Small QoL Improvements

[CharlieBlake]

I started having problems with my retinas starting august last year. vision started to get worst and worst over time. I recently had surgery that is restoring some of my sight but I still have issues with overy bright fields, especially white backgrounds. Not requesting changes in lighting but, I'd like to see an alternate background option for the journal and dialogue boxes in the game. dark backgrounds with white or lighter colored text. It would go a long way of making the story accessible to those that don't necessarily have visual impairments like I do.

[RosaMarrowind]

I started having problems with my retinas starting august last year. vision started to get worst and worst over time. I recently had surgery that is restoring some of my sight but I still have issues with overy bright fields, especially white backgrounds. Not requesting changes in lighting but, I'd like to see an alternate background option for the journal and dialogue boxes in the game. dark backgrounds with white or lighter colored text. It would go a long way of making the story accessible to those that don't necessarily have visual impairments like I do.

I would like to see an update to this please. My husband has RP which has him mostly blind with no known cure yet. I am for the most part his eyes when we play this game. But he really has a hard time with the bright fields and other backgrounds where reading is involved. I love to see this option for those who have vision impairments so that they many continue to enjoy this game with the rest of us.

[Yukijin]

A Glamour Catalogue:
A Window (like the one for Character, Companions,etc) where all the weapons/equips a player gets are registered as soon as s/he unlocks it. Players could then use it (alongside glamour prisms) to change appearance, so people won’t need to put old armors in retainers, inventory, company chest, etc because they like that piece of equipment and want to glamour it.

Armory Chest Improvement:
Make the Armory Chest accept 1 copy of all untradeable/market prohibited weapons/equipment.

More Roulettes:
I feel that new people who want to try old dungeon contents feel a little let down with the timers for them, like coils or extreme. How about an “Extreme Roulette” and a “Raid Level 50” and “Raid Level 60” Roulette? That way the probability of new people going to those contents would increase.

[Sithgear75]

A Glamour Catalogue:
A Window (like the one for Character, Companions,etc) where all the weapons/equips a player gets are registered as soon as s/he unlocks it. Players could then use it (alongside glamour prisms) to change appearance, so people won’t need to put old armors in retainers, inventory, company chest, etc because they like that piece of equipment and want to glamour it.

This. There are plenty of precedents in other games. WoW and Diablo have Transmogs, DCUO Styles, CoH costumes, etc. Allow anything that we bind (or is BoP that we loot, trade tomestones for, etc) to be saved to a menu to allow us to transmog and dye that item. This alone would free up SO much inventory for us. Get with the times and work on this, inventory management games are the opposite of fun.

Also, how about a new retainer interface menu. Click on the bell and have all the retainers be managed through one menu instead of having to summon them individually.

[Vasala]

For the area where it shows sending and receiving information could we have the option for it to show our ping to the server instead so we can see how our connection is doing?

[Odd]

I really like the new map interface, but one issue persists: It's very hard for me to see the white cursor on the yellow background. This is really annoying when trying to quickly teleport to a linked Hunt or FATE. Please give us the option to make the cursor black.

Also, when lotting for loot, can you make the number we roll show up either above or below the loot? Some pieces of loot have the same or similar colour to the text of the number we roll, making it very hard to see what we've rolled.

The above are both PS4 issues, since I'm not right in front of my screen.

[Doctorhoo]

*** Please Add the ability to change instances faster than leaving a zone then returning and picking which of the three instances you would like to go to. It's very challenging for Hunts to get to the correct instance before you get to the correct location. Simply add an cue at the nearest Aetheryte that allows you to select which instance you want to get into as same as it is while you are trying walk/ride into the zone and then select the instance you want to move to.

[Highwilds]

Currently it is only possible to look at fishing spots from the Fishing Log and see where they are located:


What I would suggest as a quality of life improvement is this:


Allow teleportation via Fishing Log maps. Botanist and Miner already get the location of the area to pop up on the real map when they click the Gathering Log locations, why not allow Fisher to use their Fishing Log as real map as well?

[Niwashi]

Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.

reason:
I play on PS4 and like to take lots of screenshots. I recently copied a bunch of them to my computer and find it really frustrating to go through them, because they won't sort correctly. Although when viewing them on the PS4 itself, it can display them in date/time order, when copied to a thumb drive for transfer, it sets the filedate to the time they're copied rather than when they were taken, and they're copied in a random order.

That issue by itself is Sony's doing and there's nothing SE can do about it, but I expect that SE can quite easily give us a simple workaround. The file names already include the date and time they were taken, along with the name of the character we were playing at the time, like "Y'kayah Tia 07_24_2017 00_37_19.jpg". Since it includes our character name, I'm pretty sure the game itself (rather than the PS4 OS) is choosing the filename to use, in which case it should be a simple matter for SE to change the order in which the pieces are included. Changing the date portion of the filename from "07_24_2017" to "2017_07_24" would make the files sort correctly. (It's also a more universal international standard for dates, anyway.)

[S-r-ex]

Please change the default name for screenshots to have the date in Year-Month-Day order rather than Month-Day-Year order.

SE shouldn't have any problem fixing this on PC, our ffxiv_DDMMYYY_HHMMSS.png is even less sortable. Come on, SE, you're a Japanese company, you already use the perfect YYYYMMDD order in everyday life, why aren't you using it on screenshots?