Quote Originally Posted by Hitoriki View Post
This guy is indeed being a prick but he is correct in my opinion. X,Y is Horizontal, Vertical.... I dunno i've never once been confused by it. On the other hand, (T,23) would be more confusing for me because I dont really know where T is in the alphabet(numerically speaking) and I immediately know exactly where I need to look with (32,23). Another thing... theres only 26 letters... so after 26... what would you have? A1 B1 A2 B2? that would make it even MORE complicated.
Do you know where 'T' is in relation to other letters in the alphabet? Because those, not numbers, are what you would be comparing them to when looking for a letter index.

Excel spreadsheets handle extra letters as AA AB AC AD ... It's doable, but a little clunky. I like his stated solution of labelling the coordinates as X and Y.



Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
What do you mean what is X and Y. They are static designations.

X always refers to horizontal,

Y always refers to vertical.

It is always written as (X, Y) just like how you would write (D, 5) and not (5, D).

It is standard in any grid. It isn't anti-logic for anyone who made it past 5th grade mathematics.
Every Cartesian grid I studied in Math had the positive numbers on the Y-Axis ascending from the bottom of the page to the top. The maps in FFXIV have the Y-axis numbers ascending from the top of the page to the bottom. The confusion is understandable, since if one convention has been broken, why would we assume the other is intact?