Block first timers from Party Finder!

[Stupiduglytaru]

No, you go back and read. The reason I have pronounced myself on this, is due to those who plays princess and basically called me out instead of taking time to read me.

Like everyone else, I am member of this game and I got the right to mention my opinion without being made a fool of because a majority of this phave e who would like this feature are for the elitism. Which is fine, everyone has the right to opinion. But forcing me to agree after I disagreed and making fun of me, is indeed toxic.

I do agree with some points you make, in an ideal if everyone was honest then a thread like this wouldn't had been needed. The nature of this game and cross server df really doesn't help to create a community of players. However without this function this game would experience serious queue issues etc, which happened in ffxi.

What we have also take into account is language barriers, the lack of auto translate for keywords when creating pfs, all this person would see is a pf with the select content desired and a load of letters after that.

To create the kind of things your suggesting takes a huge amount of effort by the playerbase, something that may not be achievable. Just look at this forum itself, we have say around just 10% of actual players using it. So people as well may lack the technology in their life due to personal situation to be able to actually access this.

But with all this the actual issue at hand is newbie people gatecrashing farm parties looking for a free kill whilst knowing absolutely nothing about the encounter or people joining phase practice for ones they haven't even seen. I have had first hand experience of this many times.

Back in 2.x in coil, my only option at the time was pf groups so I made phase learning groups every single day for T9, gradually I got closer and closer to the kill after mastering all previous phases. It was at this point now my pure frustration began, people would join and wipe us on golems or the proceeding phases and had a clear lack of knowledge of any of the mechanics. It almost drove me to point of quitting coil as I was so fed up with these people ruining mine and my parties experience.

I asked a farm group if I could join them very late in the night, the pf leader advised me if I made 1 mistake I was out, I agreed and promised I knew what I was doing. The first attempt 5% we failed due to the misplacement of db marks from the brd in group, I asked the leader if I deem acceptable to continue in which we said I did great, the next run was a fail again on golems byaanother party member again, the leader of the group told me they been at this 3hrs and need a break as many silly mistakes but said I was most welcome to come along tomorrow to get my kill ^^ which I did.

Even with this setting, this option would still be open to people who have experience but cant just find a group with similar levels of understanding or capabilities to clear.

I joined my first learning party last night for thordan ex, I can now safely say I can get meteors 110%, today I hope to practice pass that. Once I know I'm capable of a kill I will start recording these runs, so that in future if I can't find a group full of genuine players that can clear it, I can at least ask a farm group and provide evidence of how far I can get.