Would you like to see a LFG icon besides the player name?

[Dibria]

Oh, and you get your pony, but it's in burger form.

PINKIE PIE! NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!

In all serious though for instances and raids is how I meant it, for lesser quests then people are likely to either do them alone or with friends anyway. I would greatly appreciate a system whereby I could log in and say 'I want to do X' (ifrit for example) and then go craft while a counter in the bottom of my screen says something along the lines of '2/4 players available for selected quest'. Combine that with a queue group chat and I think you have a pretty good system.

I hasten to add that you wouldn't necessarily auto-group with people in the queue, it is up to people in the queue to talk in the chat box and group up, preferably straight from the menu system. Otherwise you end up in a situation with 4 people that chose to specialise BLM or DRG are taking on an enemy or you end up grouped with someone you know you don't get on with.

[Wolfie]

Search icon would be awesome.

I also feel the search and LFG menus could be made more intuitive to use, so that people actually used them instead of shouting in Uldah.

[Jinko]

PINKIE PIE! NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!

In all serious though for instances and raids is how I meant it, for lesser quests then people are likely to either do them alone or with friends anyway. I would greatly appreciate a system whereby I could log in and say 'I want to do X' (ifrit for example) and then go craft while a counter in the bottom of my screen says something along the lines of '2/4 players available for selected quest'. Combine that with a queue group chat and I think you have a pretty good system.

I hasten to add that you wouldn't necessarily auto-group with people in the queue, it is up to people in the queue to talk in the chat box and group up, preferably straight from the menu system. Otherwise you end up in a situation with 4 people that chose to specialise BLM or DRG are taking on an enemy or you end up grouped with someone you know you don't get on with.

No point them going to this extent prior to 2.0, in 2.0 we are getting content finder which is a much more efficient way of doing what you suggested above.

[Asmeret]

No point them going to this extent prior to 2.0, in 2.0 we are getting content finder which is a much more efficient way of doing what you suggested above.

We are getting content finder for sure?

[Majidah]

No point them going to this extent prior to 2.0, in 2.0 we are getting content finder which is a much more efficient way of doing what you suggested above.

thats like what phantasy star online used right? rip open world for sure.

[Jinko]

thats like what phantasy star online used right? rip open world for sure.

Yea I guess probably closer to how WoW and Rift does it though.

Open world can still exist if SE do it correctly, like for example joining the content finder from outside a dungeon only, so you would still be required to walk to the dungeon.

We already have NPC's that let us into the dungeons so having a new option to join a queue would make sense.

[Rhylee_Mau]

No point in doing this. People won't use it anyways.
The original I'll start a pt and you all can jump in was "too complicated" for people to understand.
The current put a comment so people can search you out is not used after the forums begged for it.
What difference would it make with an ! beside your name?
People would still just shout spam Ul'derp for a pt.

[Jinko]

No point in doing this. People won't use it anyways.
The original I'll start a pt and you all can jump in was "too complicated" for people to understand.
The current put a comment so people can search you out is not used after the forums begged for it.
What difference would it make with an ! beside your name?
People would still just shout spam Ul'derp for a pt.

People don't use it for many reasons.

1. PLing has made low level parties almost a pointless endeavour.
2. New players (and some old) don't know how to use the search feature (in game tutorial would help, not a silly explanation on the lodestone)
3. No icon next to peoples names means there is no attention drawn to the feature (In FFXI people knew what the ! mark icon was, new players would ask what is that ?)

I use the search feature daily but have yet to get an invite from it, problem certainly doesn't lie with me.

[Inaaca]

Dangling a "!" symbol in front of someone's face can make a surprising difference, actually. People are curious creatures. Put something new in front of someone that they don't understand, and they're going to want to know what it is, and how they can do it, too.

It's the difference of presenting a shiny object to a person as opposed to hiding it under a rock and hoping that they look there.

[ThePatriarch]

yes plz


plz yes