FC Calendar

I don't know if this has been suggested already,but one thing I would love to be implemented in game similar to the Calendar in WoW.

Benefits are that you could schedule events on the calendar in-game as well as send out notifications of invites to the events.

For raid events you would have them on the calendar and when said members want to sign up you could open the calendar , click the event and then the menu would perhaps be something similar to how party finder is for when you click a certain party looking for more. By that I mean it will list the needs of the party for specific roles and if they are that class they can fill in that spot.

When all the roles are filled the event starter gets a notification and then it settles on who would be going for that event on that day,etc

Dunno how many people would find it useful,but I know definitely my FC would as we have a small/medium sized FC we tend to have scheduling issues with people for raids and other events so having something like a calendar in game would greatly help us in our effort to host raid nights with less issues.

I'm kind of curious as to how many other people would find this type of feature useful. Post your thoughts please :)

WoW's ingame calender definitely was useful for scheduling raids, having people sign up, or having invites sent out to your raid team. SE should add something similar but I am guessing they still have a lot to do.

Yeah with the recent patch and the upcoming they will be very busy of course,but I think something like this is honestly needed as some people just find it hard to use out of game resources to sign-up for raid events as we've been using one :/

It'd make my 2nd in command and my life a lot easier in having a more hands free approach of scheduling events since we'd be able to do it all within the game's confines.

I'm also in favor of this. +1

Yes to this! Would be so helpful for free company leaders, especially large ones. +1

This is such a useful tool for Free Companies. I can't believe there isn't 30 pages of people supporting this idea. A great deal of players will never, ever, visit forums of any sort. However, majority of those players would look at an in-game calendar and sign up for events or raids, etc. The argument could be made that outside forums are enough and, for my part, I agree. But most players who are new to MMO games, are not going outside the game to organize themselves. My FC recruits almost exclusively new and returning casual players, a calendar would be a dream come true.

I'd love that idea to be implemented :o would ease the event plans rather than write it down on company board every time for a specific event. Or even make it so members could plan stuff also for needing help etc.

Yes please, copy the WoW calender exactly, WoW haters be damned.

i feel this is probably the best suggestion ive seen so far for improving QoL for FC Masters/Leaders.

Yes, please!! ^_^

I would definitely love this. Most of my FC members dont sign upto or use our FC site, and then there's the PS3 players who don't necessarily have easy access to a computer, at least not while playing, to see event times and such. My FC is pretty casual but I always thought if we had an ingame calendar it'd make it much easier to set up some organized events.

Our FC uses Google Calendar. That way they can import it onto their phones if they like.

I also created in a way that allows any user to add their own events through a Google Form submission to a Google Spreadsheet that then adds it the FC calendar. This way non-Google users can use the calendar as well. And it allows me to keep the calendar's permissions locked down to prevent public/anonymous events from being posted.

But yeah if they add a calendar feature in the game that would be awesome, along with permissions for adding/editing/removing events. And for a bonus allow us to access it through either Lodestone or other media devices such as our phones (via standard file formats .ics or .csv.)

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Originally Posted by Errors

But yeah if they add a calendar feature in the game that would be awesome, along with permissions for adding/editing/removing events. And for a bonus allow us to access it through either Lodestone or other media devices such as our phones (via standard file formats .ics or .csv.)

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Is that how the Calendar functions in WoW? To access the calendar through the Libra App would be amazing. Anything that helps organize your FC in the game makes a big difference when it comes to helping new players.

This, this, this! I have wanted in-game calendars in several MMO's since I stopped playing WoW. Say what you will about that game, but the calendar made things a lot easier for GM's and raid leaders. My FC does utilize a website, but sometimes, getting people to even register there, let alone check it on a regular basis to sign up or see news/events, is like pulling teeth. A calendar with permissions and sign-up/invite groups, and the ability to send FC-wide notifications (since in-game mail is limited to friend list only) would be amazing to have! We can hope that more games, including ARR, will eventually implement the idea as a standard.

I would love an ingame calendar too.
At the Moment I am rebuilding our FC Website and I am still looking for a Events/Raid planning System that would be easy to use. However I couldn't find anything yet.
How do you plan your Events and Raids at the Moment? Which Systems do you use? I have found the biggest Problem is the fact of having one character with several classes on it because that's Kind of unique, no other MMO is working that way so most Systems I have seen so far were not really usable. If anyone got an idea of how to implement a useful raid calendar on a FC Website I would be very happy to hear it.

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I would love an ingame calendar too.
At the Moment I am rebuilding our FC Website and I am still looking for a Events/Raid planning System that would be easy to use. However I couldn't find anything yet.
How do you plan your Events and Raids at the Moment? Which Systems do you use? I have found the biggest Problem is the fact of having one character with several classes on it because that's Kind of unique, no other MMO is working that way so most Systems I have seen so far were not really usable. If anyone got an idea of how to implement a useful raid calendar on a FC Website I would be very happy to hear it.

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Google Sheets, embed in site. Anyone will be able to view it on your sire, but if you set it to private and only invite actual FC people to be able to edit it, then even after embedding it they'll be the only ones who can touch it (if site requires a login of some kind, then you can just leave it public as long as the page it's on is secured by the login credentials).

I mentioned this back in beta as well. Along with a list of other improvements they need to make to the fcs.

This and/or a bulletin board so we can communicate FC Notices far better than the simple initial login.

Also, the FC House Guestbook someone suggested. Visitors could sign a short message into the book, what a neat idea!

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Google Sheets, embed in site. Anyone will be able to view it on your sire, but if you set it to private and only invite actual FC people to be able to edit it, then even after embedding it they'll be the only ones who can touch it (if site requires a login of some kind, then you can just leave it public as long as the page it's on is secured by the login credentials).

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I had a look at google sheets, unfortunately it is not really what i am looking for. at the moment our group leaders are already doing their planning in excel so it would not really improve anything. I am looking for something with a calendar which can be embedded on our FC website. I already had a look at EQDKP however it doesnt support several classes on the same character so you would have to create 9 chars for each player which is kind of stupid. Any other systems you would suggest?

+1 to this idea. It would be very helpful.

Yes, please.