Duty Finder Broadcast System (a suggestion)

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I was thinking of ways that the duty finder could be improved and came up with this idea. What if there was a sort of broadcast system attached to the duty finder where you can see when friends start the finder and easily join them with a simple right click.

Here's how it would work:

Any time a player enters the duty finder a message will be sent out to other players (as defined in options I'll cover later). The message will say something along the lines of...

> Player has entered the duty finder for <duty>

Right click that players name and among the drop down options will be a new choice: "join in duty finder," selecting this will add you to that player's queue, granted you are eligible for the duty in question and your role hasn't been filled already. This will allow you to easily join players you wish to play with and could possibly speed up queue times for reasons I'll explain later.

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Filtering Broadcasts:

Every player would have a set of options much like chat filters where you can set yourself up to receive or send broadcasts to and from certain groups of users. You can set yourself up to broadcast to groups such as friends, individual linkshells, as well as free company. Furthermore you could choose to restrict your broadcasts so they don't get sent to specific users (i.e. you don't like playing with one person in a certain linkshell, you will not send that person a message when you enter the duty finder).

Likewise, you would have those same options for who you receive duty finder broadcasts. You can set it up to only recieve broadcasts from friends, linkshells, free company, specific users etc. as well as block broadcasts from specific users.

Once these options are set, duty finder notifications can be set as a chat filter just like every other kind of text you receive in game.

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Why this would be useful:
A system like this makes it easy and intuitive to play with the people you want to. Sure you can always straight up ask people in chat or through tells if they want to do dungeons, but sometimes you have friends who aren't part of your FC or linkshell, this is a simple, one button way to let everyone you want to play with know that you're looking for a group.

You could argue that this would take away from the social interaction of forming parties through chat or meeting new people through the finder, but to that I would retort: what's more social, asking if someone wants to party or actually partying with someone? Not to mention, meeting new people or not, everyone loves playing with friends you already have.

This could also potentially lighten the load on the duty finder itself since the more players who volunteer to join a group, the less players the system has to find itself.