Looking For Fellowship PST

I've really been enjoying LoTRO this last month or so. But finding a fellowship for those innumerable group quests has proved difficult at times. Like WoW, LoTRO has a built-in group finder that allows you to customize what quest you're on, what levels you need, and what classes you'd like to recruit. But just like WoW's, no one uses it. No one. I have yet to create or join a fellowship using this tool. Instead, I have to spam the LookingforGroup channel. Sure, that works, . . . well, in the sense that people can read your chat and ignore you. So it functions as intended, but isn't particularly effective at helping you find a group.

I guess it's not a complete mystery as to why people aren't using the tool. I chalk it up to laziness. The thing is, if the tool use ever does hit some kind of critical mass, I know its success would quickly catch on. But people don't bother configuring the tabs because after you get done with the fifteen seconds worth of effort it requires, invariably your entry is the only one sitting there.

I have an idea on how to fix this. First off, dump the current tool. No one uses it anyway, so chuck it. Instead, design a system that tracks everyone's quest log. Next, allow players to search by quest name, something like /quest Retaking Weathertop. Code would then search everyone in the region/area/world that also has that quest. With those names you could then begin a /tell spree trying to put your fellowship together.

Too intrusive you say? Nay, my friend. This system is alive and well in WoW, although in a much more primitive form. In WoW, nothing keeps a stymied player for searching by class for the always needed tank or healer. Ask a tank how many /tells they get a night and they'll confirm this. Sure, sudden /tells from strange people can be annoying, but what's even more annoying is a quest log full of fellowship quests you can't finish. Feeling antisocial? Check an "anonymous" box to render your quest log invisible to queries.

Though I have ask, isn't anonymous and MMO an oxymoron?