A lack of competitiveness in FFXIV

I'm not sure where this thread should go, but I guess it's kind of general in a broad sort of way.

Linkshells, currently are glorified chatrooms. Unless your linkshell has a really nice website, with event/raid schedules and everyone is nice and active in the forums, I feel that they feel quite empty in presence (ingame).

There is currently no way for anyone to compete with each other, I'm not specifically talking about PvP, but that's something I'd personally like, I was a big brenner fan.

Currently, we have Primals and Raids for lvl 50, where there are secret achievements for speed runs. (I don't get why these are only viewable on the lodestone, I really dislike having to close my game to look at something intrinsically linked to it, when there is no real reason why this couldn't be viewable in game.)

Would it be very hard to add leaderboards for speed runs? - I don't think so.
Would that very simple addition allow linkshells to compete against each other in an non aggressive way? - Totally
Would it be cool to check a board in the main cities, read the top times for the day/week/month/all time and then rouse up your shellies to try and beat it? - I think so.

This doesn't just have to apply to speed runs. Linkshells could compete on any number of things, total NM's killed, company seals collected, provisioning supply missions, chocobo escorts, total leves completed in a day, anything..

Give us a reason to be in a linkshell SE, I want to feel like i'm part of an organisation, not just a squatter in a chatroom.

What does everyone else think to this?

I think the idea is fine as long as it doesn't lend itself to a mandatory culture - which I don't see happening. So long as competitiveness is optional its a great idea (seeing as those who want that experience could find it while those who do not can abstain at little-to-no penalty.)

I agree with the idea so long as that rule is observed.

I think leader boards would be a great addition but not for speedruns, because I want them to be removed.

I would rather see leader boards for killing a boss in the fastest time (ie from engaging it to it dying) and reset every week.

They also could add leader boards for linkshells for hamlet defence, ie most active linkshell on the server etc.

I agree. And I suggest we rip off ragnarok online with the castle defense system: linkshells battle once a week to mantain domain of upgradeable castles.

I like that idea.

For dungeons and bosses:
Fastest time to beat dungeon or primal is good. Need many more like that imo.
Player "name" dealt most damage to "boss name"

etc etc

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They could show the results of these at the end or beginning of these events too.

Isn't this what the free company system is about? We'll be able to capture and summon primals for pvp.

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Originally Posted by Majidah

I agree. And I suggest we rip off ragnarok online with the castle defense system: linkshells battle once a week to mantain domain of upgradeable castles.

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Check out page 12 of this 2.0 PDF.

"Frontlines" seems to be just that. I think Free Companies will usher in a lot of the competition for which people are looking. Unfortunately, like many other things, we have to wait till 2.0.

However, 1.x can be looked at as a chance to be ahead of the curve by taking the time to deck our characters out in HQ quadruple-meld gear!

1 HNM open world mob, attack-able by 1 party only is what this game needs. Just one.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

I think leader boards would be a great addition but not for speedruns, because I want them to be removed.

I would rather see leader boards for killing a boss in the fastest time (ie from engaging it to it dying) and reset every week.

They also could add leader boards for linkshells for hamlet defence, ie most active linkshell on the server etc.

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I like this idea. Very similar to how Aion did its server/PVP rankings. Both users and guilds as a whole were counted for their PVP contributions. The top 10 or 5 received some pretty hefty combat tricks and bonuses.

FFXIV already has this planned with summoning primals and free companies. Hamlet defense should also be integrated into this and the free company with the highest contribution (reset once a week or maybe once every 3 days) should get some unique combat bonus that they can use.

I'll save Square-Enix the trouble of developing it and admit you have the larger e-peen. There, no need for PvP!

I'd be for the fastest time on dungeons, but FFXI did that with BCNM's, so we just CAN'T have it in this game...sowwy!