124711-suggestion-city-notice-board

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So I'd been thinking, and I know there's already LFG finders/add-ons being suggested, though I think this would be a little different (less on-the-spot and temporary grouping function, more long-term, and would allow for recruitment and advertisement with in-game resources).
 
A City Notice Board in the major cities where you can post things of interest, like you're looking for more people to do warplots with, or RP nights with folks who play at the same time.
 
What it would boil down to...
A variety of categories, i.e. Raiding, World, PvP, RP, Guild, Crafting, Miscellaneous, under which you could post a short paragraph explaining your events or desires. Other players could go to the Notice Board, and start browsing around ala Auction House or something and use a (better than AH/CX) browsing system to help funnel down titles/messages to find what they're looking for. It doesn't even have to go beyond that! Display the text, maybe put a field in for contact information, and call it a day. If you wanted to go beyond that, a sign-up function when allowed. I mean, essentially, it'd be like an in-game forum, except it's easy to access and is WITHIN the game's bounds, which is important for lots of people I know. No reply function should be added, merely the ability to contact the poster of the event.
 
This would also serve as a Guild Recruitment function, since players will be able to browse through Guild listings, as well as Circle recruitment.
 
Especially important for its functionality:
An introduction via a quest upon entering your faction's main city, and...
Put it away from the AH/CX at least a reasonable amount. It could absolutely be used to slightly spread people out so the wall of lag some experience/crowding that happens near the CX/AH is leveled out some.
 
Potential problem:
Spammers placing too many postings, but solved by limiting to 3 postings per account (must delete old posting to make new one, and a GOOD interface to keep track of your own postings to make it not a pain in the ass).
 
Something like this as housing décor except it just displays text of your choice would also be AMAZING, but totally different subject. Or you could put it on your housing plot, too, like the renown vendor was.
 
Suggestions/additions welcome if anyone has things to add, or just thoughts!	
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			This idea would be really neat! Though I think someone is working on an addon similar to this -- maybe one could be made that's like this? Carbine has been known to take some addons and program them into the game itself (like lines to your weapon when you drop it)	
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I really like this idea.  I don't know why it hasn't been put into the game already..  
I just recently went to a "Costuming Seminar."  I had not planned on going to it, I just happened to be in my sky home, and saw people talking about it. (Turned out to be quite informational!)  This feature would help events like these.  People could have signed up for it to go, I'm sure way more people would have been there.  
I would use this feature.  I would though like to be able to access it AFTER I signed up for something.  Like a little reminder that the event was taking place, or something.  Kind of like those little communicators you get from completing quests without turning them into NPC's?  Being able to send text messages regarding the events without a mailbox maybe?
Excite!	
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I'm all for community handling! Stuff like this makes me remember the Taxi service in COH, you had these bunch of guys who would dye their characters like the Yellow cabs and they would teleport people to wherever they needed to go. This was all done without any help of the devs, just some people trying to make the game a better place.
 
I think wildstar needs more of these player initiatives,
 
Practical, wouldn't it be the most simple to give a settler the ability to place such a board, where he can add text himself? *dev *cough answer*	
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