We could use a Preferred/Blocked player list for DF.

[MoraClaret]

Just a simple idea after running a lot of Duty Finder dungeons.

I've run into both:

1.) Really, really great people that I would like to play with again, but will probably never get the chance to since they're from a different world.

2.) Terrible, terrible people I never want to see again.

It would be great if a Preferred/Blocked player list could be added.

Players on your preferred list would take priority over other players if you are both queuing at the same time and the required party slots are open.

Blocked players would never be matched with you again.

This would have the added benefit of introducing some actual ramifications for players being abusive in DF parties, which there seems to be a lot of recently.

Just a thought.

[CYoung187]

This would be a great QoL addition. Right now there is no incentive for people to not act like total garbage in DF. I've run into so many people that I would love to block but can't.

[chocomaid]

As positive the idea is, it would be very difficult to implement.

Imagine:

A - You
B - Player you liked (on your pref list)
C - Player you Blisted on your blist

It will be very difficult to make a system that will recognize and calculate all these variables. Imagine if you (A) and B queued at the same time and are on each others' pref list, C queued at the same time as well, but C is on the pref list of B but not you. Who will the system prefer and such. And that's the simplest of examples. Imagine a dungeon with 24 people, preferring and blisting each other. You'd never get a raid to form at all.

A different suggestion that might benefit with this positive way thinking regarding DF is the ability to re-queue as a group at the end of the instance run, assuming that you all liked playing together and have time for more!

[Sadana]

It would be a logistical nightmare for the devs, but it could potentially change some people's attitudes in dungeons when they realize their queue times are huge due to being blocked from so many people's DF list.

[Gerolan]

Also agree this would be a fantastic idea, I've met some really friendly people in dungeons, but sadly also not so friendly
Doing DF low level roulette other day got ifrit, and healer would not stop going on about how we will fail because one person in the party was new and how they should get FC to boost them through content not expect strangers too..
I snapped back to which healer said they wouldn't heal me for defending the person.
We nearly wiped due to the new one not knowing about the nail but I politely explained it whilst trying to solo down, they then switched and helped kill.
I was honestly shocked by their attitude it was ifrit story not extreme, why shouldn't a player playing it for the first time be able to do it .
That was definate a case of I wish their was a DF blacklist so you can make sure never to team with them again and as pointed out might help in some peoples attitude if they realise being a douche will have long term effects in how quickly they get a run

[Gaddes]

The problem is that there are a lot of people with the same names as each other, so unless it has the extra function of checking players across all the servers, you'd be potentially blocking a lot of people who don't actually deserve it.

[MoraClaret]

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Since I wanted to keep the original post simple, I avoid listing out the logistics of the system. I'm sure they could figure out an elegant method to implementing this general idea. For example, they could allow for cross-world adding to your friend list and blacklist and simply make players on your friend list preferred and players on your blacklist blocked. In the case of your last example, if they can't find another way they could at least make the players on your blacklist/blocklist -least- prefered over other players.

There are already systems like this in place they could pull from, like XBox Live I believe.

[MoraClaret]

The problem is that there are a lot of people with the same names as each other, so unless it has the extra function of checking players across all the servers, you'd be potentially blocking a lot of people who don't actually deserve it.

This system would have to include World of origin.

Like you could have Bob McGee [Behemoth] on your Preferred list but Bob McGee [Cactuar] on your Block list.

It is very likely that the player's world of origin is already included in the logic for matching to begin with.

[CYoung187]

As positive the idea is, it would be very difficult to implement.

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I agree that would be pretty difficult to implement, but a blacklist only and no preferred list wouldn't be too bad. It would still get a similar result.

[Astralos]

I think SE would first have to change the game so that it checks accounts - and not singular character names - before this would even be possible. A good idea, but I don't think SE would put forth the effort.