Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Dav]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:
Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

[Dav]

Personally I think raising the linkshell limit to equal that of a free company would be the best solution.

[Bitty]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:

Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

Personally I think raising the linkshell limit to equal that of a free company would be the best solution.

Both extremely valid and USEFUL points.

While it is understandable that Linkshells are not being changed at all, I would like to offer additional clarification on why I think the above are very valid points. We, who have played this game for a while, have a tendency to gather a wide circle of friends. Linkshells offer a wonderful semi-private chat channel to talk with people we may not get to socialize with otherwise. If the "semi-private" chat channel is limited then so is our opportunities to reach out and be a part of our community. More and more of us have had to turn off our Shout channels, thus limiting our communication even more.

TL;DR - Can we have larger linkshell limits please?

[Isseth_Shadowheart]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:
Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

I'll chime in on this because I think it's a wonderful idea! Linkshells offer a common place for friends and Free Company members to talk. I think raising the linkshell limit significantly is a fabulous idea!

I'll offer an opinion on item #2 allowing players to join more than one free company. I was recently a part of a guild in GW2 which due to it's huge size, was forced to have people in 5 different guilds, each with the name of the guild spelled slightly different. There was also no common chat space for the different guild members to all talk with one another (similar to a linkshell), the end result was the guild seemed to have lost cohesiveness and continuity, as members not in Section A couldn't have a common chat with Section B, etc. Some members were switched to Section C and effectively couldn't engage with guild mates they had in another section. For officers it was a headache too, as they had to switch guilds to keep in touch with their members and share news.

[Bloodwillow]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:
Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

I cannot agree with this enough.

On our server, Gilgamesh, our fc Driftwood Coast, is becoming very popular. We try to welcome everyone who are interested in RP or talk about wanting to RP with us. But the paltry LS limit is stupid and needs to be removed or at least made larger.

We are having to resort to remove alts and those who haven't played in so many days, and we do not like doing so. This ruins the community of awesome people!

And this even goes for non RPers. Having small numbers keeps people away from meeting others in a LS since all are separated and can't talk with each other.