Wishlist for new UI enhancements after announcements

[Shougun]

Edit: Holy flipping heck, Shougun. And I thought I could write long posts... that one a few pages ago is one for the record books!

I could honestly write about video games for hours on hours, from the idea of walking, how a room in a random npc home should look, to new jobs and stories, if it was for work I would need to proof it for better everything lol but it's for fun so I just try to make it hopefully readable for those who like to read about other people thinking about games lol...

Usually they're not THAT long but I just started a stream of conscious and a little bit later was like .. oh.. alright.. hahaha. There were are few things I wanted to expand on a lot like new menus and systems and did my best to try and keep them only to like a paragraph or so..

Though I know it makes some of my posts very "I don't want to read that" for some people, which is honestly absolutely okay and understandable. Sometimes I'm writing for a a small tea party lol.

You should see some of my feature request threads ... . They use the hidden button tag to be more manage-able and I try to present them a little bit better than a random post in a big thread, but ye..

If it helps other people's sanity of me, I /also/ enjoy reading other people's long posts .

[Zarkovitch]

It would be nice to have a fix controller for pc players. There a plug in fixing the problem due maybe the feature wasn't well made.

[Roda]

It's less that there's more inherent delay (though there does seem to be some truth to that) and more that FFXIV's handling of replicated state where movement is concerned is... uh. How to put this.

Okay, without going into theories behind how you handle network replication of movement in online gaming, the non-technical analogy here would be that, so far as I can tell, that FFXIV puts less importance on where you're going as opposed to where you've been.

That might sound like a really subtle difference, but it is not.

Prediction of where you're headed based on existing movement -- and moving your character ahead-of-time in the server representation and on other remote clients -- is very key to the illusion that there's no major perceivable network delay in a lot of online gaming. Many games are deciding where you probably are before you actually tell them you're there, and then adjusting your movement to correct your position if they're wrong. This means your friend in some game might seem to be moving smoothly with no latency or lag, but in actuality the movements you see might be slightly different than what your friend is actually doing, with the game adjusting what you see as their movement somewhat on-the-fly to correct their movement and bring it in alignment with where they actually are.

Now, handling movement prediction is a pain, no question; I've been working on a game in my spare time with a free-running/parkour system, and let me tell you, handling that in multiplayer with solid network prediction has been an adventure. And not always the good kind.

But FFXIV's movement model is a lot simpler, and there definitely are some improvements they could make... though they would probably not be trivial to implement at this point.

Edit: Holy flipping heck, Shougun. And I thought I could write long posts... that one a few pages ago is one for the record books!

Yes, this is a very good organization of observations, ty :>


Another thing that I'd like to see, and that could help with the hostility of the current interface.
There are STILL important self-buffs and cooldowns for certain jobs that have no business not being an option for their job gauges.
(examples: MNK forms and self buffs, SMN's DWT/FBT cooldowns and ruin IV charge, BLM's enhanced flare.)
It would help clear up the need to tunnel vision your hotbars/buffs/debuffs, which is is one of the things that addons help alleviate.

[RayneBoemir]

A personal dps counter unable to be viewed by other players.

The dialogue box being able to be customizable so you can change the letters and the background.

Honestly that’s is all I can think of

[Rokke]

The ability to change the color of names for FC members would be nice. As it is now, we can set party members, alliance, friends, and rando's colors, but not FC mates.

[Aco505]

Macros with a /micon should show the tooltip of the ability, or at least there should be an option to do so. It's a bit annoying having to go the actions list to check the information of a specific action that is often macroed (AST cards, Dragon Sight, etc.).

[kpxmanifesto]

I'm all for these UI enhancements:

Speech bubbles on players
Display onscreen the name of the song currently playing
Cooldown tracking window
Buff/debuff timers in the party list
Single button ability combos
Personal damage meters
Distance indicator from target

[QooEr]

Macros with a /micon should show the tooltip of the ability, or at least there should be an option to do so. It's a bit annoying having to go the actions list to check the information of a specific action that is often macroed (AST cards, Dragon Sight, etc.).

and there should be an option to have the macro icon not grey out when the action is unavailable too.

[lAurasl]

It would be nice to have a fix controller for pc players. There a plug in fixing the problem due maybe the feature wasn't well made.

idk why but the plugin doesnt work for me. my controller still drops inputs.

[Ravor]

A personal dps counter unable to be viewed by other players.

The dialogue box being able to be customizable so you can change the letters and the background.

Honestly that’s is all I can think of

I agree with the dialoque box as for the first part, a part of my heart kinda want that but once that dps meter an official stuff in the game, its not about other player cant see, it will be other people will ask your dps meter, making a specific rules to forbid other people to ask/tell your dps meter will make more problem and question like, why make it official in the first place if i cant tell or ask other people about it, there is a reason why the dev wont ever put dps meter in the game, the dev dont want dps meter to be the driving force in completing content, it will make party finder be like "need dps with at least 10k/sec dps, we will test it on certain dummy/instance first" the dev dont want that to be a thing in ff14