Addons in heavensward?

[Tiva]

I was hoping someone could clarify this topic. I saw that Sqeenix is planing to allow addons in heavensward. I'm wondering if these will be player developed like other MMOS or developed only by SE? I'm hoping for player developed ones since it will allow more variety and customization. But I'm unsure how this may affect play station users? I personally play on PC and have no idea about anything involving play station. Perhaps someone else can comment? Thank you!

[Callinon]

SE has been promising an addon API for developers since before ARR launched.

At this point I'll believe it when I see it.

[Jinko]

Last I read they are redesigning it because it had some serious flaws that could allow for abuse, so they are scaling it back.

Probably won't be available for the launch of 3.0.

[Laraul]

There has been absolutely no information released or demonstration of any possible future add on API to date. If they had an API for creating and modifying the UI, they would have used it to build and maintain the existing UI. But the UI appears to be incredibly rigid and hard to update, making it difficult for the development team to make changes to existing UI elements.

Any type of addon UI appears to be a pipe dream at the moment. And I don't expect we'll see one anytime soon.

[Callinon]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ff-.../1100-6425730/

The silence was broken. SE acknowledged addons again. The end times are upon us.

[Tiva]

Hmmm I thought it was announced that addons were confirmed for 3.1? Maybe I made that up.

[MrKyo]

I really don't see a benefit for addons apart from maybe an aggro meter for newer tanks, just a personal opinion.

[Callinon]

The benefit is in letting players display information the way they want it displayed. For instance, maybe I'd like my hotbars to be a shape other than straight lines. Perhaps a 3x4 box would be more useful to me. Perhaps I'd like a hotbar that only displayed 3 buttons instead of all 12. Perhaps I'd like that hotbar to be click-through. These are all highly specific preferences and not worth adding to the base UI. That's where addons come in.

[Eserne]

Perhaps I'd like a hotbar that only displayed 3 buttons instead of all 12

You can hide unused buttons and move the bar wherever you want. I use this for my gearsets.

[Callinon]

You can hide unused buttons and move the bar wherever you want. I use this for my gearsets.

I do something similar to help me keep track of short cooldowns like Ninjutsu. I have one hotbar blown up so the buttons are the size of small dinner plates and I've stuck it off to the side with most of the bar hanging off the screen.

Of course I can still click those buttons, which is sometimes a problem. I'd prefer to make that bar click-through.

Actually I'd prefer to set up a custom screen element to handle that sort of thing (like WeakAuras... I loves me some WeakAuras), but currently this is the best I can do.