Mini Map Buttons / Drawers (Recomendations, Tracked Achievements, Job Changer, Etc).

[Shougun]

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Essentially you can, optionally, have tabs/drawers on your mini map that when selected open (like a drawer) and show their contents. Buttons are buttons... lol.

In the above example it would show you recommended tasks. If you didn't want THAT drawer you could turn it off.

Other drawer / button suggestions:

• Tracked Achievements.
• Mounts (drawer would list favorites, etc, button would just be whatever specific mount or roulette you assigned it).
• Recommendation specific options, like sight seeing log or hunts. (The settings for recommendation drawer might be you can select each option you're interested in and then if you wanted could select 'break away' to mean it's its own, and select 'dynamic' being it only appears when its got content, so you could have a drawer that appears ONLY when you have active hunt marks in that zone).
• Tracked Quests (if a player wanted to drawer that for whatever reason, may turn off the default one then).
• Job and MSQ tracker (not really a drawer but a button to click). Perhaps Seasonal quests too.
• SE's built in job changing macro for players (will auto pick the highest ilvl gearset for each job, will allow players to manually select and add custom ones, will also allow players to list in a big list or simply by roles).
• Recent and favorite teleports (option for either).
• Non-completed challenge logs that are complete-able in your given job and zone currently (so if you're in the saucer you dont see battle / fate, only saucer).
• Drawer based on a ability bar (so players could customize the drawer, options to show the drawer by row and column heights- will use the shared or non-shared settings of the ability bar, so you could have it stay the same cross jobs or not your choice).
• In-game calendar once we get it.
• Shopping list (when you check a recipe or mark an item in menu, it'll appear here in quantity in your inventory vs whatever you needed- can edit them, force complete (though it'll smart do that), and clear list).
• Aethernet menu when near aethernets (so if you stand near Ishgard aetheryte you could select the hunt aetheryte from this- option to auto expand and close for further convivence).
• Beast Tribes / Custom Deliveries (clicking a tribe / person will teleport you to their closest aetheryte- please do this for existing menus, like reputation tab and custom delivery tracker).

Gesture opportunity for console (but allowed for PC too), where you can assign them directions so when you press a given key it'll wheel gesture the drawers.

While the general topic is drawer it's important to note some could be just buttons (and might be an option in the menu, "open as drawer" "open as separate item"). Singular buttons can come from preset options and as well you can assign specific ability slots, with options on how the 'ability' appears (like circular, stretch / fit, etc). So you might have teleport buttons, like recent, gc, free company, home (return) point, but an advanced player may put a macro teleport that looks just like a 'SE' built pre-set that teleports them to their favorite gathering spot and marks the map with a flag.

Many of these might come with mini and full versions (or whatever UI team thinks looks good, an information packed view vs minimalist).

Will post about it later but looking at challenge log drawer and recommendation, I've been thinking a 'zone log' that marries multiple systems together would be pretty cool (challenge log, hunts, FATE levels, sight seeing, etc). Such that you get a bit of a completionism content that rewards you for your progress, then you could use this system to open a highlight of valuable activities in the zone and if you clicked it then it would open up the zone's portfolio.