08-17-2005, 02:35 AM
Meeting stones would be useful if you could say something like:
53 Restoration Druid would like tank practice in any of the following:
BRD, Shadowforge key and Incendius, not interested in Jailbreak.
Sunken Temple, all quests done but want to farm the ring bosses for their drops.
Zul'Farrak, 5-man for troll rush and Ghar'zilla.
Maraudon, Princess run
Dire Maul East, Web and key.
But you can't. You can't even mark yourself as interested in multiple dungeons. So the Ironforge/Orgrimmar LFG channels get spammed.
I think meeting stones should work more like this: On using a meeting stone you get presented with a screen containing several tabs. The first is "your ad" - this has a list of all the dungeons in the game, letting you tick the ones you're interested in, and have space for a bit of text so you can describe what you're after. There are also options here about what conditions to display your ad under - so you can for instance tell it not to show your ad if you are already in a group and are not the leader, or are the leader of a full group, or are in an instance, or are offline, or to show it only to members of selected guilds ('don't forget MC on Saturday!'). You can cancel your ad from anywhere and the text is remembered for the next time you raise one. The other tabs, one per dungeon, show you all the ads from people who have marked themselves as interested in that dungeon, with class and level, again filterable by a range of conditions. Invitations to group are done manually, with invite and whisper buttons by each ad you view.
53 Restoration Druid would like tank practice in any of the following:
BRD, Shadowforge key and Incendius, not interested in Jailbreak.
Sunken Temple, all quests done but want to farm the ring bosses for their drops.
Zul'Farrak, 5-man for troll rush and Ghar'zilla.
Maraudon, Princess run
Dire Maul East, Web and key.
But you can't. You can't even mark yourself as interested in multiple dungeons. So the Ironforge/Orgrimmar LFG channels get spammed.
I think meeting stones should work more like this: On using a meeting stone you get presented with a screen containing several tabs. The first is "your ad" - this has a list of all the dungeons in the game, letting you tick the ones you're interested in, and have space for a bit of text so you can describe what you're after. There are also options here about what conditions to display your ad under - so you can for instance tell it not to show your ad if you are already in a group and are not the leader, or are the leader of a full group, or are in an instance, or are offline, or to show it only to members of selected guilds ('don't forget MC on Saturday!'). You can cancel your ad from anywhere and the text is remembered for the next time you raise one. The other tabs, one per dungeon, show you all the ads from people who have marked themselves as interested in that dungeon, with class and level, again filterable by a range of conditions. Invitations to group are done manually, with invite and whisper buttons by each ad you view.