Player Run Companies: What do we want to see?

[Caidryn]

Company versus Company content: an outlet for our competitive desires.

While FFXIV doesn't strike me as a PVP oriented type game, and I doubt the players would desire to shift it in this direction, PVP is far from the only way to compete.

In FFXI, the nations were given conquest, as a means for massive amounts of players to be able to compete with one another to vye for land and power. While I do not expect to see the system implemented in an identical state, it serves as an interesting base for some content. It has even already been hinted at in some past official statements. Here's what I'd like to see.

Company influence upon Eorzea can be decided in the success of its members. In XI, killing any monster that awarded XP while bearing your country's signet would add points to the nations influence in that area. In Eorzea, simply being a part of a company could serve as your 'signet' while the players in the company are out SP'ing. If every company got, say, 1 point added to their counter per 100 sp gained by a member, and these points were tallied weekly, as conquest was, it could get the competitive spirits riled up in all sorts of people.

Now, I don't suggest the winner be allowed to control an area, or receive produce as was done in XI. But if, say, the top 5 were displayed, and there was a small benefit to having a high ranking, such as a company wide 10% SP gained buff (the extra 10% would naturally need to be discounted from the company points gained that week) that scaled down depending on your company ranking that week, it would be enough to give us motivation to strive to be the best. Those not interested could naturally ignore it, but those who try could see just how they stack up against the other companies in Eorzea. Sounds like a lot of fun to me. The benefits, of course, could be adjusted to whatever the developer liked, provided they were inconsequential enough to not make people quit their own companies to join the winner, but also enough to give a sense of accomplishment.

This is, of course, just one idea for company versus company content. Please feel free to post any ideas you may have for others.

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Company versus Company content

I was thinking along the lines of Ballista or Brenner, sort of like arena type of area where others can see two companies fight it out, the reward maybe for a valuable item such as a Key to entering a high lvl dungeon.