Update on Future UI Changes.

[Ramsey]

There are times where I want to be able to macro target an individual character, for various reasons. Such as a cover macro, I always play with the same players, so I want to be able to cover the same player, as they're always the one nearby, for instance. This was in FF11, I can understand a delay, but choosing to never implement the functionality is silly.

[Answa]

what about target selection priority?

Can we get an option that allows us to target left to right / right to left the closest target to furthest target?

It's getting really frustrating that when i press left or right to target a mob that is almost directly in front of me, but I have to cycle through mobs that are on the outter most limits of the left/right side before I can target that mobs that is closer to me...

Shift+Tab.

[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.

[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! =)

[ChiefCurrahee]

Shift+Tab.

and what about those of us that use gamepads, and the eventual PS3 users?

[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?

[Firon]

There are times where I want to be able to macro target an individual character, for various reasons. Such as a cover macro, I always play with the same players, so I want to be able to cover the same player, as they're always the one nearby, for instance. This was in FF11, I can understand a delay, but choosing to never implement the functionality is silly.

thats why they are making stuff like H1 if you want to cover your whm you just do /Ac "Cover" <H1> or w/e it will be

[Akira_Tenshi]

And when I say complex, I mean all the different targeting modes they added and all of the commands which they continue to add to, really all of that just to attack something? It should not be needed in the first place. It is never that complex in other games. You can not say it is a simple system.

[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?