add a way to hide "useless question"

[LaylaTsarra]

Arguments about the value of side quests aside, I agree it would be nice if we had a toggle to disable the icons at least on the maps since they tend to hide other information we're looking for.

I certainly wish it was an option and especially for story skips. I understand that there is potentially xp to be had by running them but still in the case of story skips even aether current quests are still there in spite of having all the currents and they have the special should do icon associated with them. I would love a toggle to disable them as well.

[Yue_Amariyo]

So can we get a tool added to the game that will hide all non sidequest(blue looking quest markers" and msq

almost all of the normal quest "just normal markers" are near pointless to do outside cleaning up the map outside of the few that gives you a minion they are overall worthless..

so please give us a ingame tool to remove all quest from showing up that are not side quest or msq related

rudeness aside, id like the option as well, had a hard time finding locations on the map due to being covered by quest icons.

[Awha]

I mean you could just ignore them.

[Stepjam]

Perhaps a filter to take them off the map would be ok, but I wouldn't call them useless

[Bsrking5]

Well I'D say everything but msq should have a hide filter. Its not a high priority, but a nice QOL/ cosmetic option. Im fine with or without it.

[VictorTheed]

Must be alot of PLDs in this thread cause I see alot of holy white nights.

I don't really care one way or the other about the issue OP presented but if all she is asking for is a hide icon option for certain quests then I don't think she's as unreasonable as the great and mighty PLDs blasting her for a simple request.

[Voidedge_Ragna]

Big Jikes reading this, first of why are players so verbal on shutting this request down? What do you lose if its yet another box you can check in the options, chances are you will never notice it anyway.

The EXP a Sidequest gives is less then favorable to the point their never mentioned when players ask how to level fast, most of the time if you decide to do Sidequests for just exp you will just slow yourself down.
Items, sure theres a few but in almost 90% of Sidequests your only reward is gil and honestly chances are you already have gear thats better already.
Lore, this one is sort of valid and hard to disprove but a lot of quests do come down to, ... "i really want those 2 flowers". We all love our Fetch quests.

Also keep in mind, theres a fair bit of players who dont care about story/lore, those players also dont have the drive to go on a Forum.
And to those who say "just do them" you are mad to believe anyone would have the mental power to do that if their new.

To put it in picture, i put the effort into doing 2000 Mentor roulettes, but ill not touch these Sidequests because there is no benefit to me. So lets sum it up, we have a quest that gives you less exp then if you did something else, gives you an item you likely outleveled or none and gives you a bit of lore or none.

The request to stop map cluttering is fine here.

[yotsuffy]

These yellow quests bring very little, if not nothing, to the "lore". Very few demand something else than go-there-do-this. Those very few are the ones that chain one after another and include go-there-do-this in the story they tell and progression they show. For example: the Fox guy in Yanxia.

The devs themselves know how useless they are. Remember that quest where a lala you talk to in Kurogane tells you how stupid what you're doing is? After she said you're not the first one to do this, she says:

[game in French] Je suis tout de même surprise de voir une aventurière de votre trempe distribuer des tracts dans la rue. Vous n'avez rien trouvé de mieux, comme travail? On dit qu'il n'y a pas de sot métier, mais quand même...

[Google translate:] I'm still surprised to see an adventurer of your caliber distributing leaflets in the street. Haven't you found anything better for work? They say there is no stupid job, but still ...

I ear from here the devs says between them: "OMG they really do all thoses quests?!"

You can still say they bring something to the lore. I still say it's pretty much nothing.

On the other hand they bring discomfort in every possible ways:
- You do them? It takes hours. Good for you if you like them.
- You don't do them? They stay on map and hide everything below their markers.
- You don't do them? They're listed first in the Recommendations window. Making that usefull window useless.
- You don't do them? You'll miss, hidden among them, some worthy ones. Remember craft in Ruby Sea/Tamamizu and who you deal with?

The main reason I see for them to be is to take us time.
To take us time at every new update. To take us time before we reach new areas. To take us time before we reach dungeons. To take us time before we level up. To take us time before we gear up. To take us time before we've seen the game content.

No matter how much I like this game, I cant recommand it to anyone. Those sidequests only feel like a troll from the game: "you will get rid of them! You don't want to, they bore you, they'll take dozens of hours from your limited spare playtime, but you'll do them! To get rid of them!"

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Ya I wouldn't have a proplem with them if they Gave a decent reward for the time you spend on them.. they are alot like fates in the vast majority of the area's are pointless to fate on (most even with the few fates that are linked to events and things like Ixon) being worth it.. then you got a few that can reward minions but those minions are like 1k-2k on the board ... so doing them kinda not worth it...

Like if the first 4 mins of a dungeon is giving me 3x more than 10-20mins of a questing (normal quest) in a zone why would I want to do it lol... When almost every bit of lore is in the msq... (you got a few on the side that can add to it but not many... and those are storyline side qs not just one pop kill 9 toads then bring the skin back lol

[Vespar]

I really dont think this issue is worth wasting valuable dev time on right now. Most of us dont share your disdain for sidequests. I'm not saying that its not an issue and yes at times it can be an eyesore, but its much simpler to either accept them all and then hide the quests from your log, or just do them and be done with it. Sidequests are a normal part of every game, so its kind of a slap in the face to the devs who work so hard on them to just toss them all into a bin labelled "worthless". They arent. And that chump change you referred to in terms of items and gil adds up! Doing all the sidequests in an area can overtime yield a fairly good amount of gil. . .

I really dont share your sentiments, sorry.