Title: Expand and Improve Find Party/Platoon
Family Name: Lumiere

Region (NA/EU): NA

Hello, 

I've been thinking about this for a while and I think the Find Party/Platoon options we have in the menus is incredibly useful but heavily underutilized. There's a few reasons for this but mainly because the UI is very dense as it is and this particular function is hidden in the menus which makes stumbling onto it problematic. So coming from that angle I have some suggestions to tackle this:

- Add an NPC to every town in game that brings up the Find Party/Platoon option. I think it would increase immersion if each town had a small plaza with seating and an Town Board that they can interact with in the area that shows Party Advertisements, but we can settle for just a random NPC like the Central Market has. 

- Expand the functionality of Find Party board by allowing posters to assign tags and for players to search for said tags. This would be useful for those who, for example, may want to start a new Atoraxxion group and wants to recruit other adventurers that are new to that content. Others can advertise Monster Hunts, Scrolls and so on. 

- Allow Adventurers to set notifications for specific tags to let them know when a new post has been added to the board, that takes them straight to the posting. This would be awesome if you decide to go grind somewhere while waiting for a group to pop up for something like Olun's or Gyfin. 

I think this would be beneficial for the group content in this game. We'd make it easier for folks to group together for XP or Atoraxxion or other group content. I could see this improving the player engagement in those group activities as well. Several people in my guild want to do Atoraxxion but have a hard time getting a group together. This is something that could help alleviate or even solve that issue. Plus it's better to have an option ingame that folks can use versus having to jump into a discord server or use a calendar invite to keep it organized. 

Totally agree! Find Party/Platoon feature can be more user-friendly, especially to new players who get overwhelmed easily.

I totally agree, increasing player interaction and group content would be an amazing gain in this game. There are only a few group grind spots currently (Hope for more in the future) but sometimes i feel trying to get a group together is not worth the effort right now. These ideas seem like a very good push in the right direction to help get players to intereact with people outside of their guilds instead of playing an MMO in singleplayer like it currently feels.

I see people a lot of the time posting in World chat or Server chat looking for parties for group content but having a dedicated searchable and notifiable area for this would promote it greatly! 

I think it'd also encourage group play to have a light bonus applied when in a party. 

Like Combat Exp+20% or something similar.