Suggestion on minor & major features/improvements

[wilfredchen]

Dear Yoshi-P and the development team of FFXIV ARR. Below are some suggestions and improvements that the game could use. Please implement them as you see fit. Thank you.

Minor improvements to Gameplay/Quality of life

• Armor and Weapon comparison on market board or NPC.
• comparison on weapon/armor current equipped with the new one you are going to equip so that players can see the different in status.
• Preview on how the armors/weapons look like on the player's character before buying Or just show the 3D preview.
• Auto dismount from mount when talking to NPC.
• Re-sizable in-game windows (inventory window, Armory window, etc..)
• one click Sorting/rearrange for inventory.
• Spell/Item linking in chat.
• Bigger or easy to find icon on map for party members. The small blue dot take some time to find sometime.
• Ability to buy item on market board in certain quantity, not the stack seller put up. (Maybe give option to seller if they want to sell the item in stack only or allow to sell them in certain quantity that the buyer want)
• setting way point on map for party members so that member know where we are heading.

[wilfredchen]

Minor improvement to Gameplay/Quality of life....

• Change the color of the name on players head when they are in party so that party member can spot each other easily especially in crowded area.
• Hot key that can be use to talk to nearest NPC instead of point click and right click.
• Option to return the item you just purchase from NPC shop within certain time (i.e 10 sec after u bought) with minor lost in gil (e.g 10% of the price of the item).
• Instead of teleporting back to Home point (sometime we forget to set home point and they are set in another city) when players die, I think it will be better to teleport players to the nearest Big Aetheryte Crystal.

To anyone who got suggestions too, please feel free to add on to this list. Thank you.

[wilfredchen]

Major Features/Improvements

• Duel Request with option to turn the feature off for players who don't wish to get duel request.
• Skill tied to weapon. (E.g Weapon got rank and when they rank up, you get certain skill tied with the weapon. Different sword or shield might have different skill on them)
• Ability to tame certain creatures in the wild which will fight along side the player.
• Ability to tame mounts. Add more mounts.
• Farming/Planting, maybe in a patch of land beside the player's house.
• Allow expension the player inventory bag or the retainer bag by buying a certain item like e.g 150 slot bag in game.

[Liquid_Amnesia]

To add to this, I don't understand why the friends list and linkshells are character bound rather than account bound. The way it is now, the characters are required to be online when added to your friends list. As such, you can't transfer gold or items between your characters on the same server because you can't add yourself to your own friends list. I understand that the supposed intention is to have one character do everything, but what if I prefer to have different races for different main jobs for aesthetic reasons?

In short:

- Linkshells and the friends list should be shared across the same account.

- They should implement a way to transfer goods between characters on the same server.

[wilfredchen]

Minor improvement to Gameplay/Quality of life - follow up....

• Ability to share side quests with party members from the journal so that other members don't need to run and find the quest giver to do it together.

[Tonzin]

- Linkshells and the friends list should be shared across the same account.

- They should implement a way to transfer goods between characters on the same server.

I agree that the friends list should be account bound and the friend request process should not require that the other person be online at the time of the request. I play at different hours then my brother and I can't friend him at all due to this.

I do not, however, agree with you on Linkshells being account bound. Linkshells are by invitation only and should remain that way. I do not want a bunch of my current Linkshell people having all of their Alt characters in the Linkshell that is designed for a specific purpose. For those Free Companies that use the Linkshells to institute structure then it becomes an administrative problem.

I also agree with you that there should be a way to transfer goods to another character of yours on the same server.

[KisaiTenshi]

. As such, you can't transfer gold or items between your characters on the same server ...

This has more to do with restricting cheating. On Freemium games, players make countless additional accounts as storage mules and as many characters as possible, just to cheat the inventory limits.

Like, there really is not much reason to create additional characters, even on the same server, and those characters have their own progress, so they shouldn't be allowed to just grab the gear from their other character.

In which I propose:
Have the gear armoire double as a gear transfer closet. Anything stored here that isn't race/gender specific can bypass the character bind. So all characters on the account (cross-server if possible) can access it. Do not allow gil/GC-gear/GC-seals to be stored. It's one thing to allow untradeable gear to be used only on your own characters, it's an other to exploit it to strip an account if it's hacked.

[Galen_Malchome]

This a Million times this.

Mail between characters would be nice to include items, a nice way to do this would be how Neverwinter Nights has implemented their mailing system.

There are 2 ways to mail items.
[character name]@[player tag]
@[player tag]

this is very helpful as you can mail yourself with @[player tag] and the mail is accessible by all characters on your account on that shard.

[MalcolmReynolds]

Minor improvement to Gameplay/Quality of life....

• Change the color of the name on players head when they are in party so that party member can spot each other easily especially in crowded area.

You can already do this. Go to Character Config --> Display Name Settings --> Others --> and click on Party Members.

[wilfredchen]

You can already do this. Go to Character Config --> Display Name Settings --> Others --> and click on Party Members.

Oh, got it, Thank you for the info.