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  1. #21
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    Fieros's Avatar
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    Snoz Berry
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    Leviathan
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    Arcanist Lv 48
    Greetings stubborn keyboard users. I too had left the gamepad behind over 10 years ago when I began my MMO career and left the consoles behind. Custom keybinding played a huge role in optimizing my gameplay. In the last game I subscribed to nearly every key was set up with a custom binding, including multiple functions depending on modifiers such as CTRL, ALT, or Shift being held while pressing the buttons.

    After my first few hours in Eorzea, I realized that this wonderful game was meant to be played using a gamepad. Since I was paying no monthly fee, I decided to use that $20 to buy a Logitech Gamepad F310 and after hours of daily gaming my hands no longer cramp up from stretching to hit all those custom keybinds I had used for years.

    I love using the Gamepad, everything is so intuitive and easy to reach I fully recommend you get one for yourself and experience the game the way it was meant to be played.

    Best wishes for custom keybinds as well though.
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  2. #22
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    Ul'dah
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    Ceska Zbrojovka
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    Hyperion
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    Scholar Lv 90
    Really, my only UI wishes are:
    When ever you click the 'action' icon
    Be it Aetherite, Fishing/Mining/Botany Node, Trade Request, Party Invite ETC it takes you directly to the relevant window for that action icon.
    Not open menu, only to have to select the same bloody icon again from the menu.

    Being able to fully customise my own key binds.
    and..
    Increasing the number of rows on the skill bar from 3 to 5 would be nice too.
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    Eorzea's "Okayest" Scholar

  3. #23
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    Rowyne Olde
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    Balmung
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    Conjurer Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Fieros View Post
    I love using the Gamepad, everything is so intuitive and easy to reach I fully recommend you get one for yourself and experience the game the way it was meant to be played.
    1. This thread is about how keyboard/mouse users feel about the UI, not gamepad users.

    2. A sub-point of number 1 is that some people do wish to play with a gamepad, that everyone has their own preferences. You like playing with a gamepad, great. But not all of us do. So instead of having one interface for two styles of play that really fall short for both, they should really consider two that are specifically tailored to each.

    3. I do not wish to use a gamepad. I am a woman with small hands. Gamepads are large and hurt my wrists to use. Plus, having to pick up a controller and put it back down to type commands and talk to my party is horribly inefficient.

    4. I refuse to buy any additional 'gadgets' to play an MMO on my PC. If I wanted gadgets, I'd play Wii games.
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    Last edited by Rowyne; 03-15-2011 at 12:32 PM.

  4. #24
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    Well Mr/Ms Fieros. It is great that you find this game so wonderful and intuitive. And it is fantastic that you don't mind the endless menus, the clicking and scrolling. More power to you.

    But this is a PC game. How retarded is it to release a PC game to be played with a control pad? I prefer my keyboard and mouse any day of the week. Twice on sundays.

    I too have a recommendation for what people can do with a Gamepad. Would you like to hear it?

    Best wishes.
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    Last edited by Kroguys; 03-29-2011 at 08:04 PM.

  5. #25
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    Renta Hamster
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    Sargatanas
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    Gladiator Lv 50
    I would like to see all 3 action bars on my screen at once, yes.
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  6. #26
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    Celeste Firesped
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    Balmung
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    Archer Lv 80
    I have been playing FFXI for 8 years now. I imported the game cause I wanted it so badly and I use keyboard only. I like having the keypad (on a full keyboard not gamepad) to move around with and using the arrow keys to control my camera. With my right hand, I can control all movement and camera function.

    AS to point #1: Drag and Drop. I think this would be good but maybe not in the context that you are thinking, or maybe it is in that context. Within the actions equip menu, we should have drag and drop function to equip abilities and actions. This may be what you are asking for but from my first reading your post, it sounds like you want to drag the action from a menu to the main screen UI action bar.

    As to point #2: main menu system. The menu side bar comes from FFXI. I'm ok with this except for the arrow keys being dedicated to control it. Other MMOs use hotkeys to access all the various menus.

    I think SE should add an option for us to select the controller type we are using. The old keyboard interface from FFXI, the gamepad interface FFXIV uses now, or keyboard and mouse interface people are using. Players can use a keyboard on a console too.
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  7. #27
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    Khaap Keha
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    Ragnarok
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    Goldsmith Lv 50
    The pop up action bar system is so frustrating.

    All I would ask like others is to have the option to toggle on or off the three actions bars (Normal / CTRL / ALT) so I can have all three visible all the time (no pop up). There is unneccessary processing being done to redaw these elements on screen which can never be good and this is happening a lot when you are getting into the high levels and using abilities from every bar.

    Macros cannot be assigned to the main bar so usually have my heal (with aoe toggle) on a macro, given that is one of the most used spells for a mage I'm bouncing between the main bar and the ALT bar all the time during a fight and to be honest its frustrating more than anything else.

    When I press ALT / CTRL the system shouldn't have to be wasting cycles working out which bar is on screen and then wasting GPU cycles processing the slide up animation of the bar. Just keep the bars on screen if I want to and lets have a much more responsive system.
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  8. #28
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    I'd love to hear reasons why we can't have options for always up hotbars, the ability to map the hotbar keys from more than one bank to another keybind, etc.


    I've heard a lot of people crying that they don't want what they have to change, I don't want to change that! I just want options to make it more usable for people on the computer, you know, the only people playing the game currently. THANKS!
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