Tiny Free Company rant

[Valkyrie-Amber]

my fc btw is solo just my two chars in it and name and tag flow super well Guardian Force <Gaia>

[RyuSaarva]

I dont even understand why tags exist, just give a option to show or hide the full fc name.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

yeah i would prefer to just have my full fc name maybe in smaller print under my chars name

[marewa]

My tiny FC of 3 (has now grown immensely) ended up with the same tag as a much larger FC. We ended up creating a linkshell to recruit more SOUL tagged people as a way of stealing peoples souls. We all loved it.

[PArcher]

Honestly, if its a pretty common tag, you have to expect to have others with the same tags.

IMO, best thing to do would just change the letters from lowercase to uppercase or the reverse. There is no rule against having the same tag, so that keeps the one you chose but still makes it unique. And the guy should be reported for harassment anyway.

[Tisharu]

Well <Fate> is also very over use. There's really no way to make it unique unless you make some random or abbreviation from your FC.

[Nicobo]

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This all being said, this IS the internet and as such it comes with a certain level of stupid, but still, this just rubbed me the wrong way. XD
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yeah, I am pretty sure our guild leader is gonna change the tag tonight. We don't want to make recruiting difficult by any means. I don't agree with what that player did, but that doesn't mean his guild is to blame and so it would only be right to change our name knowing the situation now.

So you are telling me acting like that player actually works and can bring your tag down. Obviously now he is not the certain level of stupid, but who? ^^;

[drmambo1999]

So you are telling me acting like that player actually works and can bring your tag down. Obviously now he is not the certain level of stupid, but who? ^^;

to clarify, the only reason we will make changes to our guild tag is to avoid making it hard on the guild to recruit members. One player does not make a guild and there for we should not treat the entirety of that guild as that player. What he did, was indeed stupid. Did it ultimately work in his favor? I suppose so, but unfortunately things don't always work out in life the way they should. This all being said, my leader hasn't changed the tag yet. :P

[Noxifer]

When me and our flatmate got tired of getting FC invites from random people, we took all our alts (we both enjoy altoholism very much) and made our own FC for them. This was a few weeks after ARR launch. Then we found friends in the game and took one pair of characters and joined their FC and those characters became our mains. Still have our private FC of course. Aaanyway, the point was that one day, we ran across another FC with the same tag as us. And while our tag (Shard) was part of the longer FC name, their FC name didn't seem to have anything to do with the tag O.o
I'm pretty sure our FC was made first, but on the other hand, it's not like that's an extremely active FC, so we didn't even poke the people we saw with the tag, just noted it as an amusing coincidence.

To the OP, I'm sorry you ran into people who were really stingy about the use of a single word. It's not like you plagiarized them on purpose after all, right? If I were you guys, I'd contact the leader of the other FC and ask why this person was so aggressive about it. There's absolutely no reason for you to change, though I understand the whole "What's the big deal anyway? If we change it, we'll have less issues" sentiment. The best part would be if you could come to some agreement with the other FC so you could coexist. And frankly, that player's behaviour is definitely reportable as harassment.

[drmambo1999]

"There's absolutely no reason for you to change, though I understand the whole "What's the big deal anyway? If we change it, we'll have less issues" sentiment."

This is pretty much the reasoning behind my guild leader considering it. He hasn't done anything yet though. Either way, I hope the guild in question understands that we didn't mean to jack their tag. XD