[dev0000] Linkshell Commands

I've dug through the forums a bit and read the letters from the Devs - and very little communication seems to be forthcoming about changes in, commands. The biggest culprits are:

/lscmd Invite? Kick? Promote? Leave a Message After the beep?
/chatmode Why not allow chat to switch betwen mutliple linkshells if not
/ls1
/ls2
/ls3 ...directly?


But the real question is, how do we highlight this to the devs? This is nowhere in the "in development" section of the forum so there are no tags that I can (legitimately) attach, and honestly I think it's a relatively quick fix.

Ideas?


~Nico

I couldn't find another topic about this (If there is another one please point me to it).. but not being able to chat across linkshells without switching pearl is annoying. As mentioned above, /l1 /l2 etc would be really helpful.

Having to change linkshell to be able to talk in it is ridiculous.

I hope a dev answers.

lets get a petition going on general discussion and just have ppl sign it. took some other guy about 2 weeks to get a moderator to forward it to dev team.

As an LS leader it's especially problematic for me. I do want to be present on my own shell, and display it as my active one, but there are some things my small shell cannot do so I need to keep active in another shell as well. It's very inconvenient to say the least.

Always been a problem, piles of posts about this particular issue including suggested commands that need to be added, no action on it, still needs lots of work.

/lsmes would be nice too. /lsmes1 /lsmes2 /lsmes3

I mentioned this thread on Day #10 regarding the appropriate place to post about this issue in the following thread on the General Discussion forum.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post161559

Yeah, my ls has had to remake several times because we have been unable to kick our inactive members. Also it would be nice to have a ls message because then people would know whats going on without having to be on at the same time as everyone else. These ls commands are kind of basic needs.

adding more dev tags would mean having to answer to more issues and work at more issues at a time so they rather wait it seems :)

Please Devs, give us the ability to manage our linkshells, so that we can continue to enjoy each others company and continue playing your game.

Add to the list some things that were missing from the XI linkshell functionality:

Additional rank levels - It'd be nice to have one or two more levels of granularity between "shellholder" and "sackholder". You might want to give some people the right to issue pearls but not to break them. Keeping with the "pearled" theme, you might move sackholder to the recruitment tier, and add in Pearlbinder and Pearlkeeper or the like. Further...
Moderated chat - Allows members of a specific rank or higher to "quiet" the channel so that they can speak to everyone without being interrupted. This is pretty important for larger-scale events. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the "STFU WE'RE IN DYNAMIS" type of situation. In moderated chat mode, if the original individual that set moderated chat logs off, the chatmode returns to normal (so as not to mute a shell for an indefinite period of time). If someone sets moderated and leaves it on without freeing it, players are free to /tell another officer asking them to disable it.
Rank list - Since it seems that XIV retains the linkshell member list while people are offline, it would be useful to be able to view the members of a particular rank at any given time, in case you need to contact an officer with a question or concern.
Transfer ownership - If LSes will have persistent space in XIV (see the Lodestone), then the LS itself should be able to persist through a player's departure. The owner should have the ability to hand the shell over to another player. OR...
Decentralized leadership - Perhaps the best solution to the idea of being unable to transfer a linkshell would be the ability for a shellholder to promote people into shellholders, allowing for multiple people to be fully "in charge". That way if a shellholder goes MIA, the linkshell does not have to dissolve. Some groups may be more oriented toward this style of leadership anyway.

Given the implementation of achievements and their integration into the Lodestone, and Linkshell integration into the Lodestone, I feel rather positive that there will also be Linkshell-oriented achievements coming, and so there may be a package of changes that will encompass some of these requests in the future.