Party Search

[Dyne]

Oh hell no, I don't want people joining my party out of the blue. What if they are there to steal loot or are totally stupid and offensive? I want /sea all 30-35 command back. I know the RMT abused it during beta, but I can always blacklist rmt.

[Feldt]

Oh hell no, I don't want people joining my party out of the blue. What if they are there to steal loot or are totally stupid and offensive? I want /sea all 30-35 command back. I know the RMT abused it during beta, but I can always blacklist rmt.

That's why you post who are you looking for... you know that /sea thingy with list of all the sh** is the same... you don't know those people and they will join you anyway... so why the fuss... and personally, i wanna see all the party I'm joining before deciding if I want to play with them or not...

as for the other way, being a leader, I don't want to go though all the fuss of random shiz of searching, i wanna post recruitment and wait for ppl to collect themselves. I post proper requirements and ppl meeting them, will join. Also this gives me a method to get to know of new players.

But seriously... the situation with that is so messed up now... so adding to all the camps that are already, we got ppl like dyne who "Oh hell no, I don't want people joining my party out of the blue."

I wonder, with all the camps, how SE will resolve the party system to please all people... cuss it ain't be a fricking easy task.

PS: Personally, I'm saying NO to FFXI party creating method and YES to FFXIV one.

[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.

[Kaedan]

Feldt.... we understand that a system for creating a party is there. But it would not hurt them to add the other half. Right now, as you state, it's only party leaders recruiting. It would be nice to see a search function for who is seeking as well.

[Feldt]

Feldt.... we understand that a system for creating a party is there. But it would not hurt them to add the other half. Right now, as you state, it's only party leaders recruiting. It would be nice to see a search function for who is seeking as well.

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.