permit FC queueing for Frontline

[Titor]

I agree with keeping your rank when you switch GCs, that would be fine.

I do not agree with the ability to queue with whatever GC you or your friends feel like at the time.

[Errors]

A player has to choose on Grand Company (later they added the ability to change, progress is independent of each grand company you join).
Free companies are associated with a Grand Company.
Free companies are comprised of members from all three Grand Companies.
Frontlines currently allows you to only represent your Grand Company.

Frontlines should allow you to choose your Grand Company affiliation or your Free Company's Grand Company affiliation in the Duty Finder window. As a player who is an Immortal Flames that belongs to a Free Company that is based off of the Adders. I don't see why I can't help either side, I'm already doing so through my free company.

There, lore and player options.

[Divinemight]

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There, lore and player options.

You would rather the world change for you but you are not willing to make change to adpot to the world isnt it?

Let me see.....
Cool down for GC switch has been lower down to 15 days ..........checked
You get to keep our old GC rank if you switch it back ................checked
PvP exp has been increased ..................................................checked
PvP action system has been improved .....................................checked

Weired, after all that catering carebare, people still not willing to consider change GC to play together as an option.

[Errors]

You would rather the world change for you but you are not willing to make change to adpot to the world isnt it?

Let me see.....
Cool down for GC switch has been lower down to 15 days ..........checked
You get to keep our old GC rank if you switch it back ................checked
PvP exp has been increased ..................................................checked
PvP action system has been improved .....................................checked

Weired, after all that catering carebare, people still not willing to consider change GC to play together as an option.

Weird. If people doing queue for content, queues are long, people stop doing content, people complain about queue times, people what changes so they can do content. Lore be damned. People want to play content. Unnecessary gates for the sake of lore (when it can easily be explained) is just plain silly especially for PvP which is separated from PvE storyline content. I have several FC mates who don't want to do frontlines because they can't do it with friends. So, lets just go ahead and make them jump through a lot of hoops. It's a perfect plan to get more people to do PvP.

Or, let our friends you know actually enjoy playing with their friends. I'm trying to figure out what disadvantage or butt hurt you'd get from letting more people actually play in PvP content?

Look at this thread, people actually WANT to do PvP(frontlines), what is so wrong with that?

[Parz3val]

^again, it still takes an insane amount of effort/time to get to Rank 40.
^^again, SE still went against their word with regards to GC's having no effect on playability
^^^again, it's still really uncool we're forced into a GC we dislike just to play with our friends

[Divinemight]

^again, it still takes an insane amount of effort/time to get to Rank 40.
^^again, SE still went against their word with regards to GC's having no effect on playability
^^^again, it's still really uncool we're forced into a GC we dislike just to play with our friends

Again, you started this thread since July 05, 2014 and now is August 28, 2014. Keep bring back a dead thread instead of putting in effort to play with your FC friends.
Again, you are warned at 2.0 that Frontline is going to be GC affliartion based PvP.
Again, if your intention is to play with your FC friends, why would you care about rank 40? If you switched at beginning of August, all your FC are probalby at least rank 35 to Rank 40 by now

[Parz3val]

^you're assuming I haven't put in effort to play with my FC friends... doesn't erase I think this should still change/is poor design.
^^no we weren't, it was loosely implied & we did prepare... doesn't erase I think this should still change/is poor design.
^^^less about rank, more about principle & being in the GC we enjoy most, unrestricted as promised originally... doesn't erase I think this should still change/is poor design.

GCs are not enemies.

They only are on the Frontlines, on Cartenau, which is under a very specific set of rules, and every three GCs had an agreement regarding this particular case.

GCs are sending soldiers from their own forces to fight for Cartenau. They're not sending FCs, because they don't have the power to ask them anything on a military level. That's basically it.

So... you're telling me the GC's just decide to slaughter one another's soldiers, turn a blind eye, & don't care in the least fraternizing with one another. Doubtful. No respect for reasonable lore-writing if it's really that simple.

Talk about shoddy Lore...

"Hey, you're allied with the group that killed all my siblings in battle, wanna run SV HM with me & my pals?! You're even in my Free Company, we share a roof together, talk about small world!"

[Xystic]

So... you're telling me the GC's just decide to slaughter one another's soldiers, turn a blind eye, & don't care in the least fraternizing with one another. Doubtful.

I don't know about you but this is occurring in the real world as we speak.

Its not unreasonable. Your being unreasonable that such things can't occur. If they can in real life, they definitely can in a game where humans can heal wounds with magic.

[SendohJin]

I do not agree with the ability to queue with whatever GC you or your friends feel like at the time.

you queue under your character's Grand Company or you queue under the Grand Company Allied to your Free Company.

the entire party queueing whether 2 people or 8 people must be from the same Free Company. your Free Company must have Allied Reputation with the Grand Company.

Those are the 2 options you have, you can't ever go to the 3rd one unless you change or you change FC's, which is increasingly harder now that you would lose your room and have to buy a new one.

So if you want to see this lift off losing ranks when switching, talk about how to actually implement it properly but at the same time avoiding the same catastrophe we saw in GW2.

I just want to be able to queue under the FC's GC when I'm partied with FC members.

I don't want it to be easy to switch. You can also reduce Wolf Marks earned by like 25%/50% if you fight under your FC but against your own GC.

For example, my company is from Germany but I work for them as an American. Just because I work for them doesn't mean I'm a German.

Yet the US World Cup team can hire a German and not be disqualified from competition. Some people are just not that patriotic, deal with it.

I was born Chinese in a British Colony, immigrated to the US became a citizen could potentially marry a Canadian. You're telling me I can only support one country in every international issue?

FC's registration to a GC is an administrative choice, and not a military one.

You, on the other hand, have to support and fight for the Grand Company you choose, giving it supplies and equipment while being able to exchange seals for goods provided by said GC.

Free Company actions are all awarded by the Grand Company to the Free Company. I benefit from that a lot more than I benefit from Company Seals.

The power of GCs on the FCs barely exists, while the bond between you and your GC is much stronger.

Yet I've changed Grand Companies 4 times since I started playing and I've never changed Free Companies. How can you tell every player where their bond is strongest?

[Xystic]

Yet the US World Cup team can hire a German and not be disqualified from competition. Some people are just not that patriotic, deal with it.

I said nothing about being patriotic. I stated that My company which is ran from germany hires americans but it doesn't mean I'm a german because I work for them, where OP is stating that technically because he's an american working for a company from germany, hes technically american and german. Which isn't true.

I was born Chinese in a British Colony, immigrated to the US became a citizen could potentially marry a Canadian. You're telling me I can only support one country in every international issue?

I'm not exactly sure where you are stemming this off from.