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[Seig345]

I think an alliance system would be fairly simple... allow two FC's to form an 'alliance' that provides an 'alliance channel' that all members of both FC's can see. Sounds like you wouldn't care for it to be read only except to officers, since it sounds like delegating communications to your officers isn't ideal for you (though I would have figured that would be a given in order to help keep such a large community organized to such a degree), but personally that would be nice to have at least an option for to avoid the possible text cascade.

[Kibner]

I think an alliance system would be fairly simple... allow two FC's to form an 'alliance' that provides an 'alliance channel' that all members of both FC's can see. Sounds like you wouldn't care for it to be read only except to officers, since it sounds like delegating communications to your officers isn't ideal for you (though I would have figured that would be a given in order to help keep such a large community organized to such a degree), but personally that would be nice to have at least an option for to avoid the possible text cascade.

Officers only exist in PBC to enforce community rules, handle inviting to the FC, and kicking inactives. They have no role in organizing events. Members recruit other members for their own personal events/goals/etc. through FC chat, which is why it is so important to us. Members who are like-minded form their own linkshells and use FC chat to find more people that fit their group's goals.

[Flask]

Pretty simple. Disperse commands through your officers via a linkshell. It's actually not that hard to figure out.

Make a guild website, coordinate there, use a LS to coordinate between FC's and use your officers to disperse commands.

My post never suggested to "just use a linkshell".

"Just use linkshells" was (and is) absolutely your suggestion and absolutely not a solution.

We would need to have several people to gopher requests for groups between two free companies. (We're already doing this and it's a terrible non-solution to our problem.)

As for your other suggestion "get a guild website." We've had a private web forum since 1.0 (even earlier if you count our parent website). How could we not, when we're a private group that requires membership validation?

I understand you're trying to be helpful but all you're really doing is wasting your daily post count offering suggestions that we're already doing and finding inadequate.

[Urfdser]

It's amusing how there are so many people opposed to this suggestion, as if Yoshi-P asking some intern to change a value on the client/server is somehow going to divert development resources away from housing or the next dungeon. Also, could someone explain to me how a single database request for 800 records would somehow be worse than 2 database requests for the same number of records?

Get outta here with your logic and sense man. If you're not gonna post about how unnecessary more than 512 members is despite all the evidence to the contrary then you're doing it wrong.

I'll be the first to say it. If these guys get to have a giant FC then that means I won't be affected in any way and that just pisses me right off.

[doctor7]

As one of the ~350 or so members in the excess FC I feel I should chip in and say it would be nice to just have one big one.

While pruning people to >2 days offline = kick, which some seem to be offering as a solution, I would put forward that's drastically unfair as we have a wide variety of players.

Some are highly motivated to spend their spare time playing FFXIV and are on daily. Others are casual and may log on once every few days. Others may only play on weekends for work/school related reasons and some even less.

No play style is more valid than another and the majority of us simply want to have fun, what fun is depends on who you ask. Some people daily playing is fun, others that's just too much.

Regardless, one thing that remains consistent is that we'd all like the ability to play the game together and it would be nice if we could do that by simply increasing FC limits or some sort of alliance feature. I don't see how this is controversial at all.

[Marxalot]

Don't let your limited experience blind you, there are MUCH larger player organizations out there. Hell, take SA's Eve presence for example, last time i looked their alliance was well over 3k strong.

I figured I'd elaborate on this because some people here seem to be new to all this ~internet stuff~ and don't seem to realize that large communities are a real thing.

From the SA Eve group's server donation drive last month:

The goal this time around is $2,000. A nice round number that I just random generated using a pair of dice, a slide rule and some rubber hose with little random fungi growing on it. For this goal you will receive:
A forum with over 4 million posts on it, all of them horrible
Access to over 30,000 friends on said forum, 2,000 of which visit every day! (An average of 2,000 forum accounts are active daily, over 10,000 people still visit at least once a month).
A mumble server that doesn't crash (anymore) while other nameless entities have their going up and down like.. well.. like something that goes up and down a lot.
A gaming mumble server that's open to the public so you can subject yourself to other people without going outside.
Not one but two jabber servers! (GSF primary and the Word of Lowtax servers)
2 mine craft servers, a UT99 server (if it's still running, wasn't me!) and anything else somebody volunteers to run for other goons.
A bunch of other stuff that nobody cares about, much like this post and the forums in general.

[HunkyJimpjorps]

What's your guild name on WoW? Just curious.

There's Goon Squad Horde on Mal'ganis US, Goon Squad Alliance on Kel'Thuzad US, Famiglia di Ythril on Maelstrom US, Team Pants on Turalyon US, Cognitive Dissonance on Sargeras US, Gold Knuckles on Moon Guard, What on Duskwood US, Goon Squad on Defias Brotherhood EU, and probably a few others I couldn't find by skimming the goon guild list.

If you think we're big in FFXIV, you should see the thousands and thousands of goons that play WoW

[Riv]

trying to get the entire server into ur FC?

[Velthice]

trying to get the entire server into ur FC?

Please please please read the thread before you respond. Reading the same comments every other page gets a bit stale.
(We don't actively recruit. We're part of an online community completely separate from FFXIV. One must be part of, and an active member of that online community to join our FC. There is no other way one can join.)

[Brevitic]

Please please please read the thread before you respond. Reading the same comments every other page gets a bit stale.
(We don't actively recruit. We're part of an online community completely separate from FFXIV. One must be part of, and an active member of that online community to join our FC. There is no other way one can join.)

Actually I will take it under advisement to get the entire server in our FC so I can then kick them the moment the log out for being inactive and also using FC chat like shout.

(This thread is breaking me, if you think you might suffer from being a horrible person, consult your physician.)