Small QoL Improvements

[Geesus]

also can we get rid of this ridiculous "4 crafters" requirement...

The whole point of this was because people in game who really only craft, felt left out of doing things in game besides single player crafting. Which defeats the MMO part of the game AND defeated the whole "FC" part of being included in something. So phase one you can do solo. The rest needs more crafters and includes those FC members into the FC as something more than just someone who can craft your stuff for free.

[Gemma]

Two things that I've wanted to see for a long time cause they bug the hell out of me & I'm sure I'm not the only one (Hopefully... >_>):

1. Being able to change your eye color in the Aesthetician!
(It bothers me that I have to buy a Fantasia just to change my eye color, yet Jandelaine is a pro at removing Tattoos from my face or vice versa!
And I don't mean the face paint options, I'm talking about the Face Tattoos. Cause they're freakin Tattoos! C'mon SE, ever heard of Colored Eye Contacts?!)

2. Not being able to glamour Wands/Sceptors EVER!
(All of WHM/BLM endgame weapons are Staves. But there are a lot of great Wands/Sceptors that never get to be used as glamours. It would be awesome if you could glamour them over the staves for more variety amongst mages.)

[Geesus]

Thank you SE and the Devs! Thank you soo much for even considering this request let alone implementing it! /bow

"[2.0] A search function for recipes has been added to the crafting log.
Searching by item name
Players will now be able to search for recipes by typing the item name in the search bar. Up to 9 items can be saved in the search history."

Greetings,





The dev. team is currently looking into a feature that would allow you to type in item names in a search box for crafting recipes, and gathering items, as well as a feature where you could click on an item within a recipe to search for recipe that uses that specific item. Please look forward to it!

[Artamie]

Not sure if this has been mentioned but rather than make a new thread I'll just leave my 5 gils here... though if they already exist please let me know because I'm scratching my head over them!

1) I would like to see a chat window timeout option so that if no new messages appear within a certain set time the chat window will hide itself and pop back up when a new message appears.

2) Ability to hide hot bars and the hp/mp/tp gauge until engaged in combat.

The world is really pretty and I feel like immersion might be more successful if we could remove the clutter of our HUD and chat window but not have to jump through hoops to turn them back on when I want to do battle oriented content.

[Jekyll]

Regarding controllers... I hate to bump a thread but would like to know if there's any plan to implement a different form of toggling between crossbars other than right side scrolling through RB/R1 or holding down the button to select which one. As of right now it's very fluid with two crossbars; make it 3, however, and you end up with a potential disadvantage. One thing that would for sure work (and I'm not sure why it hasn't been implemented yet) is to implement left side scrolling with LB/L1 during combat (the button is currently used for auto-run). So RB would flip through bars 1 > 2 > 3 and LB would flip 3 > 2 > 1.

Inb4 "get a naga n' git gud"

[Laraul]

The world is really pretty and I feel like immersion might be more successful if we could remove the clutter of our HUD and chat window but not have to jump through hoops to turn them back on when I want to do battle oriented content.

Immersion is not the result of pretty graphics or hud elements. You experience it when you are having fun, during combat or crafting or when ever you are enjoying yourself. It's when you forget about the outside world and focus solely what's going on w/ the game. This is true regardless if it's a game w/ a deck of cards or a board or a sophisticated computer game with impressive graphics and audio. So HUD elements don't impact your immersion.

[Laraul]

Watch as someone with a retainer full of subligars crashes the servers on the first day.

/itemsearch doesn't query the servers.

[Sicno]

Immersion is not the result of pretty graphics or hud elements. You experience it when you are having fun, during combat or crafting or when ever you are enjoying yourself. It's when you forget about the outside world and focus solely what's going on w/ the game. This is true regardless if it's a game w/ a deck of cards or a board or a sophisticated computer game with impressive graphics and audio. So HUD elements don't impact your immersion.

Maybe that's for you, but I agree that for some people a cluttered UI may break it.

[Niwashi]

/itemsearch doesn't query the servers.

Yes, it does. It includes data about what's stored with our retainers, and that information only exists in the database.

(That's the whole reason why extra inventory space is with our retainers rather than with our characters, so that it does NOT take up memory while we're playing, only when we go to the retainer bell and call it up, or use a more specific database query like /itemsearch to find a select portion of it. The rest of the time, the client software doesn't know what our retainers have. Nor does the server we're directly connected to, which hosts the local part of Eorzea that we're in. The world server will query the database server on our behalf when we ask it to, but neither it nor our client keeps that data in memory.)

[Laraul]

Yes, it does. It includes data about what's stored with our retainers, and that information only exists in the database.

(That's the whole reason why extra inventory space is with our retainers rather than with our characters, so that it does NOT take up memory while we're playing, only when we go to the retainer bell and call it up, or use a more specific database query like /itemsearch to find a select portion of it. The rest of the time, the client software doesn't know what our retainers have. Nor does the server we're directly connected to, which hosts the local part of Eorzea that we're in. The world server will query the database server on our behalf when we ask it to, but neither it nor our client keeps that data in memory.)

/itemsearch works mid disconnect. So it can't be fetching data from the servers.

There are two files stored w/ your profile. ITEMFDR.DAT and ITEMODR.DAT. Combined, they are 20k. Do you really think that a player's inventory, armoury, and retainer inventories takes up much memory at all? All in total you may hold less than 2000 items across all possible inventory slots.