Repairing Gears: WoW Looking for Group, Part 2
Well, I was thinking that as this was a weekly piece I should put one part up this week and one part up next, but I didn’t feel right doing that, it just made it seem like I was stretching this topic out to long, so I’ll be posting parts two and three this week so we can move on to a new topic next week.
Okay, we’ve covered the new quest log, but next I’d like to conquer the social aspect of the looking for group system, the one covering friend and guild related looking for group, and it really does deserve it’s own special section.
Maybe some other people never really thought of this, but as for me, I’ve always felt that if a guild-mate or someone on my friends list had marked down looking for a group I would prefer a special place to look at it. My original thought was to put this in the main LFG index and just highlight in some way (a different color for instance) people who are friends or guildies. This seemed acceptable to me at first, but as I thought about it more, I realized as more guildies and friends used the system, and depending on how many you had this could take up a massive amount of space at the top of a list of all people searching, so giving it a section all its own seemed best (a quick note here, the groups would still show up in the main LFG index but they would appear just as any other one and would be sorted in whatever manner had been designated).
It is also important to realize that as this is more of an offshoot of the main system this Social LFG Index would have the same functionality as the normal index (i.e. a search feature, among others) but I don’t want to get to much into that as I’m saving all that kind of stuff for the last article (just know that you can look back to this post and really see what kind of power would be held in this social index).
Anyway, that about covers it, we can keep it short and sweet on this one, and the next one will cover quite a bit.
World of Warcraft, Looking for Group, Guilds
December 26th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
[...] Repairing Gears: WoW Looking for Group, Part 3 December 26th, 2006 by Brandon Now that we’ve covered the new questing system and the social system of LFG let’s get to the biggest part, the true LFG system, the one that does the dungeons and battlegrounds, etc. I know I promised this last week but hey, things didn’t work out that way, so here it is. [...]
March 1st, 2007 at 7:48 pm
[...] Another idea brought up last week was a sort of inter-guild arena and I like that idea. I’d also like to take that idea and stick another one along side it. I’m all for a CoH/V style ability to “raid” other groups guild halls (an option to be flagged for this, at least on normal servers, would be best obviously) and along with the ability to fight other guilds, it would be nice to see the opposite implemented, the ability to ally with other guilds to accomplish goals. The specifics of the system could be debated back and forth for a while, but at its most basic level it allows two or more guilds to effectively “share” members without losing out on the individuality of each guild. I talked about how to implement the guild system inside the LFG system a while ago and this would work in a similar fashion, except it spans all allied guilds, not just your own. [...]