Against cross-server groups? please...

[Naylia]

Nobody has any clue how long it would take to auto-create a party inside server. IMO....there should be zero consideration of cross-server dungeons before a good understanding of local server demand exists.

Currently behests are selling out....dungeons proabably would too even if kicked off every 5 or 10 minutes.

Reworking the battle system and adding new content should theoretically add people to the game. Why not let that and the later PS3 launch work themselves out before screaming for cross-server content?

[Naylia]

Yea there's no real community to begin with. Everyone is in their own little clique LS's anyway. Cross server can't do anything but help. The population is so low it would take x10 as long on some servers to find a group to do the dungeons.

This is because the chat box sucks. Address the real problem....don't build content around a flawed system. Fix the chat box so that I can easily switch between LS's, Party chat, say, shout, world, region, what not. Each one should be tops 2 characters to type.

/L1, /L2, /L3 etc...

Make switching modes painless, current level of functionality is poor. This is how you encourage communication. Especially with half the community using a gamepad/keyboard combo they need to streamline switching chat modes and how this all works.

[Kirith]

Yes, let's kill monsters mindlessly with people we will never meet again...oh wait, isn't it actually easier to implement NPC party members? It also solves the server complications! A basic healer will heal you, a basic fighter will do damage. Just hire them from the aetherite and they follow you around and engage what you engage for all your mindless killing needs.

[zaviermhigo]

FFXI merged servers and then released new content, the servers became overpopulated for a while after that :/

[Nabiri]

There would be no point to talk to anyone in a cross-server party. I wouldn't want to find I like someone then not get to play with them in the rest of the game, so... best to keep it quiet and just get through the content.
Which... would not be fun for me.