Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
A Free Company can be created by four players that belong to a Grand Company and then visiting GC counter. A shared item box will be given to those four players. Also, players will set the access level on the shared item box (i.e. only the leader can access, etc.).

Players will be able to change their emblem and create larger houses as they increase their Free Company level. Also, players will be able to form an alliance with other Free Companies and have their own shared bulletin board.
I can't tell if this is ambiguous or just rushed translation or what, but I'm confused. The four people who start a Free Company must belong to the same Grand Company? Won't this fragment alliances as opposed to creating them? I foresee some linkshell division, for one.

Also, are these four people just the leaders of the company, or are they the company? Can they recruit more? Either way, I see trouble again - either you'll need 2 companies to form a full party, or you'll start to create full linkshells' worth of people to share home bases ... that are all from the same GC.

Can we get a more detailed explanation of the basic expectations of how we'll use it? I don't feel like this answered the question very well.