Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII! (Exploring Patch 4.2)

**TheProfessor** · 02-08-2018 10:27 AM

Do you have any plans to ever add new slots for specific types of glamour?

For instance, I would like to be able to wear certain types of glasses in a 'Face Slot', while still being able to wear hats in the 'Head Slot'.

Another suggestion drawn from other MMOs might be a 'Back Slot', for things like capes, wings etc.

Probably a bit too difficult to add such things at this point but I would definitely be very happy if it could happen.

**Youkulm** · 02-08-2018 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by DarienChiba

On Ragnarok there is a well known Free Company that has been bragging and sharing that they own 37 player houses to supporting their raiding. They even shared an image on Twitter about how they own almost an entire ward in Shirogane. Is it possible to forcibly remove these houses and allow other FC's obtain them?

this absolutely needs to be brought up. Something needs to be done about shell FCs owning several homes.

**Handel** · 02-08-2018 12:06 PM

Hello! As a Culinarian, I was so excited to see the culinary wonders of Doma and Gyr Albania. And yet, a lot of the recipes seem Hingian in nature, even if the materials are from mostly Doma and Gyr Albania. What gives?

Oh and by the way, since you guys don't get praise a lot, I'm having a lot of fun with 4.2 and the new trials and dungeons! Good work and good job!

**Alien_Gamer** · 02-08-2018 12:12 PM

Its clear you had certain goals in mind for the 4.2 housing release. Do you think the changes you made were effective in meeting those goals? Based on what you've seen so far do you think you'll continue with your current plans or revisit them for a different solution?

**Frost_OC** · 02-08-2018 12:24 PM

I wish there was an in game voice chat system. At the moment in order to talk to our party in raids we must use third party services such as Discord. It could be opt in similar to the new recording system where everyone has to agree to use it. Of course there should be a mute and ban system for this just in case. Will anything like this ever be added to the game.

**DarienChiba** · 02-08-2018 12:40 PM

What can be done to prevent RMT sales of Raid content in Party Finder?

These groups use Duty Roulette as a way to be visible at the top of the list.

**NoboruSouma** · 02-08-2018 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Luna_Li

Will we ever see changes to hunts in general or will you only add one S per zone and a bunch of A's and B's for the rest of the expansion? Why is hunting seemingly an aspect of the game that gets no recognition at all?

While it's probably not your focus at all there's still a strong community for hunts. But while you make changes for probably every aspect in the game over the whole expansion I've never seen you make new hunts or changes at all. It's a core mechanic you seemingly lost interest in once the expansion was released and yet hundreds if not thousands participate in spawning, searching and finally killing hunts every single day. There is no official support and we rely on a third-party website to keep track of hunts.

Some hunts are also neither fun nor interesting to spawn. Please Square don't forget a part of a community in your game just because we might be the minority. It would be refreshing to see changes or additional content for the hunting community.

Adding to this:

The Hunt Community, or the Spawn & Theorycraft Community to be more clear, has given many many suggestions as to how The Hunt could be improved or how it could be made more challenging, simplified in some cases because some triggers are too heavily RNG based or any of that sort.

As Luna said, we may be a minority, and there are many who even take the work of the spawners for granted - and the time that goes into theorycrafting and testing out every last bit of a spawn is immense.

So:
Could you take some notes from the Hunt Community to make some improvements and recognize that we are in fact a part of the game?
For example: Adjust the health & strength of S Ranks to the amount of players present, or have them be scaling like FATEs do. Sprouts and New Players that run through a A or S Rank die anyway - we then explain it to them and more than once the reaction was: "Oh cool, can't wait to get to a higher level to beat them too!" - so there's no excuse naming that. More than once they even fight with us even though they don't really get a reward other than beating up a huge monster.

Make S Ranks more challenging and not a one minute or even a few seconds fight if enough players smash theirs skills on them.
We get stronger and stronger with each cycle - don't let this be a thing you just feed with new Hunts for new Areas in new Expansions and ignore it the rest of the time.

**Namikaze-Kirito** · 02-08-2018 01:13 PM

Lately, there’s been discrimination against those who choose to play SAM for end game raiding. I had an instance where a party had removed me from an O6S weekly clear group just because of the class I choose to play even though all criteria in their party finder had been met.

Is there anything in the works to retool all classes so that they’re balanced? It’s been such a pain to go through this with each and every raid tier beginning with 2.X, and the idea of “balancing” is not living up to what you explain it to be. Just because SAM can’t buff the party should not mean that it isn’t viable for raiding. Unless you’re one of those people constantly checking FFLogs just to see where you rank, a decent party comp with good variety is more than enough to get through most content. But this game is community based, and sadly the community perception is going to discriminate against players who just want to get through content like everyone else, but can’t because of this.

**RangePup** · 02-08-2018 01:45 PM

I'm sure it has been mentioned several times already, but could we please get a comment and action on the group who used loopholes and abused the housing system to buy up nearly an entire ward?

**RangePup** · 02-08-2018 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Altanas

The most redundant part of patches feels to be Dungeons. They are seldom talked about in live letters nor by the community. The community discuss and make guides for Trials and Raids not for Dungeons... The draw of a patch is never a dungeon... Hells Lid felt forced and copy paste of Sohm Al Hard's lava area...

Why not go with only one dungeon every patch and instead release an extra Raid floor or an extra Trial?

They've already said they're going going to be doing two dungeon patches every only every other cycle so they can focus on the other content.

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