Small QoL Improvements

[DarkDedede]

I'm hoping there will more than one use for the airship materials, especially the ones that unlock the workshop recipes. I'm still leveling my third and fourth airship to rank 50. Most of the materials that they bring back are just taking up space in the FC chest, since I have all the recipes unlocked. Adding more recipes will not solve this issue. There needs to be more uses for these materials outside of a single use.

I'm also hoping for a way to improve an airships capacity. I suppose they could simply just raise it. However it might be an interesting idea to use these neglected materials, mentioned above, to increase the airship capacity beyond 61.

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

They should at least get rid of the requirement for the crystal recipes. I can see needing an group for airship parts or housing, but the one-phase items should only need one person to complete.

[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.

[Stormfur]

I think they mentioned in a live letter that they wouldn't be getting rid of the 4 crafters requirement because they wanted it to feel like a group effort. I know what you mean about the one-phase items though and I agree wholeheartedly!

[Hinalover]

One thing I have taken for granted in other MMOs but I would like as an option is to dismount when I try to use an ability. For example, I am on my Chocobo flying in Churning Mist. I land and I want to start casting Fire 3 on a mob immediately. Instead I have to dismount manually, then start casting Fire 3 on a mob. It is a few seconds of delay, but like I said, I take it for granted in other games. It could be defaulted to off (you still have to de-mount before casting) but at least have the option would be appreciative. You could also have a second option to not trigger dismounting when actually flying.

Another is more on the theorycrafting side of me. I like to theorycraft stuff and saying "potency of 240" tells me little of the damage to expect. I suspect this isn't a feature for the immediate future, but maybe for an expansion or something, but an "Enhanced tooltip" option that changes the tooltip to show the estimated damage variance of the spell/ability against an at level mob.

IE: "Deals fire damage with a potency of 240." when the option is turned off. With it turned on, "Deals 1200 to 1600 fire damage" against a level 60 mob.

[TristanGreyashe]

I think it would be nice to be able to add titles to our gear sets, so that changing to a different set automatically changes your title along with your equipment. I'd love to be able to customize it and show off my hard-earned titles with a simple gear change.

[Zhexos]

Inventory Search Let us search items in our inventory windows with a search box.

While it's not a search box, in Patch 3.1 we're planning to introduce a text command that will allow you to check whether or not you possess specified items from anywhere. By entering the name of the item after the command, it'll check your equipment, inventory, Armoury chest, retainer inventories, and the armoire for that item. This command also works with partial text, so you could type "Subligar" and you would be presented with a list of all the items you possess with this word and the results will be displayed in your chat log!

[Lukha]

so you could type "Subligar" and you would be presented with a list of all the items you possess with this word and the results will be displayed in your chat log!

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

[Laraul]

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

/itemsearch doesn't query the servers.

[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.