Party size reduction a good change?

[TheVedis]

You must now chose 8 and execute the rest.

ive heard pillow fights to the death are common among mithras

[Mikita]

What about people who have more than 8 friends!?!? AAAHHH ;A;

Same here. I'm really disappointed by their decision to cap parties at 8 people. I guess SE somehow got the impression that many of their players have poor social skills and cannot make friends. Very, very sad.

[Dubont]

Same here. I'm really disappointed by their decision to cap parties at 8 people. I guess SE somehow got the impression that many of their players have poor social skills and cannot make friends. Very, very sad.

less people in party = more skill needed to kill things. I, for one, was never happy with seeing a mob of 15 people running around all of the time...

[Mikita]

less people in party = more skill needed to kill things. I, for one, was never happy with seeing a mob of 15 people running around all of the time...

That's fine and I don't disagree with your point. But there's currently nothing stopping people from forming smaller parties if they want to play with more skill than the rest of us. Why put a hard cap on everyone and force people to exclude some of their friends?

[Dubont]

That's fine and I don't disagree with your point. But there's currently nothing stopping people from forming smaller parties if they want to play with more skill than the rest of us. Why put a hard cap on everyone and force people to exclude some of their friends?

well, why do all games do this? Atlantica, you can only play with 2 friends. FFXI, you can only play with 5 friends. At least here, you can play with 7 friends if you like. I, again, think that 15 is too large...but if people disagree with caps, why don't we just let everyone join one massive party? That would work right!? Actually...lol that would be pretty funny to see...just the entire server running around killing everything in one giant party...

[Frisque]

Reduced party size kind of gives me a sad

I think it would be nice if they kept the party size at 15 but capped the bonuses at 8. That way you could make a choice: do you want to run out and deliver mayhem and carnage in a huge mob (with, say your LS or friends) or do you want to reduce your party size for efficient SP/hr grindage.

I guess I"m just more for changes that gives the players more choices/options rather than ones that are limiting.

[Neptune]

I'm surprised at all the support for small parties. I always liked big parties although I haven't really been in one for so long because everyone quit the game. lol.

[Aistaraina]

Can I target my entire party with F1-F8? No, you say? Party sizes of 5 + alliances please, or change the party targeting system.

If they're doing this for "strategy", then don't force me to spam AOE heal to get people I can't target easily.

[Jinko]

Can I target my entire party with F1-F8? No, you say? Party sizes of 5 + alliances please, or change the party targeting system.

If they're doing this for "strategy", then don't force me to spam AOE heal to get people I can't target easily.

You can easily target people by clicking their name in the party list with a mouse, also pressing the number key which has Cure assigned and then clicking said person in party list will heal them, it couldn't be any easier, of course if you insist on playing with a controller then who's to blame for that ?

Give what I suggested a try and you will see just how easy it is to target people as a healer.

[Dubont]

You can easily target people by clicking their name in the party list with a mouse, also pressing the number key which has Cure assigned and then clicking said person in party list will heal them, it couldn't be any easier, of course if you insist on playing with a controller then who's to blame for that ?

not everyone has a mouse at their disposal that can be used efficiently for gaming. Also, the ingame mouse is still kinda crappy....I hate playing with mouse.