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

[Axel-Faust]

"Can we implement a Janitor for those that travel Eorzea?

What this Janitor will do is when they get a /tell from a gil-seller, they can use an option given only to them, to quickly report them. It will weed out the gil-sellers and Square can ban these characters and take further actions against them. I only see 2/78 Blacklisted characters that have been deleted. This job can help reduce the annoyance produced by the gil-sellers, making time in Eorzea THAT much of a greater experience.

And could it hurt to ask for a bit of compensation for each successful report? It would be nice to be able to make playing FFXIV a kind of job. :P

[Axel-Faust]

Can we, please, get an update where we can play through 1.x?

Some of us that were inconvenienced due to life's misadventures could not experience anything pre-calamity. We missed out on some story that we would very much like to experience ourselves! Implement a journal of the Warriors of Light that you can use to "relive" the events back then or make use of the echo for this.

[Sheva]

When will we be able to use addons?

[Pizzapizza]

Hey! I love fishing more than anything in ffxiv, anybody who knows me will tell you this! So i am wondering what the patch will bring for fishing if anything? Big fishing is great! Many of my over 100 ls members in my fisherman link shell would love to see things like fishing contests, fishing up monsters, mounting fish and of course a fish tank for the fc house! Personally a weekly fishing contest would be the greatest thing! Thank you.

[Anapingofness]

In regards to fishing, can we please have a tackle box for at least some of the bait that we use?
Even if it is a small tackle box that hold five to ten items, it would help tremendously!

[Nova_Dresden]

Could we possibly have Ultima Hard Mode added to the trial roulette? Seems odd for it to not be included.

[Noxid]

Now that most of the players are at the end-game content, the wait to start a duty is getting longer and longer, especially for the DPS jobs. Can you implement two things to help out the time for lining up?

1. Let us queue both Guildhest and Roulette Duty at the same time.

2. If a player lined up for more than 30 minutes, allow the player to call help from an NPC to join the duty to fill the gap. (e.g. Retainer as NPC to join Duty) We need to level up the Retainer already, so it would be good way to make our Retainer useful in this kind of situation.

[Noxid]

About Roulette Duty Dropping

Also, I think many of us had experience with players deciding not to join a Roulette Duty. There are some cases where a duty cannot start because people keep rejecting to start. Can you keep track of the times these people turn down a duty? If a player reject to join a Roulette Duty for more than 3 times within 15 minutes, then that players doesn't go back into the queue for 30 minutes. This will make sure people don't just line up when they are not really going to play and waste other players' time.

[Noxid]

About DoH Jobs

Most of the DoW and DoM have job classes that we can unlock at Lv 30, how about adding some advance jobs for crafters and gatherers too?

E.g.:

Alchemist + Culinary + Gatherer = Wine Maker (e.g. Wineport)
Blacksmith + Armorer + Goldsmith = Magitek Specialist (e.g. Cid)

[zerokun]

Servers and Datacentre

We at the European datacentre are having problem with Latency, with the new configuration all the people on from america are moving out to their datacentre, and for it to be in Montreal has no point the time zone for us is from GMT up to GMT+9.

I think to reduce the latency the server has to reside in Europe or just merge us with the american server so at least we can benefit from having shared time, like after 11:00PM GMT the server is like ghost town maybe some people can only play at midnight at some days so they can at least play with the people from Americas. and vice versa.