Please Add BOSS Attack Names to Auto Translator

[Nyalia]

Using XIVDB, I've counted 2,800 "development abilities" (monster skills). Subtracting the few that are untranslated from Japanese for some reason (maybe they're never displayed?) and the duplicates and the mount abilities and so on, it's more like ~2,600. That's a lot of new terms to add. I suspect that's what the dev team is hesitant to include.

That said, only a small number actually matter. But, how do they determine what "matters?" I feel like there are at least a couple hundred that really matter for the fights they are a part of, and while you can argue that those fights aren't important, they likely are important to someone. For instance, the final boss of Toto-rak - do you include the move where she spawns an explosive pod on top of someone (I can't recall the name - silkscreen or sticky web)? What about the second bosses of Haukke Normal, who have two interruptable skills that are nice to be able to talk about if you're explaining them (Ice Spikes and ... soul drain, I think?), and the final boss has that dodgeable targeted attack Void Thunder III, and it's not obvious you can dodge it by running behind her. And what about non-bosses? "Self-Destruct" is important to know to avoid in early dungeons where it's an instakill. "Final Sting" is relevant to anyone explaining Qarn.

So, in other words, it's really a value judgment regarding what to include or leave out, even if you're just putting in abilities that are useful to be able to mention. If you're only adding stuff from current content, that's one idea, but that's 1) still a lot of slots, and 2) another value judgment about how current is "current," and when to remove them. Also, when 3.0 comes out, there will be hundreds or more abilities from "current" content. Do all of those get added too?

[Sadana]

Also, when 3.0 comes out, there will be hundreds or more abilities from "current" content. Do all of those get added too?

You bring up a good point... if they are out of space NOW, how on earth are they going to keep up with future expansions?

[Airget]

You bring up a good point... if they are out of space NOW, how on earth are they going to keep up with future expansions?

It's not being out of space now but this.

Say you have:
30GB of space
Currently using 2GB of space
Using it for everything would be 8GB of space

Not you continue to follow using it for everything and 6 months down the road you end up with
Efficiently using it=3.5GB
For everything=14GB

6 more months:
4.5GB
18GB

6 more months:
6GB
25GB

6 more months:
7GB
34GB(over limit)

That's what they are trying to avoid, just because they have the space doesn't mean they should use it, if they pace it out, try to be as efficient as possible with it then they won't hit the limit fast and by taking their time they can work on finding means to store more or optimize the memory used to hold the data.

[Kiara]

Using XIVDB, I've counted 2,800 "development abilities" (monster skills). Subtracting the few that are untranslated from Japanese for some reason (maybe they're never displayed?) and the duplicates and the mount abilities and so on, it's more like ~2,600. That's a lot of new terms to add. I suspect that's what the dev team is hesitant to include.

Hi Nya,

Actually I wrote about this in my post / request. I'm only asking for the highest level End Game Raid's attacks to be added. There's no value judgement with that.

From measuring the Raid with the most amount of Coordination / Planning / Communication that's needed, is where the Attacks should be added from. In this case, the current highest level Raid is Final Coil.

Of course, in an ideal world I'd love to see all Attacks added, but that's just not going to happen right now (sadly).

And I also addressed the question about space in the future:

* They can deprecate and REMOVE Attack Names after a certain amount of time / Item Level Increases (Patches), to make more space.

Is it ideal? No. Is it slightly more work on the Localization Team to Delete Text Entries and then Add New Ones every few Patches? Yes.

But I think the effort is worth it.

And hopefully they consider revamping the Auto-Translator to be more robust and useful (and contain / bring up more Words) in the future. Thanks.