Request/Suggestion: sLFG Server-wide Looking For Group

prodrugz

aloha...

when seeking players or groups...
for something like ADOM .. or any Trial/dungeon/skirmish/QuestHelp...

we jump into multiple chats & zones...



for example:


seeking ADOM LFG
as an organizer .. or a member...

i teleport to the big high up zones .. like to MoonDancer .. PE .. Spider area etc...
& i jump from LFG chat to Custom Chat to another custom chat of same purpose etc...
not to mention some private chats have LONG NAMES !

& all this jumps & teleports
just to drop a "LFG/LF/LFM/HelpWithQuest...etc..."
& the repeat process incase the group isn't filled...
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request/suggest:

make an official sLFG (got that short if you wanna take the name)
..OR..
make the LFG .. be Server-wide LFG displayed...
&
maybe ZoneChat too .. or another called GlobalChat that is Server-wide & fast shortcut to it like "/g"
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its soo frostrating jumping chats & zones just for LFG
& when arguing with one of those customChat admins .. they just kick you cuz they were bullied in their childhood & couldn't do something about it...

melotai

sounds like a good idea.

It has been a long time since I bothered with putting together a group for anything.

Now I just spend a few minutes checking out PE chat and maybe do a plus on something I am willing to do and then solo queue for it and then leave for whatever campaign area I am working on for the toon.

In general, my responses to whatever do seem to get ignored but that is OK as it is meeting my expectations.

Because I am solo queuing I usually do a lot cancellations as the time it takes for it to pop has a tendency to coincide with me doing something that is guaranteed completion if stay vs. something that is rather iffy if I leave so I just cancel it and then queue again afterwards. Most times I eventually get two out of the three things I solo queue for done (usually, RC and the random skirmish)

RTQ is more difficult to complete because of abandoned instances (most times without even trying) or non-cooperation of players to complete content. Happens a lot in cradle and tiamat.

admiralwarlord

A good idea, make lfg global.

jana

No one ever answers me when I try to answer looking for group. Once in a blue moon someone asks me to join them, but I would sure like to find a regular group I could work on co-ordinating with. I would be willing to help people in easier dungeons until they can get good in more advanced ones. I think they need a better place than chat for all that.

melotai

Join a guild/alliance. From my experience players in the active alliances are generally willing to help out and from what I have seen and done myself the random groups put together, with mostly or all alliance members, have a high rate of success and in general no drama during the run.

Whereas going solo you have no idea if any of the other people joining are even willing to do the content they got or worse you get enough bots in the group to ruin the run for the rest that showed up.

For randoms I do solo I do not bother to check stats as that means nothing based on what I have seen so far. What I do look at is how many people are in the same alliance or guild. In general, if it is more than 50% from one guild or alliance then I presume it is going to be a successful run. If not, then I presume it is going to fail but am willing to stay and find out right up to the point where everyone else just abandons it without even trying.

It should be noted that as far as checking other peoples stats I do not bother unless it is RTQ and then I only check the tanks to see who is doing what. Turns out you can usually tell the good tanks from the bad just by checking on some of their equipment I know this because I have built 3 tanks of my own and in general there is specific equipment that all the reasonably good tanks seem to have.

Besides that I sometimes like to try and guess which one will be doing most of the tanking during a demogorgon or similar RTQ run.

Also, for Tanks IL does not matter and if it does then I do not really see how as I have done a lot of runs with beginner tanks where their IL is just high enough to get them in and they all seemed capable enough for us to finish the run without to much issue.

I do not check on the other healer because it has been proven many times over that any RTQ can be done with only one healer.

hadestemplar

Lot of players in these days joined/use custom chats..
Like /channel_join nw_legit_community
Or for end game, or for pvp ( yup there are still those who doing it).

LFG as global? Have you though how crowded and messy chat may become?? Someone shout for rtq group in PE, other for Arena, someone for like Heroic encounter train..

The main place/area where players gather and look for others parties or make parties is protector enclave. So I don't think there is much of point to make LFG as global.