Lancer class?

[Ninjaii]

Any plans on having a prompt that a character is about to queue for a group before trying to queue the whole group to prevent the countless times the queue doesn't fill because people are AFK?

[_pops]

Could we see more diversity for races and the possibility to change the way our character stands or interacts? In other words, is there a chance you'll the add the option of "Personality" to character customization?

[Percyphanie]

I am on the Cactuar server... which is middle of the road in terms of FC housing prices. I believe we have a healthy server... its members are active. Still, we only have 3 small and 3 medium houses across all of the 15 wards that are available. Our FC, i believe, is doing what every other FC is doing. We have an FC lottery that gives some money toward FC housing and the rest to a lucky winner. We have treasure hunt runs where we donate all the money collected toward FC housing. We have a donation request of 350K gil that will allow those members to place items inside the FC house (once we get one). We are doing everything we can to think of ways to raise money. All of it though still has us falling significantly short of the large housing plots. Currently we have 20 million gil. I don't think all FC's need a large plot but ours is the largest on the server... it just seems appropriate. Can you please help me to understand why I should keep contributing toward a goal that doesn't seem like it will happen. Especially when I know that personal housing will be coming out as well? I guess I just don't understand why such a community building item... seems to be starting to tear our communities apart. FC members are getting tired of requests for housing gil. I am getting tired of asking for them. Please help us remedy this by lowering prices to a reasonable amount. We don't mind saving.. but we will be saving for another 3-4 months to get a house... and that is just too long. You also are going to have a large flux of people joining FFXIV because of PS4. If they come into our servers and see the empty housing districts... do you really think they are going to want to add a subscription onto their free 30 days? Please, please, please. Think this through.

[Wolf_Gang]

What will be the Item Level for the rewards in the new Coil turns.

[gintoki88]

Do you have any plans to fix instant abilities that successfully fire off, go on cooldown, have their effects recorded in the log, but still don't actually work? (e.g., Hallowed Ground, Benediction, Second Wind, etc.)

Dont forget LB

[cearka]

Any plans for chocobo dungeons =D

Could we possibly get some QoL features:
1) An autosort party list option that sorts party members by job (tank, heal, dps) rather then having to do it manually everytime
2) Options to change the size of label text (character names, enemy names, etc)
3) a option that puts a number infront of each party members health bar corresponding with their number on the list
4) ability to cycle through enmnity list without having to hit confirm (rather it just cycles through, changing targets as it goes)
5) fix the ability display on focus target bar (it overlaps)
6) icons on floating health bars that show the status of bound, sleep, stun.
7) make it so using a valid ability while moving doesn't change your direction of run.
8) able to change color of the quest markers that indicate an objective area on the map. its near impossible to see for colorblind gamers.
9) indication when an enemy has a resist to bound stun and sleep from overuse.
10) add an invite from instance to invite a friend to help finish an instance due to someone leaving.
11) Add Target Memory: When healing a friendly target, and then using an offensive ability, have the target automatically switch to the last offensive target instead of just spouting out invalid target nonsense. same thing vice versa. When Attacking an enemy target, and using healing ability or what not, have it automatically swap to the last friendly target.
12)Add a craft from retainer option to retainer, allowing us to craft in the presence of chosen retainer and uses materials on that retainer. allow us to change crafting classes while letting us do this
13)Add a favorites category and/or abilities to create lists inside the crafting menu, for lists, make it so it compiles a list of all necessary materials to craft all items on the list.
14)text inventory option for gear! even the way the materia melding menu is setup would be a nice text sorted inventory.

[gintoki88]

Are you planning to improve the DF feature even further? more along the lines of putting a counter measure to stop people who withdraw on the final confirmation screen causing unnecessary wait time only to have it done again by the same lazy person who only wants to join a party in progress hoping they are at the end of the dungeon?
I must imply this is very game breaking when it happens 37 times in a row when trying to get into CT