Negative Status icons on-screen effect?

[Aux]

Just a random thought that came up to me, I'm pretty sure someone else here must've talked about it before, but yeah I've yet to see it.

But was it ever brought up to SE if they could add negative status icons to players onscreen? Similar to FF7, FF8, etc, where you could see a ZzZ icon next to slept players, or the muted icon for silenced status, sunglasses for blinded, etc.

Maybe create an additional menu to filter out players "outside of party" or alliance.

Not sure if there are PS2 limitations, but knowing this programming wise it should not be hard to do, just a matter of laziness or not.

If they threw that in it would help big time..

[_chuchu]

Sounds like a great idea. I chuckled a bit at the sunglasses for the blind

[Zsky]

They already did it to toau crawlers and doom toads, but mostly for the signal effect to players that they wont aggro.

Likely reasons:
1) lazy
2) busy with other content
3) PS2 limitations

Still would like it implemented either way, perhaps in 2015.

[Hanyoko]

Well we have new levelsync icons next to names! #1 reason to not is most likely laziness

[nekura]

Would be nice to have this for mobs too. As much as I like trying to guess which Vanguard's Crow just came unsilenced, I'd rather just get it right the first time. Could have rotating status icons (ie: display silence icon, transition to sleep icon, transition to blinded icon) to deal with multiple status effects.

[Gtype954]

I was thinking about this too. Crawlers have a ZzZ next to them already.. Add it on slept PC people. Also, when a mob berserks or gets angry, it lights up red already.

These are how some should look.

Silenced: ... (3 dots in a cloud, above the head).

poisoned: Character Glows Purpleish.
Berserk: Character glows red.
Slept: Zzz (3 zzz like the crawlers).

So we dont gotta look rude spamming, erase please! lol.

not sure how slow and paralyzed or would come out.

but diseased could be greyish zombie look, and Charmed can be hearts over the head, or stars (like the spell confusion, which is basically what charm is in this game but a little different)

[ronin sparthos]

Paralyze has always been thunderbolts, Slow could just be the same icon currently used.

[hagun]

HP icon below a person's name would also be hot like in WOW and other MMOs.

/dream off

[The Stig]

Well a BIGGER or easier to read font for HP numbers that jump up would be nice too. I'm sick of fighting shit that are hugelikexbox and not seeing numbers, yet if I unfilter it then my log just gets spammed. The text should be OVER the mob too, not "behind" it, so it should have top priority...

[Omniyoji]

Well a BIGGER or easier to read font for HP numbers that jump up would be nice too. I'm sick of fighting shit that are hugelikexbox and not seeing numbers, yet if I unfilter it then my log just gets spammed. The text should be OVER the mob too, not "behind" it, so it should have top priority...

^ fully agree with the man that has his own small gravity field around his scrotum.

[Ophannus]

Would be annoying in campaign/besieged when everyone is hit with Sleepga or something.A persistant animation on 10+ people would get laggy.

[Asami]

What they COULD do really easily is give us an option to move the health bars from the right side to the left side so it's not as easy to miss these negative effects in the first place. For people with wide screens this is even a bigger issue. I imagine this option would be ridiculously easy for them to implement.

[Hanyoko]

Its been awhile but didnt FF12 have floaty icons for status effects?

Would be annoying in campaign/besieged when everyone is hit with Sleepga or something.A persistant animation on 10+ people would get laggy.

There in is part of the problem with the way FFXI handles graphics, something like that SHOULDN'T cause lag...

[Lordwafik]

Its been awhile but didnt FF12 have floaty icons for status effects?



There in is part of the problem with the way FFXI handles graphics, something like that SHOULDN'T cause lag...

Actually with the way FFXI handles graphics, it would.

[Kaylia]

Actually with the way FFXI handles graphics, it would.

If they limit it to your party, it probably wouldnt be so bad.