Looking for tips on How to find a good FC

[Shyluv]

Hiya!

I made a character on Behemoth by the name of Moshe Feldenkrais. I thought you could use a hand in rebuilding. I'm online now.


[Gather together][Yes, please]

Sorry! We were fooling around in dungeons.

I did forget to mention that we use Mumble. So if you're still interested, I'll keep an eye out for you and send ya a tell with the info.

[h0tNstilettos]

I disagree with the people saying avoid FCs inviting anyone and everyone because all they care about is numbers. Well okay, that depends on the FC. Our FC leader for the Shiva FC on Leviathan server invites anyone and everyone because we are an FC that targets all areas, whether you are casual or hardcore. Doesn't matter what class/job you are, or what level you are, or whether you are into PVE, PVP, or RP. At the same time he will delete anyone that has not been online a certain amount of time based on their rank within the FC. So he gets rid of inactives and replenishes them with new invites. This has caused some people to leave the FC as soon as they see this barrage of deletions and invites, which I'm guessing are people similar to the couple in this thread telling you to avoid. There are a lot of inactives since we are the most populated FC among any server in the game, but we also have tons of active social chat members. We also have a mumble server for voice chatting that some of us use. Some of them even accused the leader of scamming people for gil thinking that none of us have been in FC very long thinking he kicks people and invites new ones for the purpose of scamming. This is not true. While yes we do care about high numbers of active members so we have a healthy active FC, many of us have grown to know each other and have become good friends.

We are highly social and active. We do not have any core FC static progression groups yet, but myself and some other FC mates are planning to form one soon as I've been looking into finding a hosting site for our FC website. So as it stands we don't have what you're looking for as we only meet criteria 1, 3, and 4 of the 5 criteria you listed. Criteria 2 only applies to our savings for a large FC mansion. Static progression grouping coming soon. Hope you find what you're looking for.

[Dijana]

I disagree with the people saying avoid FCs inviting anyone and everyone because all they care about is numbers. Well okay, that depends on the FC. Our FC leader for the Shiva FC on Leviathan server invites anyone and everyone because we are an FC that targets all areas, whether you are casual or hardcore. Doesn't matter what class/job you are, or what level you are, or whether you are into PVE, PVP, or RP.\

Are you meaning you just allow people in without requirements, which is fine, or does your FC just randomly invite anyone running past without an FC tag and not bothering to even say a word or ask if they want to join? Cause the first one is fine, its great to allow anyone in, but the second one is more frowned upon and I think its what most people are saying not to do.

[ShinkuTachi]

Are you meaning you just allow people in without requirements, which is fine, or does your FC just randomly invite anyone running past without an FC tag and not bothering to even say a word or ask if they want to join? Cause the first one is fine, its great to allow anyone in, but the second one is more frowned upon and I think its what most people are saying not to do.

I couldn't agree more. Requirements are not necessary; however, the second thing is more an issue common courtesy than anything else, imo.

[KinnisonArc]

I disagree with the people saying avoid FCs inviting anyone and everyone because all they care about is numbers. Well okay, that depends on the FC.

Yes, it depends on the FC. If the FC leader randomly hurl invites at FC-less players and then doesn't bother much about them after inviting, then this is enough reason to tell people to avoid such FC. If people joined because they said they want to before joining (not just by blindly accepting the invite), it's fine. Some people prefer to play without FC or at least doesn't like to be spoiled by the endgamers talking about raids in a mixed FC.

[LalaRu]

There is no magic recipe, you just play and when find people of your taste you may ask join them FC.

About ninja invites, as long as you cannot judge nobody by knowing nothing of them, we send rogue invites, and people who join can stay and feel how the FC is good for them, if that not their taste, then simply leave. Joining a FC isn't like a marriage.

[Slatervonjager]

What you're looking for is a small FC. Large FCs tend to have more nameless faces then anything. Mid sized FCs are kind of the same, but not as bad. However, the issue with mid and large size FCs(and people can argue and call me wrong all they want, but it just shows they're in denial or not paying attention) there will always be members that are alienated. There will always be at least 1 or 2 groups(more depending on FC size) in the FC that are tight knit and gravitate toward one another. Its understandable that they do this, not calling it a fault, but it does alienate others, and sometimes it leads to conflicts with people outside of one of those cliques.

Your best bet is to find a small FC as they'll be more situated with what you're looking for.

[Erudain]

Ohh look you're in Leviathan....you will get a 1000 ninja invites from Diamond Dust, Ultima and Shiva....just ignore them.....any FC that can't take 2 seconds to send you a /tell saying "hello, are you looking for a FC?" or "would you like to join our FC?"..is to be ignored.

Wish I could blacklist the invites...

[myahele]

I'd say go to lodestone and lookup the FCs in yous server. If if they have a website for their FC great! Also, check in with you server's forum here to see recruiters, how active they are, etc