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

[PFM]

Why do you not lock the raid for a week so you can perform all of your housekeeping and server maintenance for the increased rate of traffic so that it does not affect people trying to do the content?

Why do 4:1 and 3:1 crafts still exist?

Why isn't there any voice acting in the raids?

Why has the 4.0 series had less content than the 3.0 series?

[Veritas-Ancora]

Will We Ever Dungeon Party with the Leaders of Eorzea/Ishgard/Othard?

I imagine a dungeon like that would be an epic experience.

Even if they're doing things on the sideline or in their own party alongside our own.

[EorzeaHero69]

I love Byakko, especially the mechanics and the theme. Speaking of mechanics, on one of them, can you turn it into a minigame and make us do tricks for it?

[The_Promised]

Can we have swimming pools on houses and apartments?

[Jade_Gryphon]

Any new facepaints coming up? It seems like forever since we got new ones. Also, and this is more of a suggestion than a question...would it be possible at all to make floor aquariums, like for instance, maybe a rug item that turns part of your apartment/room floor into an aquarium?

[rainichan]

When will you allow us to store our i90 Job AF in the Armoire? I know it won't happen within the 4.2 series of patches (or will it?!), but is this something that will be enabled at some point? We can store the i50 pieces that you get through the 45 and 50 quests, but why not what was bought with the tomestones of mythology so long ago? I know I can throw it out and re-buy from the Calamity Salvager, but that seems like a waste to do.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

After the removal of the storage placement glitch that allowed for the infamous; and highly popular, loft and out of bounds placement for houses would the dev team consider creating an actual loft type of furnishing? Houses as they currently are, seem to be lacking a lot in terms of how we can decorate them and the storage glitch allowed for much more creativity than previously seen.

[KariArisu]

Can we get a new UI for Gardening? The current state of gardening is awful.

Gardening requires a lot of steps:

1. Clicking the garden bed. (1 Click)
2. Clicking the option to plant seeds. (1 Click)
3. Selecting the soil and seeds. (5 Clicks)
4. Repeat this 7 more times. (Total: 56 Clicks for one deluxe bed.)

This is not counting the fact that a lot of us will probably be making a lot of extra clicks for our own reasons. Also, most of us remove the first seed, only to replant it -- because cross-breeding is poorly designed and requires a seed to be planted next to the bed before you plant it. Which, is impossible from a fresh garden with nothing planted.

Then, you also need to water all of them daily, or you lose all of your time and effort.
My biggest complaint is that all of this takes a LOT of clicking, and I don't want carpal tunnel.
When the plants are finished growing, harvesting them is also a bunch of unnecessary clicking, before going back to all of the clicks to set it all up again.

A simple UI that lets us plant 8 seeds at once, water 8 beds at once, and harvest 8 beds at once would be a huge improvement.
We already invest a lot of time and Gil into the seeds and soils, the fact that gardening is mostly ignored for the physical effort required is upsetting.

[KariArisu]

Samurai needs attention. It has no place, anywhere. Some party finders are even outright excluding the job from joining.

It's identity was supposed to be that of a job that deals the highest DPS, to the point that it is worth bringing over a job that brings party buffs. This is not the case.
Currently, Black Mage is better, while Summoner and Monk have similar DPS but bring utility. Even then, Black Mage is in a relatively similar spot where Summoner outshines it, and casters in general are not that good.

It either needs redesigned so that it brings some sort of utility to make it worth bringing to endgame content, or buffed hard enough that it doesn't need to have utility to be worth the party slot.
A lot of groups in the World First Race for Sigmascape (including the winners) got a Samurai weapon from the last fight, and were noticeably disappointed by it. That feels really bad.