Grand Company Standings?

Got into Lodestone blogs and my feed is full of "achieved ### place in the 「Grand Company Standings(company name/all)」.

What's this?

eta: On my FC info page there is now a Standings category with the stats: Weekly Rank: 11
Monthly Rank: 25 (I now know this is just for Atomos server rank.)

eta2: I found this: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ranking/

eta3: A GC seals thing? Like company points earned in the past week/month?

I saw this as well just now and can't find anything that gives information about it. Quite curious about whats this about and how does one go about increasing their rank.

Earn seals or FC points I'm guessing?

Here are the update notes: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...al/update_log/

Ah I see, cool. Yup seems like just earn credits and seals to go up the rankings.

Current rankings are from Jan 1 it looks like. I guess with the next roll over it will be set to past month/past week?
It's kind of a neat little add on. :)

If anyone finds a direct link to view your own standings, could you please post it here? I've had to click through many pages to find my ranking and a few of my friends.

Wait wait. You're telling me someone earned over 900,000 company seals in a WEEK? I'm pretty sure that works out to more than 500 FATEs per day. I hope I'm missing something.

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Originally Posted by Melithea

Wait wait. You're telling me someone earned over 900,000 company seals in a WEEK? I'm pretty sure that works out to more than 500 FATEs per day. I hope I'm missing something.

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No. The update notes state:


The Standings menu has been added to the Community page.

Users can now view Grand Company and free company standings on the Lodestone. Grand Company standings are based on seals earned, while free company standings are based on company credits earned.
* Weekly standings have been tallied from the first week of January, 2014, with monthly standings starting from January 1, 2014.
* The standings displayed on your free company profile page will represent your overall ranking among all free companies on your World.
* Standings may be affected by the transfer of characters to other Worlds, as well as changing Grand Company allegiances.
* Weekly standings are counted from Sunday at 08:00 a.m. until the following Sunday at 07:59:59 a.m. (PDT).
* Monthly standings are counted from the last day of the previous month at 8:00 a.m. until the last day of the current month at 07:59:59 a.m. (PDT).


Therefore, I will guess that at the next reset, the numbers will fall to weekly/monthly norms. :) I'm sure some folks will still have jaw-dropping seals/points earned! xD

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Originally Posted by Melithea

Wait wait. You're telling me someone earned over 900,000 company seals in a WEEK? I'm pretty sure that works out to more than 500 FATEs per day. I hope I'm missing something.

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Crafting, more likely.

Supply/Provisioning Missions remain the best way to gain seals. 633 seal for trading in the Militia/Crafting AF also, wouldn't be too hard to just spam that all day. Weaver's Glovers are just Crystals, Hippogryph Leather and Twinthread, things I have in ample supply, nothing really stopping me from making 100s of them (except my sanity) and earning 633 seals per.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Supply/Provisioning Missions remain the best way to gain seals. 633 seal for trading in the Militia/Crafting AF also, wouldn't be too hard to just spam that all day.

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805 for DL gear right? I roll for all loot in the HM dungeons. Heck, I roll for all green/pink gear in any dungeon for turn-ins since 2.2.

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Originally Posted by Sadana

805 for DL gear right? I roll for all loot in the HM dungeons. Heck, I roll for all green/pink gear in any dungeon for turn-ins since 2.2.

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Yeah, easiest way to farm Seals. My only wish is that they'd remove gear that's in my Armoury Chest from the options to turn in, because I have no intention of turning in the gear I actually use, and with everything leveled that is a massive amount of clutter on the list of things for me to turn in now... Annoys me every time, luckily low level green/pink gear floats to the top.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

Yeah, easiest way to farm Seals. My only wish is that they'd remove gear that's in my Armoury Chest from the options to turn in, because I have no intention of turning in the gear I actually use, and with everything leveled that is a massive amount of clutter on the list of things for me to turn in now... Annoys me every time, luckily low level green/pink gear floats to the top.

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I agree!! There needs to be a warning or some symbol or something like when you go to sell an item at the npc shop.

ok, so what are the point of them?

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Originally Posted by alhandra

ok, so what are the point of them?

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Fun and bragging rights. You could also use the data to run contests on your server between several FC's. Currently it only shows the top 500 results. If they add the option to view your own numbers without going through the list you could have a contest among a group of friends. Hell if they gave a breakdown of how many points we contribute towards the FC's total, you could do something with that.

There's honestly a LOT that can be done if you're creative with it.

I think it's completely pointless to have rankings based on GC seal aquisition. For the most part that list is just a list of who is having the least luck getting their atma drops.

Used to be a Thing in 1.0 too, and it was pretty cool, you had a weekly standings and a wall of fame, you could not be on the wall more than once in a set period of time. I liked it and you got a lodestone achievement for it.

I would like to have an achievement standings :D

We need more e-peen fights.