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

[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!

[Blacksail]

When doing a fate, could we get something like a faint line to show the border of the fate as not to overstep it so easily?

[Rai_Stormbreaker]

I would personally love it if we could get an option in character options to be able to restrict receiving tells from random anonymous players, except for specific sources such as friends list, free company, and linkshells. This would be great to have so players can avoid RMT spammers without sacrificing the tells altogether by turning on busy or just shutting it off completely. Also, I'd love to hear your design philosophy on UI design and what you guys have to consider when implementing features and new content.

[Reynhart]

Could we have a new UI window that will show up for a few seconds each time a new debuff is put upon us and explain the debuff ?
It will help understand what the debuff does during a fight without having to put the cursor over it.

And of course, being part of the UI, you could chose to hide that window if it bothers you.