Small QoL Improvements

[SkylarPendragon]

1. auto-submit mats or submit bulk mats in FC Crafting (submitting 10 of 30 for 5 mats for 3-4 phases is nerve-wracking)
2. Decrease time for prime aetherial wheels (Grade 3 takes 70 hours!)
3. Again, multiple FC buffs activate at a time.
4. doing /battlestance emote will not auto-sheathe your weapon
5. mogstation items, glamours in particular, should have its own armoire.

[Nyxs]

5. mogstation items, glamours in particular, should have its own armoire.

-This^

Sometimes you only like a couple items from a mogstation outfit and it takes alot of space when you purchase alot of stuff.

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[QUOTE=PirateCat;5634044]Glamour plates and the log window
I would appreciate it if the messages that appear when you apply a glamour plate were made their own message type. I make heavy use of the General log window, which I keep pretty close to the stock configuration apart from moving crafting action messages out of it. But it gets spammed heavily every time I switch jobs to something that has a glamour plate attached. I don't want to see 6-7 "You cast a glamour." messages.

Please change all the chatlog spam. Another one is the thousands you get from dealing with your retainers.

You withdrew gil.
They are now selling at x place
You sent them out on x venture
You spent x ventures

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Disable scrolling for chatlog. When people are very talkative its hard to click map links etc

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Fishing: When we cast have a window showing what we can possibly catch within that time window with our bait. Example: you can see if the ! at 5 seconds after is the one you would want or if you should just recast.

[Kaedys]

Fishing: When we cast have a window showing what we can possibly catch within that time window with our bait. Example: you can see if the ! at 5 seconds after is the one you would want or if you should just recast.

That is way beyond the amount of information I suspect they want fishing to provide. It also breaks immersion hard. When you go actual fishing IRL, do you know that cods bite quickly, while salmon take a while? No. Given a tug on your line, you have zero ability to predict what fish it is, beyond potentially the strength of the pull (and if you're very knowledge of the surroundings and the type of fish in the area, the time of day and the area you're fishing at). I know external webpages provide this information, but I see no reason to boil fishing down to such a clinical level baseline.

Might as well ask them to have treasure maps place an exact map marker as soon as you inspect them, or have the hunt board list the spawn timer for each hunt target, or highlighting your optimal next move in Mini Cactpot. That's all information provided by external tools, but that, when provided in-game, breaks the immersion and character of that particular activity.

[Syrehn]

Additional Hotbar Keybinds

It would be great if we could get the ability to bind/re-bind the following to our hotbars (obviously for use with a mouse):

Scroll Up: Shift+Wheel Up, Alt+Wheel Up, etc.
Scroll Down: Shift+Wheel Down, Alt+Wheel Down, etc.
Left Click: Shift+Left Click, Alt+Left Click, etc.
Right Click: Shift+Right Click, Alt+Right Click, etc.

There is very limited ability to change Scroll Wheel Binds. While you CAN rebind the camera zoom to Shift+Scroll Up or Down you can't reassign the regular Scroll Up/Down for abilities; something you can do in games like WOW.

[Jpec07]

It would be a dramatic QoL improvement for folks who are newly exploring areas if the Aether Compass only directed you to Aether Currents that are presently accessible to the character, or else gave them priority. In my mind, this behavior should be controlled by the player, such that they could decide the tracking scheme:

1. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to base the Aether Compass' tracking on quest progress, as some parts of some zones only become accessible after certain quests have been completed. This would be ideal for individual exploration as you progress.
2. A more involved mechanism would involve using the regions within a zone to determine what Aether Currents the compass will point to - so for example, if you're in Costa Del Sol, it wouldn't show you Aether Currents on the Wineport side of the map until you'd gotten all that you could where you were.
3. And of course, there could also be an option to leave it as-is, so that people who already have flying unlocked can still help their lazy friends.

As it stands, I'm currently exploring Thavnair (the first time), and the fact that it keeps directing me to Aether Currents that I cannot yet access is distressing.

[Rongway]

As it stands, I'm currently exploring Thavnair (the first time), and the fact that it keeps directing me to Aether Currents that I cannot yet access is distressing.

If it distresses you, just wait until you have access to the whole zone.

[Jpec07]

If it distresses you, just wait until you have access to the whole zone.

I want to unlock flying the moment I do the last quest for it, and I think this is a fair expectation if I'm willing to put in the work ahead of time. It's only split zones that make this difficult, and make it frustrating to hunt Aether Currents while leveling. Besides which, with how the Aether Currents appear to be laid out in Thavnair, hunting for them after I unlock the whole zone would be an even more frustrating exercise than it currently is.

Also, objecting to a proposed QoL change because there's a less convenient way to accomplish the same goal is really dumb. This change would improve the quality of life in the game. It's not strictly necessary, but that's kind of the point--it would make life easier, which is the entire purpose of this thread, going back to when I first posted it during Heavensward six years ago.

[Rongway]

I want to unlock flying the moment I do the last quest for it, and I think this is a fair expectation if I'm willing to put in the work ahead of time. It's only split zones that make this difficult, and make it frustrating to hunt Aether Currents while leveling.

That's a fair expectation but if you want to do that then you have to learn the zone's footpath boundaries and aethercurrent unavailability the hard way. Making the compass detect only aethercurrents on the lower level portion of a map would require an extra complication of the compass system that just isn't necessary. They want you to explore the zone and discover where you can and can't go, and that's a fair expectation too.

[Jpec07]

That's a fair expectation but if you want to do that then you have to learn the zone's footpath boundaries and aethercurrent unavailability the hard way.

Right. In the current system you do. I'm asking them to change that. They're under no obligation to do so, but it would improve the quality of life while playing. "You can do it the hard way" is not a good counter for "hey devs, can we maybe make this easier?"

Also, why do you care, and why are you arguing against it? This is a QoL thing that could make your life easier, too, in future expansions. If you want to set up unnecessary difficulties for yourself, that's your call. It's not wrong to ask for things to be easier or more convenient or better when their present inconvenience is likely unintended--especially when the devs are under no obligation to say "yes" to any request that comes in. My position is that, if they spent a few dev cycles to implement this, it would make the task of finding aether currents much less of a nuisance, while still requiring you to explore the zones.

As it stands, Thavnair only has four of the ten exploration aether currents available in the first part, but while you're trying to find them, the compass keeps trying to take you to areas you can't get to--and there's no way to know if the current you're tracking is accessible or not, which can cause you to waste a lot of time on an impossible task. My suggestion would fix that.

If your argument stems from the notion that "I had to suffer through this, and so should everyone" or "this has never been a problem before" or anything similar (which it definitely seems to), I highly recommend you look up the logical fallacy "Appeal to Tradition." Just because things have always been a certain way does not mean they can't be better. It is my experience that the devs at SE who work on FFXIV actually care about things like this, since they genuinely hope that we are enjoying ourselves while we play (just look at how much fun the game is!). Because of this, I wanted to highlight a pain point and suggest a solution. Thus far your arguments against it have not had any merit, and seem to simply be contrarian belligerence.

This really isn't the place to argue against ideas. This is the place to toss up ideas to SE so their devs can determine if they're worthwhile or not.

[Rongway]

Name any other system in FFXIV where misinformation and misleading and tricking the players in such a way creates a fun and engaging experience. Besides hunting aether currents, name a single instance where, in your estimation, the devs have created a drawn-out systematic deception. I think you'll find that there are precisely none.

Jump puzzles. In which you must abuse starting platforms that are physically larger than their visible models while simultaneously avoiding collisions with higher obstacles that are physically larger than their visible models.