The new seek invite function

[CoolBlitz]

i think its more complicated than it needs to be, even tho its not complicated at all. There should just be 1 button, in your menu that does Seek invite (oh yes like XI lol).

and maybe have a icon for it for aesthetics (oh yes like XI)

Vi, I agree with you there. Can we just have 1 button seek invite something similar to FFXI plz?

[Verecund]

If they can't improve it, they should probably offer a small incentive to use it. This game is quickly becoming more anti-social than WoW...

[Rogue]

one button and you can put a comment saying what you want a party for.. done

infact just copy-paste the party recruitment system from XI

[Karbine]

Would be easiest if you could use the Recruit to find seeking players. There should be 3 things:

1)A PT Recruit post, describing PT info like level range, what its purpose is, and all that in a comment box. Also a category to sort them like raid, exp, leves, whatever.

2)A seeking PT list of players searching for a type of PT. You should be able to post yourself up on some type of list under categories for seeking what you want to do.

3)Some type of class organization thing, so you can view lists based on what you want to see, not what job you are looking as. For instance if I have THM at 50, and CON at 25, I don't want to not be able to see the CON PTs just because I am on my 50 THM or looking through 50 THM stuff.

[zaviermhigo]

In the later days of XI i'd put no to this and that party camp in my comment and no one even read it. >.< I'm afraid we already have those dregs playing XIV? You know how many people play this game and don't even read the lodestone of patch updates, or even know when a patch is? They rely for everyone in their ls for info all the time. I hate those people and the game is filled with them.

[Kyra]

Played this for almost a year and still cant figure out this party matching system lol. It needs to be completly redone.

[kukurumei]

Played this for almost a year and still cant figure out this party matching system lol. It needs to be completly redone.

The party match is reversed from FF11.

Instead of the people asking to join, the leader opens a room for people to join. Much like your FPS style, you make a room, and you wait for people to come in (except with uber bad filters..like I want a glad...and a conj? nope can do)

Basically it's super bad system. More so since they took out any form of search.

FF11 was way more efficient and better in that you can filter any and what way with /sea [modifier]

It's another example of the fail motto "Not be FF11 for the sake of not being FF11" that doomed the game.

[Madruk]

They put in a party seek like FFXI's and I guarantee you people will be using it on day 1.

[Zhinse]

Would be easiest if you could use the Recruit to find seeking players. There should be 3 things:

1)A PT Recruit post, describing PT info like level range, what its purpose is, and all that in a comment box. Also a category to sort them like raid, exp, leves, whatever.

2)A seeking PT list of players searching for a type of PT. You should be able to post yourself up on some type of list under categories for seeking what you want to do.

3)Some type of class organization thing, so you can view lists based on what you want to see, not what job you are looking as. For instance if I have THM at 50, and CON at 25, I don't want to not be able to see the CON PTs just because I am on my 50 THM or looking through 50 THM stuff.

All of those things exist in the current party search system.

I'm not going to go over how the Recruitment feature works normally but will go over the new functionality.

For the Person Seeking Party.

1. Go to Party > Recruit> and set purpose to "Seek invite"
2. In the comment box, say what you want to do and other misc. information.
3. Click on the confirm button or whatever.
4. What this does is add you to a list similar to FFXI, except its worldwide instead of region locked.

For the Leader looking for members.

1. Go to Party>Search> and set purpose to "Seek invite".
2. Most important step, Go down to the class (it defaults on gladiator) and put it to the class you want to recruit. Set it to gladiator if you want a gladiator, Marauder if you want marauders.
3. Press Search.
4. The results will show all players of that specific class who are seeking invites.
5. If you manage to find anyone using the system, i'm jealous

With the Seek Invite functionality, Party Leaders can now put up a regular recruitment as a revenue for players to join and also head hunt while he's doing it. The seeker can seek invite and also search for open party recruitment.

Here are my list of features and changes that would improve the system.

• Visual Seek Invite flag that appears next to the name of the seeker, similar to FFXI.
• A new visual hud element that shows how many party leaders have open recruits. The number displayed could be either how many total are searching or how many that you can join specfically
• Allow Party leaders to select "no class" or "all classes" to show all avialiable seekers, not limiting the list to a specific class.

Visuals communicate. The only reason why the system doesn't get results now is because people ignore and disregard it, believe that other people ignore and disregard it, are confused about the functionality, and do not believe it actually functions. Visuals would make people aware of it, and the biggest thing the system needs. I hope that the suggestions I have made as a person who consistently tries to use the current system are reachable under the current development circumstances.

[Misha]

If they can't improve it, they should probably offer a small incentive to use it. This game is quickly becoming more anti-social than WoW...

Been saying this since launch xD Most the people I stayed and played with were people I ran into during beta... People are so anti social they never even say thanks or even LS recruit in shout... even after 1.18 with the increase to population >.< "Cricket" people and their "bubbles" I tell you xD