Raid Only Server

[Ryel]

I'd rather they just add the option for cross server (within data center) Party Finders and Friends Lists really, it'd be much more constructive / effective.

[xXRaineXx]

I'd rather they just add the option for cross server (within data center) Party Finders and Friends Lists really, it'd be much more constructive / effective.

There will be some barriers to that.

1. Communication.

2. You cannot see party members in the party list unless they are in the same map as you. So when someone is in a another server, how would you see them?

3. Continuing from 2, for raids such as AS, every party member needs to be in the same map to enter. How would one know if everyone is there if everyone was on different servers?

4. This would create a lot of stress on server loads since it would mean to send various information all over the place.

5. That's why DF exists, to simplify all of this into a single instance for cross-server play.

[Amiaze]

I'd rather they just add the option for cross server (within data center) Party Finders and Friends Lists really, it'd be much more constructive / effective.

When I read this, all I saw was a long list of scheduled and emergency maintenance times. Please look forward to it.

I don't think a Duty Server would be feasible, mostly because some of your information is store on whatever server you're on, correct? It isn't all client-side. I think an instance would be more effective. If you've ever played Dragon's Dogma, then think of the Rift. You'd go into an instance such as that, possibly a large and empty area, and search out party members looking to go into whatever it is you want so long as they're in your data center.

Alternatively, you could just queue up for something and be sent into an instance set aside for players wanting to run that specific thing. This might sound strange, but hear me out. One thing the community here wants is for the game to feel more like a functioning community, although Duty Finder actively works against this. Allowing players from different servers to pick and choose players to run with for specific content would eliminate the random element of the Duty Finder, as well as give players the ability to mingle with others. If I see a tank that I know is good in Alexander shouting for something, I'd just go with them. I wouldn't be limited to just my server, and players that are negative towards others would no longer have the option of relying on their anonymity to see them through content.

We wouldn't even need to eliminate the Duty Finder. It could simply be worked into this, or given the PvP treatment: just make the Rift instance and let the Duty Finder die on its own because nobody is in it anymore.

[FoxyAreku]

This sounds horrible and unneccessary I must say.

Maybe in a perfect world but there's no reason for them to spend resources on something so futile when you can just find a static by putting up an ad in party finder.

[xXRaineXx]

This sounds horrible and unneccessary I must say.

Maybe in a perfect world but there's no reason for them to spend resources on something so futile when you can just find a static by putting up an ad in party finder.

Unfortunately that is only the case in your perfect world.

I play in JST and my primetime is when everyone is either afk or having a drama in the courtyards. 0-2 PF's are common in my time. Now you may say 'just transfer', which means to leave everything you know behind, friends, FC, housing, LS, GIL. It's a BIG commitment to undertake just to find a static. WHICH is what I am actually doing.

Sorry but your comment logical, but ignorant to the world around us.