SE should just delete LL and Grid

[Viridiana]

Guess I missed a thread earlier:

From the Japanese patch notes:

なお、「イフリート討伐戦」では同じグランドカンパニーメンバーのみで構成されたパーティで挑むと報酬にボーナスが追加されます。

That's the sentence about better rewards everyone's talking about.「イフリート討伐戦」 is the part that's over the r30 Ifrit fight. No where in that sentence does 真イフリート討滅戦 appear, which is the part over the r50 fight. So, I think it's safe to say that the reward difference is only for the low-level version.

[Sephrick]

Guess I missed a thread earlier:

From the Japanese patch notes:

なお、「イフリート討伐戦」では同じグランドカンパニーメンバーのみで構成されたパーティで挑むと報酬にボーナスが追加されます。

That's the sentence about better rewards everyone's talking about.「イフリート討伐戦」 is the part that's over the r30 Ifrit fight. No where in that sentence does 真イフリート討滅戦 appear, which is the part over the r50 fight. So, I think it's safe to say that the reward difference is only for the low-level version.

The Japanese patch notes specifically list that only under the r30 version?

If that's the case then it's probably a certainty that it's more seals or exp.

[Konachibi]

- When everyone from same company you get bonus as well as when you have 3 different countries grand company members

Pretty self explanatory, but I'd imagine you'd get the same supply of bonus reward if you had a party of 4-8 where they were a full mix of all 3 GC's, as well as parties consisting entirely of 1 GC. That just means if you're building an 8 player party and you have 3 Maelstrom and 4 Immortal Flames, you'd just need 1 Twin Adders to get the bonus, so that's not so bad.

[Arcell]

Pretty self explanatory, but I'd imagine you'd get the same supply of bonus reward if you had a party of 4-8 where they were a full mix of all 3 GC's, as well as parties consisting entirely of 1 GC. That just means if you're building an 8 player party and you have 3 Maelstrom and 4 Immortal Flames, you'd just need 1 Twin Adders to get the bonus, so that's not so bad.

However then you might have people turning down a perfectly good party member just because they don't have the one company the group needs. I think the devs need to clarify this right away. I can understand why they would put such a system in however all it does is force people to go with the majority for the best bonuses. People should join a company because it's the one they want to, not because they'll be shunned from parties without it.

[Viridiana]

However then you might have people turning down a perfectly good party member just because they don't have the one company the group needs. I think the devs need to clarify this right away. I can understand why they would put such a system in however all it does is force people to go with the majority for the best bonuses. People should join a company because it's the one they want to, not because they'll be shunned from parties without it.

The thing is, even if the worst case is true (I'm certain it's not), there's no need for everyone to flock to one company because "omg, everyone's going to this company." Even if 95% of your server goes with the Flames, as long as you know enough people in the remaining 2-3% that went with the company you want, you're set. Remember, even in the worst case, as long as you can find 7 other people on your server that didn't go with the majority, you're good to go.

Everyone panicking and bolting for Uldah just because they think everyone is going to panic and bolt for Uldah has to be one of the crappiest self-fulfilling prophecies I've seen lately. If everyone would stop over-reacting, we'd see a fairly even spread among the three cities. [panicvoice]But no! Everyone goes to Uldah! Why!? Because that's where everyone goes![/panicvoice]