I recently stopped playing my Fixer for a week and a half because I got fed up with standing around for 30-45 minutes trying to get into a group. Once I spent most of my night trying to get into a group. When I finally got into one, we hunted for about 15 minutes and then broke up. Needless to say, I didn’t have any fun that night.
I also don’t like the fact that to do anything worthwhile in the game you have to have a 6 person group which limits where you can hunt. I’d love to hunt in someplace else other that Broken Shores but I can’t because that is the best place for me to find a group. Here are my suggestion for making it easier to find a group.
Team making a request for more members
- Team leader can post a global request that they are looking for more members.
- Only team leaders can post the request so you must have at least two people to make one
- A short description can be entered about what the team plans to do or current situation such as “Doing team missions”, “Halfway through Camelot dungeon”, “Attacking clan scum”, “Defending 2HO”
- A level range restriction can be entered or a default one will be generated based on the current members of the team.
- Optional: A location (zone or static dungeon) can be entered. It should default to the current zone but can be cleared if there is no zone preference.
- Optional: A side restriction can be entered. This will determine who can see the request.
- Optional: The team leader should be able to specify the professions that are needed by clicking on one or more professions listed in the dialog.
Player looking for a team to join
- Player should be allowed view a list of teams looking for members by typing in a command
- Player should be able to filter the list on any of the fields.
- Player should be able to see player references for all the players currently in the team that is looking for members.
- Player should be able to request to join a team by pressing a button. When they do a tell will be automatically sent to the team leader that contains the level, side, profession and current zone of the player.
- The player must still travel to the group to actually join it if accepted.
By making it easier to join a group, players will feel less pressure to hunt in one place or do the same thing over and over. The population will spread out which will reduce lag. There will be less downtime. It could actually become possible to log on, get a group and play if you only have limited time. Groups will be able to replace members easier.
For all of those reasons, this is my number one request for the game.