Quote Originally Posted by Fawkes View Post
There is no benefit or incentive to doing anything with an FC over a linkshell or a PF. Your FC that "runs content blind and then builds optimization strategies" isn't part of SE's design, that's you making up a reason to have a FC.
Are you really arguing the point that if there isn’t in game incentives to run content specifically with the FC then by design the FC is inherently pointless

Genuinely what MMO that has guilds or clans or whatever provides large scale tangible benefits (ie beyond things like FC buffs and extra storage space) to running content that is specifically within your own clan because this seems like arguing a pointless point. All MMO’s use clans as a gathering of like minded people to achieve some form of collective goal or just to have a sense of community. When you edit content design that a very large proportion of clans are built around then it changes the dynamic

EW’s content design hurt all avenues of PVM whether they be FC’s linkshells or PF. I don’t really see how FC’s not having a single defined purpose as laid out by square disproves this in any way because by that logic everything is inherently useless