Group finder alternative

Ep1kMalware

Forget about the clunky mess we have atm, it's semifunctional garbage not meant to be used by the public.

Instead I contend we get a craigslist esque setup. It can be automated, sure why not.

For the general outline, I'm thinking you select what your grouping for: quests/dungeons/trials/pvp/whatever. You select weather its open or closed. (open being you can land into it by grouping for anything, wheras closed would allow the group leader to screen for players.

This has key advantages: You can que for open groups for a fast run/find and do whatever. And for those that want to take their time finding a good group they can do that to. something for hardcores, and something for the more casual, laid back crowd.

A grouping ban would do better in this situation, as you're queing foe pretty much anything you want.

A couple addons I'd like to see included would be a browse feature. Something l=so you can look at what groups are open and be lije hey that looks fun.

Then a note section just below whatever yoh;re cuekng for. 'need pro players for nodeath run' , 'trial leaderboard scores', 'helmet farming', 'casual play' , 'learning wgt', 'sewer farming'. Anything.

Then allow the cue creatoe to select what roles they want. Be it, 4dps, 3dps and a tank, 2dps 1 healer 1 tank, anything. If you want a tankless run for speed, you can do that without screwing other people over.

basically, when using the interfacem you select what you're making a group for, what roles you want, a side note about the group, and bam.

leothedino

Had no issue with the current one, you do know there was something similar to what you are talking about, at the beginning, right? Nobody used it... literally, nobody.

Ep1kMalware

leothedino wrote: »

Had no issue with the current one, you do know there was something similar to what you are talking about, at the beginning, right? Nobody used it... literally, nobody.

really? Was it because there wasnt many players or was it buggy?

TheDarkShadow

Idk if group finder is still broke or no one use it anymore, but after like 3 weeks break from doing dungeons, I came back, queued as 3 roles in Vet random, and sit there for 30m and no group come up. This is after the hotfix they said to fix group finder. They indeed fix the thing when you have 4 people in group and it still can't find you a dungeon though. Maybe people just sick of bad groups and don't want to risk in Vet random anymore, idk...

Iselin

TheDarkShadow wrote: »

Idk if group finder is still broke or no one use it anymore, but after like 3 weeks break from doing dungeons, I came back, queued as 3 roles in Vet random, and sit there for 30m and no group come up. This is after the hotfix they said to fix group finder. They indeed fix the thing when you have 4 people in group and it still can't find you a dungeon though. Maybe people just sick of bad groups and don't want to risk in Vet random anymore, idk...

No, the hotfix didn't do much as far as I can tell - it's still broken.

AugustoCP

Just tried it yesterday, absolutely NOTHING changed after the hot fix. Still exactly the same thing: queueing with an incomplete group will never get you a group, queueing with a full group gets you a dungon immediately.

I find it of note that, if you queue, go inside the dungeon with your group, then kick someone, dungeon finder WILL be able to get you a replacement (to my knowledge, this is the only way a player who is not in a group yet can get into one through group finder right now)



Any of you guys ever played TERA? I think the LFG system of that game was a great idea. They had a dungeon finder, AND a LFG system, where you could post ads. It worked great. Wouldn't be as great in ESO due to the lack of an /inspect function, but it would still work just fine, and it would be better than the current group finder. It would even allow us to circumvent the current finder bug, since we could get a full group through LFG ads and then queue to get a dungeon instantaneously.

Troneon

Don't listen to those saying "it's because nobody used it" it is complete and utter bullcrap....

ZOS left it broken for over a year....it was a buggy broken mess, then they finally fixed it and updated FINALLY....

Since DB it is broken again....maybe it takes them another year to fix it like everything else?

Along with many skills and other issues like...

Healing no longer smart or targeting the right players with rapid regen/mutagen...

Potion durations bugged and no longer effected by passive skills, all passive duration increase skills not working....

Daily DB quests can no be picked up by a lot of players.....

And so on and so on....

NewBlacksmurf

Naah, they just need to drastically change the current one.

Delete it and start over with one that only uses levels 1-50

One that has Trials
One that has zone delves
One that has by zone if you're somewhere else.
One that takes into account roles (or they need to do away with roles and adjust all spells)


It's that level of focus, cause improvements to something that doesn't work well is a waste

Riffler

If you wanted that sort of set-up, just like the one at release that no one used, it could be done through add-ons. No one has made one. Because no one would use it.

AugustoCP

BUMP. ZOS, Fix this!

Leslannister

Yesterday I was spamming zone chat to get going a random daily dungeon, even though I was filling the healer spot myself I only got a single DD to respond and group... in like 30 min. of spamming. I'm sick of this, ZOS tool is broken and spamming zone chat gets on my *** .... oh well.

Syrani

I would LOVE to have something like this for ESO. Please, someone make this happen!

http://openraid.zergid.com/events/upcoming#all

frethopper

I would dearly love to see this group finder work correctly and efficiently. Participating in group content has always been difficult for me because of limited time in game. So when I log in I want to find a group quickly and go for it. I'd also like to see it cover ALL group content, including Craglorn quests, some of which (I believe) can't be completed unless you have a full group of 4.

failkiwib16_ESO

@frethopper just get 3 guildies or friends to show up, and stand on the pillars ... or ask in zonechat/ crowded location for help. They don't have to go through the dungeon with you, just have to stand on stuff or press something for a door/portal/stupid thing to grant you access to walk in