145267-my-long-list-of-qol-improvements

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Instances
Possibility to interrupt the timer!Out of combat
Group vote
Need 4/5 thumbs up
Blue circle spawns around the leader for 10 seconds. All group members have to enter the circle. Circle changes it color to green. Timer stops. First player who leave the circle terminates the pause mode. 
Add a starting line in every instance with a timer! The timer will start after the first group member runs over it. 
Add details about Medals in Expeditions and Adventures! Why is it possible to add the information in the objective tracker for Dungeons but not for Adventures and Expeditions? 
Spaceport
There are so many different teleporters at the capital city spaceport. Totally confusing for new players and annoying for veteran players. Suggestion: One big ship with on console where you can choose between all destinations.  To make it a little bit more „realistic“ you could add one more ship for Farside because it’s not on Nexus itself. 
And one more thing: Instant teleports are cool, right … probably it’s only my opinion but this huge amount of teleporters are disturbing me. The persistence of the world is totally lost.  Would it be possible to add some sort of cinematic or animation? Let’s say the ship starts, it rises up, the “turbo dive” is activated, and wuushhhhhhh … loadingscreen … other zone … landing approach! It would be such a cool flair!
 
Housing
Yeah … Housing! SOOOOOO many possibilities and so many good suggestions on the forum. The problem: time! Because of this I have only listed some smart things.
We need some amazing tabs at the vendor:What’s new?
Recently bought
It would be nice to get something like a „furniture catalogue“A list of ALL decor items in game with the possibility to preview decor, an information where you can get it from …
What’s new tab
Lot’s of amazing filters: material, color, race, type …
Account wide crate
The possibility to look into the crate from all over the world
 
PUGs and Contentfinder
Could you add a „Leave Instance“ button? Why isn’t it possible to leave the instance while waiting for a new player or other things. It’s possible to teleport out of an instance with the normal teleport skill and teleport back to it via Contentfinder button. So there are no technical limitations, or?! 
Toys and Consumables
Would it be possible to remove the cast time for most toys and vanity consumables? Cast times are always not amazing and I don’t understand why you need them for all the vanity stuff. 
Interface
ChatAdd a “Join Group“ function to the player context menu
Add a function to get more information about a player. Add a „Inspect“ function into the context menu or add a „Shift + right click“ option like other games.
Add a context menu for posted items to let us preview them (housing, Equip …)
It’s not possible to preview a quest 
PreviewPreview for Mounts
Preview for Pets
Preview for Flairs
Preview for FABKits
If you want to rotate the character in the item preview with the mouse, you will move the preview window at the same time. 
The lack of context menus!There are lot of UI elements with item icons, but without a context menu:Account Inventory
Contracts (Rewards)
Path Log (Rank Rewards)
Daily Login Bonus 
WhoAdd a search field 
LoreActually this addon needs a complete overhaul! It’s laggy and looks awful.
Zone LoreSome categories are sorted incorrectly 
Daily Login BonusAdd a function which scrolls down to the next reward after opening the window. 
Level Up UnlockActually this addons need a complete overhaul!More details about new features and systems!
What’s Next? 
CraftingAdd a multi craft function!
I've never understand why the "Achievement Unlock" and "Techtree Achievement Unlock" share the same asset. Especially for new players that´s totaly confusing! And by the way … the asset is totally unattractive.
It would be nice to see more information on a craftin schematic. Itemslot, quality … PREVIEW function 
CollectiblesAdd a „summon“ button for mounts!
Remove the lists of mount flairs and add some buttons with bigger submenus.
Add a button like „flair sets“,  which adds all flairs of a specific set to the mount.
Revisit the camera positions for pets. Some are too far away or too close.
Remove the cast time for pets… PLEASE!
Add more details about pets and mounts into the UI. Especially where you get them would be nice to know!
Toys tab? :D
Account wide … 
ChallengesAdd more varied rewards. I really don’t need these ******* rune crafting bags … 
Achievements"View Achievement" - Button after achievement unlock is still bugged (since release). It doesn´t show the achievement in most cases. My suggestion: Simply put the name of the achievement into the search input!
I would really love to see more rewards for achievements. In general .. the potential of the system is totaly unused. You could add so much content with it only by adding more rewards for achievements. (no more titles, pls)
Account wide … 
MapEventsAdd Details about the event! What phase? What to do? How much time is left?
Zone Progress: Has this information ever been right?
Nav PointsYou can only set one point and you have to click on it at the objective tracker to see the right direction. It would be better to see an permanent arrow and to set multiple points. It would be also nice to have the possibility to post a NavPoint in the chat or share it with your current group! 
Content FinderI have to say ... I´m really disappointed. First time I saw the UI I thought it would be possible to create and search for groups. But no ... it´s the known matchmaking system with a new (nice) UI. No multi-queue, no new functions. The "Suggested" - Tab is a really good idea for new players ... But it´s ugly and I don´t know if it wil be really helpfull. In my opinion you should show more things with categories and something like that! Combine it with the "Level Up Unlock" .- UI and more ...There are so many possibilities....
PvE-Tab -> Quests: Could you add an icon for finished subzones as well? It´s a little bit annoying to open every tab to see where you´ve forgotten something. 
Add a fourth tab called "New"
Here you can show new dungeons, features, zones, quest chains etc. which were added with the last content patch!
In my opinion this would be really helpful for players who don´t like to visit websites and read articles! 
Path LogAdd a function to show the navigation arrow by clicking on a mission. 
InventoryAdd an item set manager!
Add a search field
Crafting SatchelWE NEED MORE ICONS! The lack of different icons has always been a eyesore for me. Not only at crafting ... But with drop # 6 you gonna reach a pain threshold! It´s no longer possible to see a difference between crafting materials overall. 
Holo WardrobeAdd a function to rename costume sets
Add some sort of effect after unlocking a costume piece 
CharacterEntitlements: Add some sort of categories or something like that. It’s total mess! 
Item ShopIn my opinion you have build it really complicated. Buy an item, go into the account inventory, search for it, bind it to this account, search for it, bind it to this character, open inventory, use it ... Holy Lopp ...
It's not a secret, that the community really want to have more account wide things ;) 
Action Set BuilderAdd some sort of background at the AMP screen
Does the window really have to be so big?
Add an “item set/action set” - set tool (after you have added an item set tool)
Add an information about additional Skill Point and AMP Point unlocks for new players. 
Account InventoryActually this addons need a complete overhaul!Add some sort of catgeories
Add multi claim options 
Commodities Exchange and AuctionhouseYeah … there is a ton of good feedback on the forum! It’s a horrible UI! 
Rune CraftingYeah … there is a ton of good feedback on the forum! It’s a horrible UI! 
QuestsIt’s not easy to abandon multiple quest. You have to click category -> quest -> button every time! It would be nice to get a abandon function at the objective trackers. 
GeneralImprove the resize option for different UI elements. It’s not fun to search for the tiny area where you can click to resize a window.
			
				
	Edited October 25, 2015 by Greyn	
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Excellent list, agree with all of it. These are precisely the sort of QoL and accessibility improvements I had hoped the devs would work on for the F2P patch. Alas.
 
What's signficant is that this is a long list, but the improvements needed by the Auction House and Runecrafting systems are not included, just referred to. These could fill up another two lists of similar length.
 
It's a major amount of work needed and I know some players will claim the devs have "more important things to do". But for me, there's nothing more important than accessibility. A confusing, cluttered and buggy UI drives players away just as much as the lag or lack of appropriate content. At its core this game has exciting combat, beautiful visuals and a quirky, engaging story. But all too often access to it is masked by a truly terrible UI and way too much avoidable confusion and clutter.	
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You're entire first section about timers in instances is... confusing to me and unnecessary? really not sure I follow you on this one
 
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Oh wait, do you mean stop the instance timer? Like the one that determines if you get medal points? that one?
 
Ok, in that case, yeah seems totally unnecessary. If you get timed bonuses in a pug, cool! but they are timed for a reason. it's more meant for a coordinated premade, in which case you dont need a pause function. still seems weird to me to have a pause function like this. I'd rather they not waste time on it personally if that time would be better spent on some other system
			
				
	Edited October 25, 2015 by Kezra	
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Ok so otherwise reading your list I'm hit or miss.
 
Definitely agree on content finder, I was also hoping for a feature of listing and searching groups for things to do.
 
But then for some other things I think they should be put pretty far down for urgency since we are able to totally mod this game via addons. 
 
Content finder is something that we cant have an addon to fix, because we need the whole population to use the content finder, not just those that download addons.
 
Still, decent list overall	
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			I approve this list, up vote +1. I agree the timer in instances are neat, I like the idea needs refined bit though. 	
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			Something I would love to add, separate "send all to crate" for interior and exterior.	
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I like this list! :D
 
Being able to name my costume sets would be fabulous. I often have to click through all of them trying to remember which outfit is which. xD	
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Bump. Great post!
 
I like a lot of these. QoL is a huge issue for dedicated players, read: players that spend a ton of money on the game and support it long-term. Some moves in the right direction in Drop 6 for sure, but most were focused on bringing in new players. Next step should focus on retention, IMO.
 
If I may offer one PvP suggestion:
 
Improve the end-of-match report layout and design, so players can more easily find out how they can improve and help their teams win.
 
Here's a great player-lead effort in that direction, by the way: http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/237016-pvptab
			
				
	Edited October 25, 2015 by ManyWeAre	
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Would it be possible to add some sort of cinematic or animation? Let’s say the ship starts, it rises up, the “turbo dive” is activated, and wuushhhhhhh … loadingscreen … other zone … landing approach! It would be such a cool flair!
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Some of this sounds interesting, but I have to be honest when I say a LOT of it just sounds like personal preference. I do like the idea of a clearly defined starting point for the timer in instances. But the pause circle would be abused.
 
I don't know. The problem with QoL improvements is that it too often treads close to the ambiguous 'FUN' arguments. It's hard to define.
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			Edit: Added some things ;)	
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May have missed it. Didn't see it on the list, but...
 
Auction House
 
By all that is holy, stop sending us back to page one any time we buy or bid on something! 	
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Wow, a lot to digest from the OP here, but it's a good list!
 
As far as the teleporting goes, there is waaaaaay too much of it in WS. It makes the world feel so tiny, though it's super convenient to get around in a timely manner at times too so that's a tough one. I'm not sure adding a cinematic is the way to go there, at this point the backlash could be too great. Though, perhaps if it was skippable via the ESC function? I dunno, we already have a casting time on them (I don't know what the love affair with casting times in this game is either) so adding even more time seems counter productive at this point.
 
The rest? Yeah...I'm on board with pretty much everything here.	
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May have missed it. Didn't see it on the list, but...
 
Auction House
 
By all that is holy, stop sending us back to page one any time we buy or bid on something! 
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			I really think this list is pretty complete for the most part. The only thing I would add would be better ways to identify party member locations. I would love to be able to mouseover the icons on the world map and know who is who, or to mouseover their name on the group window and see a tooltip with their location. Also being able to see members outside the zone you're in would be great!	
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I really think this list is pretty complete for the most part. The only thing I would add would be better ways to identify party member locations. I would love to be able to mouseover the icons on the world map and know who is who, or to mouseover their name on the group window and see a tooltip with their location. Also being able to see members outside the zone you're in would be great!
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