Please Add BOSS Attack Names to Auto Translator

[JonLuso]

1. How is adding *text* "consum(ing) quite a bit of space"? It's literally text (no fancy VFX, Textures, etc.).

This was an issue in Final Fantasy XI, as well. The reason the community devs gave over there was that the dictionary used available RAM to store them into memory. Although you may not use the terms, the terms are readily available as you type in case you would use the Tab key for a translate function.

The amount of words for FFXI grew so large that the devs even removed a large amount of less popular/used words to accommodate newer important terms to free up memory.

Although the PS4 and PC have no problem with RAM, the PS3 has a smaller pool of memory to work with; considering the fact that it even manages to run the game at around 15-25 FPS, you can assume that the amount of memory available for even the auto-translate dictionary is very very limited.

[Zenaku]

You know i find it sad that it's 2015 and there still issue with space. I got so tired of hearing that in FFXI oh we can't add new looking WS due to space issue. We can't do this due to ps2 limitations or this due to ps2 and so on.

I was really hoping that ARR and yoshi-p would have think ahead to make sure this type of limitation would have not happen. A simple thing as adding text would take too much space. While this issue does not effect me at all it just sad they can't do it for players that does effect them.

[Gwaeron]

We definitely understand the convenience of having the attacks from bosses added to the auto-translate dictionary – both for players of different language and for quick typing for players of the same language. However, there is a limit for the number of words and phrases that can be added to the auto-translate dictionary, and adding all of these attacks would consume quite a bit of space, so we do not have any plans to address this at the moment.

This was obviously never an issue in 1.0 seeing as every single action, every single enemy, every single boss, every single quest name, every single phrase from FFXI and loads more were included in the dictionary (where did Yes/No go?). The devs must've done something wrong if they re-introduced this limitation.

Also why is "Can you repair it for me?" still in the translator?

[Rhas]

You know i find it sad that it's 2015 and there still issue with space. I got so tired of hearing that in FFXI oh we can't add new looking WS due to space issue. We can't do this due to ps2 limitations or this due to ps2 and so on.

Considering all consoles are being phased out of XI... that should no longer be an issue.

[JonLuso]

Considering all consoles are being phased out of XI... that should no longer be an issue.

In that respect, if the PS3 is phased out from accessing XIV, this should not be an issue, as well.

[Rhas]

In that respect, if the PS3 is phased out from accessing XIV, this should not be an issue, as well.

I already upgraded from PS3 to PS4 so no issues on my part Also, Yoshi has already stated that while this next expansion would go to the PS3 that the PS3's future expansions has not been decided yet. IMO, FFXIV should have never been pushed to the PS3 (though I still bought my copy) It is far inferior to the PS4 version.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

In that respect, if the PS3 is phased out from accessing XIV, this should not be an issue, as well.

actually they have already stated in the past they are currently pushing the limits for ram usage on the PS4 too. sony need to get their act together and clean some shit up to free up more RAM for games. the graphical capabilities are amazing when you compare it to the PS3. but sadly, RAM capabilities are only slightly higher. many dev's are actually quite disappointed. i am too, being a PS4 owner. :/

[Nyalia]

Simply, "mechanic incoming!" or "dodge mechanic!" would suffice then.

Also, "group together" or "seperate."

Those 4 & you're golden!

Also, "Go to A marker" "Go to B marker" and "Go to C marker"

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An idea could be to add a "Current fight" category to the dictionnary, that is automatically updated to reflect current fight attack names and maybe more.

[kurogane_shiroikaze]

I fully agree with this.

I was doing the latest patch content and I quickly figured out the mechanics for the boss. I play on JP server so I tried a few times to communicate the need to do certain things.... before I realized that the ENGLISH NAME WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE JAPANESE NAME which explained why they were all clueless.

Maybe, at the least, when we're in a raid/trial, there could just be an additional auto-translate category to access that is just for the important things of the encounter. It's pretty annoying when there are so many unexpected differences between the names of different languages.