Add an Option to receieve server wide Group Alerts

[Annex]

Long ago, I would look at the Group Panel quite often, hoping to find a group to join. Since I rarely found a group that interested me, I opened the Group Panel less and less often. These days I may look at the Group Panel once, at the start of a Play Session, then off I go to solo, never to look at the Group Panel again.

What if, instead of me needing to go to the Group Panel, the Group Panel came to me?

I propose adding Group Alerts to the server wide General Channel. Every time a new group forms, the game publishes a Group Alert to the General Channel in the form:

Group Alert!: [Character Name] is forming a group for [Quest], Levels [Level Range], at [Difficulty] Difficulty with [Number of Members] current member(s). Notes: [Notes]

For example:

Group Alert!: Billybob13 is forming a group for Gwylan's Stand, Levels 5-6, at Reaper 1 Difficulty with 1 current member(s). Notes: L6 Quests Reaper 1 Everyone Welcome

The Options Panel would allow a Player to show or hide Group Alerts.

With Group Alerts active, a player can immediately see all forming Groups in Chat without the need to occasionally halt play and open the Group Panel. Group Alerts allow Players to begin a session in Solo Play but easily transition to Group Play when a suitable Group comes along. While Group Alerts will not solve all grouping problems, they will increase group formation awareness and thus facilitate an increase in group activity.

Thank you for your consideration.

Edit: The inspiration for this idea was the server wide Death Messages on the Hardcore Servers. If we can have server wide Death Messages, the very same mechanism can deliver server wide Group Alerts. The only change I made was to put the alerts in the General Channel rather than plastering them across the play area.