/seek Chat Mode- "LEVEL 32 PUP LOOKING FOR PARTY...ANYONE? PLEASE?"

[Selzak]

Also can be done via shouts/lses. Not only that I'd imagine if you don't want to xp, then you'd have this filtered anyway. people arent going to want to listen to pages of "INVITE ME" unless they're actually forming a group, and then it's much easier to just use the search function.

You'd only see this chat if you were LFP and had an EXP flag up.

There is no such thing as "level range" with level sync. If you grouped people into the level ranges for those seeking, you might as well have them just talk in tells as there would be so few in the channel.

I think that's a problem, and would really appreciate a push towards similarly leveled players comprising at least most of an EXP party. I don't think level sync intended to regularly put level 75 NINs in a Qufim EXP party, but to allow for more flexibility in building parties (like letting that level 26 guy party with a group of 20's, 22's, and 24's). I think it's unfortunate that it's used more for the former situation, and I would hardly say that there's no such thing as level range- just that it's not unavoidable.

Then it's not a problem with the medium of communication but the laziness of the people looking for party. Once you put up your flag you are visible by EVERYONE who types "/sea all invite". If what you bring to the table is good enough there's no reason why anything more than /seacom is needed for finding members.

You're absolutely right, if everyone was willing to communicate with all the people who were searching and everyone was willing to lead parties then this wouldn't be very useful. However, the vast majority of people LFP are lazy and that's exactly why I think something like this, which promotes communication and initiates conversations about grouping, would be helpful.

I see this stance a lot on here and I think it's a little silly.

"Well if people..."
"Players just need to...."
"You can already...if you really want to..."

When talking about a broad attitude that influences the entire game, there's no point in mentioning that things would be different if people felt or acted another way.
I remember during the RMT days when the game's economy was horrendously broken you'd hear things like:
"Well, people just need to stop buying gil and then they'll go away."

While it's true, you have to approach problems realistically sometimes because theoretical solutions only go as far as they're going to actually be applied.