Making a new FC this hard?

[Namasu]

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As an alternative, why not find other small groups and merge? If both parties discuss the term well and communicate maturely, then you can easily double your group size.

[Vynym]

As an alternative, why not find other small groups and merge? If both parties discuss the term well and communicate maturely, then you can easily double your group size.

Why would I (or any other group for that matter) want to negotiate away all our hard work? We have an FC house that our people busted ass to obtain. I wouldn't just throw that out the window. It's about more than just numbers. I think maybe some other small fcs feel the same way. Being as small as some of us are, we work really hard to get what we have, be it a house, our raid progression, our fc funds, etc etc. If there were a situation where things could "truly" merge and neither party had to essentially throw away or put all their hard work on the line, it would be more appealing. I can't imagine logging in one day and saying, "Hey guys I know you all busted your ass for x, y, and z but we'll be destroying that so we can merge elsewhere." Maybe it's just me being super proud of my crowd, I dunno.

[Namasu]

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That's fine and all to try and retain your original FC identity and assets. I'm just saying putting an option out there. I've seen quite a number of small groups out there with a bare FC, no house or anything. You could try to assimilate those types to your FC and there would be no loss for you. I think you just gotta start sending tells and reach out more to people when you are in town. I find that much more effective than shouting FC advertisement since most people treat them as spam and ignore. When 2.2 is released there will be a lot of old players coming back looking for a group as well.