The new seek invite function

[SuzakuCMX]

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)

Yes you can do that. Use the + and - buttons, they add more slots (you can only add up to 4 though, I think :X I always just put it as "Any" and "7").

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

Press the search button?

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.

Can't argue there.

Not that simple since it's about 20 steps more then an already established FF11 method. Kinda like MWs to the efficiency of AH.

It's like 4 steps. It's not hard at all, but then again, people in this game are getting incredibly lazy.

You can't directly invite them (because the invite system is also crippled) you can't communicate, and you can't cross reference. (if they picked U'ath and you picked none, nothing shows up)

You can send people invites with /party cmd add [name] or something like that + you can invite them from the party system. You can also send tells from there. And I don't know what you mean by cross reference. Setting it to "Purpose: None" or "Location: None" allows you to see "All" in those categories, except "Seek Invite" because then you'd have a cluttered list mixed of parties being formed and people wanting an invite.

Worse of all, you can't even distinguish features due to the broken(aka nonexistant) /sea system.

Not sure what else they need besides Rank distinguishing. You can distinguish by class, location of action, and what they want to do.

It works fine. People just need to start using it. I've seen at least 5 JP parties start up from the patch, but none from NA. They need better documentation on it, and they could stand to make it a little easier (such as one-touch "Seek Invite") but it works fine right now. Just gotta figure it out.