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!