Question about this new TP Bar

[Reynhart]

Your quest log disappears? But FATE and Duty info is IN the quest log.. why would it remove it, wtf?

Only the "Quest Log", not the "Duty Log".
Basically, if you're in dungeon, you'll only see the duty for the dungeon, no more quests.

On my PS4, if I'm in a long dungeons and have a whole bunch of long quests, my log takes the whole right part of my screen, and overlaps with my crossbar and my stats.
So I did a macro to toggle duty info on/off.

[Itseotle]

Pretty sure its a combination of PS3 and server limitations on their end. (The latter is why we don't have a Company Chest in Ishgard yet)

Though, to be perfectly honest, I'll take TP bars over those useless indications of party buffs any day.

and yet third party TP monitors have been working for months even without SE's help....

[karateorangutang]

and yet third party TP monitors have been working for months even without SE's help....

Yes but SE can't implement anything official that can't be smoothly run on all systems in operation. Only PC's had third party TP monitors.

[Itseotle]

Yes but SE can't implement anything official that can't be smoothly run on all systems in operation. Only PC's had third party TP monitors.

right but I was quoting "Pretty sure its a combination of PS3 and server limitations on their end. (The latter is why we don't have a Company Chest in Ishgard yet)". Its not server limitations because 3rd party apps already do it. Its PS3 limitations. There was no need for them to remove the TP values and the party bonus display for PC users to "reduce system load".

[Mykll]

right but I was quoting "Pretty sure its a combination of PS3 and server limitations on their end. (The latter is why we don't have a Company Chest in Ishgard yet)". Its not server limitations because 3rd party apps already do it. Its PS3 limitations. There was no need for them to remove the TP values and the party bonus display for PC users to "reduce system load".

On the flip side, only SOME people causing the extra load is different from 100% player base causing the extra load. Even if it is 100% of just 1 of 3 platforms. As with anything bandwidth related, it may be okay if some use more, you have problems if 100% do.

[Itseotle]

On the flip side, only SOME people causing the extra load is different from 100% player base causing the extra load. Even if it is 100% of just 1 of 3 platforms. As with anything bandwidth related, it may be okay if some use more, you have problems if 100% do.

That's not quiet right either. The 3rd party plugins don't poll the server for data, the game does. The data 3rd party apps use is already being sent to you, whether your running the app or not. So its not like suddenly showing TP is way more server stress because it isn't. The data was being sent all along.

[Dante_V]

3rd party apps are client side.

[Catwho]

Your quest log disappears? But FATE and Duty info is IN the quest log.. why would it remove it, wtf?

Yeah, that doesn't make sense. I'm assuming it's all the non-active duties, anyway.

You can actually toggle that off in the UI via a hotkey, though. I have a special macro to toggle all the UI elements that clog up the screen (duty list, extra hotbars, inventory, etc) so I can de-clutter my screen when I need to see more of the action.

[SinisterJointss]

I have a special macro to toggle all the UI elements that clog up the screen (duty list, extra hotbars, inventory, etc) so I can de-clutter my screen when I need to see more of the action.

Do share! I would love this

[Zfz]

Also to reduce the system load on THEIR end. They seem to always have some issues regarding that as well.

I doubt it would do anything on the server end. The TP values must be sent to each player's game client software to display TP reliably. Whether the client software displays a bar or a bar with numbers will make absolutely no difference to the server load. None.