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12-08-2011, 08:34 PM
Junpei

Player Search

I was expecting a carbon copy of the FFXI system. But they have made this better in just about every way possible!!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/31718

I'm going to suggest now that crafters who are available to meld/create for other players mark themselves as seeking parties, otherwise people will be sending tell's to all crafters who are online!
12-08-2011, 08:48 PM
Emraldilian

they just need a "seeking work" or something for gatherers and crafters that want to get some money without relying on the wards
12-08-2011, 08:49 PM
Betelgeuzah

Good start, can't wait to see the 2.0 version.
12-08-2011, 08:54 PM
AdvancedWind

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emraldilian

they just need a "seeking work" or something for gatherers and crafters that want to get some money without relying on the wards

This idea is actually very good.
12-08-2011, 08:56 PM
Khazar

+1 to "seeking work" feature for crafters!

pd: i like this new PC search!
12-08-2011, 08:58 PM
viion

Yeah its not bad, but its still imo very clunky, so many menus and options, all good but requires you to fill in 40 different options before you can seek. XI was just Menu > Seek and bam ur good to go lol.
12-08-2011, 09:04 PM
redmage

So glad we're finally getting this! And absolutely dig your idea Emraldilian. A "Seeking Work" status is very much needed!
12-08-2011, 09:05 PM
Junpei

Quote:

Originally Posted by viion

Yeah its not bad, but its still imo very clunky, so many menus and options, all good but requires you to fill in 40 different options before you can seek. XI was just Menu > Seek and bam ur good to go lol.

Thats all it on here. Open party menu, set online status to seek at the top...?
12-08-2011, 09:08 PM
Masamune1004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emraldilian

they just need a "seeking work" or something for gatherers and crafters that want to get some money without relying on the wards

Good Idea

Some more things i could think of:

Seeking item - for ppl looking to buy a certain item.

Seeking repair - for ppl seeking a crafter to repair a piece of gear.

Seeking craft - for ppl seeking a crafter to craft an item for them.
12-08-2011, 09:11 PM
Betelgeuzah

Quote:

Originally Posted by viion

Yeah its not bad, but its still imo very clunky, so many menus and options, all good but requires you to fill in 40 different options before you can seek. XI was just Menu > Seek and bam ur good to go lol.

Works here too, but just like with XI you could and probably should make a search comment too.
12-08-2011, 09:23 PM
Delmontyb

Quote:

* In patch 1.20, online statuses will only be displayed on the player search screen, but as of FINAL FANTASY XIV version 2.0, online statuses will also be displayed in players’ display names.

I'm excited for the search function, and as I quoted above I'm glad this is planned, however, it would be nice that if a player is seeking a party that green icon would show up above their head. I always enjoyed that and it made pick up groups much faster. :)

Just the ideas of running a leve and seeing someone else running a leve with a seeking party flag set, with how I play, would have me form a party with that player, rather then leave them alone as I don't want to "bother" them. :)

Looking forward to the updates :)
12-08-2011, 09:25 PM
Masamune1004

Quote:

Originally Posted by viion

Yeah its not bad, but its still imo very clunky, so many menus and options, all good but requires you to fill in 40 different options before you can seek. XI was just Menu > Seek and bam ur good to go lol.

Yeah, but most ppl are crafting while seeking a party so they cant just put up a party flag. I don't think anyone wants a lvl 50 Carpenter in their exp party lol.
12-08-2011, 09:45 PM
viion

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masamune1004

Yeah, but most ppl are crafting while seeking a party so they cant just put up a party flag. I don't think anyone wants a lvl 50 Carpenter in their exp party lol.

Yes they do! Wrist flick ftw!

lol but i guess you are all right, if its just Party > Set online > Accept i be fine with it. Just seems like a lot of options, especially to search too, XI was but at least you had text commends, here you dont so you have to fill out the form to get results.

Have to see if people use it this time.
12-08-2011, 10:07 PM
Masamune1004

Another thing I hope to see in the future is the ability to set multiple preferred jobs, unless they are going to let you do that already and i missed it. It'd be nice to show ppl I want to lvl CNJ lvl41, PUG lvl31, or THM lvl 20, not just CNJ lvl41. I could just put that in the comments, but then ppl wouldn't be able to see it unless they clicked on my name.

Quote:

* By default, only players within five levels of your current class level in a given area will be included in the search.

So the lvl20ish ppl looking for a THM won't even be able to see me on default settings.

I really don't care what class I am, I just wanna lvl :p.
12-09-2011, 12:32 AM
AtryxEtair

That system looks awesome! The only other thing i could ask for is a way to seek party on my 38 GLD while I'm mining on my 25 MNR or crafting. So I could do something productive while waiting for an invite.
12-09-2011, 12:40 AM
Masamune1004

Quote:

Originally Posted by AtryxEtair

That system looks awesome! The only other thing i could ask for is a way to seek party on my 38 GLD while I'm mining on my 25 MNR or crafting. So I could do something productive while waiting for an invite.

You can actually, it lets you set your preferred job to whatever you want, so you can be a miner and be looking for a party as a gladiator.
12-09-2011, 12:42 AM
Kiote

This is a Massive Step in the right direction. There is only one thing that stands out as missing.

We Need to be able to seek on multiple classes.

The #1 reason why people waited up over Six hours for a party in XI is because they had to pick one class and stick with it to seek. This very serious issue can be resolved by simply allowing us to pick and choose which classes we want to seek on simultaneously.
12-09-2011, 01:41 AM
Leo_Hart

Is the search range is the player all class or current active class? It is pretty useless if current active class only.
12-09-2011, 01:42 AM
AtryxEtair

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masamune1004

You can actually, it lets you set your preferred job to whatever you want, so you can be a miner and be looking for a party as a gladiator.

Oh, color my life complete then! I read that but didn't quite understand if it was for seeking or searching. Thx
12-09-2011, 01:46 AM
Xeno

It's... it's beautiful. :3
12-09-2011, 01:47 AM
Masamune1004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo_Hart

Is the search range is the player all class or current active class? It is pretty useless if current active class only.

I'm not sure, I'd have to say it's active class, but it looks like we can change it to display all lvls anyway if I understand them correctly.
12-09-2011, 02:02 AM
Orophin

Out of all the announcements this morning, this was the only one I truly liked. The dying system and auction system were pretty underwhelming.

I'm also liking the suggestions I'm seeing for crafters looking for work. It'd be nice to see this implemented somehow.
12-09-2011, 02:24 AM
Pyretta_Blaze

Yay! I can go chop down trees and seek for a Stronghold party as CNJ. I hope it is easy to use so everyone starts using it right away.
12-09-2011, 02:26 AM
Estellios

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leo_Hart

Is the search range is the player all class or current active class? It is pretty useless if current active class only.

Quote:

Preferred Class
This can only be selected from the pull-down menu when your online status is set to “Seeking a Party.”

You pick what class you want to play as from a drop-down menu. Just that alone makes it immediately better than 11's.
12-09-2011, 02:36 AM
Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Quote:

Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

Works here too, but just like with XI you could and probably should make a search comment too.

I'm wondering if you can use the auto-translator when you're writing your comment. The current search feature does not allow this so it's hard to let people in other regions know what you're looking for. :(
12-09-2011, 02:38 AM
Kiara

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

I'm wondering if you can use the auto-translator when you're writing your comment. The current search feature does not allow this so it's hard to let people in other regions know what you're looking for. :(

+1

Agreed. I hope they allow Auto-Translator to function in the Comments Section, which would help a lot with bringing players of different languages together for Party Search (we do that now with /shouts in town).
12-09-2011, 02:48 AM
Antanias

Now we get to worry about whether the servers can handle everyone using the PC search at the same time.

In all seriousness, +2 for this feature :)
12-09-2011, 03:42 AM
KiniRyris

Very very happy to see this, no more will i just sit in town crafting looking for those party shouts! Now i can Go off and solo Leves or Mine! I love you SE this right here makes the game for me
12-09-2011, 04:33 AM
DNO

I have a question. I know ill be slammed with "Can you read" but i want to know if we search someone it shows all the job we leveled? I dunno if i like that if true. If i want to seek i wonna seek on the job im seeking on. I dont wonna seek on MRD and have someone say please bring your ARC. I hope that is not the case.
12-09-2011, 05:23 AM
Estellios

The Search list looks like it only shows one class, the "Preferred" class (and I'm guessing your current class if you havent set anything as Preferred).
12-09-2011, 05:27 AM
Garlen

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNO

I have a question. I know ill be slammed with "Can you read" but i want to know if we search someone it shows all the job we leveled? I dunno if i like that if true. If i want to seek i wonna seek on the job im seeking on. I dont wonna seek on MRD and have someone say please bring your ARC. I hope that is not the case.

From the posted notes, it says the following will be viewable when you select a player from your search results:

Levels for each class
* The icon for the current class will be a different color.
Grand Company

Also, if you look at the screenshot, it shows an example. The number in each class's icon is the level they have that class at.
12-09-2011, 07:03 AM
Deceptistar

im concerned about the fact that the search window does not show players with more than 1 language selected. Are we going to be able to select more than one language if we are capable of speaking and understanding that? If we can only select 1 then its going to limit our party chances.
12-09-2011, 08:09 AM
Lionix

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiote

This is a Massive Step in the right direction. There is only one thing that stands out as missing.

We Need to be able to seek on multiple classes.

The #1 reason why people waited up over Six hours for a party in XI is because they had to pick one class and stick with it to seek. This very serious issue can be resolved by simply allowing us to pick and choose which classes we want to seek on simultaneously.

I came here just to say this, so I'll just like and quote for more awareness!

Please please, PLEASE let us have multiple "preferred classes"! I'd like to search on both my Conjurer and Gladiator at the same time, even better yet if I can do it while doing leves with my Miner!
12-09-2011, 12:51 PM
Riv

Loving the preferred class thing. It's something i wish was added in XI but never was (at least while i was there). Means i don't have to sit around doing nothing on the class i want an invite for while seeking woot
12-10-2011, 10:18 PM
PSxpert2011

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delmontyb

I'm excited for the search function, and as I quoted above I'm glad this is planned, however, it would be nice that if a player is seeking a party that green icon would show up above their head. I always enjoyed that and it made pick up groups much faster. :)

Just the ideas of running a leve and seeing someone else running a leve with a seeking party flag set, with how I play, would have me form a party with that player, rather then leave them alone as I don't want to "bother" them. :)

Looking forward to the updates :)

I agree but we need something flashier, for this is FF14! A flag of some sort like that of the warriors used in war.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiote

This is a Massive Step in the right direction. There is only one thing that stands out as missing.

We Need to be able to seek on multiple classes.

The #1 reason why people waited up over Six hours for a party in XI is because they had to pick one class and stick with it to seek. This very serious issue can be resolved by simply allowing us to pick and choose which classes we want to seek on simultaneously.

I pretty sure your search results will show only your current class and preferred class your looking to party with. If what I learned is true, the seeker will see all your other classes and levels. I'm sure some people would like to keep it private for we all hate to be told what to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lionix

I came here just to say this, so I'll just like and quote for more awareness!

Please please, PLEASE let us have multiple "preferred classes"! I'd like to search on both my Conjurer and Gladiator at the same time, even better yet if I can do it while doing leves with my Miner!

The only function the "preferred class" holds is that you seek for party while you on another class. Please, please be aware the armory system because this isn't like FFxi where you're (say) a war seeking for party while mining and all you have to do is stay the same job and trade pick-axes. Here at-least resolved this issue but no- it's not good enough for you.

People will probably be able to see you other classes if you set you search comment or if they click your name(open up another window), read the announcement again. As far as I'm concerned, I'm grateful and can't ask for more.
12-10-2011, 10:51 PM
neizero

This is definetely a welcome improvement but I feel this featue needs more work in the future and these are my suggestions:

- Ability to set multiple "preferred classes". Most people can play multiple roles and do not care which it is as long as they get to do the content they want. As the search window stands now, if I select "conjurer" as my preferred class, I won't show on the list of someone searching for a lancer, even though I could also fulfill that role.
The ability to view all my classes by clicking on my search entry is irrelevant here since I won't appear in said search list to begin with

- Ability to select "purpose" from a drop down list (default to: all). This list should contain a list of all available dungeons in the game + other typical group activities such as "experience points", "seeking crafter" etc. You could use this to quickly filter, for example, "all players looking for ifrit"
12-11-2011, 01:46 AM
Lyndis

*can't read* Does it really not mention anywhere something about searching a person's name? Do I really have to go into a menu to do this or will there be text commands? Do they really have to set it up to make themselves able to come up on my searches in any way?

I may have missed something while attempting to read. But if those are all true... this search system is worthless and just a more detailed version of what we already have.