36 replies to this topic

[AngeIic]

It's not necessarily to confusing.. but its far to complex in terms of general party searching. And majority of RO players are actually pretty old, but obviously you would fail to see that

[Toxn]

Again how is it complex? The booking system is extremely extremely figure out and use.

[Eklavya]

None the less, no one wants to click it every 10-15min, trying to see if there is a party that they desire. Like I said, if there was a notification or a server wide announcement (Not like GMs, just one which can appear in everyone's chat box if they desire to turn it on), it'd have been much more easier.

Edited by Eklavya, 21 August 2013 - 08:40 AM.

[ShiveringShadows]

Like I said, if there was a notification or a server wide announcement (Not like GMs, just one which can appear in everyone's chat box if they desire to turn it on), it'd have been much more easier.

 

Ragnarok Online 2 has that, but most players turn it off and keep it off because of constant spam. 'Anti-spam' can easily be bypassed.

[Toxn]

Not that the booking system even matters when gramps exists.

[ZeroTigress]

It's not so much that the party booking system is hard to use or anything; it's just that it's so frickin' inefficient to use. The closest modern MMOs have to RO's booking system is the dungeon/raid party finder system, which is WAY more efficient.

Modern MMO Dungeon/Raid Party Finder:

• Pick a role, pick a dungeon, and the system compiles your party for you.

RO's Party Booking system:

• Pick a role, pick a place, wait for someone to respond to you.
• Open Party Booking window, search, contact people, rinse and repeat until you have your party.

In essence, RO's Party Booking system puts the function of compiling the party on the player, which not a lot of people want to spend their time in-game doing.

[Tamago]

I'd probably have to agree with 1/2 of what tigress says.. but its still nice to know that the booking system does narrow the numbers so people don't constantly question each other in the party of who's level is what. I do think that it would be a good idea to tweak it in a way that maybe there would be an auction seach attach to it.. I think I'm thinking in an opposite direction but. it would lower down the chat box traffic.. If people have enough time to make a chat box, then there would be enough time to check booking. its not that hard to click and bring up the booking search list.

Edited by Tamago, 22 August 2013 - 01:28 AM.

[littlechiyo]

So what's booking like in kRO, is it used? 

[Eklavya]

Ragnarok Online 2 has that, but most players turn it off and keep it off because of constant spam. 'Anti-spam' can easily be bypassed.

Not sure how things work in RO2, but I have seen many other games pull it off very nicely. No spamming or any other rubbish.
 

Anyway, someone should make a 3rd party website for parties and stuff. If it is promoted nicely, it can do wonders. I think I can ask Gravity if its okay to create one

[killedbytofu]

i miss having a world chat in my game to talk in while i play. this game would drastically benefit from it

[Eklavya]

I know it would. But I think it'll be a good idea to make it available for 100+ or create a very good anti-spam algorithm because RO chat stream is really vulnerable to spam :/

[killedbytofu]

I know it would. But I think it'll be a good idea to make it available for 100+ or create a very good anti-spam algorithm because RO chat stream is really vulnerable to spam :/

 

it would definitely need a level requirement cuz of all the spam bots