Feedback on F8 Key Targeting Follow

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/23183-Feedback-on-F8-Key-Targeting?p=320789&viewfull=1#post320789

F8 is currently based on the distance from a lateral plane of your character's position instead of a proper vector, so if your character was on the origin and facing directly up the Y axis the distance to something is only calculated as directly vertical from the X axis, so something that is 'closer' to an imaginary line going through your shoulders but fifteen feet to the left than something ten feet directly in front of you gets priority. At least that's how I've always noticed it to work. This is why people might complain about it not handling quite right. I remember them 'screwing it up' at least once though and it started like... working right? Like they fixed their vector math or something. I don't use F8 as religiously anymore, instead using F1-Tab to pick targets even in a crowd, so it might have stayed 'fixed'.

I believe the 'first' target when you press Tab or Num-0 is picked the same way, but I've learned to align my camera with what I want to target quickly, hit F1 to target myself, then Tab or Shift-Tab to get to it.

But like everything in this game, once you know how to utilize it, nothing could fathomably work better, so people like me who have been playing with the same interface for 8+ years might be the wrong people to talk to about changing it.

F8 does have some weird categorization though. Sometimes it will target only mobs (like in Abyssea I think) and sometimes it will always target non-mobs (any quest-related point, most doors).

Edited, May 29th 2012 10:57pm by Raelix

I use f8 and find it very useful. I would hate to see it go by the wayside.
Making /target "Bubbling Bernie" actually work would be handy as well .

An alliance could be fighting multiple mobs per party or even per person depending on the event. So how would it even begin to prioritize, and if you want it to prioritize a specific person then boom .assist "person name."

<bt> is handy, I think <ht> also works if you're CFH'ing links in any situation.

Most of us just type //spell. We've long abandoned the idea that SE will do anything for the better in this case.