permit FC queueing for Frontline

[Parz3val]

Let FC GC affiliation permit us to form 8 person full parties within FC under their GC banner.

Preventing us from Frontlining alongside our friends due to their GC is incredibly harmful to enjoying the game with friends.

Given the PvP Rank grind, to ask us to begin again at square one just to Frontline with friends is terrible, isn't it?

Let me put it this way, would y'all rather have the option of 'conveniently' siding (or opposing, see below) with your friends in Frontlines or not?

It's really hard for me to believe that people care more for various other reasons than having the freedom to easily play with or against their friends.


For those who would prefer to Frontline against their friends for the competitive vs. enjoyment, consider this:

Under this system, it may be just as equally inhibiting to be able to play against your friends as it is with them.


If any of you are currently aligned under the same GC, then you're just as shafted with regards to playing against one another as those who are aligned differently.

A couple of my friends are in the same GC as I, so if I want to Frontline against them, well I'm out of luck because we don't have that option without one of us switching GC's.

Oh wait! Now I'd like to ally with them again, either we wait 15 days for me to switch-back (suspending progress made) or my friend now has to switch GC's also (suspending his progress).


I just can't get past the confusion of trying to understand someone who would support such a restrictive system.

Above all else, it's merely an insane hassle/setback that I believe there is no good reason to have exist in this MMO environment.

My friend despises Pirates, just because I like them, should that prevent us from Frontlining together as allies? That's ridiculous! What an absurd restriction to enforce in an MMO.

It's ludicrous one of us should have to switch GC's when our PvP Exp won't transfer... idc if you're Rank 15 or Rank 40, the grind is insane, to have to shelve all that is a ludicrous prospect.

Also, GC v GC doesn't necessarily mean an FC's GC affiliation doesn't count (or shouldn't for that matter).

I'm a member of an FC that's allied with Twin Adders, I am personally aligned with the Maelstrom, aren't I *technically* enlisted in both then?

If the lore were to act as if the GC's are now in conflict over some territory, wouldn't it be just as absurd to allow us to enlist in a FC that endorses our known enemy? Yet they're not preventing us from being in any GC affiliated FC we want.

Lore-wise, it ought simply have been a bragging rights competition for the GC's to train & test their mettle against one another... that way it's justified lore-wise & makes sense.

Just out of idle curiosity. Let's say if FCs were taken into account, a scenario; I am a Adder. My Company is aligned with the Maelstrom. If I queue for Frontlines, am I an Adder or am I a Maelstrom?

Great question!

If it's a mixed group of FC Members, FC GC Affiliation.

If it's all one or the other, whichever it is.

If everyone is both, two options for SE: either whichever queue is faster or Party Leader's personal GC Affiliation.

The Red Post I've linked below effectively affirms my feelings about FC GC Affiliation & our 'membership', if you will... our FC is a subdivision ("subsidiary") of whichever GC it has aligned with... so we're essentially a branch/squadron underneath the GC military umbrella.

If that doesn't tell me I'm a valid part of that GC just as much as the other GC I've personally enlisted in, I don't know what does.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...780#post833780