Community Proposed QoL updates to the UI

[Josebm]

Since it has been revealed that they are looking into improving the UI, here a a few things I would like to see added and modified to the interface.

- Allow us to separate the HP and MP parameter from each other
- Allow us to increase the width of the HP and MP parameter
- Display the actual HP of your enemy targets in numbers (175k, 2.3M) not just %
- Speech bubbles
- Full buff & debuff timers in the party list
- A bigger font for when an ability goes into cooldown
- For simplified job gauges - allow us to move the parameters around the bar and to increase the width of the bar
- Display the ping
- Lower the time to roll on loot to 180 seconds (5 minutes is WAY to long)

If you have anything you would like to see implemented pls add it to the list so they can read it and hopefully get the changes we want.

[OpusNK]

Fix item popout in retainer sales to not cover items list or better allow us to customize where the popout appears.

[Krezzz]

-Resizable nameplates
- HUD layout preview mode (fills up stuff like party list, buffs, debuffs, etc so you can see that element would look when filled up)
- split up the parameters bar or give us more layouts for it such as HP above MP, MP above HP, MP on the left of HP
- shields appear on your own HP bar and not just party list's

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

• High-contrast option for the map and minimap. What we have currently conveys a "drawn in-universe" aesthetic very well, but can be slow to impossible to read for those with colorblindness or other visual impairments. Players should be able to sacrifice that aesthetic as a personal choice in order to read the map as intended.
• Show/hide point of interest filters for the map and minimap, allowing players to focus on key navigation information - especially if they are using the proposed high-contrast option, which might otherwise become too cluttered. RuneScape's world map provides an excellent example, with customizable filters ranging from shops to gathering locations to quests.
• Customizable colors for map elements - such as party member dots - and ideally other UI elements. A recent discussion of colorblind players' experiences has highlighted how visual impairments vary so widely that sometimes the only good solution is to just let people pick colors that work for them.
• Dyslexia-friendly UI font option.
• Option to show the currently playing song, helping players seek out orchestrion rolls or even Earth purchases of songs they enjoy.
• Option to show the current FPS without having to keep the System Configuration window open.
• Add an "Out of Battle" option to nameplate configuration settings.
• "Highlight Item" command, for those times when one has /itemsearch ed for something and opened the right inventory tab and still just can't find it.
• Ability to import settings, HUD layout, hotbars, ... from another character. Currently PC players can do this by copying files over, while console players are out of luck. While we are at it, it would be great to be able to copy hotbars on a job-by-job basis, for cases such as trying out a job on an alt character and wanting to bring its hotbars back to one's main character.
• "Request Loot Roll" button that prevents the party from initiating combat or opening more chests until all current loot has been awarded. Good for getting dungeon gear upgrades and equipping them before moving onto the next fight, gently reminding someone who forgot to roll on map loot, and keeping griefers from evading kicks by constantly having a loot timer rolling or being in combat.

[Rongway]

Please use the LIST tag if you're going to make bulleted lists. The LIST autoindent will prevent all the bulleted items running together into one wall of text.

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

Please use the LIST tag if you're going to make bulleted lists. The LIST autoindent will prevent all the bulleted items running together into one wall of text.

Thank you for the suggestion; I have edited my post accordingly.

I was previously using the same format as all the other proposals in this thread, which is also the format SE puts in its own bug report template. I wonder why the template is that way, when surely some bug reproduction steps are long enough to cause the same problem.

[Nulien]

A small QoL change I'd like is a separate chat filter option for glamour casts. I find it a bit annoying that applying a glamour plate takes up nearly 3 times the height of my chat window in text, pushing all my chat way up off the screen, and currently it's tied to System Messages, which I don't want to turn completely off.

[Wilford111]

Please allow us to duplicate HUD elements like buffs/debuffs. I've tried moving my buffs closer to my hotbar, but it's a very difficult thing to get used to. This would be alleviated if I could just have them at both places at the same time.

[Seger]

The ability to select multiple items when selling to NPCs.

[TabrisOmbrelame]

A customisable color for nametag on my FC members.

It's a shame this isn't implemented yet, This will let me know who is in my FC, and who I can consider to be a Friend outside the FC (Because I put every member of my FC into my Friend list, so when I encounter them I see them easily). So when I encounter them, I'm not always like "Wait, who is this ?... Ho, just a friend, I thought it was a FC member"