I'm on Gysahl and every time I search for a party there's at least half a dozen groups but all Japanese with "LS" appearing somewhere within their text, or just all Japanese text. I've joined one of these parties before that had the right rank level written in numeric characters, but have not been received well as it again was a private party/LS.

Add the ability to use Auto-Translate function within the party details field so that we can overcome language barriers again. In XI I mostly PT'd with Japanese folk cause I'm in Australia and they're 1hr behind me. The language barrier was never really a problem. XIV's addition of enemy and party signs makes it even easier to convey simple battle messages to those of differing language.

There needs to be some kind of party feature within the LS interface, or a way to flag the LS so that only LS members can see the party when searching and non-LS members don't. The party feature should really be exclusively for people that want to party with others. LS's just use it so they don't have to invite everyone manually.

I miss the /sea function. Even when people weren't displaying a party flag in FFXI, you could still look for certain parameters and most of the time, people were willing to join with you when you contacted them or you could make contact with people of certain criteria to seek advice on jobs etc.

The new party function is a good foundation that can be improved and highly useful with some minor changes.