We need a world visit QoL Change NOW!

[DaKitten]

I get really tired of having to stop what I am doing with my friend so that I can hop back to my main server to do the following things:

Access my mail.
Access my retainers.
Access timed nodes.

These are things that should be baked INTO the world visiting system, not kept exclusively to your main server.

So heres my proposed solution SQUARE:

Make everything accessible on other world servers, not Datacenters, World servers.

Make it so that when you click on the retainers it opens up the retainers registered to your character from the world you are visiting from, very simple.

Make it so that timed nodes register as being completed by your character and not based on instances after you use them. Thus making it so that you can access them anywhere and it still prevents you from world server hopping to gain access to more nodes, once they're used at X time thats it till the next time.

And finally..

OPEN UP THE ABILITY FOR US TO USE THE DARN MAIL, THERES NO REASON NOT TO!

These are seriously stupid limitations and arbitrary at best, There is no defense for them. Zero, except trying to force people to have to go back to their home world.

Which defeats the purpose of playing with friends when servers are ALWAYS congested anyways making it so that there NO GUARANTEE that we can go back to see our friends.

[ItsKylos]

Definitely something they need to start considering doing, but I expect it to be a mess to change in the backend and it'll take a while to implement.

What I wish they do is "We acknowledge this feedback and we are working on implementing it"... like a roadmap lol- I know development work is a hellscape, but tell us if you are working on something at the very least.

[Jeeqbit]

It has to do with their infrastructure setup. When you visit another world, you are connecting to a different physical server machine which has no association with the other ones, and therefore can't necessarily access certain information. Ideally they should detangle the code for it and have this information able to be accessed across worlds like FC chat and CWLS.

Most likely the issue with mail is just the code. It was created in a time when we did not have world visit and will likely make certain assumptions about the world you are currently on.

Most likely the issue with timed nodes is you could farm them by visiting other worlds and it is hard to prevent that due to the fact you visit an entirely different physical server which is like a clean slate, and they don't want timed materials to be farmed.

Most likely the issue with retainers is the fact you can put items up for sale and you are putting them up for sale on your current world. So if you are on a different world, then it makes it complicated because it would have to send information to a different physical machine. This, unfortunately, affects your ability to access retainer inventory as a side effect.

[SaltyDaddy]

Access timed nodes.

As long as there will be S ranks spawnings on timed nodes, I'm kinda against this, even tho it is such a big QoL I would wish for. :P /jk

Also. Why not open mail/retainers/FC chat/FC buffs on DC visit too?

[DaKitten]

It has to do with their infrastructure setup. When you visit another world, you are connecting to a different physical server machine which has no association with the other ones, and therefore can't necessarily access certain information. Ideally they should detangle the code for it and have this information able to be accessed across worlds like FC chat and CWLS.

Most likely the issue with mail is just the code. It was created in a time when we did not have world visit and will likely make certain assumptions about the world you are currently on.

Most likely the issue with timed nodes is you could farm them by visiting other worlds and it is hard to prevent that due to the fact you visit an entirely different physical server which is like a clean slate, and they don't want timed materials to be farmed.

Most likely the issue with retainers is the fact you can put items up for sale and you are putting them up for sale on your current world. So if you are on a different world, then it makes it complicated because it would have to send information to a different physical machine. This, unfortunately, affects your ability to access retainer inventory as a side effect.

Timed nodes could easily be saved to the character rather than instanced based, thus preventing the farming of them through multiple worlds/instances.

As for a retainer, could easily implement a menu that allows you to select the world your retainer is on and deposit things like you are "remote accessing." it from off-world.

These kinda things I believe could be easily done if SE took a few minutes to look into them.

[Jeeqbit]

Timed nodes could easily be saved to the character rather than instanced based, thus preventing the farming of them through multiple worlds/instances.

Most likely the issue with that is that it would potentially have to store data for every zone that exists in the character data and maybe adding that much extra character data is a problem for them somehow.

As for a retainer, could easily implement a menu that allows you to select the world your retainer is on and deposit things like you are "remote accessing." it from off-world.

They could probably create an external server to proxy the information to your home server and have a different UI if you are an offworlder so that it doesn't clash with their current code. SE rarely pays attention to anything that isn't the next patch though, unfortunately.

[KhujaRela]

They said that they had problems with "cpu-kun" for housing updates etc, so probably is related to that... they are going to renew with new and better hardware, theorically, or so they said in 7.4 first live letter (expected from 7.5 onwards)

[NegativeS]

If they can have a button for manually fetching the status of FC-mates on other worlds, they can have manual methods for fetching mail and retainers. What, is some hacker going to intercept the information halfway while it's under the Atlantic Ocean and give themself 900,000,000 gil?

[Jeeqbit]

They said that they had problems with "cpu-kun" for housing updates etc, so probably is related to that... they are going to renew with new and better hardware, theorically, or so they said in 7.4 first live letter (expected from 7.5 onwards)

I don't think I've ever seen any real benefit in the game from all their hardware updates over the years.

[KhujaRela]

I don't know... I may be the only person left in the game that is actually happy with the quality of life updates they do in every patch xD I don't know how technically they affect on hardware tho. I
I was only mad with faces graphic "update" (and I'm still, kinda). I'm looking foward the 7.4 unlocking glamours and the housing update as well; and I want to see the new beastmaster job etc etc, so for me so far so good. Maybe it's because I've been only playing for 3 years, I'm not tired of the game, and most of the changes and additions had been for better (not the faces one tho), I like now I can jump on mounts while running, the bubbles, the easy access to emotes when doing quest lines, double dyes, etc etc etc...

Of course I wish some stuff would be better and a lot of players came back (or we have more returners) but I think in a 10 year span is just normal old players get tired ...