It's getting harder to find random parties, and I think this is because players have many exclusive choices for starting their own party; several gates, with multiple tiers per gate, all of which narrow the selection. Too often I'll hit join party and join something way down or with one person, but even more often /I'll try and start a party with intent of making a run from the start of a tier and not get any joiners at all.

For this I have two suggestions: a way to display each gate's current, ongoing public parties and where they are. Maybe even statistics for recent runs and a breakdown of the gate's popularity (including a breakdown of tier usage) so you can determine your chances to get joiners when you start one up.

A second suggestion is an option to join any party going on in any gate. Sometimes I don't care which one I join, just that I get in a group that has people playing. Sometimes I do want to farm a specific gate but very often I wish there was just a random join choice so I can get a game in that I don't have to solo. I don't find it very fun to solo, and a random join option would be awesome.

I think if the game had more players this wouldn't be a problem, but right now there seems to be a fairly low population, at least whenever I try to play, and an ability to take advantage of a greater amount of the population would greatly enhance many people's ability to play.