Ease to missions and quests
Unfortunatly, the Search Comment menu is broken. People dont use it to post quests and missions. Some few use it to put up theyr trial progressions, what drops they want in Dynamis, exp party-comments etc.
Finding people to do missions and quests via the search menu is practically impossible. If people would actually use it for missions and quest, it would be incredibly time-consuming to search through all comments, just to find someone on the same mission that you are on.
What I suggest is that there is a "Flag" system for missions and quests. You would have a log of all your current missions and quests and the ability to "flag" the one you want done. Lets call this the "Missions and Quests Flag-list".
Now, to find out how many people needs the mission or quest you are on, you enter the "Search Missions and Quests"-menu and select the the one you need. Then a list of people who have theyr flag up will appear.
This could avoid massive time-waste on shouting and make players focus on what they actually want to do... wich is to have fun^_-
The flag list would be saved so you didnt have to put up your flag everytime you log in.
If you want to read the full version of this thread, read below the line. Also, if you want to comment, I suggest reading the whole thing ^_-
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(Unfortunatly I have a bad habit of making my threads very long. So in order to spare you a "Wall-of-text", I made a short version of it above this line. What comes now is mostly the background for this thread. So if any of you wanna keep reading, be warned of a long thread^_-)
I searched the forum and only found 1 thread that was kinda similar to what I want to post, but not the same.The post was "Mission/quest board in all 4 cities" by Dimitrius, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...n-all-4-cities
Dimitrius's post suggested a board similar to the FFXII board. Here you could check what quests others are on when they registrate themselfs there. But this leads to certan problems. I wont get into that much, you can read that on his thread if you want to.
Now, I am after the same thing; Easyer way to get people to do quests and missions.
"Using shouts and forum posts is still the best way to do it. Shouts have the added advantage that people can tell their linkshell members that someone is shouting for a particular mission." This is what Kristal says in the thread and I have to say, I couldnt agree more with him/her.
I would like a solution to this because I am a strong believer in that a game should be fun, otherwize, why would you play it?
The "/sigh factor" as I like to call it, is when you have to do something unnessicary.
(look at my Quick Fix thread if you are interested, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...hlight=%2Fsigh)
And when you shout for hours, thats a big /sigh factor. That time you spend shouting, is a time you would rather be doing the mission/quest you are shouting for. It can be very frustrating to shout that long, especially when you dont get any results.
(look at my EXP/Gil please thread if you are interested, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ight=EXP%2FGil) (btw: please, remeber to read the whole thread b4 u comment^_-)
So enneway, there was alot of discussions on this on ffxiclopedia.org, but I figured I should post it on this forum since its more likely that SE read it here.
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Unfortunatly, the Search Comment menu is broken. People dont use it to post quests and missions. Some few use it to put up theyr trial progressions, what drops they want in Dynamis or exp party-comments.
Finding people to do missions and quests via the search menu is practically impossible. If people would actually use it for missions and quest, it would be incredibly time-consuming to search through all comments, just to find someone on the same mission that you are on.
What I suggest is that there is a "Flag" system for missions and quests. You would have a log of all your current missions and quests and the ability to "flag" the one you want done. Lets call this the "Current Missions and Quests Flag-list".
To now find out how many people needs the mission or quest you are on, you enter the "Search Missions and Quests"-menu and select the the one you need. Then a list of people who have theyr flag up will appear.
This could avoid massive time-waste on shouting and make players focus on what they actually want to do... wich is to have fun^_-
The flag list would be saved so you didnt have to put up your flag everytime you log in.
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I am certan that if SE replys to this thread, theyr answer will be something like; "...due to the game being old and all, the technical work to be able to get this done, will be very time consuming and unfortunatly thats not something we can prioritize atm.." If it is, I say: "Do it!" XD
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