Party Search

[Kaedan]

Well that could be added. It even could be added to actual one, and i think they will add it with time. All about what i was talking was actual state of things in game regarding the actual system, and a little about not wanting a commands.

Well, to be honest, them adding commands wouldn't hurt you. You wouldn't have to use them if you don't want to. But some people prefer to use them because they're more efficient.

[Dyne]

You probably seeked for parties for hours on end and never formed a party in your life. Forming a party is very stressful. Autopartying is not good because people have different intentions, not just bad ones, but stuff like I wanna camp here, and they wanna camp there. /sea all 20-25 gla, then send a polite /tell to each result if they want to join, then /sea all 20-25 thm, then send a polite /tell to each result, then /sea all 20-25 pug, then send a polite tell to them, and you got a party. I don't want some hey! I'm rank 1, whats going on guys? where are we going? /boot, then that person hates you for life. I personally formed 95% of my parties in ffxi for the 6 years I played, and I can tell you /sea all method works. With the current UI search function in ffxiv, if you are in a ghost town like Limsa or Gridania, you can forget about making a party, and just head over to a camp to behest and hope jp players invite you otherwise you are soloing until a linkshell finds you and they are actually active.

[Abraxai]

Feklt.. You're stupid.

Not everybody wants to have people joining out of the blue. There are many roles within a class and you're not always guaranteed that that one role will join.

Some people want to do other stuff while seeking.

Some people want the /sea command because it's on the fly accessible. A quick 2 second keyboard input and you can see what's available THE WORLD OVER.

The current system doesn't allow for world recruit visibility. NO way to see what's online. NO way to see what's going on.

Your credibility is flawed.

[CoolBlitz]

Feldt,

Please go away. You are defending a system on 5% of people using it. Other 95% of people want changes or improvements to be made here.

[Naqaj]

Not everybody wants to have people joining out of the blue. There are many roles within a class and you're not always guaranteed that that one role will join.

Easy solution, and one already mentioned in this thread. Change the system from looking for meaningless class names to actual roles. Tank/Healer/Damage/Partyanimal.

[Delmontyb]

This.
There does need to be better clarity on party roles desired, though that can be done in multiple ways.

Agreed.

I would like:

1. Party search - (aka Recruit) to allow me to set my group as open, so players can join if they wish (what it is now)
2. Looking for more - allow me to search a list of players who have set them selfs as looking for group.
3. Search - with lots of options, from class, role, rank, level, location, name, etc that I can search anything I need to find what I'm looking for.

[kanjimanji]

I never ever found any results when searching for a party - please make it more user friendly. It should give a broader results by default, and then refine by filters - right now it is the opposite way.

[Reika]

Feldt,

Please go away. You are defending a system on 5% of people using it. Other 95% of people want changes or improvements to be made here.

Sorce?
/10char

[Balbanes]

I would like to see an enhanced version of FFXI's search features.

Same here.

[Reika]

I saw many attacking Feldt, but she is right. If you study the party search feature, you would see that you can select the classes that can join your party, or just Discipline and count.

So you can chose Discipline of Magic - Rank X to Rank Y - and the # of them you want.
or you can specifically select Thaumaturge - Rank X to Rank Y - and the # of them you want.

If you chose any.... well that means you will end up with a Rank whatever you chose Armorer or something join your party. It would only be your own fault.

When I make parties, I make sure to have 2 variables, Discipline's of War wanted, and Disciplines of Magic wanted. You cant the wrong people or the wrong rank if you do it that way.

And like she said, the main difference between FFXIV's Party search and FFXI's LFG, is that the party leader only has to open the recruitment, rather than typing a million /sea all commands to find the right people.