Thread: The Binding Coil "Issues" - 2.0

I'm not really sure where these ideas about linkshells have come from.

I've always been a little uncomfortable with players creating unecessary Free Companies.

You can only join one of these. There's no need for everybody to make one! It sounds like your Free Company would be better off creating a linkshell and giving you the freeom to pursue your own end game interests.

OP, I believe your conception of FC/LS is a bit too restrictive and somewhat not accurate, based on how this game is set up.

Free Company → dedicated to gameplay, as various bonuses indicate; members are "teammates" more than "friends"; it's your typical "guild" in any MMORPG (a guild has an orientation, be it endgame, casual play, etc.; one should join one that fits one's playstyle). There's absolutely no point in grouping your friends in a FC, you should use a LinkShell for that. FC members must share a common interest in the game, as indicated by the bonuses once again. Of course, you can form a larger FC with various groups (hardcore, softcore, casual, etc.) as I personally did. It works quite well too but keep in mind that rosters ("teams") are to be formed based on in-game activity more than personal preference.

LinkShell → dedicated to social, as it's only a discussion channel; members are typically "friends" (IRL or IG) that may or may not play the game at the same degree of involvement than you do; it's a nice way to keep in touch with various people (including, but not exclusive to, guys you can recruit as "deluxe pick-ups" for your HL endeavors, or conversely lower levels that you might come to help).

Hope that helps.

Hello,

We realize there are a lot of concerns about not being able to join the Binding Coil of Bahamut without the use of the Duty Finder as well as free companies that have different purposes.

During Letter from the Producer Live IX the other day, Yoshi-P discussed some upcoming features that will help alleviate these concerns. The biggest of which is the implementation of a party member recruitment feature where you can search something like a bulletin board to find and recruit party members with similar goals. This is scheduled to be implemented in patch 2.1 and we will be announcing more details on this feature in the future.

Also, as we've mentioned in the past we will be indicating what item level equipment is required for content in order to participate, so members who wish to participate with you will all be on the same page gear wise.

Finally, in patch 2.2, as we mentioned in a separate post last week, we are planning to implement a free company alliance system, which will let you join your free companies together to see both member lists, share a chat channel, and have other useful features.

We'll be implementing a variety of features moving forward step by step to ensure that everyone can play comfortably and easily in the content that they wish to participate in.