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    Quote Originally Posted by Nopax View Post
    I always get garbage invites using it. Just leveled bard from 1-50 and used it constantly after level 25. I got zero actual invites, eight garbage invites and one ifrit (lol?) invite. I used the comment "Level BRD Looking for an experience points party."

    Garbage invites= Hello, do you need a party? Me: Yes, please. They invite and the party is for war, pld, blm, whm etc AF body quest and ask me to switch to a level 50 job.
    It's not just 'waiting to get invite', actually there is party search function u can determine yourself if you want 'actual join' to the party.

    1: switch to your prefer class/job (skipable if you know select the class from the menu)
    2: press "-" on ur numpad
    3: go to 'party'
    4: 'search'
    5: "begin search" (here you can change your prefer class)
    6: there you go a list of party leader name with looking for your prefer class for different content.
    7: click on the name to check any content you interest n 'join' button to join the party.

    I'm curious still many ask me to invite and many dun want to use it even i asked to (obviously playerbase refuse to learn something 'new')
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    Quote Originally Posted by Leo_Hart View Post
    It's not just 'waiting to get invite', actually there is party search function u can determine yourself if you want 'actual join' to the party.

    1: switch to your prefer class/job (skipable if you know select the class from the menu)
    2: press "-" on ur numpad
    3: go to 'party'
    4: 'search'
    5: "begin search" (here you can change your prefer class)
    6: there you go a list of party leader name with looking for your prefer class for different content.
    7: click on the name to check any content you interest n 'join' button to join the party.

    I'm curious still many ask me to invite and many dun want to use it even i asked to (obviously playerbase refuse to learn something 'new')
    Oooh thank you, I will need to check this out!^^ Sorry for not clicking the links and just assuming hehe. Learn something new everyday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chardrizard View Post
    The party search you have pictured there is actually garbage, so it's no wonder most people completely ignore it. The player search system works much better and I frequently find people though it (though most group leaders I meet seem completely oblivious), but it has the major flaw of not allowing searching by name. Sometimes you just want to see if someone is online/where someone is, but I haven't been able to figure out how. It has some nice features but overall it's still not as usable as the FFXI search.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frein View Post
    The party search you have pictured there is actually garbage, so it's no wonder most people completely ignore it. The player search system works much better and I frequently find people though it (though most group leaders I meet seem completely oblivious), but it has the major flaw of not allowing searching by name. Sometimes you just want to see if someone is online/where someone is, but I haven't been able to figure out how. It has some nice features but overall it's still not as usable as the FFXI search.
    Friendlist allow you to check if the player online or not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frein View Post
    The party search you have pictured there is actually garbage, so it's no wonder most people completely ignore it. The player search system works much better and I frequently find people though it (though most group leaders I meet seem completely oblivious), but it has the major flaw of not allowing searching by name. Sometimes you just want to see if someone is online/where someone is, but I haven't been able to figure out how. It has some nice features but overall it's still not as usable as the FFXI search.
    I have to say this is my thought as well. My experience has always been best doing it the old-school way. Find people using the player search system who are on a suitable class/level, send a tell and see what comes of it. Managed to put together a six-hour party together that way with five of the people staying for the entirity of the six hours. Was fantastic for experience, fantastic for chatter, fantastic for meeting new people and just overall enjoyable. We start off asking the English people who are sitting around in towns (my girlfriend and I are rather social so this helps) but are not averse to asking people of other languages and make full use of Google Translate to ensure nobody is left out. I find Google Translate especially useful when we are waiting around because I can only imagine that people who don't speak English could get really confused as to how things are progressing. But yeah, player search is key for me, so much easier and people are often happy to join up. We once managed an 8 person party in five minutes, although the six-hour session probably took about 10-20 minutes to put together. I find it gets faster results than the party search feature, too.
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    im going to start using this instead of shouting.. everybody would need to mame that change for it to work successfully in the end.
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    Greetings!

    In patch 1.22c we will be adding the below to the list of objectives for party member search:
    • Primal battles
    • Beastmen stronghold attacks
    • Hamlet Defense
    • Caravan Defense
    • NM
    • Leveling
    • Behest
    • Rallying

    (Please note the English category names are not yet finalized.)

    Hurray!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
    Greetings!

    In patch 1.22c we will be adding the below to the list of objectives for party member search:

    • Primal battles
    • Beastmen stronghold attacks
    • Hamlet Defense
    • Caravan Defense
    • NM
    • Leveling
    • Behest
    • Rallying


    (Please note the English category names are not yet finalized.)

    Hurray!
    That's awesome!

    I have a question though: Do they plan to allow us to add auto-translate items into our search comment?♪

    thanks for your time Rukkirii!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
    Greetings!

    In patch 1.22c we will be adding the below to the list of objectives for party member search:
    • Primal battles
    • Beastmen stronghold attacks
    • Hamlet Defense
    • Caravan Defense
    • NM
    • Leveling
    • Behest
    • Rallying

    (Please note the English category names are not yet finalized.)

    Hurray!
    This is cool, but I don't think many Western players use the party recruitment menu, definitely less than use the search function for sure.

    Is the dev team still considering the addition of a visable LFP icon or not also ?
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    Kiara Silvermoon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
    Greetings!

    In patch 1.22c we will be adding the below to the list of objectives for party member search:

    • Primal battles
    • Beastmen stronghold attacks
    • Hamlet Defense
    • Caravan Defense
    • NM
    • Leveling
    • Behest
    • Rallying


    (Please note the English category names are not yet finalized.)

    Hurray!
    Hi Rukkirii,

    Great news. More categories to help players differentiate and seek specific content is always a good thing. And these categories really cover the most important / useful categories most players are interested in.

    Thanks~
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