Free Company Message Board

Hello,

i want to share an idea for FC Houses.

Introducing the Message Board:
Would it be possible to place "Message Boards" inside of the Free Company Houses ?
It would be the information center for all FC member. As a leader you would be able to pass specific members the rights to post messages to the board.

Uses:

- post complete raid schedules online and ingame!! weekly, monthly w/e ...
- post raid drops to the board
- post ls / fc rules to the board
- post important announcements to the board
- post changes to your ls/ fc structure to the board

All those information would be accessible even if there is no leader or officer online.

If you like the idea please like the thread too :P

Idea-Pic:

http://pixelreflex.de/pr/images/medi...ageboardFC.png

/Sincerely, Tipi

Sounds pretty cool. Not having more info makes it tough to decide what we do and don't need though. :( I know it was mentioned or requested to add messages back on the Linkshell side when you log into ARR like we had in XI and is available in other MMOs. Wonder if there will be a huge difference to facilitate needing a FC message board and the LS messages?

kind of redundant since so many people already use 3rd party. Guildwork.com has a robust dkp and raid tracker. it would be nice, but i'd prefer the UI team focus on something more pressing.

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Originally Posted by Rau

kind of redundant since so many people already use 3rd party. Guildwork.com has a robust dkp and raid tracker. it would be nice, but i'd prefer the UI team focus on something more pressing.

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I thought the same thing since our website has the ability to do this as well but, in keeping with the fact some people/Linkshells don't pay for these types of amenities, it's a valid request. I also agree it's not pressing at all but a nice thought for the back of their minds to add later in a small patch. ;)

Nice idea although I daresay that someone will come up with an add-on, if not the dev from guildwork himself that will link into the GW site.

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Originally Posted by Rau

kind of redundant since so many people already use 3rd party. Guildwork.com has a robust dkp and raid tracker. it would be nice, but i'd prefer the UI team focus on something more pressing.

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imho, I think putting some sort of a message board IG will add to the immersion of the game. Instead of having to "leave" the game or rely on addons that notoriously break after every update. So i think this is a great idea, not a top priority idea, but something that would be nice to integrate eventually.

Like you idea~ :thumbsup

it will be great if it's not only place in our FC house, but also integrate this idea into both phone app/FC websie in future, let FC members:

- sign up for FC events
- check FC accomplishments
- vote for poll
- read announcements

is a good idea, but sadly it wont be :(

The 1.x version had LS page with forums in The Lodestone. Not many used it but they are still goign to be redoing this feature in ARR.... sooo... if they can only bring in The Lodestone LS/FC functions in-game and we would have a working message board.

Asked for this before on JP side but no response yet. Maybe they don't want ingame browser to load specific pages outside, or they can't pull data from forum database or something. Doesn't seem too hard to do imo.

As for DKP would be cool if they can make some type of FC rule system that allows this type of stuff but this one might actually be harder to code as every FC will have different pointing system/rules... so doubt this one would be made by the devs. Probably can do old school method doing updates on forum with everyones current points and stuff but not user friendly. If DKP is going to be needed then probably have to use 3rd party sites like guildwork if you want to make it easy.

No point to this since most shells have their own forums where all of this information is posted.

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Originally Posted by Altena

Nice idea although I daresay that someone will come up with an add-on, if not the dev from guildwork himself that will link into the GW site.

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Yeah probably.

It would be nice to have something embedded in the game world itself but ultimately third party stuff will be better and easier to use no doubt.

Hmm... Honestly, I really have no idea how often do I have to go inside a Free Company House just to see "Message Board."

Still it's a good idea but I would stick with forums anyway...

Frat house cork boards, I love it.

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Originally Posted by Cedri

Frat house cork boards, I love it.

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Can we hang up a cleaning schedule on there so we know who's turn it is to clean the toilets every day?

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Originally Posted by Colino

Can we hang up a cleaning schedule on there so we know who's turn it is to clean the toilets every day?

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XI and XIV have no toilets!

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Originally Posted by Zehira

XI and XIV have no toilets!

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LOL JP thread talking about housing asks for toilets.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

LOL JP thread talking about housing asks for toilets.

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Really?! O.o lol And I thought the NA had some off the wall requests. Would toilets go under the "immersion" category? :p

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Originally Posted by Geesus

Really?! O.o lol And I thought the NA had some off the wall requests. Would toilets go under the "immersion" category? :p

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They want the housing to be realistic as possible so although they don't expect to be able to use them, they want to see it in the house.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post533735 <-- post asking for it with 30+ likes lol

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

They want the housing to be realistic as possible so although they don't expect to be able to use them, they want to see it in the house.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post533735 <-- post asking for it with 30+ likes lol

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Hahaha... we need a bath or players would be stinking up my house.. >_<

We need public bathrooms for Free Company Houses.

Some points to back up my opinion.

I hosted forums for LS's for many years now so i know exactly how good this can work.
But I also learned that many people are very lazy if it comes to use forums and even if i post schedules and information in there, there are always alot of people coming online and asking
"what do we do today ?", "werent we supposed to do this event ?", --> respones: "i posted it on forums, etc"
.... in my experience the first step is always logging into the game first !! -> for most people at least.
I also think that alot of people will log out at FC houses if they are implemented so it would be the first thing for me to look at the message board for news when i come back online.

I am also not a big fan of guildworks. dont get me wrong here, its a great site with neat features but i dont want to be forced to use something like this to lead a shell efficently. I dont want to build my structure on 3rd party tools or anything.

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

We need public bathrooms for Free Company Houses.

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How do you go about sizing those?

Surely lalafells and roegadyns would have to have different sized toilet bowls?

I like Tipis idea. It can't be wrong If you can check quick ingame all important informations! And ppl are often to lazy to check the forum or simply don't like using the forum. For this ppl it will be perfect. And who knows maybe SE will add some bonus If you log off in your FC house then its just Log in > Check board ^^

Thumbs up <3

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Originally Posted by Colino

How do you go about sizing those?

Surely lalafells and roegadyns would have to have different sized toilet bowls?

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lol, im more about Public Bath liike in Japan.. xD

Jacuzzi prz

I'd love to have this.

Maybe SE could also extend it's use/readability to a mobile softwares, too.

I'm all for a housing whiteboard.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

They want the housing to be realistic as possible so although they don't expect to be able to use them, they want to see it in the house.

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That's hilarious.

What's the point in using resources to add something that will be completely useless? It's not even pretty so it has no decorative purposes. Maybe if it was a gold plated toilet, but it'll still be that - a toilet.
Unless they make it useful, and what would you use a toilet for except to flush your junk (not that kind of junk), pets, or fishes? +1 point to your FC if you flush a magic carp. +100 if you flush your dorm mate.

One golden rule of RPGs is the characters never take baths, and they never do a number 2 and you are not to be reminded otherwise. They simply smell like sunshine and posies forever.

Great Idea!!! And I agree with Digi mobile integration is a must I use my tablet for more things then my PC!

Great idea Tipi and I honestly thought this would be implemented when they added the Linkshell fourms feature on our Lodestone profiles... plus it is more detailed than what Xeno suggested on the forums almost a couple years back (HERE)

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

LOL JP thread talking about housing asks for toilets.

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I wonder if it will be those crazy japanese toilets that shoot water out of them?

Then we can have fun with the lalafells and tell them its a drinking fountain

More ways to communicate with members is always a good idea. I also think it brings people closer together if communication like this is supported in game as opposed to asking people to sign up to yet another website. I support this.

The german section of the forums mentioned this idea and said that the devs would take it into consideration.

updated status. german section update, OP update

SE can't avoid this idea. Its simple and helpful!

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Originally Posted by Rau

kind of redundant since so many people already use 3rd party. Guildwork.com has a robust dkp and raid tracker. it would be nice, but i'd prefer the UI team focus on something more pressing.

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Agreed, but it's a lot easier/quicker/more obvious/more foot traffic if it's in the free company house. Rather than logging on, having no idea what's going on and checking an external website to find out what's up, it's easier and faster to be in the house or like a motd for the ls. It also would prevent data collision, where one message can one thing and another can say another (i.e. DD run on 01/01/2013 at 4pm, but the other source would say 5pm.) I would like to see this feature. It's not super important and can wait for a lot of the other GUI stuff to be done first, but I would like to see this feature.