Better Partying System needs to be added.

[Reika]

It's not the fault of the system, its the fault of the people on the server. if they refuse to use it, then its on them. My server uses the party search/recruit function quite well, at least the Japanese base, which just happens to be the majority as well. so, most of my server makes proper use of it.

It seems its all NA/EU players that absolutely cant manage to make it work.

Also, it seems that your main problem is, people on your server tend to play only within their shells. If that is the case, they wouldn't even use FFXI's LFG function, or this party search function. Nothing will change.

[Nemo5990]

It's not the fault of the system, its the fault of the people on the server. if they refuse to use it, then its on them. My server uses the party search/recruit function quite well, at least the Japanese base, which just happens to be the majority as well. so, most of my server makes proper use of it.

It seems its all NA/EU players that absolutely cant manage to make it work.

Also, it seems that your main problem is, people on your server tend to play only within their shells. If that is the case, they wouldn't even use FFXI's LFG function, or this party search function. Nothing will change.

well i play on Saronia server when they took out the player online thing i remember seeing around 700player online most of the time so idk if it is because my server is underpopulated but 700isn't really that much when over 500,000 copys of FF14 were sold theres not Server Transfer license so i can't move to another server i really don't wanna delete my character

[Reika]

Well I know for a fact that EVERY NA LS on my server only parties within their LS's, save for a handful of people. and I mean a handful, 2 or 3 other NA players on my server play during Japan prime time as well. Almost every Japanese player on my server is fine with playing with random people. I rarely see party recruits or searches from NA players, only Japanese. Seemingly, when it comes to playing with other NA players, its probably best to get into a LS with people that go do leves and/or grinding together a lot.

[Mack]

They should give us alerts that popup top right or bottom right corner of screen or somewhere on the side that say something like "2 people currently recruiting for party in your level range" for instance. 100% this would get more people on board with the system because currently the system is buried in the menu and you need to click about 5 different things just to check and see if someone is recruiting and people have built this conception in their head that no one uses the recruitment system anymore so they don't even bother looking. So therefore, the game should tell us that someone is recruiting as an alert.

[viion]

I dont like the system, primarally because:

It forces you to put in effort, pssh! I dont want to be the leader so I have to keep searching (like a leader would do..) very annoying. Not everyone wants to be the leader.

Also I don't want to be checking it every 5 minutes, I'd much rather put up a flag and then tab onto a movie or another game or do something else and then have a leader contact me, i shouldnt be forced into search every 5 minutes hoping there is one up.

[Reika]

If your server designates some time to do their levequests, there would be no hoping one is up. but it goes back to the issue I stated: If people are going to party within their own LS's, or i will add just people they know well, they aren't going to put up recruitment's, and with that LFG, they aren't going to contact you either.

[Nemo5990]

If your server designates some time to do their levequests, there would be no hoping one is up. but it goes back to the issue I stated: If people are going to party within their own LS's, or i will add just people they know well, they aren't going to put up recruitment's, and with that LFG, they aren't going to contact you either.

can't really get at what your saying beside u saying none LS players will never get a party

[Mack]

bump. I think this thread is too important to get buried.

[Xeno]

Not entirely sure what you are asking here...

But the party search feature works phenomenally... it's just that no one uses it. If people actively used it instead of waiting in Ul'Dah shouting, this wouldn't be a problem

Edit: SE gave us the proper tools for this. We, as players, choose to ignore this option and thus make it harder.

Our party search feature is too confusing to use, do not care how good it potentially is.

[Mack]

Our party search feature is too confusing to use, do not care how good it potentially is.

Actually not really, its really simple to use and straight to the point, I can't understand how anyone would find it confusing lol. However I agree we need something that works or that people adopt so to speak and I think my idea, which I'm going to repeat for the sake of repeating because I think it could really help the system out a lot, would work wonders:

They should give us alerts that popup top right or bottom right corner of screen or somewhere on the side that say something like "2 people currently recruiting for party in your level range" for instance. 100% this would get more people on board with the system because currently the system is buried in the menu and you need to click about 5 different things just to check and see if someone is recruiting and people have built this conception in their head that no one uses the recruitment system anymore so they don't even bother looking. So therefore, the game should tell us that someone is recruiting as an alert.

Does anyone agree with me? seriously, I'm being serious here, I don't care that its *my idea* or anything I'm sure plenty others have thought of something similar but if you guys think this would help the system out give me a thumbs up please. I think this could potentially get people using the system in place now without the need for a seek party flag. IF they don't want to improve on the party recruitment system, then a seek party flag is a viable option so for those of us that don't want to recruit can just put up a flag and sit there. I think the party recruit system however would work wonders if people actually used it - with the idea I imposed above I think people would start using it quite a bit because they will start seeing how easy it is to use.

Of course, this would need other tweaks like more options for "Reason" of party (for example, add SP party in there, add Dungeon party in there, etc.) It would also need to adjust for jobs/classes, and moreover it would need to allow us to use the auto translate in the message portion of it as well. But once people start seeing "popups" alerting them that a recruitment is available in their level range, they would quickly see how useful the system is and would adopt it faster than you can blink. The main problem now is that its buried in the menu and the only way to check to see if someone is recruiting is clicking a whole bunch of buttons, on top of the UI lag (albeit minimal now) and the fact that no one uses the recruit system, people just stay away from it.

EDIT: I know someone will say that popups would become annoying, I agree, I say that they could let us activate it on or off. So for instance, if I feel like just crafting tonight I would just turn off the recruitment alerts and If I feel like crafting while waiting for a party to show up I can either start one myself or craft and turn my recruitment alerts on and soon as I join a party they automatically turn off again.