Different party icon for teams in Hard mode?

electrofish

electrofish

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Would it be a good idea to give the teams in towns and outposts under hard mode a different color party icon? say, red instead of blue?
(Just in case you don't know what I'm talking about it's that small icon with numbers that's directly on top of a group leader's head.)

This way, you'll know how many people are interested in doing the mission in hard mode instead of spamming 5 minutes in local chat to find out that everyone's only wanting to do normal mode.

Emik

Emik

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Belgium

[FaRM] Farm For The Win

N/

/signed...
Was talking about that with a friend of mine and we both thought that would be handy.
Actually if you look at it it makes sense too.

tenshi_strife

tenshi_strife

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

in sardelac getting yelled at.

Angels of Strife[Aoc]

E/

yea that would be good and i dont think it would be that hard to impleament

legion_rat

legion_rat

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

668 the neighbor of the beast

TFK

A/

/signed

Trying to get a party for HM and theres always a lvl 8 or something that sees the lvl 20s and tries to join. this would help with that. also it would help you find a party of HMs to join.

~the rat~

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

Nice idea.
/sign

Mad King Corn

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2006

I thought about something like that too.
/signed

MirkoTeran

MirkoTeran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Slovenia

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/

<random person>: ZOMG HAW DO U GET RED ICON LOLOLOL?*?!!?!

but anyways, /signed
I just have 1 addition. You can only join HM group if you can actually play it.

Yol

Yol

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

GameAmp Guides [AMP]

E/

I don't think it would be too difficult to make the icon and number red for hard mode teams. There is a mechanism that tells you if a party you are trying to join is full ("The merged party would be too large"), so why not something like "The party is running Hard Mode. You do not have Hard Mode"?

It gets really annoying when you ask for hardmode groups in local chat, and get inundated by join requests by low level characters, or lvl 20 characters that reset the whole parties status to normal mode......then you have to explain that you're doing hard mode, and put up with the abuse when you kick them from the party.....

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Hard mode is noted in the party search panel, using it solves a lot of problems like this one.

electrofish

electrofish

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
Hard mode is noted in the party search panel, using it solves a lot of problems like this one.
If only people use it that is... I do sometimes when I'm desperate enough, but the help usually came from my friend's list or local chat 'LFG' spamming.