Request: When you start casting, make it stop character movement and autoface the mob

[Razorboi82]

oh yeah man no worries. i may disagree with someone on these forums, but i never take it personally. the forums are my break from the monotony of farming. it's my relief if you want to look at it that way. it's just different conversations than the voice chat ones, but of course most threads here make it into voice chat at some point during the day lol.

Never had anything on forums make it into voice chat, although other peoples do. I tend to leave my mentions for important things. I may diss agree with you here and agree with u elsewhere, I dont judge on past disagreements. Either way glad I can make your day there.

[darkstarpoet1]

Never had anything on forums make it into voice chat, although other peoples do. I tend to leave my mentions for important things. I may diss agree with you here and agree with u elsewhere, I dont judge on past disagreements. Either way glad I can make your day there.

same here. the post made it here because there's 4 of us that use controllers in the voice group and we were discussing this same thing before they added the movement when yoshi posted about the controller users would have issues, but they would be ok if they didn't care about being efficient.

[Soulfire]

I actually like being able to chant facing any direction I please, especially when being made to face a direction at a bad time would cause me to become petrified.

Plus seeing something come to pass that forcefully destroys the fluidity of casting animations would be extremely upsetting.

I'd be fine with this if it were optional.

[Krausus]

I actually like being able to chant facing any direction I please, especially when being made to face a direction at a bad time would cause me to become petrified.

you can still cast from any direction

[darkstarpoet1]

I actually like being able to chant facing any direction I please, especially when being made to face a direction at a bad time would cause me to become petrified.

it's been discussed a few times. /facetarget we are talking about the function of it not the visuals. the function is to instantly register that you have stopped in the server so you can instantly begin to cast. i'm like you in a don't care about turning around, but the instant stop button that controller users do not have and keyboard users do would be very nice to have.

[Soulfire]

Dang, you guys are fast. I didn't get much time to polish up my post. w

[Reaujien]

You appear to be a programmer for Square Enix and working with the Crystal Tools, which is in-house to Square Enix only, can you tell me why the overseer and one who actually can work with the tools would be lying about the difficulty of something regarding an engine toolset that wasn't designed to run MMOs in the first place?

I'd rather hear your explanation, as one of their programmers, than the reasoning from the director and producer of the game.

You know, I was thinking the same thing! LOL I'd like him to tell us where in the millions of lines of code between the server and client programs this "simple" fix exists. As a software developer I've only had the privilege to build a couple small games with a very trivial 2D graphics "engine" (if you want to call it that), and even the seemingly simplest of changes/alterations can take days to program (and when you're the ONLY developer that pretty much halts the project) - multiple that by 10,000 (if not, more) for this game. Anyway, I had a laugh reading it too, heh!


As for the casting changes it only took me 5 min to adapt by simply putting "/facetarget" on line1 of all my macros *shrugs*

[Yumi_Hibiki]

seriously is it that hard?
and i hear the "i am from EU, its so bad here" excuse again, i am from the EU too (austria) and i never had any problems with that mythical EU lag that renders you unable to dodge ifrit or stop and cast...

I play black mage a lot since the patch and its no problem whatsoever for me to stop and cast and yes i use a controller and i don't have a /facetarget macro.
You just look at the blue arrows, that's what they are for, even when rushing thru the darkhold its no problem to stop for a second and cast a sleepga on the running by hordes.

[Renshi]

Guys...

Adapt to the current changes. Wait for 2.0 in order to have a better system. Why the hell would they give us this system for then? It's clearly the fault of the Crystal Tools or the Server structure, so deal with it for now, will you?

It will be solved in the future, it's all okay, they know what to do.

And for anybody who wonders, no, I hate magic, but I have a mind open enough to understand this problem will be solved in the future, and so do you, I'm sure.

[darkstarpoet1]

Guys...

Adapt to the current changes. Wait for 2.0 in order to have a better system. Why the hell would they give us this system for then? It's clearly the fault of the Crystal Tools or the Server structure, so deal with it for now, will you?

It will be solved in the future, it's all okay, they know what to do.

And for anybody who wonders, no, I hate magic, but I have a mind open enough to understand this problem will be solved in the future, and so do you, I'm sure.

we would if they weren't so bad. we voiced concerns before it was put in. now that it's in it's even worse than i expected it to be as a controller user.

we voiced concerns before it went in and was told to wait until it went in and we tried it before saying anything. it's in game now and i can say it was horribly implemented. it's caused more issues than i expected and i expected a few.