permit FC queueing for Frontline

[Parz3val]

Allowing people to tag for Frontlines under the banner of their FC's GC or under the banner of our own personnal GC doesn't make any sense regarding the lore.
While I agree that the gameplay shall prevail, I cannot completly drop the lore, especially in a Lore-heavy game like FF XIV.

Therefore, I find the restriction to be legitimate considering the context of the game.

It's illegitimate by design. Read below.

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.

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

[Xystic]

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?

No they are not the same. You are aligned with the Maelstrom. Your FC is aligned with Twin Adders. Just because you work for your FC, does not mean you are aligned with Twin Adders.

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.

[Fyce]

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?

I don't see it like that.
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.

In short: you really are fighting for your GC while your FC doesn't.
Therefore, it does actually make sense for you to fight in the name of your own GC rather than your FC's GC.

Plus, I'll add that Free Companies are, obviously, "Free". They just have to be on a GC's record to legitimatly be recognized on Eorzea, but their actions depends completly on their will.

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