EXP Parties as an option please!

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

In 1.0, the party would pick a general area where nice chainable mobs would hang out and would just roam it, farming xp to their heart's content. It wasn't the most exciting way to level, admittedly, but you got to know other players on the server and it really formed a community within the player base of each server. You got to know who was fun to group with and who was best avoided. Linkshells were always buzzing with conversation and creative, sometimes entertaining and humorous shouts took the place of party finder(though, shouting was certainly tedious at times) The point is that conversation and interaction were the true focal points of the game.

Not to be rude, but to me this still sounds like a FATE party. It seems like you are looking for certain types of players rather then certain types of activities.

To clarify, I never got to play XI so I'm genuinely interested in what it is that makes EXP parties something different then what we have in the game. So far the only real difference I've seen anyone use is "People talked more". (I can't say this without sounding offensive, sorry about that.) It kinda makes FFXI sound like a really fancy chat room with a combat mini game for when people run out of things to say.