Necessary Free Company Qualty of Life Upgrades

[Bluevann]

With the launch of individual housing, I'd like FC houses to get some kind of content that discouraged 1-man FCs, and encourage these players to disband their single-formed FCs to go to an individual house instead, and join an actual free company.

For example, the airship building content in the FC house could require multiple FC members to be online and in the house at the same time and work in coordination.

Here on Balmung there are almost no plots left, and what is left is a few Large plots. There are many small, but actual, free companies that cannot afford a large plot and are left with no small/medium plots; a lot of them are taken by 1-man FCs of people who wouldn't wait for individual houses to come out, and who knows how many of these will free the FC house plot to move to an individual house when the patch comes...

Please, implement something to discourage single-player FC houses >_<!

[Souljacker]

You "like" the way that gardening functions as content? Have any of you actually played this game with a group of people you don't know? Have you ever actually PLAYED this game? Gardening is TERRIBLE as content. It's not a fun experiment for people to explore, it's a way for FC's to make money that pretty much only the leaders use. I've yet to see a true profit-sharing FC that actually works, nevermind the fact that other players simply aren't allowed to use the garden. Don't use your poor planning in chocobo implementation as an excuse to keep content exclusive. I thought Yoshi-P's goal was to be an accessible and fun game? Or maybe you DON'T aspire to more than the 500k-1m subscribers you currently have.

No, this is the wrong answer. You can leave the yields as they are or even lower them, but you REALLY need to revisit the exclusivity of the garden as content. Take a look at FFXI, a shimmering example of how gardening can be personal, AND still have big ticket items that people who put in the extra time and research can grow. Systems in XIV pale in comparison on a LOT of fronts, and it's surprising since last I checked, you were the same company.

[Tiggy]

So we scoured the list and couldn't find something that seemed to work as another fertilizer. I guess he was thinking soils when he made that dev post?

[HEC]

and who knows how many of these will free the FC house plot to move to an individual house when the patch comes...

That would be - ZERO! (Unless somebody'll pay them for all the gill invested in HUGELY ovepriced plots and houses). They'll simply purchase private rooms for each of their alts if there will be any additional benefits like private rooms gardening, currently there is only one benefit to have private room(s) in one man FCs anyway (and that's only form small or medium plots). Then they'll go and purchase private housings for each of their alts as well to have more gardening and / or chocobo raising slots and keep their FC house anyway.

Please, implement something to discourage single-player FC houses >_<!

Like - being able to send items between alts? NOBODY with private / "one man" FC will give that out - that's for sure.

[Namasu]

I swear I remember them saying something about this recently...lemme see if I can find it.

EDIT: Found it. From last month:


Doesn't help much because, like you said, it was originally announced as part of 2.2. But there it is.

lol...he went back and edited his post to make it sound like it's not coming on 2.2. So underhanded -_-

[Wobble]

Has anything been said about what happens to the room? Do we have to pay for a new one if we move to another FC?

[Rex]

Here I am still requesting a board in each GRAND Company headquarters that lists all FREE Companies enlisted under that Grand Company. So that anyone searching for a new company can peruse each of the companies enlisted in that Company so they can find one that fits their needs, and then can apply to that company right there.

[Nicobo]

Well - kinda - untill you take one of them out and put it back again, then it will somehow "shuffle" them. Lets say I've stabled 5 chocos from 1. to 5. in that order so in the end I can see chocos 4. + 5. in the stable. Then you take 4. out and see lets say 3. + 5. so you'd expect once you put 4. back to see either 4. + 5. again or 5. + 4. but instead you'd see 3. + 4...

Thank you for this information! ^^

[Nicobo]

...Here on Balmung there are almost no plots left...

It is working as intended, YoishiP did tell everyone to purchase their desired plot of land before the price reached the bottom. ^^;

//quote
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...802-03-2014%29
...it's likely that once free companies begin buying land, the plots you've been watching may be purchased by another free company. We expect this trend will start this month, so be ready!
//end quote

[Camate]

Hey there!

I was able to get some details regarding the Free Company log system. As the latest activity overview is often taken up by gardening-related happenings, the dev. team is going to look into making it so that gardening-specific results are grouped together via other methods. This should free up the activity log to show more information that is taking place throughout the day in your Free Company!

We don’t have a timeline for when this might be implemented, but I will update you as soon as I hear anything.