[dev1017] Letting Crafters add Comments or Signatures to Their Finished Goods

[Illy]

Signed items is a given but I would also like the ability to leave a comment or a message of some sort. I can see myself leaving funny comments(like Disgaea does for it's armor and weapons) on the things I make that people would probably not notice until well after it's bought.

Something like a Sword that has a Fire effect on it having the comment(Caution handle with oven mitts).

[Rentahamster]

Because it'll make us feel good. It'll make me feel good.

Great post!

Indeed. This is the reasoning behind the idea. Just the small touches that add tremendous value to an item WITHOUT having it to have uber stats, WITHOUT having to be extra rate, WITHOUT having it to be bind on equip, etc etc.

The more player-made content there is, and the more player-player interaction there is, the more that player-driven content emerges from the ether and the less the devs have to toil to make us content to keep us satisfied.


Speaking of little touches that would add value to items...

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...h-Quality-Gear

[Moonbringer]

This would be amazing!

[KoontaKintay]

love this idea! and i dont know why its not already apart of the game.. honestly.

[Seif]

Bay submits most suggestions to the dev team. He can't reply back until they say something, and going by the pattern of other responses, it would probably be "nice idea but it'll have to wait until after the battle adjustments since those are the highest priority right now sorry". Once the main battle overhauls are in, we should be seeing more attention to the smaller things.

And yet the dev teams wants us to think that the people doing the battle system aren't halting the developement of other things as they're completely different teams?

So which is it SE? since obviously those "other teams" haven't submitted anything in the game yet. You can't have it both ways you know. Either admit that the rest of you are just hanging out in the bar while one guy is coding or submit a massive patch into the game.

[Rentahamster]

And yet the dev teams wants us to think that the people doing the battle system aren't halting the developement of other things as they're completely different teams?

So which is it SE? since obviously those "other teams" haven't submitted anything in the game yet. You can't have it both ways you know. Either admit that the rest of you are just hanging out in the bar while one guy is coding or submit a massive patch into the game.

They're not just sitting around doing nothing. Revamping the battle system is a pretty all-encompassing project that involves nearly everyone.

Besides, those that don't have anything to do with the battle system do stuff like design more quests, or add more NMs, or create new monster models, etc.

There's always something to do.

[Rentahamster]

There was a dev comment about adding inscriptions on the JPN side...not good news

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The dev team likes the idea too, but they feel that it would add to the server memory burden and that it's likely that this would cause a lot of problems for things like the market wards.

They need to look at the issue long term, and will do so after they resolve the server load problems. Please continue to send in ideas, yadda yadda yadda...


Well, I guess that means we won't be seeing custom comments or signatures on our crafted items for a while. I don't really see how it can be such a burden on the servers if a 10year old game like FF11 does it fine. If it's because it has to work with the wards somehow, and that the presence of the wards is keeping cool ideas like this from being implemented, then I say ditch the wards.

Honestly, I still don't understand why there's still so much server lag. Is the code still that unoptimized and is it still doing too many unnecessary server-checks?

Oh well. Here's hoping they sort their stuff out soon.

[Lionix]

The dev team likes the idea too, but they feel that it would add to the server memory burden and that it's likely that this would cause a lot of problems for things like the market wards.

I must hear this in an official statement from our reps. This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in so long I almost cried a tear of blood. Feels like that stupid "PS2 Limitations, we can't add more inventory, gais" issue. Then suddenly Mog Satchel for 10 bucks and Locker for free! Oh hey, and more inventory! It so happens we could add up to 80, PS2 probably got an update or something.

I don't want to be that guy, but it truly feels like if these few strings of texts can't be added because it would stress the server's memory out, then time "invested" here feels like time wasted. I mean, what can be implement then? Text is as basic and and light as it gets. I am into programming, but I am no expert yet, so until my classes advance further, I won't knock you off, but when you suggest something that you've seen in other games (talking MMOs here) and receive a "It's too deep, you wouldn't understand" hipster sounding answer you really start doubting. All things considered, it's probably not as bad as "OMFG your idea is GREAT, we'll get on it as soon as possible (ETA 3 years from now)", though. I like honesty and hard facts, probably why the latter doesn't float with me.

[thedevilsjester]

Please, please, do NOT add the ability to name/comment crafted items, or if you do PLEASE allow some way for us to clear/change the comments. There is nothing worse than searching for gear only to find the only ones for sale have some comment that a 12 year old thought was funny, so you can either not get the item or choose to have an item with comments that really break the feel of the game.

[Gracious]

Please, please, do NOT add the ability to name/comment crafted items, or if you do PLEASE allow some way for us to clear/change the comments. There is nothing worse than searching for gear only to find the only ones for sale have some comment that a 12 year old thought was funny, so you can either not get the item or choose to have an item with comments that really break the feel of the game.

I don't know if or how they would do it here but on 11 if you put it on the Auction House the signature was lost.