Add a FC recruitment system

So my FC has lost a lot of members as people have gotten bored of content and taken a break and I really need to start recruiting.

But when I'm on I want to be playing the game, not sitting in town sending out recruitment shouts which barely ever get answered.

So I'd like a FC recruitment system. We already have a profile page and people can request to join, but we don't have a medium for players to find the FC other than examining a member of that FC.

In FFXI they have a system called the linkshell concierge. If you talk to them you can register your linkshell (which were more like free companies in ffxi) with details like your active time. Then new players could talk to the concierge and it would bring up a list of all registered linkshells for them to browse through.

It would be nice to have a similar NPC in ffxiv, maybe in the grand companies to help new players find a FC looking to recruit.

I also would like a feature like this. I feel like I annoy people when I shout my recruitment advertisements, and I don't want to maintain a party finder to not have many results. I believe an npc that stands in each of the Grand Companies and shows all recruiting free companies would be awesome. Players could sort by what the fc's are looking for sorta like party finder. I always liked the feature to preview a list of free companies in games.

Having some sort of FC recruiting feature would be a great QoL. Most people dont really know much about FCs unless its word of mouth or they stumble upon them even going to FC websites. I think having an ingame feature would help greatly.

Agreed. We already have a Player Search function, it would be nice to have another tab with "Free Company Search" or something like that.

Instead of Name - Class/Job - Location - Free Company - Language, just replace it with:
Company Name - Members - Housing - Language

Going to the Lodestone to search FCs isn't practical, plus there's no way to know if the FC is still active or how many members log in constantly.

I too would really appreciate a feature like this. Must needs!

Long awaited feature in this game, countless other MMOs have a guild recruitment system :(

This would be great. I'd love to be able to recruit without putting up a PF and I'm kind of tired of having to add people to my blacklist because of spammy FC advertisements. I don't do shout recruitment myself because of how annoying I find it when other people do it (once in awhile is cool but seriously do you have to shout every 5 minutes?). Maybe it would also do away with (or at least significantly reduce) the annoyance that is Player Search + Invite. :p

WoW has this, the guild finder menu I think it was called. The only downside is that lots of guilds with only 1 member would flood the list, meaning you'd have to wade through a lot of spam just to get to the ones actually worth looking at. So I'd say in order for this idea to work your FC must be at least level _2_ and have at least _10_ members in order to post, to keep the clutter to a minimum. Good idea otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Joe_Schmoe

WoW has this, the guild finder menu I think it was called. The only downside is that lots of guilds with only 1 member would flood the list, meaning you'd have to wade through a lot of spam just to get to the ones actually worth looking at. So I'd say in order for this idea to work your FC must be at least level _2_ and have at least _10_ members in order to post, to keep the clutter to a minimum. Good idea otherwise.

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Why punish smaller FC's and make it that much harder for them? Would make more sense overall to add a filter for "Minimum number of players: X" rather than outright block out brand new FC's that would want to use a system like this to grow, imo =)

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

Why punish smaller FC's and make it that much harder for them? Would make more sense overall to add a filter for "Minimum number of players: X" rather than outright block out brand new FC's that would want to use a system like this to grow, imo =)

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Or make it so you have to opt in. Single-player FC's don't necessarily want to recruit at all.

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

Why punish smaller FC's and make it that much harder for them? Would make more sense overall to add a filter for "Minimum number of players: X" rather than outright block out brand new FC's that would want to use a system like this to grow, imo =)

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That'd work (I don't think WoW had that, just a filter for guild types and activities). Good call. Mainly whatever would spare you from having to scroll like crazy just to find one that looks like they put some effort into it.

Don't see any harm in it so why not?, even though the shouting doesn't really bother me it would definitely proved useful having a recruitment list to toggle through with much more detail on each one.

We have other features and even contest atm, but I agree that we could use a FC finder or something along the lines to help new members find a FC of their liking. At the mean time you can post on your server forum and enter yourself in this year's Free Company Recruitment contest if you have anyone talented enough to make a video promoting your free company.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

Or make it so you have to opt in. Single-player FC's don't necessarily want to recruit at all.

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YOu could just filter out all the ones who don't have that rrecruitement thingy i dunno the english name of. If they don't have that on, there's no use in including them.

I understand people not wanting spam or single player FC's not wanting people asking them to join. Something similar to blade and soul's clan recruit system could work, it has it's own chat channel but you have to actively set it up to make your clan appear on the menu.

I like it and while we are at it, the requirement system should add these features:
- When their members are most active, if you can only raid in the weekend and the FC only raids on Wednesday, this will give the player the knowledge to join or not.
- What kind of FC it is, add a box with PvE/PvP/Casual/Hardcore/Roleplaying.
- If there are Mentors (this is more for newcomers, having a mentor in the FC will make it easier to ask for help) for all DoH/DoL/DoW/DoM.
- How active a FC is with the Golden Saucer.
- If the FC has their own events or not.
- If they own a mansion, stable, airship etc.

There are probably more things that can be added, but these information should help the players alot when it comes to picking their ideal Free Company.

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions so far. I wanted to let you know that the dev. team is looking into ways to make it easier for FCs to recruit new members as well as ways for players to find a free company which suits them best.

We'll be sure to pass along your thoughts and feedback! :D

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Originally Posted by Laerune

There are probably more things that can be added, but these information should help the players alot when it comes to picking their ideal Free Company.

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Seriously the more information we can give the better. Make it a searchable database IN GAME. But hell if they could do this for searching for a company then they would be able to give companies a slew of features that would make them more useful in the first place. I feel the majority of really usefull features are going to be relegated as non-priority due to the limitations they seem to have in adding anything to the game.

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Originally Posted by Sicycre

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions so far. I wanted to let you know that the dev. team is looking into ways to make it easier for FCs to recruit new members as well as ways for players to find a free company which suits them best.

We'll be sure to pass along your thoughts and feedback! :D

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Thank u Sicy!

Give us the ability to advertise using a retainer outside our house instead of simply broadcasting a message while we are in game.

Has there been any discussion about cross server or even cross data center FC's? With the way current FC's operate, I know that is near impossible, but if it is possible, it would make for an easier way for players to form up FCs for raiding, endgame, or simply cause they want to hang out. Considering that the housing wards seem to be completely separate servers, I don't see it as being difficult for FCs to be setup to cross servers/data center or stay dedicated to one server. It could/would also open up the possibilities for World First Teams to branch out and give them more opportunities to go after world first on more than one server...would mean more sub fee possibly.

Good idea to help FC to recuit members.

The problem I see if it will only make bigger FC to cap and small FC will stay small as new players will mostly want to join bigger more active ones.

Please consider adding an option to "merge" FCs so smaller FCs can fuse, sure it generates some challenges like rank ladder and housing, but some help to like manually sell a property and storing the furniture so one FC can "move" to the other and a reset of ranks save the 2 founders (and or the ones accepting the merge of their FCs)
Dunno, something like that...

There needs to be more options and the ability to add requirements.

For example, when I switched server I was looking for a new FC but I didn't want to join a large scale one with just tons of random players or cliques, but I didn't want to join a tiny one that had small activity. I also wanted to join one with a medium to high skill level so I knew I could find a party within the FC to do extreme primal content with.

To be honest, FC achievements would be a huge bonus for this kind of system.

Things like airship unlocks and housing etc. Also FC party battle challenges like: An FC-full group kills an EX primal they get an achievement for that primal or raid. But the rule is the people in the party have to all be in the same FC and have to be a member for longer than a week or something?

This way I can filter and say "cool there's an fc who killed that primal and have done this content that I enjoy and can do myself."

then the FCs themselves can filter people registering to join with things like certain achievements or levels or classes" and such.

Id like to see an FC recruitment officer posted in each of the grand company headquarters. You can Talk to him to say your fc is recruiting, or he can tell you who is currently looking for new members.

Would be good tired of all the huge fc's getting all the new players and becoming bigger

This would be a valuable tool for us!

This would be a great tool. My FC is small and close-knit. I like to vet new members a bit by playing with them and talking to them about what they're looking for in an FC rather than just shouting in cities. So being able to post somewhere about us to find people interested in how we do things would be great.

I agree with this option. The players would benefit a lot by having a FC board showing a brief description of the FC, properties, how many members they have, and any activities they do or if it is new what they are looking form

Well this plus FC should have various tools i think. As it currently stands the options are all very limiting.
Not sure if any have mentioned but maybe even allow us to create a page so players can view in game with company info, etc...
I would say pop up but that always gets the same reactions as spam i think, lol
Or just give us more characters to write stuff.....