The Infamous LFG TAG

In my vast experience with games, I've always noted that most reputable MMORPGs have a list, or a subset of a way they use the LFG.

In Everquest, It was the /LFG option to let people search far and wide for whomever they needed, not just in one district<instance> of one zone <area>.

IMHO, if guild wars included a fully interactive /lfg window, with like filters for what class specifics you need, it would negate those 2 hours spent "Group Needs 2 healing monks!" stuff.

With the window, it would just be a dropdown list with everyone LFG and you can filter it down to the class specific and in what dist of what zone said character is, if you wanna send a tell, click on their name in the LFG Window or some stuff along those lines.

Sorry if this is rezzing an old thread, ye olde search button doesn't work in mozzilla firefox for some reason.

--The Shim

does for me

plus, can you imagine the amount of people talking in one channel if we had a worldwide LFG channel?

FFXI has something similiar to what you want. You do search area and lists all the people and you look in the list for seeking party flag then you can easily do a tell to them.

I would restrict it to search just that town / outpost.

The white input search boxes were busted, click on Advance Search Link.

Yes it has been discuessed multiple times.

I just don't know why anet still don't react on this. This is the far biggest thing for the PvPers.

i think a great filter would be by quest or mision, you can flag yourself as "LFG for Defend Droknars" and then when someone went looking they could see you want in on a group for that quest.

Pickup Group formation is lacking in GW- basically, you spam a local channel until someone responds. My earliest impression of the Tombs (post spirit, pre IWAY) was of interminable waiting. Waiting to get a monk. Waiting to get a necro. Losing the monk, and waiting to get another one. 8/8 at last: enter the tombs to win one, lose one, and have everyone disperse to the winds. Repeat, if you've got the patience.

Fortunately, I'm past that awkward stage, but many people are not. I can tell you, it's extremely discouraging to spend an hour fighting to get a full group together, to spend only 15 minutes actually fighting. This sort of thing would really streamline the process, speed it up.

/rez thread

A-net did a good thing with the party mapping function. A nice tool for party forming in any town with more than one district. Very useful when you can't find a Mesmer/Monk/Necro/whatever in the district you're in. Speeds up the process quite a bit.

i like this idea, it would make things a ton easier. in your quest window, you simply select the quest and press a "looking for group" button, its added to a list, which can be accessed by a button. you press the assigned button and a window pops up with all the people LFG on the quests you assigned the LFG tag to. same could go for missions. any time you enter a mission, it pops up in your quest log, where you can simply add on the LFG tag. simple and incredibly effective.

/signed