[DEV????] Proposed Search and Seek Invite interface (PICS)

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Absolutely a brilliant post. /Thumbsup on the hard work that it took to make the visual prototype design.

You should work for SE.... seriously.

signed. very nice and easy use.

Was going to translate and post this on the JP side but OP already has 180+ likes lol, pretty sure Rep's sent this one in to the devs already, if nothing then I'll post it on the JP side.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Was going to translate and post this on the JP side but OP already has 180+ likes lol, pretty sure Rep's sent this one in to the devs already, if nothing then I'll post it on the JP side.

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That would be cool Reinheart, if you're still willing. I'd love to see what our JP friends have to say about this.

Wow that looks really good @_@

Seek Invite? {Yes, Please.}

In FINAL FANTASY XI you have to seek on the job you are on. So you sit in Jeuno all day waiting for an invite.

With this proposed feature, I can Seek Invite for my R20 CON while playing my R10 BTN and not have to wait around idle for someone to invite me.

Signed.

Exactly, that should be the goal.

b u m p (b^.^)b

Double bump >.> this thread needs to be seen.

Makes too much sense! So prob wont happen but I certainly hope they take a look. The seek feature really stinks right now and as much as XI's version would be good I always wanted a LFP option for multiple jobs at once which this does and pretty easily too.

This has a few thumbs up

I gave it three.

bump again up^^

PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

only 10x more posts and pages and SE might say something about a topic EVERYONE agrees with....YAY!

Bump

Maybe I'm being a little too optimistic, but I think we might see a rep response on this sometime early this week. It's a simple matter with a simple solution. The more people that see this, the better.

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Originally Posted by Acerimmer

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It certainly does Ace Rimmer :P I'm Ace Rimmer too!!!

Would be a good improvement on the current system..

DEV'S! Please add this (or something like it) to the 1.19 list ASAP. The 1.19 patch looks like it could be pretty awesome, but alot will still fail without at least a decent party search system! THIS IS A MUST!!!

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Originally Posted by Exni

DEV'S! Please add this (or something like it) to the 1.19 list ASAP. The 1.19 patch looks like it could be pretty awesome, but alot will still fail without at least a decent party search system! THIS IS A MUST!!!

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very true, it would be sad to see all this stuff about party bonuses and so many more group events coming just to have them feel ruined because we cant effectively find groups. Its the one big flaw as to why i havent stayed logged in to get levels up and ready for future content...theres never any groups being shouted for or made in the recruit thing.

/signed

MeowyWowie 1) This has to be one of the best requested post I have seen so far and totally forgot there was even a search feature IN XIV! lol And now that I have seen it, it looks ... meh. I longed since launch for a search or more or less the old XI feature to just /sea all which MANY have mentioned. It was easy to use. Also, I was wondering why they didn't have the icon feature like in XI that showed, "Hey, this guy is looking for a PT too! Let's invite them!" HOW could this have been over looked? *sigh

2) When you played XI MeowyWowie, what world were you on and under what name?

I'm seeing more and more people shouting for parties on Fabul lately, yet not a single person is using our current system. It's incredibly difficult to even check if people are seeking with our current system anyways, so I may be wrong but I doubt it.

Fact is, people want to party. People are realizing how good SP is in party situations (up to 50k/hour is some cases). And I'm hoping people are seeing how much more fun it is to grind with other people than to solo.

This system needs to be fixed, as soon as possible. As Exni said, with 1.19 we will see even more party based content being added. Yet we'll still have a broken recruitment interface.

Put this at the top of your list SE, the game needs it now more than ever.

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Originally Posted by Geesus

2) When you played XI MeowyWowie, what world were you on and under what name?

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Akio - Sylph

"but...but...but...we put in a "seek" button....see...we are trying right?"

why a real system was not put in a LONG time ago is kind of confusing, like they are saying "do how we want it or dont do it at all!" ...or at least tanaka would have been just like that...

I know they want to keep far away from FFXI, and just mentioning that game make some people get angry... but, they should just use the search and lfp function of FFXI. It worked well. At least use it as a foundation to build upon. This is basic stuff that they have somehow made so difficult.

This is the best thread.

Please the game need this as soon as possible.

To the OP, or anyone who knows.. Has there been any response whatsoever from the DEVs regarding the state of the recruit system and future plans for it? Is this an issue they are even considering at this point? I wasn't able to find anything. I know they haven't got around to talking about plans for post 1.19 much, but they could at the very least recognize the issue if they haven't already.

They've acknowledged that the system is broken and stated that they will be making adjustments to improve it. There are no specific details, though.

If their planned "fixes" are anything similar to their last "fix" (adding the seek invite to drop down selection) I think it's safe to say that they are just wasting their time.

im quite surprised there has been NO response to this. Its clearly a problem and will hinder much of the effort to add in lots of group content. This should have been dealt with a while ago (people have been asking since day 1) and i think it would be a very nessicary thing for 1.19...hell for the community in general. It feels dead in the game when noone uses what we have now or have to stick to LS only because there is little choice in it and its overly complicated for no reason.

I'm also surprised by the lack of response. The sample screenshots of the proposed system was excellent. I seriously hope the devs take notice and take careful notes.

/singed!

we need this in-game badly! im sick and tired of shouting in town for an SP party -.- and i actually used to use the recruiting thing on FFXIV when the game first came out but it sucked. I hope this is put into the game everything about it looks amazing! Also nobody ever uses the damn recruit or lfp thing anymore that ffxiv made, atleast not on my server.

Please fix it SE!

UP, BUMP, signed again

Excellent work, I hope SE takes notice, and that we will get news soon on some updates to this system :)

Signed!
That exactly what we need.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Was going to translate and post this on the JP side but OP already has 180+ likes lol, pretty sure Rep's sent this one in to the devs already, if nothing then I'll post it on the JP side.

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Looks like you have ro Reinheart. ;) Sadly no answer from the Dev's yet. Would be very neat if you could put this into the Japanese Forum. ^^

any issue that everyone agrees on must have at lea st 100 pages and 1k posts before a dev response XD

obvious necessary feature is obvious.....except to SE.

Excellent post. Although I feel the menus could be designed a bit better than in your pictures and require less information than you have suggested.

Search feature has to be redone entirely as it stands.

- Kurokikaze

Totally great idea. I can't fault your suggestion in the least. But... the current state of the menus, an overwhelming emphasis must be placed on the server response. Clicking all those buttons, class needed, reason for joining, time, in our heads it's all fast and simple, click, click, boom! However, if we've learned anything from FF14's menu system it's slow, unresponsive and likes to ask if we're sure.

I can see it now. Filter out Lancers. "Are you sure?" Filter in Conj. "Are you sure?" Filter on leve's. "Are you sure?" Press search. "Are you sure?" Get angry. Log out. "Are you sure?"

Regardless, you got my 'like'.

The main emphasis on this system is the ability to search and seek for multiple purposes on multiple classes simultaneously. The proposed system is something that only took me a few minutes of brainstorming, followed by a few hours of photoshop. I'm sure there are much better ways to implement it.

Anything is better than what we have now.

+100

SE take notice please. =)