Free Company Capacity - Insufficient Resources to Complete this Action

[Alhanelem]

I find it hard to believe people still comment without knowing what they're talking about or reading the thread at all.

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Greetings,

While we do not have any plans to increase the cap for the maximum number of free company members, in the future we will be implementing a free company alliance feature that will allow you to connect with friendly free companies. We'll keep you updated on this feature!

What the hell could this thread be about other than the maximum size of a free company?

[PSxpert2011]

Why don't we just put everyone in a server in one FC? Boom problem solved.

NO. With a lazy solution like that, it's bound to raise new problems. What about it? Well, for one it takes away choice, organization and lore. We have the Grand Companies, I'm surprised there's not a channel for them. I would prefer Link Shells taking a bigger toll on members while FCs work more like special task force or endgame groups.

[Velthice]

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What the hell could this thread be about other than the maximum size of a free company?

You're absolutely right, but you said this:

I find it hard to believe there are any free companies large enough to be anywhere near the current size limit.

Which makes it painfully apparent that you didn't read the thread at all.

Not that it matters. I'm very pleased to hear there will be an alliance system. I look forward to chatting with my friends in the overflow guild.

[Kettle]

This is what happened when we decided to take our sister free companies, Please Be Careful and Dragon God Knight Kings out for a bit of a run around Ezorea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH2xQ_MHMDc

We would very much like to be in the same free company together, as we are all pals

[Alhanelem]

Which makes it painfully apparent that you didn't read the thread at all.

How so?

It's quite clear to me that I grasped the purpose of this thread. I don't need to read all 275+ posts to understand what it's about.

If the message you're trying to send to me is "there are companies at this limit" that's fine, but you could say that without being so condescending.

Frankly, I think any company that big ought to kick out a member or hundred, so that other free companies might actually have players to recruit.

[Rex]

Greetings from PBC!

My message is short and sweet, we need more room in our Free Company! We have two Free Companies to try to manage all of our members, but this is unfortunate because we really would like to be able to talk to each other and share FC resources and also eventually have our Company Housing all under one literal roof!

It seems likely that the capacity is a function of some octet bit set since the current limit is 512. Perhaps it could be 1024 instead? That would be super and fix most of our concerns.

FC's out there, do you have a similar issue? We would love to hear from you! Also perhaps suggest some alternate ways SE may address this problem. 768 members would be helpful but not as great as 1024! Thanks for your careful consideration and {Please Be Careful}!

Linkshells.

Linkshell limit is smaller than an FC, how does that work?

More than one linkshell. You can have more than one. Yes, they're different channels. But no matter which one you have activated, you can see all linkshell communication at the same time. I would think that's the best solution.

[Brevitic]

This is what happened when we decided to take our sister free companies, Please Be Careful and Dragon God Knight Kings out for a bit of a run around Ezorea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhhDMuvZT8

We would very much like to be in the same free company together, as we are all pals

Kettle that wasn't the run, that's your All Saints. You're going to confuse people.

Linkshells.



More than one linkshell. You can have more than one. Yes, they're different channels. But no matter which one you have activated, you can see all linkshell communication at the same time. I would think that's the best solution.

Thank you "Rex" for your contribution to the thread, however I think you may have missed a few steps before hitting the reply button. If you would begrudge me the moment of your time I would like to suggest something to make this thread more productive!

I have a helpful guideline to assist in your posting! This is a guideline our members are very familiar with:

Before you post: Before posting, please ask yourself the following question: "Am I making a post which is either funny, informative, or interesting on any level?"

If you can answer "yes" to this, then please post. If you cannot, then refrain from posting.

You see I think you have forgotten that people repeating things that have already been said is not very interesting! I understand you are eager to contribute to the community but it is important you Please Be Considerate! Thank you I look forward to working with you.

[Flask]

Linkshells.



More than one linkshell. You can have more than one. Yes, they're different channels. But no matter which one you have activated, you can see all linkshell communication at the same time. I would think that's the best solution.

Alright so all we need to do is dedicate seven of our eight linkshell slots to communicate with each other, this will surely solve all our problems.

(I don't think you've thought this through.)

[Kettle]

Kettle that wasn't the run, that's your All Saints. You're going to confuse people.

Copy and paste is so difficult

Fixed!

[ExponentialDecay]

I find it hard to believe there are any free companies large enough to be anywhere near the current size limit.

As painful as it may be for you to accept this fact, PBC is infact hitting the limit and already surpassing it by quite a large margin. Too large of a margin to fix with a band-aid fix such as linkshells. It would be far too cumbersome to do this effectively, though we are still using this.

More than one linkshell. You can have more than one. Yes, they're different channels. But no matter which one you have activated, you can see all linkshell communication at the same time. I would think that's the best solution.

I understand you are trying to be helpful, but this is the farthest thing from a workable solution you could suggest. The logistics of creating such a system is nightmarish, and quite simply impossible with the limitations inherent in the linkshell system. It is, in fact, the worst solution, second only to claiming a zone for ourselves and using shout chat to organize ourselves.