Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Bloodwillow]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:
Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

I cannot agree with this enough.

On our server, Gilgamesh, our fc Driftwood Coast, is becoming very popular. We try to welcome everyone who are interested in RP or talk about wanting to RP with us. But the paltry LS limit is stupid and needs to be removed or at least made larger.

We are having to resort to remove alts and those who haven't played in so many days, and we do not like doing so. This ruins the community of awesome people!

And this even goes for non RPers. Having small numbers keeps people away from meeting others in a LS since all are separated and can't talk with each other.

[Yamo]

Im pissed at the fact that the dotting class in this game cant place dots in fates like behemoth or odin... How the hell are we suppose to get contribution when we cant use our main dps spells. This is freaking retarded. Something gotta be done ASAP. Either Summoner Dots have priority over weaker class dots or the # of dots on a mob can be infinite. I swear to god, the ppl at SE gotta be retarded. "You can play a pet class, that does not depend on the pet but on dots, but guess what, you cant use those if everyone is spamming their weak ass dots, so you are totally freaking useless in a fate boss, unless you spam your dots in hopes of 1 sticking". Meh...

[Okipuit]

Greetings,

As a follow-up to my previous post about hair that is hidden when wearing hats, Takeo Suzuki has provided the below comment in regards to recent developments.

Lead designer Takeo Suzuki here.

While it all depends on the volume of hair, we spoke to the character team about hair that is covered up when wearing hats, and they have been looking into how to address it.



With the implementation of the beauty salon in patch 2.1, we revamped all the hairstyles with the character team and it looks like they were able to address the below issue. This will be reflected in patch 2.1.
(This hairstyle will be addressed for all races.)



By the way, just to clue you in as to how the development decides whether or not to hide hair, they follow the below policy:

• Hair on the side is hidden when bangs contain a lot of volume
• The features shown should be reflected the same way for all races

Actually, development cost-wise, it costs more to create shapes to properly fit hats than it does to hide them, but the hair styles that are to be added in the future will also follow this policy. We will also be addressing hair with a lower volume so it is displayed appropriately.

[Hikozaemon]

how about some more hairstyles in general? Roegadyn and Highlanders really got shafted in the hair department.

[Coldbrand]

Why even have a subscription if you focus so much effort on cost-avoidance measures?

[Marcus]

What about the hair hiding hats issue?

[Baldur]

how about some more hairstyles in general? Roegadyn and Highlanders really got shafted in the hair department.

What about male Elezen? They are very much lacking in the hair department, especially in comparison to the other races.

[Shioban]

Why even have a subscription if you focus so much effort on cost-avoidance measures?

There's a difference between spending 3 days on making one hair-type fit a hat, or choosing to simply hide the obstructive part of the model and finalizing the graphics within an hour.

1.23 is testament to the developers spending too much time fussing on smaller details, affecting the time-frame they had to work on the grander scheme of things.


It's a problem I face too in my work, where I have to sacrifice detail in order to achieve the most productive route.

[ErikMynhier]

Greetings,

As a follow-up to my previous post about hair that is hidden when wearing hats, Takeo Suzuki has provided the below comment in regards to recent developments.

Is the salon patch dealing with hair only or will our facial hair be getting some love too?

[Jennica]

Hair is not a quality of life thing, please stay on topic