Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[ZhangoSqu]

Kick AFK players after 5-10 minutes

Agree with the others, if the system decides you are AFK after 5 to 10 minutes of inactivity that is too short. If you are marked as AFK after one hour of inactivity, then kicking a player 5 to 10 minutes after this determination is OK. You just need a long enough period of time to allow the system to make an intelligent enough decision as to whether you are inactive or not. Quite honestly if you've been inactive for an hour you're probably not playing actively as it is. If you're sitting idle waiting for friends to log in, you're probably checking back occasionally anyway and doing something that marks you as active once again.

[Kirisunna]

Um... Maybe this would help just a bit. I want something next to the servers during character creation to tell you which servers have a high population. I say this because I did not realize that having Excalibur as my main server would basically mean that any friends I have will not get to play with me as they are just now joining the game. They can't make a character there because it is almost always full. We don't have time to sit and wait for it to open while hitting the refresh icon every three minutes. Even after the server fixes it is still not allowing new characters. At this point I am very disappointed. I'm waiting for it to get fixed so I can actually play with my friends and trying to be patient but... I'm just waiting because I have no other choice.

[mbncd]

I want something next to the servers during character creation to tell you which servers have a high population. [Snip]

When you create a character and get to the server choice list, look under (I think it was under, might have been beside, don't remember well enough) each server name for 3 long thin pale lines. All 3 lines being a brighter colour (full) means the server is very crowded, less lines means less population. Try going for ones with paler lines, one or two bars only.

Good luck.


Edit: Scrap that, I found the lines under each server name but they don't seem to be working as they once did. Either that or every world (including the 3 new ones) is already very crowded.

[Ilitsa]

Um... Maybe this would help just a bit. I want something next to the servers during character creation to tell you which servers have a high population. I say this because I did not realize that having Excalibur as my main server would basically mean that any friends I have will not get to play with me as they are just now joining the game. They can't make a character there because it is almost always full. We don't have time to sit and wait for it to open while hitting the refresh icon every three minutes. Even after the server fixes it is still not allowing new characters. At this point I am very disappointed. I'm waiting for it to get fixed so I can actually play with my friends and trying to be patient but... I'm just waiting because I have no other choice.

This, with Balmung too. I have a friend that's been trying to get into Balmung since the second day of Phase 4, and has yet to be able to create a character.

[ferte178]

Option to disable tooltip

[Kataxenna]

Did anyone mention adding Icons for botanists/miners on the map in general? xD I do hate staring off into the upper right hand corner of my screen to look at the lil map. D:

[gelectrode]

Got a new one, chat spam filter for shouts and tells so gold spammers can /tell me 20 times in 20 seconds.

[BlackomegaKingofwaffles]

If you use focus target the bar indicating what move the mob is using is obscured and unreadable. Not having 2 lines of text overlapping that would be nice.

[Decoyninja]

I like that you can't talk to NPCs while mounted, for obvious reasons. Less trolling, less missing your FATE turnins, etc.

My big one: The ability to mount a summoned chocobo. I want to hop on the combat companion and off again without having to use greens constantly. I mostly haven't been leveling my chocobo because it is such a hassle. You burn through greens or you run/sprint everywhere. I would love to rightclick the chocobo to hop on, attack or rightclick the buff to hop off. If arcanists can have their pets out while mounted it shouldn't be hard to hide the chocobo when you mount and make it combat ready when you hop off.

I also support the suggestion for chat bubbles. Optional of course, I know it annoys some people.

[Kalysta]

Can we please add a right click to ignore/report players for gold spam? I realize that many Asian games consider this perfectly acceptable, but if you're going to cater to a North American crowd, this needs to be addressed quickly. I played Aion once upon a time, and watched the gold farmers/spammers literally decimate the populations of mobs needed for many quests, so that they became uncompletable due to the number of bots you were fighting against. Ruined the game, and I stopped playing very quickly afterwards due to their policy on encouraging this obnoxious practice. That little ability probably did more to help WoW cut down on it's gold selling problem than many of the other countermeasures implemented, and is really important in this game, since it took me 10 minutes to type i this one farmer's obnoxiously spelled name into my blacklist yesterday. 2 names, spelled something like walyaiknawefi ihjiArefikcie are NOT fun to manually block!