Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (Exploring patch 2.3)

This question ties in with the recent addition of The Hunt, however the issue I'm wanting to bring up has been a long standing one.

During large scale fights, like The Hunt or large FATEs or world bosses such as Odin or Behemoth, often times enemies or even ones own party will not render due to overpopulation. Is there any way that you can implement a render order mechanic that ensures that party members and engaged enemies are given rendering priority?

I feel as though this is not only important for the existing content I've mentioned, but also for any content that the dev team decides to add to the overworld in the future.

Simply making the game engine render entities in an order such as (Party > Engaged Enemy > Party Pets > Enemy > NPC > Other Players) would sufficiently alleviate the problem from here going forward.

(I have a topic where I go into more detail about this issue here : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...osses-Hunts%29 )

With the release of patch 2.3, the blacklist command in the chat box command menu is gone. Was this intentional or a patch glitch?

Hunts

Please consider putting a cap on hunt seals/nerfing hunt rewards. People are doing nothing but hunts and it's hurting other content in the game because the hunt rewards are too good.

Any plans to modify the uncreative/lazy design that is the ATMA Fate Grind, the subsequent FATE camp heavy of Animus, and lastly, the market crashing Novus?

None of those stages are catered to casual players. How you intend to fix this? What other alternatives are there?

FATES

Are there any plans to reduce spawn time and increase the number of FATES active on any given map? The spawn time and # of active FATEs should scale with number of players in any given zone.

ATMA/Alexandrite FATE grind is already a horrendously lazy and frankly, idiotic design. The logic here is that if you're going to gate content with RNG, at least allow your customers to do more FATEs in a period than what is available currently. The logic is to have more attempts despite the ABSOLUTELY CRAPPY DROP RATE. If the intent is to copy mechanics of successful Western MMORPGs, DO IT RIGHT. NEVER GATE QUEST DROPS BEHIND LOW BALL RNG. Asian games are horrible because of this. Don't be that.

In previous interviews, Yoshida-san had mentioned that a Mac client was being developed.
My question is when can we expect to see said client pushed to beta? My fiancee and I both play through bootcamp currently, but it's not really an ideal situation.

We have several friends that want to come over from other MMOs, but they will not do so until the game can be run natively in OSX. Help me give them some solid answers, please!