Guild Wars 2

I find it odd that the game lacks a cohesive party finder tool. I’ve heard ArenaNet is a bit against the whole auto dungeon finder tool present in most MMOs, since it doesn’t quite promote group play.

So I had an idea, what if there could be a place, like in the mists or next to Lion’s Arch, or wherever, where people can come together to look for others looking to find dungeons. The zone could have a central area where you drop in and from there you see portals in the distance, each leading to outside one of the eight dungeons. Since there level scaling, a person doesn’t even need to feel picky about what dungeons they’re looking for. Let’s say you drop in wanting to do maybe CM or TA, but see a group is looking for someone to do CoF, you may decide to join them instead.

I don’t know, this was just a thought. It might work, perhaps not. But at least ANet could have the opportunity to hear our ideas and what we’d prefer and take it further.

What would you guys want?

Please tell me how it promotes less group play anymore than spamming chat or going through a list of people asking them if they want to go to dungeon X?

That’s right, it doesn’t, and don’t give me that BS about “community”. Spamming a chat is not community building in the least, don’t pretend you “try and get to know” the people you group with, tedium for everyone involved is all it is. An automated tool which means players can go anywhere and do anything without actively having to whisper/spam around to find people is superior in every concievable way to the system in place and the one you propose.

Same thing for the whole “people will be mean” argument, what a bunch of BS, if they want to be mean there’s absolutely NOTHING stopping them from being just that now either, there’s no “bad rep police” who will go around and make sure everyone knows how mean that guy was when he told you how bad you were.

Ruins the communtiy, well if getting people to play together in a more timely and effective manner ruins the community this must be the twilight zone.

Yeni.1924:

Please tell me how it promotes less group play anymore than spamming chat or going through a list of people asking them if they want to go to dungeon X?

That’s right, it doesn’t, and don’t give me that BS about “community”. Spamming a chat is not community building in the least, don’t pretend you “try and get to know” the people you group with, tedium for everyone involved is all it is. An automated tool which means players can go anywhere and do anything without actively having to whisper/spam around to find people is superior in every concievable way to the system in place and the one you propose.

Same thing for the whole “people will be mean” argument, what a bunch of BS, if they want to be mean there’s absolutely NOTHING stopping them from being just that now either, there’s no “bad rep police” who will go around and make sure everyone knows how mean that guy was when he told you how bad you were.

Ruins the communtiy, well if getting people to play together in a more timely and effective manner ruins the community this must be the twilight zone.

Wooo, chill friend, I didn’t mean to insult you in any way or form.

I also never said it ruins the community, or it causes people to be mean. I’m just saying what I read somewhere. I can’t supply a link or anything, but long ago I read somewhere that ANet isn’t keen on adding a dungeon finder tool. So I may stand under correction.

This was just a helpful idea, having a hub where people with a like-minded goal can get together and get a group going.

If you’re really into a dungeon finder tool, then by all means, say so. There’s no need to get hotheaded and be all aggressive about it. We’re having a civil conversation here, so keep it constructive and polite, please.

I agree and had the same mind set as OP. On the one had we have ppl that don’t want LFD tools like in Wow and on there we have the ppl that do. Both have good arguments, its counterproductive to have to wait in front of a portal spamming “LF1MOAR” and traditional hot join dungeons breeds Trolls so lets make a whole new system to be the stander isnt that what GW2 is all about? Here are some traditional ideas and new ones.

Option1 (easy “band-aid fix”)
Global (server) LFG Channel – pretty self explanatory. chat channel the ppl can see anywhere to find others for events.

Option 2 (Simpler version of what they have now)
A LFG Lobby- have a dedicated button that opens up a LFG box with filters to see who is looking for party and what dungeons.

Option 3 (out of the box)
A bulletin board in every city (all connected) where players can post dungeons they wish to run. "LFG Explorer CM " they can limit the duration for say 1hr and even add a note to it. then they can go back to questing or w/e. When someone starts forming a group they will go to this board and see your available, clicking the Ask to join button , prompting the player with a “so and so wishes you to join him on CM Explorer, do you wish to join?” and you can take it from there, its kinda like the 1st two but a little out of the box from the norm.

well that’s my 2 cents.