Searchable Job Listings

Lavi

Lavi

Genkai Conqueror
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This suggestion was made a long, long time ago, back when Sculli was still admin: Can we add job listing for players more than the "main" and "sub" that are basically limitless and have them searchable? I mean, add listings that can display the jobs each person has and have them searchable so during the course of playing while we are seeking on one job, we can still get invites on another. The job choices and levels should be limited to only those physically possible so it makes searching easier and to eliminate the fake profiles some people are using. Allow multiple jobs to be listed, but it should probably be limited to 5 or 6 while players are either expected to have gear for those jobs or can afford to get gear when they accept invites (would be a good idea for leaders to ask this prior to inviting and to invite people already seeking since it's more likely they'll be fully equipped).

An example: I am currently seeking on my 75 WAR for merits, but someone else is making a party for his 35 NIN and needs some members. There isn't enough jobs seeking to make a decent party, but he can use QCDN to find members who do want to party at that range and fit the job profile that he needs. He happens upon my 36 RDM and finds himself a new healer/enfeebler. I got a party while seeking on an alternative job, but I still accept because I'd rather get some experience than none and I had the intention of leveling RDM, but just not tonight.

I think this would help a ton for those people seeking when there is never enough players to form a decent party. Whenever we want, we can access a much larger pool of players when there is insufficient players seeking.
 
i know there are phpBB plugins that have been made that can show players' jobs, i don't know if anything can be used like that here, or if it can be made searchable.

that'd be killer though :D
 
Make sure you can add links to your page. something like listing your gear on that job(@lolalla) to try and impress can probably net you some points vs somone who has gear that they should be ashamed to admit having.
 
kind of a cool idea, but I doubt some people would update their jobs very often
 
I would definitely use it. It's tough to find a low level party anyways. If you have a resource and are looking for members, why wouldn't you use it?
 
Ruffyreborn said:
kind of a cool idea, but I doubt some people would update their jobs very often
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It's still a starting point. And should people forget to update their profiles, when they get an invite for a 65 PLD and their PLD is 70 already, they should remember or be reminded it's time to update it.

And although I kind of like the idea of using some form of gear display like Alla, I am betting it'll add a lot of trouble as random people start sending tells about how their gear is gimp without ever partying with said person. A lot more trouble than it needs to be. I'd just be happier that they have some gear rather than elite gear really, but if it's completely gimp or riddled with empty slots, then it's also a problem. At the moment, I'd say getting something implemented would be a good start and then work from there.
 
Lavi said:
And although I kind of like the idea of using some form of gear display like Alla, I am betting it'll add a lot of trouble as random people start sending tells about how their gear is gimp without ever partying with said person. A lot more trouble than it needs to be.
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What I was thinking, but could not find a diplomatic way of expressing.
 
hmm that is true. i was just thinking about the problems involved with finding the only tank your lv then discovering that they dont have anything they shoulda upgraded to 10 levels ago.
In retrosect if this becomes sucessful we can just kick said tank/dd/mage and get a better one.
 
I've enabled the current two as searchable fields but I don't know how to actually search for them. I looked for NIN75 to find Khajit and it didn't quite work.

It says searchable under members listing only but even there it doesn't show as another ordering field. Will play with it more.
 
If you search NIN75 as a main job, then yeah you wouldn't find him. He has NIN75 listed as a subjob.
 
If anyone is familiar with PHP, specifically defining input patterns for functions like preg_match(), please PM me.

Tristam Green said:
If you search NIN75 as a main job, then yeah you wouldn't find him. He has NIN75 listed as a subjob.
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You can't search for either. That's the problem.
 
CmdrFly said:
If anyone is familiar with PHP, specifically defining input patterns for functions like preg_match(), please PM me.


You can't search for either. That's the problem.
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I searched "NIN" under subjob and found him along with anyone else who had the characters NIN in their subjob field?

Or am I looking in the wrong place; I found it under Member List?
 
Riiiight. Doh.

Tried doing basic member search.
 
Yeah, this works for me under Advanced Member Search ^^
 
CmdrFly said:
If anyone is familiar with PHP, specifically defining input patterns for functions like preg_match(), please PM me.
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Still need help with this if any web nerds are around.
 
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