LS bank

[Eldaena]

This isn't like WoW where you hammer a mining opint once and get 50 ore. Materials are limited. Most people purchase items specifically for their needs. I may give a couple nuggets or sinew to someone if he or she wants to synth that for a craft, but I'm not going to give crazy materials to people. Although I receive crazy materials, heh. And gil is too easy to come by and you can't fully repair your equipment from an NPC. At our current state, linkshell banks wouldn't give any long lasting benefit. Maybe one day in the future it will be very beneficial, but right now, I don't think it would be too helpful.

Well, it would certainly help some LS, including my own. Often I get materials for other people or that I don't need myself and it would be so much better if we can just collectively put those items together for that LS, rather than the tediousness of having tha tperson online, trading several times to them, etc. Plus, if we make things that could possibly benefit others in the LS, the LS retainer could help with that too. (Better than npcing everything we grind on, lol)

[Zkieve]

Anything related for more linkshell customization is welcome.
A bank will exist on organised linkshells whatever is implemented into the system or not.

Linkshell leadership needs all the help it can get , i always tough ffxi linkshell system was way to basic and surprisingly they managed to dumb it down even further.

[ApplePie]

I make several hundreds of the actual gear I create... If someone desperately needs one of those items, they can ask. This game forces you to create several hundred pieces of gear. Would just cause people to ask for constant expansions of the bank as well. Everyone in my linkshell uses the same materials and is not very willing to look out for the commonweal because crafters are all grinding on the exact same items for rank ups.

[Eldaena]

I make several hundreds of the actual gear I create... If someone desperately needs one of those items, they can ask. This game forces you to create several hundred pieces of gear. Would just cause people to ask for constant expansions of the bank as well. Everyone in my linkshell uses the same materials and is not very willing to look out for the commonweal because crafters are all grinding on the exact same items for rank ups.

This game does not force you to make several hundred pieces of gear, only you do. My LS is very different from yours. We are all working on different things. And if it so happens that we would be working on the same thing, doesn't mean we do it all the same way. When I was working on goldsmithing I would only use silver ingots to make silver goblets because, even though that item does not have a use as of yet, I believe it will be used for culinarian in the future, which is another craft of mine. My other two friends would make silver needles and etc. It was easy because we were all ranking up the craft at the same time but using different materials. There is more than one way to rank up a class, and the game does NOT force you to do anything like that.


Edit: I'm a much different crafter than the people that choose to craft only for the most sp. My way is more difficult, but also can be more rewarding. It also allows me to rank up my crafts while assisting others with their own. Not all crafters are the same and ranking up their crafts on the same items.

[Xzen]

This isn't like WoW where you hammer a mining opint once and get 50 ore. Materials are limited. Most people purchase items specifically for their needs. I may give a couple nuggets or sinew to someone if he or she wants to synth that for a craft, but I'm not going to give crazy materials to people. Although I receive crazy materials, heh. And gil is too easy to come by and you can't fully repair your equipment from an NPC. At our current state, linkshell banks wouldn't give any long lasting benefit. Maybe one day in the future it will be very beneficial, but right now, I don't think it would be too helpful.

Heh. I throw away ore and tons of other crafting mats that people could use simply because I have no inventory space anymore. Several members also ask if they should hang onto items for who ever needs them and I have to tell them to toss them or vendor them because no one has the inventory space.

[Xenor]

I make several hundreds of the actual gear I create... If someone desperately needs one of those items, they can ask. This game forces you to create several hundred pieces of gear. Would just cause people to ask for constant expansions of the bank as well. Everyone in my linkshell uses the same materials and is not very willing to look out for the commonweal because crafters are all grinding on the exact same items for rank ups.

Exactly, who is going to put iron ore, silver, gold ore etc. into an LS bank when half the server needs them? Either you're skilling up on them, you sell them for profit so you can afford things you need or you'd put them in that LS bank where they'd be all taken by one person who sits there waiting for it. If they want ores they can grab a pickaxe and go get it, not expect others to go get it for them for free.

I prefer self sufficiency anyway and it's why I'm ranking up multiple crafts. I hate relying on others or having to beg people for synths even if it's people in my own LS. So I'm against LS banks in the context being asked here. LS banks should be for raid items only. The place you put your Dodore doublets and scimitars until someone with enough DKP wants one.

[Lerris]

Do we have any indication that this is still happening? My impression was that player run companies have been completely scrapped, and we are only getting these Grand Companies now.

There has always been mention of public companies ( ie. the Grand Companies of Eorzea ) and private companies ( player run ). Nobody's actually announced that private companies have been scrapped; I imagine basic linkshell functionality needs to be improved before they can happen, and that's lower in priority than battle system changes.

[Eldaena]

Exactly, who is going to put iron ore, silver, gold ore etc. into an LS bank when half the server needs them? Either you're skilling up on them, you sell them for profit so you can afford things you need or you'd put them in that LS bank where they'd be all taken by one person who sits there waiting for it. If they want ores they can grab a pickaxe and go get it, not expect others to go get it for them for free.

I prefer self sufficiency anyway and it's why I'm ranking up multiple crafts. I hate relying on others or having to beg people for synths even if it's people in my own LS. So I'm against LS banks in the context being asked here. LS banks should be for raid items only. The place you put your Dodore doublets and scimitars until someone with enough DKP wants one.

If you don't want to use a LS bank you don't have to.

Other people that are not you, may want to.

[Xenor]

If you don't want to use a LS band you don't have to.

Other people that are not you, may want to.

So in other words, "SE should add LS bank. Kthxbye end of thread!". The OP should have just asked a mod to lock it as soon as he posted it.

[Xzen]

There has always been mention of public companies ( ie. the Grand Companies of Eorzea ) and private companies ( player run ). Nobody's actually announced that private companies have been scrapped; I imagine basic linkshell functionality needs to be improved before they can happen, and that's lower in priority than battle system changes.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the the private companies are still on the table but they are trying to give context to them before implementing them.