Advice for recruiting for free companies from someone who isn't in one.

[Bacent]

This game is tough because guilds are such a weak presence in it. You don't rely on them to do any endgame at all, its all the relationships. So you don't have the leeway other games have, where a lot of people feel forced into it just to run raids.

I agree with points 1 to 6. 7 is a 'lol whut' due to being able to contact others on mobile discord when you can get in game, like when the FC I'm in holds events, helps others learn fights and get clears, or raids together. You don't 'need' discord, but it helps.

[MrKupo]

I think everyone should get back on Ventrilo.

[NessaWyvern]

I have one. If the FC isn't an ERP FC, then please do not do ERP in the FC chat. I was in a FC where a leader started doing this. And sent my brother a tell saying "I can turn you bi". Yeah, nah, not cool, me and my brother both left that fc

[Lauront]

So is he bi now?

[NessaWyvern]

So is he bi now?

Nah, he ran away too quickly, so the leaders spell got interrupted. :P

[alimdia]

I agree with points 1 to 6. 7 is a 'lol whut' due to being able to contact others on mobile discord when you can get in game, like when the FC I'm in holds events, helps others learn fights and get clears, or raids together. You don't 'need' discord, but it helps.

It's a matter of preference, too many people completely stop typing in FC chat once they have a core group going on voice chat, so FC chat will be dead for anyone not on voice.

[Dirwen]

I don't use discord so that alienates me from a lot of people. I'm used to chatting with text from playing FF11. It's why I prefer to go without an FC since using discord seems to be the norm among the people.

[VertoIncantation]

Random invites and copy&paste msg are an instant ignored&pass.

[DubiousDisk]

I always blatantly ignore random invites and copy/paste message that plague limsa. (especially on Cactuar where a certain FC runs rampant)

Also it gets really annoying when you join an FC and they ignore your questions a day after, not is more demoralizing than joining an FC only to notice that there is an already established clique that will pretty much pretend everyone doesnt exist.

Also tip for FC leaders, please keep your members in check, you never know what you're own members are doing outside of the FC chat/discord, the first FC I joined when I came to Cactuar, found out most of the FC members are sleazes who hit on anything with a tail. Your members are an example of what your FC is.

[JohnnyDevo]

It amuses me that people are using the word "Clique" when it is their choice not to join in on the social interaction.

Let me share my personal experience. I am very much a quiet, prefer-text-to-be-social person. When I first joined my current FC, it was very obviously a group that used a lot of voice, and FC chat could be quiet. Then I realized that if you talk to them in discord chat, you'll get a lot more interaction because everyone on the discord can see it. I also realized that they were perfectly happy to be social with me in the times I do choose to be social in voice. I feel very welcome in this FC, even though I personally very rarely hop onto voice chat so I can be social at the same time as playing.

I submit that people are not choosing to make "Cliques" or to purposefully disclude people, but rather they're simply using the best methods (discord text and/or voice) to talk. And you know what? I've seen people join and leave this FC, citing these very same reasons listed in this thread, when in fact they made zero effort to be social with us. They expected us to make the effort to make them specifically feel welcome, when we in fact treated them the same as everyone else. I argue that a good Discord server is not a sign of an asocial FC, but rather of one of the best FCs you could find.