Party UI

[Crux]

It is very cumbersome to find out who is in your party (or linkshell for that matter). It would be nice to have a separate icon just for Party so you click on it, and all the members with their class show up.

If I want to see who is in my Party now, I open the main menu, click party, click party details. Then I have to close out of all three windows. That makes six clicks just to see who is in your party and what classes/levels they are.

I know all the clicks and levels of navigation are for the controller, but it isn't even out on PS3 and we have to deal with a clunky ui because of it. Use two different UI set-ups if that is the case. One for PS3 and one for PC, it just seems too hard to do a good UI for both (at least with the current configuration).


Suggestion: Put a mini icon with the others on screen (lower right) for Party and with one click open one window that shows level and class of party members. Have the LFG window be it's own thing.
Second option and probably too much for the ui, but add the class and level in the party windows frames. I do like the simple party frames window on screen now, so I think the first option would be best.

Please add some text in the chat log for when a person disconnects. Right now you have no idea of knowing if they DC'd or not.

[Jinko]

If you look at the 2.0 UI there is a party icon so I guess they have it planned, but don't expect it anytime soon.