[Suggestion] Limit party finder capabilities for cross-dc travelers

[Rueby]

Here's a simple solution. Allow us to filter the Others tab (so whenever you open PF, you can choose for Others to be hidden by default- eliminating most of the ads) and/or allow us to select multiple categories in PF

ie. Dungeons, trials, high end duty and raids. Anything else won't show.

A nuclear option is to disallow any kind of advertisement in the PF, nuking any kind of venue ad. Then you'll probably witness an increase in venue ad spam in shout chat...

I honestly can't think of anything that could be a fix for this without SE kinda endorsing/embracing venues and I feel like due to the nature and content of the venues SE might not want to touch it directly (no pun intended). This isn't content aimed at me, but I remember I went to a cafe type venue with my friend upon seeing the ad for it and honestly? It was really nice and cozy! I went there a few times while waiting for queue.

It'd be nice if there's some kind of ingame catalogue to advertise your house as a cafe of some kind that opens from XX ST - XX ST. Only the owner can put up an entry in the catalgoue, they can add a short description, a few tags and that's it. (I think it'd be cool if there's some kind of adventure plate equivilant to your house, like a house card...somehow but I feel like that's really complicated...)

I don't know how it's like in NA, but things aren't that bad in EU. It's annoying but not as bad as you describe it.

Perhaps a search function in the PF would be nice. For example specifically searching for terms like 'crafter'/'gposer'/'designer', etc? I'm sorry if those are bad ideas, I can't think of anything else. These venue people will always find people who'd happily advertise to them, but if given maybe something like a catalogue maybe it'd help....but if there's a catalogue then ban venue ads from PF imo

I guess a housing catalogue of sorts could also be to show off a cool house design...So maybe two birds one stone?

I'm not sure restricting is a good option, I feel like players should be given freedom....We already have restrictions on retainers/mail/fc buffs/fc chest and so on and so forth and it's pretty lame. I hope one day these restrictions get lifted. If people wish to travel to other DC, they shouldn't feel restricted.

[Kazmarek]

I'm not sure restricting is a good option, I feel like players should be given freedom....We already have restrictions on retainers/mail/fc buffs/fc chest and so on and so forth and it's pretty lame. I hope one day these restrictions get lifted. If people wish to travel to other DC, they shouldn't feel restricted.

See, you're absolutely right here. I agree with you 100%. If I'm traveling cross-dc, I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to access some of the features. There's an even easier solution to all of this, though. I'm not against venues, I'm not against ads, I'm against too many venue ads. So, instead, I think it should be treated as spam- in fact, unless I'm incredibly mistaken, it should be already. Therefore, it should be better enforced. Barring any actual enforcement of it being against tos though... this is the best idea I've got at the moment.

[1313]

See, you're absolutely right here. I agree with you 100%. If I'm traveling cross-dc, I don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to access some of the features. There's an even easier solution to all of this, though. I'm not against venues, I'm not against ads, I'm against too many venue ads. So, instead, I think it should be treated as spam- in fact, unless I'm incredibly mistaken, it should be already. Therefore, it should be better enforced. Barring any actual enforcement of it being against tos though... this is the best idea I've got at the moment.

It IS spam. However the argument our fellow players make on the forums to those who are not happy about the spam, is that the one ad per hour per person isn't spam by that one person. Then we multiply this by a however many ad runners are working , and how many venues are open, and how many people come and go from the "job", and now the entire player base is overwhelmed. It's in fact the venue community as a whole that spams that chat, and so they cannot just give the entire venue community a warning or 3 day suspension for spam. If I could have it my way, I'd see the advertisers be issued a warning, and if they repeat the offense, a suspension, until they stop flooding the chat. I'm personally not bothered by the duplicate listings in party finder , since I don't look in the other section, and I think it's less of a problem than the chat flooding all hours of the day - but it's still a problem many people are unhappy with, and should be addressed.