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.

[ilKhan]

Farming/Planting, maybe in a patch of land beside the player's house.

I really like this idea. Too bad I didn't think of it. This would make the Botanist class a lot easier. Of course, I think a limit to what and how much you can plant should be in place. Maybe you can only plant stuff that's at least five levels below your Botanist level and only one plant overall for every level below that level and you can only harvest from your personal plants once, maybe twice a day.

Actually, I just love that whole third post. Maybe not just farming on player house, but ranching as well? Go out and tame mounts and other creatures and then breed them to sell. That's a whole other class. Maybe include a Farmer/Rancher job for the fieldcraft classes. And I love being able to share sidequests. It would make leveling as a party a lot easier.

[wilfredchen]

Major Features/Improvements - Follow up

• Materia in FFVII allow the characters to use certain spell/skill so it would be nice if there are Materia which also allow player to use certain spell and not just status boost. This would allow same classes to be a bit more different. It would be more fun when PvP is implemented and when your opponent is not expecting you to use that skill/spell. (this or the weapon bond skill suggested on the 3rd post would add more diversity in classes )
• There are different weathers in game but I am not sure if they effect any game play but it would be nice if they effect thing like.. e.g. status, attack damage, visibility/range of spell, effect on spell (e.g. fire will be weaker in rain), or some dungeon monsters/monsters become stronger/weaker in certain weather or you can only catch certain fish, or gather certain plants depending on the weather.

[wilfredchen]

Minor Features/Improvements - Follow up

• Add/upgrade current NPCs that walk around (e.g. guards go on patrol, citizens got their own chore) which can make the city and the game world more lively.

[Malfis]

I need the /sleep emote so I can relax and enjoy sleeping outside or sleep in my inn bed haha