Better Partying System needs to be added.

[Xeno]

Not entirely sure what you are asking here...

But the party search feature works phenomenally... it's just that no one uses it. If people actively used it instead of waiting in Ul'Dah shouting, this wouldn't be a problem

Edit: SE gave us the proper tools for this. We, as players, choose to ignore this option and thus make it harder.

Our party search feature is too confusing to use, do not care how good it potentially is.

[Mack]

Our party search feature is too confusing to use, do not care how good it potentially is.

Actually not really, its really simple to use and straight to the point, I can't understand how anyone would find it confusing lol. However I agree we need something that works or that people adopt so to speak and I think my idea, which I'm going to repeat for the sake of repeating because I think it could really help the system out a lot, would work wonders:

They should give us alerts that popup top right or bottom right corner of screen or somewhere on the side that say something like "2 people currently recruiting for party in your level range" for instance. 100% this would get more people on board with the system because currently the system is buried in the menu and you need to click about 5 different things just to check and see if someone is recruiting and people have built this conception in their head that no one uses the recruitment system anymore so they don't even bother looking. So therefore, the game should tell us that someone is recruiting as an alert.

Does anyone agree with me? seriously, I'm being serious here, I don't care that its *my idea* or anything I'm sure plenty others have thought of something similar but if you guys think this would help the system out give me a thumbs up please. I think this could potentially get people using the system in place now without the need for a seek party flag. IF they don't want to improve on the party recruitment system, then a seek party flag is a viable option so for those of us that don't want to recruit can just put up a flag and sit there. I think the party recruit system however would work wonders if people actually used it - with the idea I imposed above I think people would start using it quite a bit because they will start seeing how easy it is to use.

Of course, this would need other tweaks like more options for "Reason" of party (for example, add SP party in there, add Dungeon party in there, etc.) It would also need to adjust for jobs/classes, and moreover it would need to allow us to use the auto translate in the message portion of it as well. But once people start seeing "popups" alerting them that a recruitment is available in their level range, they would quickly see how useful the system is and would adopt it faster than you can blink. The main problem now is that its buried in the menu and the only way to check to see if someone is recruiting is clicking a whole bunch of buttons, on top of the UI lag (albeit minimal now) and the fact that no one uses the recruit system, people just stay away from it.

EDIT: I know someone will say that popups would become annoying, I agree, I say that they could let us activate it on or off. So for instance, if I feel like just crafting tonight I would just turn off the recruitment alerts and If I feel like crafting while waiting for a party to show up I can either start one myself or craft and turn my recruitment alerts on and soon as I join a party they automatically turn off again.

[Xeno]

Actually not really, its really simple to use and straight to the point, I can't understand how anyone would find it confusing lol.

I've only tried to use it once and I didn't know wtf to do because everything I did didn't get any results. I would rather have a LFG flag and a message that we can edit to show what kind of party we want. I'm pretty sure that 99% of the people who have played FFXIV gave it one look and said screw it. If that isn't a sign of it being broken or sucking then I don't know what is.

[Mack]

I've only tried to use it once and I didn't know wtf to do because everything I did didn't get any results. I would rather have a LFG flag and a message that we can edit to show what kind of party we want. I'm pretty sure that 99% of the people who have played FFXIV gave it one look and said screw it. If that isn't a sign of it being broken or sucking then I don't know what is.

Actually no. People stopped using it initially because there was no reason to party to begin with. Until recently leve parties weren't that popular, people preferred to solo. What this caused is people adjoining themselves into groups as in static party of friends or LSs and because the game's population dwindled there is hardly anyone playing that doesn't belong to a group or LS.

The reason you didn't get results when you used it isn't because its a difficult system to use, its actually easy and straight to the point, but its because no one uses it for the reason above. IF on the other hand they make it more in your face: say you're a R30 Gladiator and two people are recruiting for a party that require R30 gladiator - a popup alert on the side shows up automatically (unless you turn it off) telling you there are 2 parties seeking you - you then proceed to click the alert and find that, for instance, one party wants you for a dungeon run and another for a leve run and you make your choice. I think if the system is more in your face its very intuitive and will work much better than FFXI's system.

The system in FFXIV works exactly the opposite of FFXI's. In FFXI say you were making a party, you were placed with the burden of seeking 5 different people individually and that wasn't always an easy task. This time its reversed, the person making a party puts up a "recruitment flag" and the person seeking can quickly pop in, see what he is making the party for, and decide whether he wants to join or not. Its really intuitive but just needs to be more in your face. That's my opinion anyway, and I think it can work well.