Comments on: LFGC: Looking For Good Calendar http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/09/15/lfgc-looking-for-good-calendar/ It's the end of the world as you know it - brought to you by a Gnome Mage with big balls of fire Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tufva http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/09/15/lfgc-looking-for-good-calendar/#comment-4638 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:28:42 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4523#comment-4638 I can absolutely see why there will never be a server wide calendar system. Can you imagine the amount of spam would be sent if anyone could invite anyone else? Gold sellers would issue invites in the hope of pushing their websites and many people’s calendars would probably be clogged up with large amounts of invites from people wanting boosts.

The LFG tool does sound like it could do with improvements, but any system that is server or battlegroup wide needs to be something people opt into rather than risk spamming people that have no interest in whatever is being planned. Though it would be very cool to be able to schedule server wide stuff like world PvP or naked gnome races etc.

We currently use Group Calendar for in-game scheduling and it is actually quite nifty. I can do events where I invite guildies by level and/or rank (very useful when not all your members are into raiding). You can also invite people from your friends list. We did briefly try to do some runs with another guild and that was all done through Group Calendar. GC sits on top of the calendar, so if people don’t have the addon it shows up in the normal calendar.

The only thing to be wary of with it is the version number. You want 5 or higher and at least when we started using it 5 was beta and it took a lot of clicking around on Curse to convince it to let us have the beta version.

]]> By: Rhii http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/09/15/lfgc-looking-for-good-calendar/#comment-4637 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:10:21 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4523#comment-4637 LFG in its current form is vile. I agree. When Midsummer was going on, I wound up running Ahune about nineteen hundred times with my (then) GM because he was farming for the pet and couldn’t find a group any other way.

Eww.

]]> By: Prelimar http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/09/15/lfgc-looking-for-good-calendar/#comment-4636 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:58:15 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4523#comment-4636 i would LOVE to have inter-guild invite options. heck, even server-wide invites for fun events like races and whatnot is a fantastic idea.

]]> By: Arioch http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/09/15/lfgc-looking-for-good-calendar/#comment-4635 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:24:07 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4523#comment-4635 I think they are revamping the LFG in Cataclysm to allow guild alliance invites. I think. I can’t find my notes. So don’t quote me on it. Definite maybe.

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