Thanks for posting this. I wholeheartedly agree. The new search function is highly functional, but underutilized. I do put up my flag whenever I'm not doing LS things, including a list of my preferred classes and activities in the search comment. I've actually gotten two invites this weekend on Wutai using this system, so at least some people are moving toward it. Hopefully this does make it easier to operate largely out of the other cities. Even though the markets in Ul'dah dominate commerce, I think the primary reason for many players staying in Ul'dah is for those very shouts you mention. I'll also try to put out some gear for patch days and 2.0 launch, though I'll probably Hasty Hand it.

One good community idea that some people have been picking up on is using the price to indicate the potency of materia, e.g. I would sell a Vitality IV with +17 VIT for XXX,017 and would sell a Sagacious Might III with 36 bonus magic crit damage for XXX,036.

Oh! I'm sorry your thread got derailed. There's a lot of grouchiness on these forums sometimes.