Why does nobody use it? People here say it's unintuitive but it took me like 2 minutes of tinkering to figure out how to use it properly. However nobody uses it....even on Selbina, one of the most populated servers, I was the only one using it :X The feature itself, as a basic function, works fine. It could use some tweaks but it's fully functioning right now. But why does nobody use it?
Anyways, here are some suggestions for tweaks to do to it to make it a little easier.
1: Default it to search for 7 members of the creator's rank +/- 5 Levels so that you don't have to spend time doing it yourself.
2: Allow up to 6 different classes to be searched for (currently only allows one class or "all" per slot and max 4 slots)
3: Default the search to the current area.
4: Instead of "None" being the default for the search fields (Location, Type, Class), change it to "Any." Currently it searches for any but it says "None" anyways -- this makes it more confusing.
5: Allow the recruiter to choose up to 3 leves to recruit for.
6: Allow Behests to be an option to choose to recruit for, and have only people signed up for those Behests be able to join that party. *EDIT* Or better yet, make Behests auto-party.
7: Put up flags/symbols by usernames to show recruitment, along with "X/Y" to show how many members they currently have and how many they want total
8: Allow the "Search" to work like Recruitment, but it has the player auto-join groups that are recruiting their parameters (EX: Archer R15 wants to do Levequests in Dry Bone, so he puts "Archer, 15, Regional Levequests, Camp Dry Bone" into the search and it will automatically send a party-join request to the recruiters recruiting those parameters.
9: Allow the translate function to work in the recruitment messages. This would go a long way
10: Put Levequest names in the translator >_>
11: Instead of auto-joining a party when searching, send a join-request to the recruiter.
So what are your guys' ideas to improve the Party Recruit/Search feature? And why do you think it's not used?
Also, don't say "We need the recruiter from FFXI." That tells me nothing since I didn't play FFXI, and a lot of other people here didn't play FFXI. So describe the system rather than just naming it.