DEV REQUEST: Please fix PUGS. It will change this game entirely. (and get you $UB$)

[Aldora]

Party Finder is broken.

Too many players don't honor the requirements advertised by a group (e.g. please know mechanic X, have been to phase Y, etc.) and instead, lie about their experience.

There's a lot of reasons why people lie to join PF, but I won't go into that here (because it will be tl;dr).
The important thing for DEVS to know is that they (players) do (lie), and they do it a lot, and it completely ruins the PF experience..

For the love of all that is holy. The party finder system is not broken. The Party Finder is a system that helps players form parties for specific goals, be it to run dungeon/raids/trials or gather together to chase Hunts/FATE's. That's all the system needs to do. The rest is up to the players.

Too many players don't honor the requirements advertised by a group and instead, lie about their experience.

^ This is the real issue.

You cannot fix the attitude of other players by introducing a more complex system which would "prevent" other from joining (unless they meet the requirement), or it will eventually be a hassle to create/maintain a party. The problem lies is with the people who use it, not the system it self. Since you are dealing with actual people, you can never be 100% sure that they are entirely truthful about what they say or do. Most of this has be dealt with at face value.

• If you create a party where you ask for players who are experienced with the content you want to queue up for and a players joins your party without a shred of experience (without asking if (s)he can join your party), then you're dealing with a douche.
• If someone creates a party and asks for players who are experienced with the content they want to queue up for and it appears that the creator of said party doesn't have a shred of experience him/herself, then you're dealing with a douche.
• If someone creates a farm party and someone joins the party, only to leave the second (s)he got their clear/drop, then you were dealing with a douche.

You cannot introduce a system that will stop these things from happening. You can't change human behavior with a system. Because, if this doesn't happen, something else will. People are resourceful beings and will always come op with a solution to circumvent the rules, break them or bend them to their advantage. Whether you like it or not.