Fix to the problem with everyone gathering in Ul'dah

[Wolfie]

do you really want global chat... wish more people flooding your chat log.... come on now, global chat is terrible, that's what linkshells /tells are for.

[Elexia]

Anyone who's played any MMO with a global chat channel can't deny it's mostly used for spam and you still get more done via guild chat and actually being in the appropriate locations.

[Wolfie]

And anyone who's played any MMO with a global chat knows that it can be turned off.

[Elexia]

And anyone who's played any MMO with a global chat knows that it can be turned off.

Then what's the overall point of it? lol. In the end it's still up to the community to actually spread themselves out, in FFXI the main storyline lead you to Jeuno, yet people still spread themselves out because each city had it's own benefit, i.e low level gear/prices in nations, Dunes being the XP spot and it was always much much quicker to get to from cities etc.

The storyline may send you to ul'dah, but that doesn't mean you need to STAY there for the rest of your game career, you can easily go to Gridania and Limsa, people just choose not to and SE can't fix this.

[Wolfie]

Then what's the overall point of it? lol. In the end it's still up to the community to actually spread themselves out, in FFXI the main storyline lead you to Jeuno, yet people still spread themselves out because each city had it's own benefit, i.e low level gear/prices in nations, Dunes being the XP spot and it was always much much quicker to get to from cities etc.

The storyline may send you to ul'dah, but that doesn't mean you need to STAY there for the rest of your game career, you can easily go to Gridania and Limsa, people just choose not to and SE can't fix this.

Because you can turn it on when you're in a city and looking for things that might be in another city. That's why every big name MMO, aside from FFXI and FFXIV, have a Trade Chat (available only in cities), a LFG chat (available only when looking for a group), and any other situational global chat channels. And believe me, almost every person will make use of these when they're available.

People gather in Ul'dah now because it's the closest thing to a global LFG chat that's available. If you're in Gridania and Limsa Lominsa, you miss out on so many possible levelup, dungeon, and Ifrit/Moogle parties, the game feels like a solo game. The global chat channels will not forcibly spread people out to the other cities, but it will alleviate a lot of the congestion and make the other cities NOT be ghost towns.

[Gramul]

Find ways to encourage the use of the party search function.
Like icons for party seekers.

[Sephrick]

Find ways to encourage the use of the party search function.
Like icons for party seekers.

What good is a party-seeking icon if you're not standing in a central location where people can see it?

[Karleguarth]

I've thought about easing out the burden on Uldah as players ourselves,
seeing it's not really necessary to stick to UD to the current game state..
I can understand back when we had no airships, no chocobos, UD is really the pick to gather all players as it's possible to travel to the other two cities with the least area transitions, while the Party Search was worse than what we have now, and without the Player Search function.

Here's my proposes:
1. Sellers should place their retains according to the target buyer of their items, to the city with the corresponding guild. For items like Materia and Catalyst which every class might have an interest in buying them, just leave them at UD, this alone should spread out a lot of players piling outside the UD market ward.

(Have to confess this is not really a good idea, but after the server merge, I've been feeling less and less willing to travel to the market place of UD. SE should really do something here to create interests from sellers to place their stuff to other cities, or implement something mentioned by others to allow easier access to view items in the MWs)

2. English speaking players should really make use of Player and Party Search, or at least the Party Search alone. As of today the purpose of your party can be clearly stated from the criteria provided as you try to recruit, while searching for a party was and is always as simple as picking the class you want to join as, the game lists possible parties for you. The Japanese players are using this without a problem, so why should we still be avoiding it?

[Jinko]

There is one easy fix and thats to destroy Ul'dah with Dalamuld ... all in favour say aye !

in FFXI the main storyline lead you to Jeuno, yet people still spread themselves out because each city had it's own benefit

This was not true, the 3 cities where ghost towns for the most part.

[Firon]

Because you can turn it on when you're in a city and looking for things that might be in another city. That's why every big name MMO, aside from FFXI and FFXIV, have a Trade Chat (available only in cities), a LFG chat (available only when looking for a group), and any other situational global chat channels. And believe me, almost every person will make use of these when they're available.

People gather in Ul'dah now because it's the closest thing to a global LFG chat that's available. If you're in Gridania and Limsa Lominsa, you miss out on so many possible levelup, dungeon, and Ifrit/Moogle parties, the game feels like a solo game. The global chat channels will not forcibly spread people out to the other cities, but it will alleviate a lot of the congestion and make the other cities NOT be ghost towns.

That still wont stop folks from gathering in one spot tho, and if people actually used the search function they would not have to gather there, like was said in another post this is just a community problem.