Suggested feature for the party finder

[Derby_Crash]

Being able to form parties across servers was a wonderful addition to the party finder. When it comes to finding people to practice a specific phase of a fight, let's say the final phase of AS11, you make a comment in the party finder to know up until that point. I have found it frustrating that people do not read the description of my party finder, and they join barely knowing the fight at all. Usually I do not mind this, I'm always up to teaching people the fight, but it is unfair to the other people who joined my party expecting to practice a certain phase. I would suggest having a person who wants to join a party in the party finder select a box similar to the terms and condition saying that they have fully read the comment and they understand what the party leader wants or expects from the person joining the party.

[Dzian]

People would just tick it expecting the carry.

Look at raid finder and you'll see it a lot. People who have never entered a fight before tick "duty incomplete > completion" when they should be ticking "duty incomplete > practice > phase 1"

Found this is Sophia and Zurvan. The number of times I'd queue completion havingredients been down to 5% or so. Only to get paired with first timers who couldn't even make it to the adds or survive the first soar gnosis. Thus all it does is waste everyone's time and people complain when the people who have the fight down bail after 2 wipes in the first phase. Because half the party clearly shouldn't be using completion.

And then people say raid finder is failing cos groups are falling apart. Which is usually because people are using the wrong settings expecting carries. So yeah I think check points would be great.

So if you create a phase 3 practice party it won't let anyone join who hasn't made it to phase 3.

Or if you make a clear party it won't let anyone join who hasn't seen under 10% or the enrage.

Or if you create a bird farm or whatever people without the clear can't join. (I didn't think they could but I'm told full parties skip the rule check which is dumb if true)

[Sida]

Yes, what you're describing there is social problem, not technical. The suggested checkbox would just become one of those "yes, I've read terms and conditions" thing people click through routinely. Unlike in raid finder though, the PF has one benefit, that is the party chat, more awesome now that it's cross world. You can engage the arrivals to conversation befire entering the duty, to gauge how far they are in the progression. If they lie there, they wouldn't have respected the description anyway. If they are honest, you can politely tell them that they may need to start in a party closer to their level.

[Serilda]

I would find that a bit annoying as I join lots of PFs daily and they all have descriptions (otherwise I would not have joined them!) so it would be accepting an extra buttonpress every time while rushing to fight Odin or an S-rank mob. I'd only accept it if it was an option the leader had to manually require.

This is actually a disadvantage for non-JP players though as the nature of the languages means that you can fit an entire full-length description of the content on the main PF interface in Japanese whereas in English/French/German you might get 2-3 words at most and have to actually open the box to read the information properly. So I think it's easier to end up with people who forgot to read the full description in non-Japanese groups, for no reason other than a quirk of language.