Petition to make shouts in Uldah heard in all cities.

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Originally Posted by Dav

Uldah has become very crowded and laggy. It was bad before, and now its a nightmare.

A simple solution is to make so shouts in Uldah can be heard in Limsa and Gridania.
Another solution is to make a <recruit> shoutline that can be heard system wide.

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+1 to this

Here's the simple, canonical answer.

Each of the major media outlets could open up a public forum in the likeness of a linkshell, allowing posting of city-wide news (e.g. party shouts). One could use the forum when in a city to make a public announcement, and anyone could listen in as long as they were somewhere in Eorzea.

Set it up in the chat filters and use it similar to a linkshell (only difference being "write privileges" only allowed in town), boom problem solved in a completely logical way.

Actually, wasn't something similar to that being planned for 2.0? I get the sensation that, akin to the linked market wards, a unified shout channel is probably out of their technical boundaries.
I think that as it is there aren't "chat channels" and more "everyone at X range hears you" with Say and Shout, whereas Linkshell and Party probably use a similar system. I am unsure how capable they are of adpating the LS/PT system for a global shout and wether or not it is actually worth the development time to implement that.

I support an LFG channel!

I world wide LFG channel that can be turned off by those who don't want to see it would be nice. I would probably turn it off unless I was bored like yesterday when I answered shouts and went along with random people to get AF pieces and such.

I would rather be out chopping down trees and still able to see LFG channel vs standing in town.

We do have a search and LFG function on the main menu...if only people would use it you would never have to worry about seeing shouts from Ul'dah...IJS!!!

I don't think this is a good idea. Some other games have tried that and it has failed BIG time.

Well, I was listed in the search that I was available as whm/blm for anything and the shouters were not finding me that way. I would like it if they did and it would resolve the shouting issue too.

I agree it would be nice if more people used the search feature. I use it. Unfortunately most people do not and they are not going to. A simple lfg channel or a expanded shout channel is the simple solution.

Currently, we are unable to implement a shout between all of the city-states because it would make the servers become more laggy due to the increased number of players being added that are receiving the shouts. However, we know that this is a much desired feature, and as such, we'll definitely be keeping in mind as we move forward. :)