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    ChloeGrace's Avatar
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    Chloe Grace
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    Cactuar
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    Bard Lv 80

    Mounts & Minions interface

    Well, it looks nice, but it's a nightmare to navigate.

    It needs:
    1. A search function: (Lodestone and game) As it stands, the only way to find the minion you're looking for is to mouse over each icon and read the tooltip. Once you start getting over 100, this becomes extremely cumbersome. It's not even in any logical order. At least show them by name, alphabetically. That's what localization is for, right?
    2. Filters: (Lodestone and game) Give us a filter to show All/Have/Need, airborne/terrestrial (for mounts)
    3. Links: (Lodestone only) make the icons image links to the additional information (i.e. how it can be obtained).

    Players are obsessive about collecting mounts and minions. Don't make it more difficult than it needs to be. These are all no-brainer features that should be standard in any kind of list interface design.
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    Canadane's Avatar
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    King Canadane
    World
    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Sage Lv 100
    A search would be nice.
    The other two I don't really see needed.
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    DarkDedede's Avatar
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    Red Cork
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    Sargatanas
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    Summoner Lv 70
    They should rework them to display like the Orchestrion List, especially include the hints about where to obtain certain ones (in game).
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    "Fun comes first. If it isn't fun, you're doing it wrong." -Naoki Yoshida

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    FaileExperiment's Avatar
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    Vash Warbreaker
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    Zalera
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    Red Mage Lv 72
    Quote Originally Posted by DarkDedede View Post
    They should rework them to display like the Orchestrion List, especially include the hints about where to obtain certain ones (in game).
    Maybe simplify the interface a bit, with a menu called "Collectables". This would be a tabbed interface (like the crafting log complete with searching and filtering) that combines Mounts, minions, Orchestrion rolls, cards, sightseeing and fishing logs, and whatever else they want to add in the future.
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    Aster Enelysion
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    Gilgamesh
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    Bard Lv 70
    I, too, desire a search function on my minions, at least. Over 200 minions, and it sometimes takes a painfully awkward moment or two to find that one that I'm seeking amidst a social setting. A search function would alleviate that immediately, as well those times when a minion might drop somewhere and I don't remember if I have it or not. I'd rather not hold up the line on those rolls because I'm flipping through umpteen pages of minions, you know?
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
    Main Class
    Black Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Aster_E View Post
    it sometimes takes a painfully awkward moment or two to find that one that I'm seeking amidst a social setting
    If it's for summoning purposes, just use /minion with the autotranslate name of the minion.

    e.g.,
    summon Wind-Up Edda: /minion wind-up ed[tab][enter][enter]
    summon Namingway: /minion nami[tab][enter][enter]
    summon Dwarf Rabbit: /minion dw[tab][enter][enter]
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    Last edited by Rongway; 09-26-2017 at 07:16 PM.
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