[Idea/Request] Social Event Finder

[Afkland]

Splitting off from/inspired by the post "Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's", this thread is for people who want to think about What Could Be.

After browsing through that thread, I would love to see a Social Event Finder added to the game, and I don't mean Fellowships, they don't work the same.

It could function basically as a stripped down/cloned Party Finder, allowing the person listing to list it as Social or Role Play, and the icon displayed by their name (much like for people who are in Party Finder) could reflect that status (Such as a recolored RP tag). There could be a 'report inappropriate listing' type option like for RMT in chat. They could probably enable using the icons housing uses (venue, visitors welcome, cafe etc etc) to flag each event type.

It would take the social events out of the PF, and give the community a tool that it clearly wants.

[Jeeqbit]

So like this: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/event/

[Afkland]

That's on the website, not in game. Judging from the use of PF, the community has a need for one in game.

[Jeeqbit]

I agree with that, these lodestone features are nice but should be in the game itself. I have to explain to new players that "a lot of features you normally see in an MMO are on the lodestone in this game".

[Afkland]

There's also the nature of 'this is happening right now' that the PF has as an advantage over anything on the Lodestone. An Event Finder (EF?) could do a lot of great things for the community, like let people flag their event as 'later today', 'right now' or 'advertising for a future event', so users could tab over to the time frame that suits them. That could be pretty great for the community.

It'd also be useful for people doing non-RP events like Art Parties/Screenshot Parties/Social parties etc etc.