Necessary Free Company Qualty of Life Upgrades

[mbncd]

Hey there!

I was able to get some details regarding the Free Company log system. As the latest activity overview is often taken up by gardening-related happenings, the dev. team is going to look into making it so that gardening-specific results are grouped together via other methods. This should free up the activity log to show more information that is taking place throughout the day in your Free Company!

We don’t have a timeline for when this might be implemented, but I will update you as soon as I hear anything.

Category tabs would be appreciated for this sort of thing. Gardening can have its own tab, activity type B its own tab, C its own, and so on. Possibly even customisable like the chat log filters but just basic tab split functionality would be a great start.

[Kosmos992k]

Improvements to the Activity log are a must. However there is one thing that I really think is a glaring omission and something I still cannot quite believe we are still missing and having to request.

Company masters *need* a way to communicate with the company members, if your company spans more than a couple of timezones, it's not practical to simply speak to everyone via the FC chat channel. The Company Board is a miniscule message, barely enough for reminders, never mind a communication from leadership to membership. Even the Moogle mail is only marginally better, but for that to work you have to send many, many messages to ensure you hit all the members - even assuming that you can actually friend all of them. I mean, sure you can talk to whoever is online, but there is zero way to communicate with those offline.

Please can you implement some kind of company bulletin board where company masters and officer can post messages with a decent length (>2000 characters), this would ideally be somewhere in the Company House, and members would receve a notification when there are company messages waiting to be read.

Alternately, may we please have an extension to the Moogle mail that allows company masters (and designated officers) to select a Moogle Mail address like "All Company Members" so that we can at least use the Moogle mail system to contact members whether or not we are on their friends list. A longer message would be nice as the length of a Moogle mail is little better than the insanely short Company board.

And before anyone says PS3 limitations or something like that as some kind of excuse for the stupidly short messages we can send in this game, I led my NekomimisFTW! guild in White Knight Chronicles a PS3 based online RPG. That game allowed guild leaders and others to mail the entire guild membership and messages were not limited to 200 characters - in fact I think the message size was in the region of 32K characters, and all handled on the server side.

Seriously though, the FC system is really nice, but the inability to communicate with ALL members is a glaring omission IMHO.

[Alice_89th]

That is great!

While we are at the topic, maybe you could consider the same for chocobo raising?
At the moment our activity log is a mix of gardening messages and chocobo messages.

[Laughlyn]

Just wanna add some features that another well known game had for their guild system.

a Guild/Company member rank-up system that allows members to earn rewards such as mounts, gear & other cool & usefull stuff.
(Sorry havent read all replies in here, so if someone suggested same thing, well derp me.)

[XSkeithX]

100% with the OP

[Rubeus_Carcer]

It would be cool if the free company activity log said WHO did certain things. For example in my company, "So and so was promoted to Officer" is very common as we trust our members to tend for their own plants, and then demoted once they're done. While we haven't had any problems with this system, there was a concern before implementing it that someone could 'steal' someone else's plants this way, but it isn't possible to see who did the promoting. A simple "was promoted by so and so" would be great!

[Dayala]

A free company Calendar system would be nice, so if we have several groups in a FC that raid / events, we can place them on the calendar for all FC to see and plan accordingly from inside the game.

[Sakasa]

Stuff was said points were made

I agree with the communication and while a board might be something that planning and design would be required I think a quick adjustment to allow FC mail listing to allow certain FC ranks to mail multiple or all members at once and to make it even more simple just text and no item linking. So many people forget they even have mail and will sit around waiting for me to tell me one thing or request a craft. If it was less of a hassle I believe mailing would see good use within a FC.

[Ilitsa]

You "like" the way that gardening functions as content? Have any of you actually played this game with a group of people you don't know? Have you ever actually PLAYED this game? Gardening is TERRIBLE as content. It's not a fun experiment for people to explore, it's a way for FC's to make money that pretty much only the leaders use. I've yet to see a true profit-sharing FC that actually works, nevermind the fact that other players simply aren't allowed to use the garden.

The FC I run shares our (one) garden in our small house perfectly fine, we help eachother fertilize whenever possible and the profits are distributed (glazenuts for example), the person that grows them puts 3 into our FC chest to further make into brooms or sell for guild profit and then sells the rest he gets, and puts a quarter of the gil made into our coffer, everyone in our guild does this, without being required or asked to.

[Tiggy]

I really like the mass mog mailing idea. I hope they consider that one as well.

Hey there!

I was able to get some details regarding the Free Company log system. As the latest activity overview is often taken up by gardening-related happenings, the dev. team is going to look into making it so that gardening-specific results are grouped together via other methods. This should free up the activity log to show more information that is taking place throughout the day in your Free Company!

We don’t have a timeline for when this might be implemented, but I will update you as soon as I hear anything.

This is great news! Thanks Camate.