FC Bulletin Board or Wish List

[Grekumah]

Howdy, Neighbors!

There are currently no plans to create a furniture item that could serve as a message board; we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other.

On a somewhat separate side-note, we understand that the Free Company activity log can clear out very quickly making it difficult to view ongoing activities and we are looking into adjusting this.

At the moment it is difficult to increase the amount of activities saved in the log that are performed by a Free Company over the current 200 that are displayed, but we will be looking into addressing this with filter settings.

[Martin_Arcainess]

lol as long as they take note of it, I can not begin to tell you the amount of times I've put something up on the company board about a event, the event comes and the people in my FC have no idea about it......It's on the Company board! Their response, oh is it?

[Dyvid]

Howdy, Neighbors!

There are currently no plans to create a furniture item that could serve as a message board; we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other.

On a somewhat separate side-note, we understand that the Free Company activity log can clear out very quickly making it difficult to view ongoing activities and we are looking into adjusting this.

At the moment it is difficult to increase the amount of activities saved in the log that are performed by a Free Company over the current 200 that are displayed, but we will be looking into addressing this with filter settings.

Any plans to add a calendar and FC recruitment search?

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

lol as long as they take note of it, I can not begin to tell you the amount of times I've put something up on the company board about a event, the event comes and the people in my FC have no idea about it......It's on the Company board! Their response, oh is it?

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

[Ellatrix]

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

If only it was also displayed in the FC menu.

[Stihllodeing]

Howdy, Neighbors!

There are currently no plans to create a furniture item that could serve as a message board; we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other.

On a somewhat separate side-note, we understand that the Free Company activity log can clear out very quickly making it difficult to view ongoing activities and we are looking into adjusting this.

At the moment it is difficult to increase the amount of activities saved in the log that are performed by a Free Company over the current 200 that are displayed, but we will be looking into addressing this with filter settings.

Well poo :/ Sounds like such a good idea. And I do have to say, there's not really any FC tools to use to communicate. Just sayin.

And kudos Rankojp. Good idea. Good topic creation, and you got a mod response. It's nice they popped in to say something, maybe they'll change their mind with enough likes, who knows. Stranger things have happened lol.

[Martin_Arcainess]

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

ah good point, never thought of it like that, mainly because I have a Tab just for FC chat only so I think that's why it didn't cross my mind.

[Toodles]

...we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other...

WHAT TOOLS?

The horribly limited mail system? The severely limited MoTD?

You can't be serious.

[Nalien]

Can we at least have it so that being in the same Free Company is basically the same as being on each others Friends List? So you can at least send mail to anyone in your Free Company right away? That way you just put a comment up saying "I need X", and people can send you X. Would actually give the Mail Mog a purpose outside Mog Station reward distribution, too. Perhaps let us comment of other players comments, too, so that you don't end up with a dozen people sending you X, instead the first person to just comments on your request informing everyone that they've sent you the item. Could also do with giving the Short Messages tab its own page so it is more prominent and less forgettable.

Would perhaps also be an idea to have a message display every time someone adds a Short Message, so people actually check. Say, I log off for the night, three people add Short Messages requesting something, I log on the next day and as well as the regular Free Company message, I see something like "3 Short Messages have been added", so I check them. Maybe instead of commenting on them there is instead just a subcommand that lets you confirm the Short Message which everyone else can see. So I see that Member #13 wants X, I confirm their message so others know I'm doing it, and mail them X. Can also be used for other things such as event planning; Have a Short Message set up like "I'm doing Treasure Maps <date>@<time>, who wants to come?", and people hit confirm if they can come along, maybe even work it like it's own version of the Party Finder within a Free Company and have a subcommand for joining their party if they're online, rather than asking them for an invite. Pretty much the same as the Party Finder, but rather than the entire server being able to join, just Free Company members can.

[Mjollnir]

The Lodestone FC forums/pages are ok - couple of things could improve:

Show a nice table of members progressions in various elements of the game, ie levels, crafts, content unlocks/clears (I think the FFXI site has this iirc)

Create the same infrastructure for LinkShells. I've just made an LS to help ppl through Coil with ppl from across the server in different FCs. I'm having to resort to using an external site to co-ordinate raids.