Quote Originally Posted by SDaemon View Post
Oh but those are alliances not raids. If we are going to be stringent with terminology here need to be universal.
Its an "alliance" when you have multiple polities involved - multiple guilds, or in this game's case, multiple Free Companies.

Its a "raid" when you have multiple groups, or in this game's case, multiple "Full Party" constructs, involved.

Its not doable yet, not in FF14. But, when they do allow us to make our own 24 man raids for CT, you'll see the difference.

A single Free Company running a 24 man CT raid would be raiding it. Two FC's that band together to supply the 24 men for the CT raid would be jointly raiding it in an alliance.

Raid and Alliance are talking about different things, and are not mutually exclusive.