When should you leave a FC?

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Originally Posted by Renalt

The right time to leave an FC is the moment you want to leave. You're not married to your FC so you can leave at a moments notice.

I've tried at least 20 different FCs and it just never clicked with me. Sometimes FCs aren't for people. I went solo for about a year before finally making my own FC simply cause I got tired of the random Blind Invites.

Also having an entire FC chest for yourself is amazing.

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This man actually a genius.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

I joined a FC a couple weeks ago when I transferred to Hyperion. Sadly my schedule doesn't usually meet with any of their events and I can never attend any savage raiding. I am thinking of leaving this FC and go solo until I can find one where meets my time schedule

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when?
Whenever you feel wise or interesting.

I think FCs are a great way to meet people and combine to make game content together. But if you want to switch to another one that's more active or more on your schedule, go for it! Leaving a FC is not the same as declaring war on it. You can keep your friends there in an LS or through Discord chats.

Some people try to make an FC "the only place in the world to have friends" (especially some FC leaders). Don't fall for it. The more you meet people, the more opportunities to play with someone becomes your routine. :)

Today, I have my own FC, but with nobody else inside it. It's just for my main and all my alts (Company Chest and the possibility to have house more easily). But, this doesn't mean I play alone. I always invite my friends to make stuff together and i participate in some of their FC's discords as well. Whenever I can, I try to help everybody's FC activities. ;)

It's an interesting question.

I left the FC I was previously in to follow my in-game Wife to one she joined. Despite what she may think, she fits in pretty damn well in that FC. I, however, don't. I, sadly, have a very limited window of time in which I can be in-game, and it's usually 22:00ish until whenever I'm too tired to continue (but not later than 1am). The FC are done with their raids etc by the time I log in.
Add to the issue that even if I were online, and invited to one of their raid teams, I probably wouldn't accept, as they usually play Savage content, which is too far above my (very low) skill ceiling. I'd feel like a complete burden to the team if I were to participate in that.

I haven't really 'fit in' in the social sense either, but that's more of a 'me' thing.

I am, therefore, contemplating returning to the FC I left.

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Originally Posted by Wolwosh

When the FC leaders are a couple or when they start or have a static in their FC.
In my experience that never ends well.

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This. An FC should never be a static facilitator. Unless you're 100% clear on that being the case, limiting the FC to 8 members max and removing people when players rotate in and out, etc. but that just seems like a lot of effort that a Linkshell and Discord could easily replicate.
My old FC started falling apart when they decided to start tackling savage "as an FC", it resulted in forming TWO teams, which lead to a hierarchy between A team and B team, complications with substitutions, running other content as "A Team/B team" and ultimately several people left the FC and even the game entirely.

FCs should ultimately be used for either:
A. FC exclusive content; Workshop, Airships, Subs, FC buffs.
B. As a social group who want to share their gameplay experience, and to use the house as a hub.

If you can answer "am I getting value in either of these?" then you know if you want to be in that FC.

When it's another of those 10/400 players or the ones that seems to have billions of members and don't talk

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Originally Posted by AnnRam

When it's another of those 10/400 players or the ones that seems to have billions of members and don't talk

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Another case is when you are new to a FC with 20 or more people online and they don't give a chocobo's piss about your existence even if you are the one that says; "good morning, folks!" and find no answer. Not a single one time... everyday... everytime... '-'

And then you see they using the FC's chat for a lot of stuff they are doing without you or without inviting you and you ask stuff to find no answer amongst all their talks...

I had this at least 5 times. In all occasions I left these FCs. If it's not to receive/interact with a new member, why do they invite them? If the intention is to grow up numbers only, then invite another or a bot :)

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Originally Posted by Wanzzo

Another case is when you are new to a FC with 20 or more people online and they don't give a chocobo's piss about your existence even if you are the one that says; "good morning, folks!" and find no answer. Not a single one time... everyday... everytime... '-'

And when you see they are using the FC's chat for a lot of stuff they are doing without you or without inviting you and you ask stuff to find no answer amongst all their talks...

I had this at least 5 times. In all occasions I left these FCs. If it's not to receive/interact with a new member, why they invite them? If the intention is to grow up numbers only, then invite another or a bot :)

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That sounds just like the last FC I was in before I made my own with 2 random people(one who left shortly after, the other who hasn't been online in over a year...just too lazy to kick them) and had 2 friends join. I'm basically the only one online, ever, and I get free use of the FC chest, as well as command of all the airships/subs.

The old FC, I would log in, say hello, and get silence(always checked the FC list to see who was online, and 90% of the time they weren't in any duties, and were usually sitting in a town/house somewhere). Considering I joined it due to an ex-friend, and helped her build up the FC to what it was and got the same treatment from them...it was definitely time to just leave it and do my own thing.

My FC keeps the buffs up, and stops people from spamming me with invites. Beyond that, it doesn't exist, which is fine with me.

I made my own fc because Im that allergic to people. Plan to leave it never.

When you find a new one that you fit in better. I'm only in my current FC for buffs really, I don't do actual content with them and I found one that was active and actually did content then I'd leave in a heartbeat.

It doesn't help that nowadays; most FC members are constantly visiting other Data Centers 24/7 around the clock and only return home for their retainers or reset their personal house timers here and there. Because of DC visits, Discord has unfortunately become the main way to go since FC chat doesn't transfer over data centers. Sometimes you're lucky as a leader to even get a recruit to stay longer than a week anymore. It's hard to make people feel welcomed as a leader if they aren't even on the data center anymore. Sometimes it helps to look at things from the leader's perspective as well at times. I've made many FCs over the years. Recruiting was never hard. Convincing people not to leave is. It doesn't help that it's nearly impossible to find reliable officers that are passionate enough to grow the FC. The only time I ever see people passionate enough to help is if it's some kind of RP FC or Venue and there is a gil paycheck involved; or they get rights to the FC Airships. You also have people who threaten to leave if you dare ever change the FC buffs to something. I have had people leave because Heat of Battle was changed to a raid buff for a few hours, or the food buff was changed to a teleport buff. If you have ever tried to lead an FC, people take the buffs personally sometimes. Then you also get those really weird insecure full of anxiety people who refuse to do so much as a single roulette unless the FC does it with them. And they never progress the game because the FC didn't play with them enough to level/gear them up. So many people come in expecting to be handheld and baby sat through the game; and its weird how many people expect the FC to coddle them their every need. Don't even get me started on the house...

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Originally Posted by Remish

It doesn't help that nowadays; most FC members are constantly visiting other Data Centers 24/7 around the clock and only return home for their retainers or reset their personal house timers here and there. Because of DC visits, Discord has unfortunately become the main way to go since FC chat doesn't transfer over data centers. Sometimes you're lucky as a leader to even get a recruit to stay longer than a week anymore. It's hard to make people feel welcomed as a leader if they aren't even on the data center anymore. Sometimes it helps to look at things from the leader's perspective as well at times. I've made many FCs over the years. Recruiting was never hard. Convincing people not to leave is. It doesn't help that it's nearly impossible to find reliable officers that are passionate enough to grow the FC. The only time I ever see people passionate enough to help is if it's some kind of RP FC or Venue and there is a gil paycheck involved; or they get rights to the FC Airships. You also have people who threaten to leave if you dare ever change the FC buffs to something. I have had people leave because Heat of Battle was changed to a raid buff for a few hours, or the food buff was changed to a teleport buff. If you have ever tried to lead an FC, people take the buffs personally sometimes. Then you also get those really weird insecure full of anxiety people who refuse to do so much as a single roulette unless the FC does it with them. And they never progress the game because the FC didn't play with them enough to level/gear them up. So many people come in expecting to be handheld and baby sat through the game; and its weird how many people expect the FC to coddle them their every need. Don't even get me started on the house...

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I feel for a lot of this but at the same time... I've never been in a FC that really did anything, and if they did have events then they were super closed off and uninviting.

I did maps with one of the FCs I was in twice. After that I wasn't inviting anymore for whatever reason. Maybe I'm too quiet, I'm not sure. At this point I just do group activities with randoms in PF or that I meet in discords though.

I just haven't really felt anything with most FCs. There's no invites to activities, if anything that isn't a RP venue is being hosted to begin with. And don't even get me started on the fact that if I'm FCless for even a minute I immediate get a ton of tells because "A wild FCless Omni appeared," even though most of them just want someone that can fill in occasionally or people that will craft/gather for them...

If you're in charge of a FC then you need to make efforts to welcome people, even if it is through discord. If you recruit too many people and can't keep up with them or can't spare time for them, then that's probably your fault for being one of those FCs that treats people like collectibles. I've seen so many FCs that are just close groups of friends that don't really want other people to hang out with them, they just want to grow their FC to show it off.

Sounds like the problem is that you arent in Exodus, we get it poppin over here whether within FC or not.

When nobody pay attention to what you speak.

Yeah, Thinking bout leaving my FC based on some of the responses here.
Having your own 5 stack FC Chest sounds amazing alongside my 6 retainers.

Plus, With a FC you can do Submarine stuff whereas you never see any of those Benefits as a member. Plus, In 1 man FC You don't gotta deal with bored people and their attempts at creating Drama.

Been saving gil for a little while now gunna get enough for a plot and probably bail.