Ready Check -disable option

[Luso]

Can we have an option in the system or configuration menu to disable this feature. It is very annoying even when it is not being abused.

Party chat, and voice chats are more than enough for some people. Why force the ready check feature on everyone?

[Zirael_Foxfire]

Tickbox allowing it to be disabled is a nice idea.
I'd have few more proposals:
- give an option so that only the person initiating the Ready Check is spammed with the results window
- if someone doesn't click Yes/No within 30s, don't mark them as X, make a third icon, let's say ?. This way we will know if someone purposefully clicked No because their cat just sat on the keyboard, or they didn't click anything because they're away from keyboard.
- allow us to choose a sound file to be played when Party Finder or Ready Check option pops up.

[Nutz]

Abuse of the system is annoying, but it needs only a couple tweaks to make it work just fine. Make it so that ready check cannot be initiated if engaged and cannot be initiated for 5 minutes following a check that everyone responds to as ready.It works much better than that traditional, "/p Everyone ready?" to which 1 or 2 people respond regardless of the circumstances.

Allowing anyone to turn it off would make the system completely useless for everyone.

[Niwashi]

Party chat, and voice chats are more than enough for some people. Why force the ready check feature on everyone?

And if everyone in your group is satisfied with party chat or voice chat, then the Ready Check feature won't be used and it's not forced on anybody. It only comes up if party or voice chat wasn't enough and somebody wants to know if the rest or the team is ready or not. At that point, it makes no sense for only some of the team to get it, as that wouldn't answer the question. By its very nature, a ready check has to be for everyone if it's going to exist at all.

I do think it needs a few tweaks to avoid misuse, such as disabling it when already engaged in combat, but it's too useful (when used properly) to discard it completely.

[Skullriot]

I have to disagree here, the ready check option is meant to be a big "Hey heads up, bout to pull, get'cherself together!" So that way, if the healer doesn't ready check, then you know you probably shoudln't pull.

Party chat isnt always an option, as you have people that play on ps3/4 and don't have a keyboard handy maybe, or people on PC that might not have one close. The ready check was always valuable in WoW when I played there, and I think it's integration here is just as useful.

[sanosuke001]

Have it always show the oval UI element but don't pop up automatically via option. That way, it won't spam you and you can ignore it but it is still there for people who want it displayed but not be attacked by it.

Also, why, when I close it, does it then re-open when everyone has entered yes/no? If I have closed the window it should stay closed.

[Aura_Shurifon]

The concept of ready check is good, the implementation need some polishing.
As stated by Zirael, need 3 answer : Ready, not ready, "didn't answer/afk" And it shouldn't pop in front of everything for everyone, especialy when engage in combat.

This is true for every popup like Friend request or even DF when a partie as been found.
For example, when you're crafting and it pops up making you fail something when you couldn't even accept the message... Just make the popup on a corner of the screen, without focus on it, just to say "hey, it's ready when you are" and not "hey, clic me now, it won't work !" making you loose more time than it need to finish you're job and accept request.

[NovaUltimatum]

I think rather than locking the HUD options down so player get annoyed when it changes, it would be better to push for the development of that official custom plugins idea that was supposed to be available 6 months after launch. That way the mod community can provide solutions for HUD / popup controls.