Please remove light party restriction on FC workshop

I would also suggest reducing the recipes for smaller FCs (and increasing it for massive ones). We have 1 main and 2-3 sub people contributing in a FC of only around 15 total members. It's a huge strain we can't keep up with for long.

But it's so fun watching the party leader push buttons while you afk.

So far other than helping random FCs with this as asked and if I have time(besides my own), been offered gil to come afk, had someone fire of fireworks each time the button is pushed etc... hehe

Will be easier for SE implement (or more willing to ) that each of the 4th crafters needs to push a button to can advance instead :p

Yeah OP, I agree, because my FC is so small and there are literally 2 (I don't actually craft) who care about the ship, I always feel so bad and awkward when I have to randomly ask my FC members (or worse, people outside my FC) who clearly don't seem to care or have anything to do with the ship to take time out of their day to stand in a room while I press a button. Or worse, sit there and wait while the other ship crafters in the party try to frantically gather more mats for the next phase because we have no idea when we'll have enough people to push us to the next phase again. I mean that's what's friends are for I guess? But still.....

I feel that if it's a nuisance to get 3 friends to take 1 min out of their on line time to help someone complete a project.. more friends are needed. It was meant to be a group activity, so taking the group out of it is not likely to happen.

I get that it's a pain that you can't do it without friends who won't show up for a minute, but perhaps recruit some people or start a Linkshell?

also why do people have to afk while someone pushes buttons? Is there a special reason they can't pre-load the machine with everything needed before asking people to come?

The 3 steps are actually completely useless. They could just make a bigger pack of them. That would divide the number of partys needed by 3 and would save every FC a lot of time and troubles.

The only small reason would be the HQ things, which no one cares about.

I guess you are all complaining about a gateway which is just bad implementet. It should be reworked, not removed. If they remove the light party requirement there is no need of the workshop either, no reason left to put it in the workshop instead of putting it into the recipe list of specific crafters. The only reason for this gateway is that you can't do it as a single person. So they implemented it the easiest way in requireing a light party.

It should reworked in a way like crafters need to feed in the mats and processing the step as a single action and you can only feed in crafts you can craft with your actually equiped crafter. This would atomaticaly bring in the need of multiple players to participate but with a better reason than just to AFK in the workshop. Easier recipe less people needed, more difficult recipe more people needed.


Edit: But i guess you would complain about my suggestion as well.

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Originally Posted by crc0427

also why do people have to afk while someone pushes buttons? Is there a special reason they can't pre-load the machine with everything needed before asking people to come?

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The point isn't that people have to afk, it's that they don't have a real reason to be there except 'Square says so'.

Advancing production is a single button press.
So, party leader pushes the button and the other three watch. It's not too bad at first, but once the novelty has worn off, it's not something people are falling over themselves to do.

Getting four crafters together at the same time can be difficult at times (especially in a small FC) and I hate being that person nagging away in chat,
'Please, we just need one more person, any level...
You don't have to do anything, just stand there...
It'll only take a minute...
It doesn't matter if you are afk...'

Does that sound like an engaging group activity to you?
It certainly doesn't feel like one.