Dont get on me if something like this has been brought up already, or w/e. Just some ramblings.
The way seeking is right now, is one of those things that most people dislike about FFXI. Why? Because it restricts you to 1 job. If you want to seek, you have to be on that job, and youre stuck to doing nothing else.
I had an idea today, because Tech Writing is a boring class, to improve the system. Keep in mind this has just come to me, so dont be too judging, and please bring in your suggestions as well, as im sure others have some better opinions.
Ill start with examples, because its a bit too hard to explain, and I dont feel like Photoshoping anything atm, maybe another time.
As it is now, when you do a '/sea all Trixi' you will see me /anon, /away, seeking, etc and/or have a PT/Mission/etc comment, what lvl my main and sub, and what jobs those are, as well as what area I am in. Other things such as nation and rank, as well as what my speach preferance is.
Now, with my idea, when you do a /sea all Trixi, you will still get all that info, as it is now with the system used in FFXI currently. If im on 75BLM seeking with rdm sub and the comment I have, you will see this as it is normally. If you do a /sea all 73-75 BLM inv, you will see the same exact thing.
Now. This is what I want to implement. I want to enable FFXI to have it so you can seek under what job you are currently, ie, BLM/RDM, as well as 5 other jobs, lets say BST/WAR, WAR/MNK, WHM/BLM, WHM/SMN and SMN/WHM. Under the 'Party' option id want to see 5 more slots, each with 3 sub slots. The 5 slots would be simply be Job 1 through 5, or Seek 1 through 5, or Alt Seek 1 through 5.. or something to that effect. And the 3 sub slots could be Main, Sub and Comment.
With the 3 subs slots, the first would be the slot for the main job youd want to seek alternativly, ie, WAR. The second slot would be the sub, MNK. The third would bring up the comment box, the same way it is done now.
One of the things SE might be concerned about, is seeking with a job you dont have, ie, seeking on 75PLD when yous is only 5, just so you can screw with people. With the Main and Sub option, it will only let you choose from the list of available jobs and what lvl they are, allowing you to pick only what you have. This will prevent from someone typing in PLD75, it will select PLD and what ever lvl it is.
So now that we have the alt jobs set up for seeking, how is someone gonna be able to find you?
The /sea all Trixi will still result in me seeking on BLM/RDM with whatever comment and etc, same with /sea all 73-75 BLM inv.
Looking for a WAR? /sea all 35-38 WAR inv, and that will result in seeing;
O[WAR37/MNK18]Mit/W10-oTrixi-JE-Area
It will show my alt seeking main, sub and what lvls they are as well as the comment to go along with it. rank/race/language/area will all remain the same as /sea all Trixi.
You will only be able to find me seeking on WAR, if you are looking for a WAR in that lvl range. Maybe thats something that can be changed? When doing a /sea all Trixi, you can also view what alt jobs that I am seeking under. But that may fall under 'memory restriction'.. idk.
Well.. I think thats all I have.. any suggestions/comments are welcome.