Quote Originally Posted by Ryel View Post
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.