Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII! (Lead UI Minagawa)

[KirigayaKazuto]

I'm overall happy with how you all have handled the game so far HOWEVER, at the launch of 2.0 you had promised players that we would eventually implement a way for 3rd party UI mods, while the base line UI is fine as is, a lot of what other people are asking in this thread could be covered by the player base additionally it for better or worse would pave way for official DPS parsers which for endgame raiding groups is somewhat essential to evaluate effectiveness.

[CarmenSandiego]

As we can enable enfeeblements on the target bar to be Justified Left (Priority) can we also get an option for Justified Left (Priority) for the focus target bar? We can only see a very limited amount of dots on the focus target at the moment and generally not all are our own. Please consider adding this feature so the player can keep track of their dots more effectively.

[Dzian]

Can we please hide quests in the quest log?

it's great I can pick up to 5 to show, but often there are quests i'd like to hide. things that can take a long time for example anima fates can take weeks to get all 18 crystals so it'd be nice to hid e that quest until such time as I was ready to finish it. or content clears. where it can take several days to finally get a decent group to clear some new content for the first time.

[Dzian]

could we possibly separate some buffs from the rest. or have a specific buff always be the left most one. or something similar.

there are occasions as a bard I lose track of straight shot because its icon is constantly moving positions in my buffs bar. so it'd be kinda nice to ensure it is always the left most buff in the list or seperated slightly like some debuffs are,

[Altanas]

What would you, personally, like to fundamentally overhaul with the UI? And can we have some mock up concepts please

[Strafe]

In bigger groups with a lot of debuff potential, your personal debuffs often disappear under the enemies health bar. That needs a Fix.

Sustaining your personal debuffs is a big point in DPS. I would encourage you to slightly scale up the size of the personal debuff icons under the enemies healthbar, that pleyes can keep better track of that.
Additionally shared debuffs for example slashing resistance reduction (Ninja and Warrior) should be always the first Icon under the encounter (depending on class). Maybe also make them share the same color set or something.

And now the big one: isn't it time to support 3rd party software aka Mod support. It was promised long time ago but we still wait for it. Especially tools like any kind of Dps meters, Latency trackers and UI modificators should be made possible.

[Zohar_Lahar]

Can we receive more feedback for when an S-rank elite mark appears in a zone?

[Coldbrand]

Can you PLEASE add the option to hide the 1 and the + sign from the 1st hotbar and the pet hotbar? They're so annoying and don't even have any functionality, and even if you tell the client to hide them, they still show up defiantly! Please, allow for cleaner HUDs by letting us hide these wretched eyesores.

[Rongway]

The /lfp command allows you to select which classes or jobs you want to LFP on, which will show those job icons with a border when someone sees your search info. For example,

/lfp ALC BLM AST

changes my search info to show that I'm looking for a party as an alchemist, a black mage, or an astrologian. Can we please extend the other status commands so that we can include class/job tags? For example

As a mentor who is ready to answer PLD, BLM or AST specific questions: /mentor PLD BLM AST
As someone seeking specific crafters to meld materia: /ltm ALC GSM LTW
As a general purpose way of telling everyone, "these are the jobs I want to play": /online BLM AST

Example:

[Blacksail]

I'm not sure if this is UI..... but please add a parser! If nothing else, just attach it to the personal housing dummies.. please!