Future improvements to the New Lodestone?

[Onizuka]

Greetings.

I like the new Lodestone dark design, my eyes are thankful for that, but it would be nice to have more features from the previous Lodestone to improve the community. I've a few suggestions:

1. Please add back the History tab. In 1.0 it was nice to have track of all the completed quests or special achievements (like the purple ones related to the Seventh Umbral Era or defeating primals in short order), and it's too bad that in the new Lodestone your completed quests are not listed.

2. It would be nice, at the same time, to list the completion of all the FATEs. That would be an incentive to do them all, rather than do as many as possible for the normal in-game achievement.

3. When logging in, there's a Red Exclamation Mark on the topright, near the avatar. That's a sign something new happened, the problem is it doesn't say what's new. Please add back the feature of the old Lodestone that gives proper notifications when a new activity takes place.

4. Add proper text formatting (bold, colors, hyperlinks, etc.).

5. Add a Like button, as not everyone uses Facebook (I think this is already planned).

6. Rise the disk usage space, please... Other japanese players have reached already the max image count from the old Lodestone. Having at least a 5000 characters limit, rather than 3000, would also be nice.

7. Add filters to the “Wall” in the Personal Page the “Wall” like in the old Lodestone (filtered by language or entries displayed).


I think the New Lodestone has much potential, but right now it's incomplete. Please consider adding these features to support more the community.
Thank you.

Cloudio Onizuka from Aegis

[Rowyne]

All good suggestions.

The thing I'm missing most is providing an RSS feed from the news page (the old Lodestone had this). My FC site has suddenly gone quiet because I can no longer feed in news! Please give us this!

[Camate]

Hello!

The development team is working on a couple of additions and improvements for the Lodestone, and I wanted to pass along some of the things they are looking to do.

• Currently developing a filter feature to be added to your wall.
• Addition of a mouse-over feature for your free company’s chest.
• Looking into various measures for uploading images, such as linking to external sites, to address the image space concerns.
• Addition of direct links for URLs placed in topics and news announcements.
• Planning to provide tools that will allow you to reference the planned Lodestone data base from external sites.

Please continue to submit your feedback for features you’d like to see added, and we’ll be sure to pass them along to the development team.

[Onizuka]

Oh, thanks, Camate! That's good news. I'll be sure to let my Lodestone-users companions know!

About other features besides the already good ones you mentioned (I'll particularly look forward to the other ways to upload photos), what I'd also like to see return is the History features of the old Lodestone, for completed quests and now would be nice for completed FATEs as well. Those colored “achievements” were a nice addition to the normal in-game Achievements!

[Keres]

I'd really like to see an RSS feed for the Topics and news posts. If there is one already, please make the feed URL easier to find!

[Xenor]

I'd like to see a recipe listing.

Or is that planned with the Lodestone database?

An RSS feed would be nice too.

[Aliton]

I am glad you mention to suggestion more feedback if needed. From what I remember I was on beta lodestone at first time, Every time I see red exclaim mark beside my avatar meant something new, I click it on, and it goes to front page and show nothing what it's new? I recommend you to add what it new on the forum, follow, etc. I would appreciate to have message to other FC, or LS or Friend in site if we not in game, it would be helpful to keep in communicate from mobile phone or computer to in game who is online or online on the lodestone site. Yes Please implement for Feature similar as ejins, so the Leader or sub-leader can create their FC, LS for members to join and have events announce within Lodestone.

That's all I have in my mind.

[wind]

Please upgrade the forums to have true forum functionality. ie able to Edit your posts (not JUST the OP), able to use html codes such as [youtube] or other common html codes.

Also adding privileges to members based on their FC rank would be amazing and very convenient. such as Master / Officers can be "mods" in their own FC forum domain.

Another amazing feature would be a calendar type where higher ranked(not class lvl) members can create events such as "raid on tuesday @ x:xx" and can notify members by in-game mail or a notification pop-up when they open lodestone. Kind of like when there is new activity on your feed you see a little red "!".

And as the OP mentioned, PLEASE remove or drastically increase the character restriction limit. 3000 Just doesn't cut it when you're trying to come up with strategies, or just general helpful information. I fully understand this is done to preserve the stability of the servers, however please look into upgrading this either through new blade servers or something. SE's going to be rolling in money from all the subs you're getting because the game is amazing :P

Also, give my thanks to your lodestone team.. I love the new UI so far better than the older version aside from the lack of the above features.

[Rowyne]

Please, for the love of the Twelve, provide an RSS feed for the news topics! The old Lodestone had this. I don't understand why getting game news out in an easy to publish manner is not a priority.

[Loony_BoB]

Can't wait for my updates list to not be an endless wall of "______ has logged in."