[dev1020] Party system changes. The maximum party size.

[Obeadius]

I believe the party systems should be changed to an alliance system with 6 member parties. I do not believe 4 man parties will be efficient once new content/jobs are released because we are going to want certain classes in certain parties in the alliance and if the party size is only 4 people.

One idea would be to lower the party size and implement an alliance system, this would be friendly for people who would like to solo and people that would like to do more large scale events.

Seeking Party System Rather Than Recruitment Party System

The bigger issue in my mind is to change the Party Seek Function. The current party seek function is not very effective and is rarely used.

Ideas on how to change:
1) Implement /sea all functions
2) Do away with the current party seek function
3) Allow players to put flags up who are searching for Exp/Sp/Missions and allow them to designate interest
4) Implement a message box when seeking to state classes/interests

This in my mind is a more effective system. Players will be able to see where everyone that is looking for a party is and players will be able to see peoples interests. This might be more difficult because of the constant changing of job and classes and might be heavy on the servers, but if they were to come up with a system that allowed people to write in their class/job into a message box, then that could help with the load on the server.

[Feldt]

I believe the party systems should be changed to an alliance system with 6 member parties. I do not believe 4 man parties will be efficient once new content/jobs are released because we are going to want certain classes in certain parties in the alliance and if the party size is only 4 people.

One idea would be to lower the party size and implement an alliance system, this would be friendly for people who would like to solo and people that would like to do more large scale events.

Seeking Party System Rather Than Recruitment Party System

The bigger issue in my mind is to change the Party Seek Function. The current party seek function is not very effective and is rarely used.

Ideas on how to change:
1) Implement /sea all functions
2) Do away with the current party seek function
3) Allow players to put flags up who are searching for Exp/Sp/Missions and allow them to designate interest
4) Implement a message box when seeking to state classes/interests

This in my mind is a more effective system. Players will be able to see where everyone that is looking for a party is and players will be able to see peoples interests. This might be more difficult because of the constant changing of job and classes and might be heavy on the servers, but if they were to come up with a system that allowed people to write in their class/job into a message box, then that could help with the load on the server.

I see one big flaw in your "suggestion"
I want to search for ready parties, not ppl want to search for me, your flag idea isn't the god idea... when I'm in gridania for example i need to bee in a spot with players so actually someone want to notice the flag. I want a system where i will search on board (like the current one) and be displayed all the parties that are in, with the actual members that joined. I want then to click "Join" and ask them where the heck are they so i can arrive or where do we go. If we would go with the flag system how the heck will i find a party for company that are in limsa or ul'dah when I'm in gridania and can't search it. and another thing

/sea all functions

PLEASE!! NO MORE COMMANDS! this isn't linux! I'm not a computer to remembers XXXXXXXX Commands to operate properly... I want it all doable and clickable though menu, in nice gui, an option to select from menu for example that will display some window or something.

And about the current system. Well mostly I'll tell you how it was.

Square Enix never posted tutorial on how to use party search/recruitment system (though it mine opinion it doesn't need it since it's intuitive and easy to use - i know how to use it from first day) but, in my adventures i meet LOOOOOOOT of people who don't know how to use it... and because they don't know... they don't even care to learn... after I educated some, they started to learn this. But...another thing arrived, since there was like 80~90% of ppl that didn't know how to use the party search and recruit, the rest of ppl that do know (10%) stopped using it as well...

back around November and before in 2010 that 10% of ppl that do know created parties, some of them of cores didn't since not everybody want to be party leader and some players are afraid of the role (I was as well). Well anyway, somehow those people stopped creating those recruitments since the rest of players (that 90%) didn't looked on the board... Somehow the number decreased with time, and now the situation looks like this:

Even if someone will create recruitment it's really rare to get any response since the people who Know how to use this functionality, and the ones that don't know (still most of players don't know how to use it) know that no one ever looks there and thus they don't even bother to look there.

I was using back in 2010 quiet frequently this functionality, but now... every time i create recruitment i got no response even I'm stopping to look up there since every time i look... there is no recruitments...

I really dunno what's going up here, I saw exactly the same system in couple f2p MMORPG's and it was used normally, you saw loots of recruitments from people and could easy join a party...

Something need to be done with that...

btw. i almost forgot, I even meet ppl that didn't know what the "party" option in menu was for...

PS: I pray that this post will be on some understandable level because it's almost 4am here, I'm very tired and I'm already couple hours past my bed time...

Also nice signature Feldt

Thanks :3