The current system is cumbersome, confusing and ultimately pointless. I've spent the last three days seeking a party for 60 minutes at a time and repeatedly searched to see I was the only person in the entire world doing so. The system doesn't work. Everyone knows the system doesn't work. So nobody bothers even looking anymore. Even if they do improve the system a thousand times over, it will make no difference because nobody even looks.

The only possible solution must start with a very clear and very public abolishing of the current system so that whatever replaces it might get noticed by the jaded masses who have come to utterly ignore it.

This has been the biggest issue this game has faced since day 1 and it continues to be ignored by the developers. It frustrates me to no end.