Update on Future UI Changes.

[Laraul]

If you have to type out /ac Cure <t1> each time then this is not much help. I just don't think people will type out the commands, rather they will use macros. And if you have four tanks a macro /ac Cure <tank> isn't much good. /ac Cure <sttank> (or /ac Cure $stt) would be acceptable but then you'd have to deal with different macros for different job specs. Too complicated.

[Steggun]

Targeting Party Members

You’ll be able to decide the rules for your party member list and change the order to your liking.

Awesome! =)

[Andrien]

Greetings,

We’ve seen some requests where players would like to target things by typing out NPC or player names and it was looking like this might be possible in patch 1.22b, but unfortunately it was determined that it would be too difficult to address this with the current system.

In version 2.0, we’re creating the UI with the following conditions in mind, which means that there shouldn’t be too many situations where you would need to type out NPC and player names with macros, etc.

Targeting Party Members

You’ll be able to decide the rules for your party member list and change the order to your liking. It will be possible to target by indicating TA1 for the tank for example.

Targeting Enemies

We’ll be implementing a command to target the enemy closest to you
We’ll be implementing a command to target enemies that have enmity towards your character

By implementing the above, we believe it lowers the number of situations where typing names would be beneficial, but we are also planning to make it possible to target via direct name input for /invite and other commands where it is necessary.

We will be announcing specific feature details in the future.

How about adding a feature that gives you the options to also send /tells, and invites by clicking on any player name in the chat log?

[Nakiamiie]

Greetings,

We’ve seen some requests where players would like to target things by typing out NPC or player names and it was looking like this might be possible in patch 1.22b, but unfortunately it was determined that it would be too difficult to address this with the current system.

In version 2.0, we’re creating the UI with the following conditions in mind, which means that there shouldn’t be too many situations where you would need to type out NPC and player names with macros, etc.

Targeting Party Members

You’ll be able to decide the rules for your party member list and change the order to your liking. It will be possible to target by indicating TA1 for the tank for example.

Targeting Enemies

We’ll be implementing a command to target the enemy closest to you
We’ll be implementing a command to target enemies that have enmity towards your character

By implementing the above, we believe it lowers the number of situations where typing names would be beneficial, but we are also planning to make it possible to target via direct name input for /invite and other commands where it is necessary.

We will be announcing specific feature details in the future.

Awesome!
We get all the good options AND direct name input!

[Akira_Tenshi]

This game really has the most ridiculously complex targeting system of any game ever and the more you keep adding to it the more complicated it gets. Who would have thought just hitting a monster in front of you could be so difficult. Why do we need a command to target the mob closest to us, why does it not do this by default?

[Impulse]

This game really has the most ridiculously complex targeting system of any game ever and the more you keep adding to it the more complicated it gets. Who would have thought just hitting a monster in front of you could be so difficult. Why do we need a command to target the mob closest to us, why does it not do this by default?

I've never found clicking on my desired target to be complex, honestly.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I've never found clicking on my desired target to be complex, honestly.

Not always that easy when things are crowded.

[Skies]

This game really has the most ridiculously complex targeting system of any game ever and the more you keep adding to it the more complicated it gets. Who would have thought just hitting a monster in front of you could be so difficult. Why do we need a command to target the mob closest to us, why does it not do this by default?

What, you can't hit your 'confirm' button? You do know that in the targetting configurations you can choose to make the game auto-target the closest target when you press confirm with nothing on, right?

[Soukyuu]

What, you can't hit your 'confirm' button? You do know that in the targetting configurations you can choose to make the game auto-target the closest target when you press confirm with nothing on, right?

There are several targetting problems.
First, while pressing confirm does target the closest target, the distance seems to be calculated from the screen, not from your character. I can't count how many times I pressed confirm to target something in front of me, only to target myself.

Second, and that's what ChiefCurrahee meant, cycling from left to right isn't the problem. The problem is the order it cycles through it, instead of going from closest left to closest right then jumping to the next distance, it cycles from closest to farthest, THEN goes right/left, meaning you keep jumping distances, too often ending up targeting a mob miles away instead of the one in front of your nose.

Edit: this is the thread where the issue is explained in more detail: clicky

[VytasBismarck]

Personally i would love to have a "/target <NPCname>" command. Take Cutters Cry ants for example - wouldnt it be great if you could simply make a macro to target the guard the second it pops instead of having to swap through multiple targets till you find it...?