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

[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.

[Bayohne]

Well, I guess my work here is done... lol

[Rentahamster]

Well, I guess my work here is done... lol

lol. Keep on truckin' Bay.

[Shinigami]

Im satisfied with that red post XD

[Lionix]

Putting your name on synths is one of the many thing I can't for the life of me even fathom why the hell they didn't just automatically ported. Like the sorting. And the Targeting. And the Map Markers. And the calls. And the-- I'm gonna cut it right here, this could get long.

Now the adding a personal comment thing? That could be rather entertaining, I love it. I don't know if it was Tanaka's department, but now that the whole team if different, I can actually hope for this to make it. I know the last team would've given us something really cheesy, like the Chocobo, Wyvern and Automaton naming in FFXI, picking the name from a list. What a horrible thing, if you want to stop "bad" things from being "said" in those items or pets, then just use the same kind of control you use for character names or chat. Hell, it's not like you won't be able to track the user, it has it's name on it...

If "space in the item window" is supposed to be a problem, heck, add a "Check" or "Inscription" option when selecting an item that pops a new, independent window dedicated to just reading what our crafter put in there and a new icon (like the EX and whatnot) to know when an item has an inscription/comment/signature. Because it'll make us feel good. It'll make me feel good.

Edit:

So assuming they made the Inscribe ability as something you could just select from the touch up menu instead of finish... The trouble would be that signed goods would no longer be rare, and you'd probably also need a method of removing the inscriptions (XI had AH listing).

I don't quite understand why putting your signature on your work has to be rare at all. If I want to put my name and/or add "Scabbard sold separately" on every sword I make I should be entitled to. I mean, I just made it! Come on!

If anything, what came to my mind is that they had mentioned before that they don't have "many ways to take gil away from the game". This signature option could be enabled via a buff from the NPC's that provide facilities. It's a silly/fun thing... But I think I'd still throw gil at it from time to time, as long as it doesn't go thinking I am paying for a Dynamis entry, keep it civil, crafters love their coin.

[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

[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.

[Altano]

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.

I believe this would be the proper way to do it. If an item is sold through a bazaar, as opposed to traded, it should have the signature removed. Perhaps that would lessen the strain.

Also I wonder if that strain is why the item search does not tally +1, +2, +3 items...