124343-this-game-needs-the-group-board-from-ffxiv

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Basically it was a simple tool available for anyone for making or joining a group and it was fantastic.
 
When you wanted to make a group you put in the name of the group, location, classes wanted and average item level. The location could be a world zone or an instanced dungeon or raid, but the group wasn't in any way tied to that location and was free to do anything they decided on. You could limit the classes that you wanted to suit to your needs. You were also able to set a minimum average item level. As an added bonus you could write a short comment about the general goals of the group.
 
It was a great tool in addition to the normal group finder. You could make or try to find a group to fit your needs and wants, instead of being thrown into completely random group where nobody says a word. It also lessened to constant requirement to spam world/zone chats. People were also doing guild recruitment with it. Also saw some fishing parties and other crazy stuff.
 
In this game, it would make doing world bosses and world events billion times easier. Nowadays getting a group for any of them is too painful and nobody really does them.
 
You guys really need to implement some of the good ideas from other games. Hell, there's a whole company that has dedicated it's whole modus operandi around that idea. I'm not saying staying truthful to yourselves and trying to be original is bad, but there are just some great things in other games that are worth stealing since they are just that good.	
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			I'd vote for this. Pretty sure someone in the community said they are working on add on for it. One that is stock UI would be fine though.	
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			there is already an addon, its called LFG board, at this moment its in beta, but in its phase 1.3 will have all those feature you mention,look at it here https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/123926-lfg-board-roadmap/ and give your feedback to the creator	
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			Yeah an addon can accomplish the same thing although it'd be nice for something that comes in the stock UI. We already have LFG chat and all that as well though, but, I'm sure glad I don't have to see that XIV party finder anymore.I still remember the horrors of XIV party finder, rude people I tell ya.	
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there is already an addon, its called LFG board, at this moment its in beta, but in its phase 1.3 will have all those feature you mention,look at it here https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/123926-lfg-board-roadmap/ and give your feedback to the creator
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It needs to be in the stock UI so everyone will have access to it. 1-20% of server having the said addon isn't going to do much good. I don't have a clue about making addons, but I have the feeling that an addon that would accomplish all this would be easier for Carbine's crew to do.
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It's almost certainly in development now, but they do "game developer" things to it.  Sly's doing it in SPF and Gyp and testing it on the fly.  We'll get that a lot sooner.
 
We'll get a bulletin board style group finder from Carbine at some point soon though.  Autoqueues are proving to have been a pretty nasty misstep that most companies are starting to recognize and at leaast marginalize, if not completely avoid.
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I think its ok for easier games, but not Wildstar. The dungeons just require too much co-ordination for an auto-queue, auto join system
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It needs to be in the stock UI so everyone will have access to it. 1-20% of server having the said addon isn't going to do much good. I don't have a clue about making addons, but I have the feeling that an addon that would accomplish all this would be easier for Carbine's crew to do.
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I think its ok for easier games, but not Wildstar. The dungeons just require too much co-ordination for an auto-queue, auto join system
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I totally agree it needs to be in the stock UI, even as I'm developing the add on. However, what I'm creating will be available much sooner AND allow us to give feedback to Carbine about how we want it to work when their version gets implemented
 
I think the biggest hurdle will be getting enough people to use it to make it valuable. Will that happen? I don't know, all I can do is put it out there. However, my first shot at it was basically a "scanner" that looked at chat and tracked LFG messages for you that show up as listings in the add on. This makes it a tool you can use right now, even if other people aren't using it. It now has features to be able to create groups in the tool that are broadcast to everyone who has it- this way people see it immediately on log in, not when they manage to catch your LFG spam. With only around ~50 people or so using the tool, this probably isn't that valuable yet, but it does prove that the tech works. I've started work on allowing people to "sign up" for groups in the tool.
 
It's only OK looking, atm, but another user has graciously allowed me to us his UI design (this is the creator of RuneMaster, PotatoUI, and a few others): http://i.imgur.com/r9PwZOO.png  I plan to redo the UI once I get the basic functionality in.
 
I do have a plan for how to promote this and get people using it once enough features get in, though I'm notoriously bad at promotion, so I'm open for more/better ideas. Here's my current thought: once I have the ability to sign up for groups implemented, I'll offer something very valuable in game (think CREDD or a Pristine Key) as a contest reward. And the contest will be that I'll pick an evening and everyone who uses the add on and joins a group that I start will be eligible for the prize. I'll /roll and give it away. Yes, this is only for entity exiles :( I don't really have a way of doing this on euro servers, or the funds to do it for the dominion side.
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			Maybe. Thing is, something like this only works when a ton of people have it. So a slow build is harder than a big release. But then again, I'm terrible at that end of things, so what to I know?	
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I think the biggest hurdle will be getting enough people to use it to make it valuable. 
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bro, no one ever used a thing like oqueue in WoW ever, but it spread like a disease and in less than 3 weeks all the pople i knew used it
 
the best publicity you will have is "LF2M SSM vet, join in LFG board"
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I think that may always have been the problem.  An autoqueueing system needs easier content because it's just a bad way to put together a group for a coordinated effort.  It seemed like a good idea on paper (hey, people are having to put together groups, let's just automatically put them in the group), but that essentially required a huge downgrade in expectations because groups put together through an autoqueue like that have severe limitations in communication.  For them to work without hurting anything, the content has to be so easy that a new player can never inconvenience a veteran player, which means they essentially need to be mistake-proof.  And mistake proof instances elsewhere is why a lot of people came to Wildstar in the first place.
 
Honestly, I think even Blizzard came to this conclusion.  It's better to have harder difficulty and a more expressive system for communication to compensate than to make your content fit the queue.  You get more life out of your content when there's more often a threat of a party wipe further up the gear ladder, even if it does take some players longer to learn.  At least they'll always have to pay attention and remain engaged.
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That doesn't have to be the case though.  You can use FF14's Duty Finder to get a group for Extreme Primals and Coils.  The odds of you clearing it are slim and most random groups fail horribly, but the option is there.  There's nothing carved in stone that says that content has to be mistake-proof and coordination-free just because you aren't forced to go in with a premade.  It's just a tool to get your foot in the door.  Nothing more.  Let groups succeed or fail according to their own ability.  
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			I just uploaded a new version of LFG Board which now has the ability to sign up for groups. I'll be interested in feedback :)	
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