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    Linkshell Message upon logging in Do we have it? Can we have it?

    Forgive me for asking if this is already in the game.

    In FFXI we had /lsmes and we could leave messages about events or whatever. Why do we not have this? If this is already in the game I haven't seen any of my LS's use it so sorry.

    If this is not in the game it should be added. A linkshell message was a great way to communicate.

    Quote Originally Posted by ForteXX View Post
    Yes FFXIV has this. For FFXIV, however, this would be editing the Free Company's Company Board, on the Free Company Screen ingame. I don't see a way to do this purely through text commands, though (due to Linkshell in FFXI becoming Free Company in FFXIV).
    Yes Free Companies can but I'm not asking for that. I'm Asking for Linkshells.

    Quote Originally Posted by Djeserit View Post
    This is what free companies are for. Linkshells are just extra chat channels in this game.
    Not everyone likes to use FCs to get stuff done. I have a linkshell that actually gets CoB done vs the FC I have (that is suppose to get it done) that doesn't have the people who can do it.
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    Last edited by Arkista; 11-06-2013 at 07:34 AM.

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    Fhorte Dakwhil
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    Yes FFXIV has this. For FFXIV, however, this would be editing the Free Company's Company Board, on the Free Company Screen ingame. I don't see a way to do this purely through text commands, though (due to Linkshell in FFXI becoming Free Company in FFXIV).
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    Daeada Fehr
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    This is what free companies are for. Linkshells are just extra chat channels in this game.
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    The main function of a linkshell is to serve as a chat channel between friends, adventuring partners, or other like-minded adventurers. With that in mind, we have no plans to expand the functionality of linkshells by adding a message board/login message option.
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    Robert "Hvinire" Peeler - Community Team

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    Sophie Kiri
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    Jenova
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
    The main function of a linkshell is to serve as a chat channel between friends, adventuring partners, or other like-minded adventurers. With that in mind, we have no plans to expand the functionality of linkshells by adding a message board/login message option.
    Not knowing who logs/in off in a LS/Friendlist annoys me to no end. >.<
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
    The main function of a linkshell is to serve as a chat channel between friends, adventuring partners, or other like-minded adventurers. With that in mind, we have no plans to expand
    the actual use of this feature in the game.
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    Eadieni Valefor
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    Quote Originally Posted by DSN View Post
    the actual use of this feature in the game.
    Good but ... the FC has a limit of 512 members and a LS has 128. The chat channel is the restrictive one ...

    And that's kind of lame since my social LS - IE the ones who job it is to be social and have fun - is hovering around 120 members and we're periodically having to purge people.
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    Zireael Stargaze
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
    The main function of a linkshell is to serve as a chat channel between friends, adventuring partners, or other like-minded adventurers. With that in mind, we have no plans to expand the functionality of linkshells by adding a message board/login message option.
    Well, we want it, so please put time into adding it.
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    Spent over a week recruiting people for an endgame FC, got very few people willing to leave their FC for a new one just to do endgame content. After my first day recruiting for a "Linkshell" looking to do EG content, anyone with interest said so right away.

    But I have to send people either a website, or my own Search Comment has to be dedicated to being the linkshell message.

    If you gave linkshells the option to leave a message for their users that they can check, should they want to (not have 8 linkshells + an FC worth of messages when you log in,) you would help a lot of issues new groups are having starting on already established servers.

    tl;dr:

    /lsmes is still wanted and needed by a large number of your players, and would make it much easier for players to do the content they want to do without being in total confusion, or making us players do lame things like use our /seacoms as a linkshell message. (And making the name of the LS "chk leader /seacom")

    Thanks.
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    The main function of a Linkshell in FFXI was to act as whatever it needed to be used for. It could be social, it could be endgame, it could be for people leveling, it could be for people who like My Little Pony, whatever. You could also have as many of them as you wanted. Many people had multiple LSes for the different events in game, 1 for sky, 1 for sea, etc. and many were all in effect "guilds" with points, officers and attendance rules. You said, let's make a real "guild" in XIV and call it a FC, but we'll let them keep the versatility of XI's LS system. But you forgot something key, the LS system served as a "multiple guild system," but you can not have "multiple guilds" in XIV.

    You designed the game in a bunch of 8-24 man instances, but left the smaller, and more approachable Linkshell featureless. Please take note!
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