Search system

[Loony_BoB]

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.

[Gukie]

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!

Great.... another list of scroll... can you add like 10000 more to make it more Inconvenient.
just let us type it... it's much faster then click click click click click.

I want the some old system search where i can do

/see paladin 40-50 all
/see paladin 40-50 seek
/see 40-50 all

(Let the player type in what they are searching for in there own Search box)

[Soukyuu]

I'm telling any new player asking about leveling to first use search, then shout. New players tend to use those systems more often, while the old players seem to stick to shouting even though there are people seeking in that range.

[Estellios]

Great.... another list of scroll... can you add like 10000 more to make it more Inconvenient.
just let us type it... it's much faster then click click click click click.

I want the some old system search where i can do

/see paladin 40-50 all
/see paladin 40-50 seek
/see 40-50 all

(Let the player type in what they are searching for in there own Search box)

News flash, you've been able to do most of this for months now.

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.

As I said to that other dude, just stick everybody you meet on your Social List. It doesn't send them any confirmation like FF11's friend list, it's purely for your own reference. It lets you see when people are on and you can invite them straight from there. Easier than searching IMO although I do think they need to add name searching.

[Reinheart]

JP side also got another update on this one today they forgot to mention one more category for Artifact AF so that will also be in 1.22c update along with all the other categories mentioned already. ^^

[Rukkirii]

JP side also got another update on this one today they forgot to mention one more category for Artifact AF so that will also be in 1.22c update along with all the other categories mentioned already. ^^

You're correct!

There will also be an objective for AF quests in the party member search. ^_^

[TokyieRage]

You're correct!

There will also be an objective for AF quests in the party member search. ^_^

Will we ever be able to search by name?

[HoolieWho]

You're correct!

There will also be an objective for AF quests in the party member search. ^_^

"party member search"

Does this refer to the "Search" function or the "Party" recruitment function?

[Bebekurenai]

Will we ever be able to search by name?

Yes please, something simple like just the name. Got already all kind of search except once again, the most basic, simple and imo useful one. Don't tell me the UI can't handle it until 2.0, if it can handle all dungeons, jobs and zones and whatnot, why can't we still not search by name?

[Felis]

Will we ever be able to search by name?

We can give parties names? ^^

We are talking about the new functions in the party search menu, aren't we?