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QoL Change - Show Day Jobs at Character Selection

Blue Rabbit

By Blue Rabbit,
Posted on: 2010-01-04 14:53 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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It dawned on me the other night while I was logging in that it'd be extremely convenient to see where exactly your characters are when you log in, for those who want to optimize earning Day Job credit.

As it is now, we can see what zone they're in, but if the system can track where a given character is, it might be nice to see, for example, "Agent Tavarisch: Rikti War Zone (Vanguard Base)", or "Profiteer: Cap au Diable (Vault Reserve)".

To go one step farther, it'd be REALLY nice to see how far you have to go on said badge to EARN it, if you don't have it already, but that's just gravy.

Would this be doable?

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I don't believe the system actually tracks which Day Job you are at while logged off, as I understand it determines which badge gets credit as you log back in.

 

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Yup, as Shadow State... err... stated: logged out time is applied to the current Day Job location your toon is on upon logging in.

I like the idea of being able to see how far you have to go but as of the end of January, I won't have to worry about Day Jobs any longer... until GR comes out (and that's assuming new DJ will be available at that moment).

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I think it should say your most visited Day Job on your ID badge at least. In case you just decide to work on one out of the blue, you'll want to know which one you've done the most.

 

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Originally Posted by Shadow State View Post
I don't believe the system actually tracks which Day Job you are at while logged off, as I understand it determines which badge gets credit as you log back in.
Except that there is a little icon showing which day job location you are at BEFORE logging off. So there should be a smaller issue to display where you logged off than, say, the last costume you wore before logging off.

Oh wait, the game does that already.



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Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
Except that there is a little icon showing which day job location you are at BEFORE logging off. So there should be a smaller issue to display where you logged off than, say, the last costume you wore before logging off.

Oh wait, the game does that now.
Fixed.

And the icons are basically the results of AoE powers, which cannot affect you when logged off.

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There's nothing technically wrong with a QoL suggestion like this. But I would offer that the timing of such an improvement like this wouldn't really help the majority of players. This idea would have been cool when Day Job badges first appeared. But now?

Consider this:
There are plenty of people who don't even care about Day Job badges at all.
There are other people who cared about them enough that they are now (or very close) to being finished with them already.

I suspect that the people who are leftover (i.e. those who might like to track Day Job badges now but were not motivated enough to have been actively working them since day one) is such a small number of people that the amount of development effort it'd take our Devs to make these login screen improvements wouldn't really be justified.

Basically not a bad idea, but not a very likely one at this point either.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
Except that there is a little icon showing which day job location you are at BEFORE logging off. So there should be a smaller issue to display where you logged off than, say, the last costume you wore before logging off.

Oh wait, the game does that already.
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
Oh wait, the game does that now.
Fixed.
Well since "already" includes "now" I fail to understand why the need for the "fix". Yes, the costume display was introduced with Issue 16, but it has already been added to the game.

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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
And the icons are basically the results of AoE powers, which cannot affect you when logged off.
There is nothing to prevent the game from showing the day job location where you logged off at. The game shows which zone you logged off and (standard code rant aside) wouldn't be that complicated to show the day job as well. At that point, the player can mostly work out how much credit they have acquired by the last log on date.

I don't think that showing the day job location is an unreasonable QoL request. People seem to be making a big deal over minor QoL requests lately. This baffles me.



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I wasn't even asking to see how much time I had left on earning said day job. It'd just be nice to see who was parked where. Then if there's only a zone, I know the character in question will be working on Patroller/Criminal.

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
I wasn't even asking to see how much time I had left on earning said day job. It'd just be nice to see who was parked where. Then if there's only a zone, I know the character in question will be working on Patroller/Criminal.
People got fixated on this part:
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
To go one step farther, it'd be REALLY nice to see how far you have to go on said badge to EARN it, if you don't have it already, but that's just gravy.
After that, their whole reasoning became "blah blah blah blah blah blah, show badge progress on log in" rather than the actual suggestion.



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