So I just thought about today how everyone is spending a lot of money on smegas to recruit for boss parties. This is mainly because there's no place specific for this, so every player is spread around the world fooling around. In the FM is not a good option, mainly because people go there to sell. Longue nobody uses it so nobody goes there. So why not make a specific NPC in the lounge(or FM) that would warp people into a room where people gather for boss runs? I don't know how specific it needs to be, but for exemple maybe just one General for bossing(So everyone is there and people are saying R> Mano got magic guard, R> Zakum +1HS, and R> Krex duo got all buffs) or make several rooms for each major boss(not ideal but it would be cool one with the zakum music and the lava). People would still need to manually go to the boss, but by creating a specific place that everyone knows might make finding people that want to boss easier and party play more fun. Maybe create an event to promote the use of the place in the first few weeks.(A prize if someone kills a boss, untradable wa usable items, or buffs for anyone that talks to the NPC there) Other good feature to make things easier but I don't know if the community would accept: Make a NPC in this room that lets you write your name(and a timer, lets say 1 hour) that will let your name on the list and what bosses are you down for, your level, your range,etc. So people can go do whatever they are doing and if someone comes he sees the name and PM you. I don't know if that would be used by the community, maybe people will still ingnore the place, but only a try would tell. I'm usually bored most of the time and I would surely go into this boss room see if there's anyone recruiting. a Smega reaches more people, but if everyone that wants to boss is there it would surely make things faster and less costly. Thoughts? Anyone think this might work? I know the majority boss within the guild and friends but there is a population that depends on bossing with strangers.
Sounds like a neat idea. We could possibly just add rooms inside the lounge with boss themes, like one with lava cave for Zakum, a ice cave style for Horntail, Malaysia style for Scarga, etc.
I'd play devil's advocate here and say that lounge ch 1 could've functioned like that if people would've agreed together that this would be the norm. But we don't see anyone using lounge like that. Adding more rooms with different themes, but no real features would change literally nothing. When people look for a party for KPQ for example, its well known that the area near the NPC in ch1 is the hub for recruiting players. But in end game bosses, the norm became smegas. If everyone entered lounge ch1 in hopes of recruiting a party, this thread wouldn't be a thing. You can compare it to chat apps, or social media. Users don't swap apps when a new app with more features come, they only switch to an app that most of their friends uses. Same for recruiting. If no one tries to recruit with anything that is not smegas, then no one will try anything new. Lets talk advantages and disadvantages of smega: Advanteges: your message is seen by everyone, even people that didn't search for bossing might get interested by your smega and pm you Smega is also convinient, no need to go anywhere, and people can instantly pm you by clicking the smega. Disadvantages: it costs meso, and that cost eventually adds up Advantages of going lounge: it's free Disadvantage: no one goes there So yea, i think you'd need a bigger feature than a simple party search feature to make this work.
100% agree on this. I do think the lounge is not used for bosses because there's no culture for it. If there was people would go there to see if there's anyone working out a party. And yes, smega is superior, but you can still do that with rooms. As I said, if we could work to create a culture of making people go to the boss room to recruit and get recruited this thing would change. The NPC board to let your name there would fix the problem of wanting to be somewhere else while waiting for a recruit. Thats why one idea I gave is to give some prize for using the room. Maybe a system where you can coolect "boss coins" and this can be traded there for untradable items(mainly attack pots) but I don't know how much "custom server" the playerbase and the GMs wants to go. Still, people may just get in the place, get the prize and go out. As for the separete rooms, I think its cool but I'm afraid that it would become bothersome to have to go to each room to see if there's anyone. For exemple a lot of people are down to Krex/Zakum and CWKPQ, so if everyone goes to a single room it gets easier. But the downside is that the more "generic" this boss rooms the less they will be used I think. A "Zakum Boss place" would gather more people than "The Generic Boss Room" place. As a "bigger feature" I've seen some servers where you could ask the PQ NPC to "shout" that you are looking for players for "KPQ". I don't think this would be interesting because it would flood the chat with people asking for parties. This system may work if its something "opt in", if I agree to recieve this "shouts" for Zakum I would recieve them. However, the smegas are a meso sink that I don't think people would want to lose. I could also argue that costant boss recruit on smega is also bothersome for people that are not intersted in bosses but still want to see other type of smegas. An "opt in" system would be nice and could separete boss smegas to non-boss smegas. But still this is too much of a new feature for a nostalgic server.
