Free Companies Could Use More Interactive Features

This is not a rant or a hate on the current features, but rather a hope for and discussion on improvements and features to enhance what the game has in place.

Right now, Free Companies don't feel like they have all that much use. We can see who's on, garden, decorate, make an airship, but not too much more. The inclusion of the FC Airship is a leap in the right direction but I feel that a lot more impact can be made with Free Companies. Some things are simple, some things difficult, but any additional function to a Free Company can add a lot to the game and works together with other features as well as build community in the FC.

Here are some of my ideas to enhance FCs, but I wanna know what other ideas others can come up with, and maybe bring some attention to the devs on various solutions, especially simple ones, to get FCs having more interaction with the game and members!

To boost interaction among members -

- Bulletin Board - A house furnishing with the ability to leave behind messages that can be read at any time and give out notices and information to anyone who wants to read it. Might be hard to implement, but would nice, and even better it could graphically look like a bulletin when interacting with it, just like a hunt board in

- Personal Quests - Being able to issue delivery quests for other members. Request an item, select a payout of money and 1 or 2 items, and what you require. This would make crafting much easier for an FC and allow interaction between fighting and crafting types. Probably would work like the bulletin board.

Objectives for Free Companies -

If Free Companies could work toward unlocking features and gaining access to new things, it would promote interaction. It could be unlocking FC themed clothing and armor, mounts, ect. It can be as simple as the FC getting a new point system to unlock tiers or actually getting a new FC used currency to unlock the items for access by members to buy with their own type of FC currency.

Free Company Unlocks - Allowing a FC to earn points and unlock new items for the FC. After obtaining various ranks, the FC can then spend points to unlock the access for FC members to buy said item.

Free Company Tasks - Simple, FC wide goals. Turn in these items of this amount. Kill this number of these creatures. Completion boosts FC along with the progression.

Free Company Leves - Special leves that FC members take up. Completing it grants a special currency to the player, for spending on FC unlocked items and bonus points for the FC to unlock more items with.

These are just some of the ideas and points I came up with, but a lot more that I can't think of could be done to further make use of Free Companies and add in some much more interactive features between FC members.

Anyone got any good points or ideas on what could be done for/with Free companies?

I think once we can ride our FC airships, that might change things up a bit. Even the more quiet members will want to get on the airship to check it out and do the content that requires airhsip access.

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Originally Posted by KamikazeMan

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I don't think they are going to release content for FCs that requires a ship to access that said content. Ever.

The housing is in shambles right now with Single FC's owning multiple houses and no wards and plots available.

Making someone join someone else's FC to have access to build a ship and go to a place required by said ship is never going to happen. I'm on a stock pile of Gil saving for Ishgardian housing (that I probably still won't be able to afford lets be real here) but I have enough money for a Large FC House on the server I'm on yet no plots but after transferring and making my money back that I lost in the transfer all the wards filled up.

They really did drop the ball on housing, then proceeded to demolish what was left of it. My FC is overflowing in gil, but we're stuck in a small house.

Regardless, how about some suggestions to improve the interaction with FCs by its members not related to housing? The more ideas out there may improve how they are in the game and add some fun that doesn't need a house.