Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (FFXIV: ARR)

[DeviFoxx]

I would like to get some of Good King Moogle Mog’s crafted i95 weapons and gear as glamours, or get the Regal Mailbox. However, the drop rate for Kingly Whisker is really low and has caused people to sell the Whisker for Gil in the MILLIONS on the Market Boards (currently on Hyperion server, Kingly Whisker has been at +2 Million Gil on average as a result, thus destroying any incentive for most players to go after it). Because Thornmarch Extreme is considered Old Content by this point, can you please increase the drop rate for Kingly Whisker?

[DeviFoxx]

Buying Crystal Shards for crafting gets really expensive in the long run, considering how easy it is to quickly burn through them with heavy-duty crafting. And having just BTN and MIN being the only two ways to get them (aside from killing Elemental Sprites on a DoW or DoM Class/Job) can become very time-consuming. Would you please consider increasing the effect of skills like Byregot’s Ward / Nald’thal’s Ward / Llymlaen’s Ward / etc. to increase the yield for Shards / Crystals? This would be helpful to serious, dedicated crafters who mass-produce items using Quick Synthesis, and it would also serve to hinder illegal RMT players who rely on price-gouging stacks of shards and crystals to sell Gil illegally online by making crystals easier to get for serious players who take the time to level up a gathering class to 50+ to gather shards.

[DeviFoxx]

Would you please consider modifying the “<wait>” macro command to operate in fractions of seconds (decimals) rather than whole seconds?

Back in Final Fantasy XI, it was possible to write macros and use a "wait” command line that would accept decimals and operate in tenths of a second, rather than whole seconds.

I'd like to see the same for FFXIV, so I can write macros for Ninja like this:

/macroicon "Suiton"
/ac "Ten" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Chi" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Jin" <me> <wait.0.5>
/ac "Ninjutsu" <t>

The reason being is that the Global Cooldown for Mudras is half a second (0.5 secs). However, the shortest time a macro can execute the next line is one second (1 sec). Which means that currently using a macro to execute Ninjutsu is actually slower than doing so manually. Some Cross Bar users want to optimize their hotbars for fast reaction times and quick DPS with fewer amounts of buttons to press and skills to activate.

[DeviFoxx]

Are you adding more Subdivisions anytime soon? Plots of land for housing have been steadily evaporating as a result, and there are many who would still like to buy a house.

[DeviFoxx]

Can you please make High-Level Gathering Nodes that yield large sums of Crystal Shards?

Some gatherers are reluctant to gather Shards because they take too long to farm in massive quantities. This negatively effects the Crafting Economy when serious crafters have to pay large sums of Gil for shards—further compounding the fact that high-demand crafted items typically require a lot of shards to craft, thus causing players to either spend endless hours gathering at a slow rate or spending even more large sums of money to buy more shards.

What’s worse is that because Low Level Gathering Nodes will yield shards, the RMT players will take advantage of that by creating new accounts with low-level MIN / BTN.

High level nodes that offer larger quantities of shards would hamper the RMT market by making it harder for low-level gathers to get shards in huge bulks at one time while simultaneously rewarding high level gatherers by giving them actual incentive to farm shards.

[DeviFoxx]

Lately, it seems that RMT /tell advertisement spamming has been occurring in much greater frequencies. So fast that I've had them happen from 5 different accounts within a 30 second time frame.

The only temporary fix is to set yourself to /busy status. Which is something players shouldn't have to do.

Is the Dev Team planning to address this in some way? Because this seems to be an ongoing source of frustration for many players.

[DeviFoxx]

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

[TetsuyaHikari]

I read recently that the Chinese server for the game will be removing level sync from the lower level dungeons. Do you have any plans to incorporate this into the NA or EU servers and if so, will it be forced or optional (such as a 'join party in progress' box)?