04-17-2006, 07:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2006, 09:30 PM by MongoJerry.)
ima_nerd,Apr 17 2006, 11:39 AM Wrote:/join LookingForGroup - City
You may have to actually right click the text tab, and get the little text box to enter in the new channel name. I had trouble doing it with just /join
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This won't work since the patch where they joined the LFG channels together. I couldn't find the Blizzard post on the subject but the jist of it was that the change to make it so that you could only view the LFG channels while in a major city was actually considered a "bug fix." However, the developers actually liked the bug that let people see the channel everywhere, so there are plans to "rebreak" the channel so that it can be seen everywhere.
As far as the meeting stones go, a lot of it has to do with how late they were introduced to the game. They weren't in the beta at all and weren't around at the start of the game, so that people just weren't used to using them. By the time the meeting stones came around, people were too used to using chat channels to find people. The major limitations with the way the stones are implemented now are:
1. You can't choose the people who get placed in your group. E.g., you might want a mage for a little aoe power but that stupid rogue who is three levels too low for your group anyway keeps getting added to your group.
2. On the other hand, the person in the queue doesn't have a chance to check out the group and decide if he or she wants to join that group or not.
3. You can't specify subsections of dungeons or special kinds of runs. For example, you can't specify something as simple as "SM Strat" vs "UD Strat." Plus, you can't specify even more specific things such as "I want to run three quick Rend runs in a row" or "Coffer BRD run only!"
I really don't know why it has taken the Blizzard developers so long to make a viable meeting stone system or why they ever thought that their current implementation would be used when its flaws were so obvious. Oh, well. Maybe in the future something will come along.