Ok I've been talking to a lot of people in linkshells and posted this on reddit. I honestly think this game needs a Party finder that's similar to the way FFXIV but a little simpler and without the auto join feature. The Party Finder in FFXIV serves as pretty much a bulletin board for whats going on around server at that time and makes doing content a lot easier. No longer would you need to sit in town and yell uncontrollably to get a party for any event. You could throw together a couple people put it up in party finder and go do a quest while you wait for people. Oh no your Abyssea party is down to 8 people, no worries just put up that PF and you won't have to leave the zone.

Yeah I know you put a search feature in that can look for a comment that coincides what you are looking for but honestly I don't know anyone that uses it and it's pretty awful (I'm sorry I don't want to sound rude but really it isn't that great). I believe if you put a command under the party menu (Find Party, Party Finder, Bulletin Board, what ever you wanna call it) that pulls up a simple window. Open opening the window you will have 2 options: Post your party or search for parties available already. In the search window you will have 3 columns Event / Location / Party Leader. Maybe even a 4th option for level.

The Event needs to be first to catch that persons eye and will only be selectable items so all languages can read it (There could be an Other selection if it's something completely different). Upon pressing one of those items a Bazaar message window will pop up that will explain the event in the players words. under the message will be a tell command and a cancel command. Upon using Tell you can talk to the leader and he can invite you. No Auto joins...

I think with this simple addition you could breathe a lot of life into this game and people would be a lot more active instead of being afk 80% waiting for a good shout or hawking FFXIAH shout feature, and you wouldn't have to stay in the town so much so you can go out and explore a whole lot more. Not only that it will making grouping up fun again and bring people together a lot more often for all sorts of things. This is a MMO after all.


PS: I 100% DON'T think Duty Finder should be in this game at all, so please don't mention it. Matchmaking will not work in FFXI.