[dev1213] Player Search: Seeking Status Removed Upon Joining Party?

[Deusbag]

Seeking Status definitions from Dev Post:
1 None
2 In a Party
* Joining a party will automatically change your status to this.
3 Seeking a Party

My understanding is you will not show up in search results if you are in a party because it resets your seeking status. Just remove this restriction. Mark that the player is both in a party, and seeking a party. Rely on players to communicate whether or not they are actually available, or if they need to turn off seeking status. Alternatively, ask the player when they join a party if they want to join AND turn off seeking status, or leave it on.

Players need to be able to seek for a party while in a party. It will create stress to limit your activities you can do while seeking if it is tied directly to the fact you are in a party currently or not. Even in FFXI you could indicate with the green dot comment that you are looking for an EXP party even if your seeking flag was not up (even that was not ideal).

Consider the following scenarios:
1) I want to seek for a raid, and in the meantime I want to party up and help my low rank friend kill an NM or do a leve.
2) I want to seek for an EXP party, and in the meantime I want to power level my friend while I wait.
3) I want to seek for an EXP party, and in the meantime I want to do a few leves with this leve group
4) I want to seek for an EXP party, but I need to join a party and buy a teleport and it just removed my seeking status