Suggestions for FC Events! :D

"Hello all!~"

So basically I'm asking for a few suggestions from others that either host events in general, or host events particularly for Free Companies.
Being a fairly new FC leader, I'm wishing to find some creative ideas to have my FC enjoyable and active, and to help bring my FC members closer together!
:)

Thank you! Can't wait to see some of these suggestions.

This one may be obvious but during October a costume contest where people dress up as their favourite characters from TV or movies or anime or other video games, etc.
You can have a seasonal version too, having the season being the guideline. Best summer outfit, best winter garb, etc. which you can host every 4 months or so in addition to the Halloween one.

Fairly easy and obvious things would be hosting map-parties, Ex-farms, maybe re-runs of old content on specific days.
If you have an FC-house you can set up the gardens, workshops and FC-vessels for something everyone can work on together whenever they have the time.

My FC has also done self-made treasure hunts and riddles in the past - hidding some item in the FC-house and giving out some clues for example or posting a short riddle that was hinting towards an item that had to be sent to the FC-leader (a cheap item, mind you - just to get the answer correct. I think I made something about Snow White and the answer in the end was a specific needle). I created a whole clue-hunt in the Azim-Steps once (though I did utilise our discord server to post all the riddles). It was SO much fun watching all my FC-mates trying to figure out the answers to my little riddles... gotta do that again sometimes!

I also know of some FCs that have been hosting theater productions, but thats obviously a lot of work...

My old fcs did a lot of things such as

Night at the Gold Saucer: Self explanatory

Hide and Seek: pick a ward and go nuts

Price is right: Get a marketboard item and guess the value, usually this one involves prizes so not recommended for
New/poor fcs

Human Darts: take your brightest mount and have players land on you in the Astrolegon towers in Coerthas

PvP duels: this one will require some restraint cuz a lot of my Old Fc mates take this one very seriously

Virus: Just like hide and seek but starts out with one person and once he’s caught he joins whomever is “it” until 1 remains , playing this with 36 players online in The Lochs in Gyr Abania is super fun but stick to smaller locations if you have smaller fcs

Treasure chests/Farms: the more basic things to do but effective if you have charismatic members

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Originally Posted by Canadane

This one may be obvious but during October a costume contest where people dress up as their favourite characters from TV or movies or anime or other video games, etc.
You can have a seasonal version too, having the season being the guideline. Best summer outfit, best winter garb, etc. which you can host every 4 months or so in addition to the Halloween one.

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Yeah, this was going to be my first suggestion as well. Use the glamour system to have costume contests. Be sure to keep them fairly tightly themed and give a little advance notice. Or do it pretty much on the spot to see what your members can quickly come up with. It can be seasonal or it can be something like "Best Warrior" or "Best for a day in the Shroud" etc.

Depending on how many members you have, you could also do little plays, comedy routines or skits for each other. Just pair people up and see what they can come up with.

We just had a Blue Night a few days ago where we helped folks unlock blue mage, get some skills, get some levels. We're excited to do more soon where we can really play around in some dungeons =D

I once went around various parts of Eorzea and took screenshots.
I told people to go find where I was standing and replicate the screenshots.

It's a nice way to get people to explore and check out some of the more unique hidden areas that players may have forgotten about.

All of your FCs sound so fun! Any of you on Famfrit? I play with my wife and we are looking for an FC with events.

Seconding hide and seek. We play in the big zones, and especially if you're playing in places with lots of nooks and crannies like Raktika, it can actually take hours to find everyone if you have a decent sized group. We've used our FC discord to voice chat and send each other hint screenshots as we play. We've also done something like "hiding in plain sight" where we all turn off names and glamour different gear or NPC-looking gear and try to blend in crowded zones like Limsa.

Maps, mount farms... We sometimes list out all the glamours people wanted from older content and rotate through the old raids/trials together to farm glamours or mats.

I haven't had a chance to try this on a big scale but we've done this with smaller groups and it's been fun--picking out a totally new weird-looking glamour for each other's characters and taking screenshots in the strange outfits.

We also do holiday-related stuff like a secret santa gift exchange, diadem trips together...

I think one that is especially fun for me are house redecorating parties. Getting people together to redesign the house is quite fun if you have artistic types in your FC.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

This one may be obvious but during October a costume contest where people dress up as their favourite characters from TV or movies or anime or other video games, etc.

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My FC went trick or treating. On the 31st we got into 'costume' and roamed the housing wards, entering random houses and demanding candy from everyone we saw.

Oh, one thing I forgot: From time to time I gave out "glamour challenges" to our static (its more or less an all FC-static and I could easly see this work for a whole FC aswell!) - its a little bit different from a costume contest in the way that we didnt judge those things, we were just exicted to see what everyone came up with and had a good laugh about it! I remember that I once challenged them to "dress up as their favorite disney princess" and guessing who everyone picked was a lot of fun.

Something that evolved out of this was my FC-leader and myself crafting the Company Tabard and Hat for everyone and dying them in a colour that we thought fit their personality best and then sent them to each static-member by mogmail with a short explantion why we picked that colour (obviously being nice and positive about it). I think I did the hats and she did the tabards and we werent talking about what we picked for the others, so for the next raid day everyone showed up in some colourful, not always matching combinations!

I'm really enjoying all of these creative ideas! All your Free Companies sure sound like a lot of fun, I can only hope that I can bring my new members together like all of these ones listed. :)

I really appreciate the suggestions, thank you! :D

An FC that mine sometimes does events in tandem with had a "Lawn Darts" competition. Or as I jokingly called it, "Warriors of Dart-ness". (Still not sorry for that one.)

Get people into a party. One person drops a waymark at the base of the Observatorium, and remains below. Everyone else climbs the tower, then leaps off. One who lands closest to/on the center of that marker wins!

We did a relay once where players had to go to (merchant), buy (item) and trade it to the host of the race.

Something like Uldah>Horizon>Vesper Bay>Orange Juice>Gold Bazaar>trade to host player.

Rules were a) in alliance so can see where you are. b) can’t leave zone/use transportation like ferries c) first “leg” of the race is announced before start (eg. Horizon), d) the wanted item isn’t announced until after the race starts. The host should say where to find the item (eg. The tavern to the left in Vesper Bay)

I'm a leader from Cerberus.
I have a mansion that I dedicated to building my own custom events of which some are held outside. The FC house lacked the required slots to do this while still looking nice.
The most popular ones:

Garden jumping competition (to the roof or around the garden or house).
Decorating (you assign a room to this and provide items members may use).
Fashion event (you name a theme and style and members have to get close to that within a certain timeframe. They get a small amount of gil for each round to find the stuff with NPC's or buy on market).
Find the difference. A Cross setup showing 4 sides. All items show the same item but on 1 side that item will be in a diff position. 60 items on each side (items that you can name easily), 30 minutes to find them.
Hide and seek (custom rules), Separate in teams. the host of the event hides in a large area. 1 person from each team searches. If 1 person finds the host he/she will relocated. If each player of 1 team is able to find the house, they win the round.
Prizes are gil based or mog station codes for items or emotes. I invent games like this all the time on the go cuss I enjoy entertaining people.
I have a new FC since shortly so I plan to restart this soon, so if someone is interested... find <<ECP>> Eclipse on Cerberus/Chaos. We also allow members to post their own events on discord for others to join so no one has an excuse when there's nothing to do :p