A list of English Free Companies on Ultima.

This is just a list of the English Free Companies on Ultima with member count. If I missed your FC please post and Ill add it to the list.

Gaijin - 432
Ultima - 93
Pandaemonium - 90
Last Resort - 58
Phoenix Rising - 36
Eternal Strife - 24
(AU)Advent Reborn - 21

My point in gathering this list is to not understand why we have broken communities within our server. Gaijin is by far the largest EFC on the server. But having these other smaller ones, its hard to always get a group in a small FC why not look at merging into one larger FC to give our members access to more players.

Not to knock my current FC, but I'll be looking to switch to one of the ones listed here next time I sign in. Definitely not criticizing my current company, mainly because I've never done anything with them. I just sort of accepted the invite when it came in, but hadn't done any research into FCs yet. Now that I know what's out there, it's time to hop over.

I am personally a member of Phoenix Rising but have partied with members of Ultima and Gaijin, both of which were fantastic experiences. Ive spoken with the founder of Last Resort on a couple of occasions but have no experience with Advent or Strife.

Hey Holybelle,
I've always wondered what the English speaking FC member counts were like. Thanks for posting this information. I know some of the FCs advertise a specific timezone or activity. Next time I see a shout I'll post it here so that people can get the best fit for them. I know a couple of people have left Gaijin cause there is a lot of chat and want something quieter. :/

Oh ya, also want to plug our website that we just finished setting up during the last downtime. We are working to be a go-to source for people looking for english speaking people on Ultima and provide links/guides to everyone as a whole. http://gaijinfc.com :)

Thanks Lecompte for putting in :) Ill be checking the site out when I get home from work in about 2 hours or so.

I'm having to work late today :X I won't be home for another couple of hours. My one consolation is that the servers are currently down. For another 15 min anyway.

Based on a forum post here, looks like there is another FC to add to the list. I was looking for their member count on Lodestone but I couldn't find it. Perhaps not updated to Lodestone yet, I notice it is between a day and few hours behind with somethings.

On that note: Gaijin's member count is going up by about 10 per day but we have 20-40 people with 10+ days of inactivity (none more than 15). I'm going to let that run to 20 days and begin making room for more active individuals. I'm hesitant to kick sooner than that because we have a number of deployed soldiers within our ranks that aren't always able to get on for an extended period and expressed that when they joined. I imagine they'll message someone upon return and get reinvited.

EDIT: WOW! I looked up how many FCs there are with between 1 - 10 members on Ultima. 300!!!! T
63 in the 11-30 member range
14 in the 31-50 member range
20 in the 51+ member range

Sup Holy Belle,

Please add Pandaemonium (90) to that list, thanks chief!

Possible to note the region also? I am looking for an oceanic FC to join. Thanks

Thanks for adding Eternal Strife to the list.

I founded it with Charlene another english speaker a few weeks back. We are currently up to 32 and growing everyday.

The goals for our Free Company are a bit different than others. First of all we do not have a set schedule for dungeon/raiding. Our Free Company is made for mostly newer members who are just getting use to the game or those who maybe just want someone to talk to and ask questions while playing. Sometimes we run dungeons as a group but it isn't required. Our goal is to help out with whatever you need whether it be material for crafting or maybe just a quick que for a dungeon since some of us are healers.

We currently have players playing around the clock. We have a few english speakers from Japan, I'm from the Eastern time zone and we have some english from the western time zone. If your interested in joining look for any member of the free company for an invite.

Sorry for the delay in getting updates in, I had a fairly busy weekend with getting the yard and everything ready for the fall and winter months and then got stuck moving 10 servers at work Sunday.

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Possible to note the region also? I am looking for an oceanic FC to join. Thanks

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Most of the English FCs have players from Oceanic and NA. I know withing Gaijin we have players on pretty much round the clock and Im sure the other FCs are the same way. Any of the English FCs on the server are good choices they each bring something different to the table as in what to expect from them. Eternal Strife as he noted has players on 24/7 as well with players in the US and Japan so Im sure they've had to have picked up some Oceanic players as well.

Frankly, many players have no interest in being in a bloated FC.

If it's your thing to be involved in overblown, bloated groups, then more power to you.

But don't expect everyone else to have the same attitude.

Phoenix Rising is intentionally smaller. We have maintained a small member count and are not recruiting until the game matures and until the free month is over. The biggest FC-oriented content in the game requires only 8 players, so you don't need a huge group in order to clear all content.

Furthermore, most of our members are focusing on lateral progress (i.e. crafting, cross-class abilities, etc), so atm we're all enjoying that and not really worried much about eating through content as fast as humanly possible.

Anyone who's interested in an atmosphere where you are a name and not a "400+" number is welcome to contact me in game to find out more. We're allied with another FCs who has a similar approach and expectations for the game, and provided you're not expecting everything "right now" you can reasonably easily and quickly find someone who can help you with your progress in the game.

Edit: Lecomte, I'm not sure why you are defensive: my post was directly in response to the OP. granted, the 400+ may have seemed directly targetted at Gaijin, but that wasn't my direct intention, but rather to respond in rather direct manner to the question posed in the OP, and on a higher level explain to Holy why I never merged with other FCs. If what I said made you feel defensive, that certainly wasn't my intention.

Essentially, most of those who abandoned Phoenix Rising had, as their primary intention, to burn through content faster. Whether or not Gaijin has that as its primary purpose I really have no idea. Again, I was responding to the questions posed by the OP and on a higher level the reasoning behind the split with Holy and crew.

It's true Gaijin is a beast to be reckoned with but at the same time I have not been intimidated by or have any ill will towards them. The members seem to be rather nice and just have different goals then our guild. Each guild caters to different types of players. (Pitch time) Eternal Strife is now an international guild! Bring your google translate software and meet some awesome people!

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Originally Posted by Orsnoire

Anyone who's interested in an atmosphere where you are a name and not a "400+" number is welcome to contact me in game to find out more.

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First: We are an FC that links kind, intelligent and respectful individuals so they can network to do what they love -- whatever that maybe. As to eating up content, we do have an FC raiding linkshell for players with advanced ability and gear.

Second: Yes we have 400 people and yes I see people sometimes and go "huh, I don't ever see this person chat." That is a choice they make and we have a lot of fun conversations in the FC... For some reason every time there is a new Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) it slides in the anime direction.

Third: I don't know if your pitch is going to attract the kind of members you're looking for. Unless you want people like you but they are all running their own FCs maybe?

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Originally Posted by Synner

It's true Gaijin is a beast to be reckoned with but at the same time I have not been intimidated by or have any ill will towards them. The members seem to be rather nice and just have different goals then our guild. Each guild caters to different types of players. (Pitch time) Eternal Strife is now an international guild! Bring your google translate software and meet some awesome people!

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Great Synner :) If you have the FFXIV App (ffxiv-app.com) it has a built in translate feature! It scans your chat logs for Japanese (or other languages) and translates it to English. It takes some puzzling but very helpful.

I just left Gaijin for my own personal reasons - namely plans to move servers however there is no reason to be negative about Gaijin.

For any player looking for an English community within Ultima I do highly recommend Gaijin. There are players of all skill levels active throughout the day to be able to assist you. This can be for simple questions on how to fight a low level boss, how to do a quest, assistance in a dungeon or levelling up certain skills to assistance fighting primals, farming 8 man dungeons to finding someone to meld materia (They have crafters of all professions at level 50). It has people to talk to while you grind, to amuse you when you come home drunk to friends to listen while you're down.

Worried about being just a number? LeCompte does a fantastic job recognizing members that are active, contribute and are a positive influence on the FC.

Think 400 is an inflated number? Inactives are kicked on a regular basis to make room for more members.

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Third: I don't know if your pitch is going to attract the kind of members you're looking for. Unless you want people like you but they are all running their own FCs maybe?

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Let me say this again: we're not recruiting, so it wasn't a "pitch" and I'm not trying to attract members.

I just wanted to make it clear (in case it wasn't and from my words it's very likely that people would have gotten the wrong impression) that we're always open to like-minded players.

In fact, I should thank you, man. I have no interest, time, or inclination to be a cruise director or to be primarily responsible for any other player's entertainment. As a FC leader, I rather provide the framework and beyond that act more as a member of the community than the provider of content. By allowing those who hold that kind of expectation an alternative place to be, you've done me a favor.

cool thanks! I play on the ps3 can I get this app on my iphone maybe?

Molly! I already miss that sweet Aussie accent. Every time I was out of a dungeon last night I was typing /sea forename "molly"

And Synner: I don't think so, it has to be able to scan your chat logs :(. Bummer.

Apocalypse - 12 English Speaking please update thank you

Hey guys,

Please add SeeD to the list. Member's from Advent Universe merged with them for more number's. Quite a lot of our people are from Perth but, of course we take in anyone from Australia, Oceanic in general and the NA/EU. We are currently sitting on 30 members.

Fangs

Conversation Topic- 76 members listed- ~ 1/2 active

My FC is called "The Twelve Of Eorzea"

We number only 9 members but are all close friends and casual gamers living within Victoria Australia,
We are all but 3 members, parents and working individuals..

We are close to being able to explore the end game content but for the most part as parents we do so at our leisure
as its usually once our kids are asleep nearly every night from 8pm (GMT +10) server time 1 hour ahead of its stated time.

If anyone wishes to join please send me a tell but don't expect a constant rush of content smashing as we are all
levelling up about the same pace but also work on gearing all members up together, in dungeons we only roll need if that
member genuinely needs it otherwise greed of pass (I usually pass =D) also we are aiming for our FC House in patch 2.1

any and all that feel his suits them may feel free to throw me a line.. My classes are Summoner/Scholar/Arcanist level 48 and character name is Sardis Sallavantei

Hi all. Im interested to know if any of the english speaking FC is still recruiting? Im currently in Ixion and the english speaking population has dwindled a lot after the free transfer. Would consider a transfer here if the population is still good. thanks in advance.