Question: How Did You Find Your Core Group?

[GaiaGuardian]

I've been playing this game nearly every day for quite a few months now, and have come to the conclusion that the majority of people I play with do not fit the same play style as my own. No, not saying that there's anything wrong with everyone playing the game differently, but my problem is, I cannot seem to find anyone. :/

To keep it short, I want to find an FC/LS with people focused on downing Coil and fighting primals that play often. Thing is, I'm not sure how to go about it any more. Using Party Finder, asking others who are in bigger FCs, and even shouting have yielded few results. So I took it to the forums and am hoping for anything. x.x

But, still brings me to wonder, how did everyone else find people they like to play with? Doesn't have to be specific, or even about end game content. Maybe it will give me an idea on where to look for some like-minded people.

[Sapphic]

I switched FC due to "issues". Ran some content with members and they saw I was a decent player. Then they asked me to join their static.

You get more done being proactive, many cases, make your own. Join an established FC saying you hope to run coil and would be willing to organise it. Show initiative and ask for help, but take time to settle into the FC first. Try and do smaller content with players, offer to help on anything. In other words, get the other FC members attention, in a positive light of course ^_^.

[Dark-Saviour]

I didn't, and I probably won't.
The game's structure doesn't really lend itself to the style of socializing I prefer. :-\

[Dijana]

Well, I havent had to do any FC jumping, since I lead one ^^; Im not an endgame player really but I have plenty of people I love playing with. I have one FC (obviously) and one LS only. I think what sets my group apart (or so Im told) is that the LS is treated like an FC. We never use FC chat unless its for a specific FC message (someone's chocobo needs to be taken out of stable to level up), and everyone in the LS has equal opportunity in events and such, so we get a huge group of people of a much bigger mix. I'm of the impression a lot of other FCs require you to be in them to go to coil and stuff with them which kind of restricts who they meet, because they're not bringing in people who have FCs they're happy in.

[Volcano]

I tried...it's quite difficult to find a group of actual competent people i guess. For now i'm trying out my most recent group i joined but they already have a core group. so that is just a way of saying "we're going to stick you with new, random people that join". Not getting my hopes up.

It could just simply be a case of i'm not looking hard enough. Have not been back to this long enough to really gauge any people.

[CGMidlander]

I said "Hi, I'm new" and someone picked me up.

Seriously. lol

[GaiaGuardian]

I didn't, and I probably won't.
The game's structure doesn't really lend itself to the style of socializing I prefer. :-\

I have some people I play with, but the majority of them don't look at the game the same way I do. Hearing that I'm not alone doesn't make me feel much better. Makes me want to drop it right now and go play something else. o.o

[coldreactive]

My FC / LS is semi-laidback, not as hardcore as FCs like the big ones. I've been with them in other MMORPGs. As corny as the name "Dragon Killers" and the FC Leader's name of Rpg Pro sound, it's a great group. Sure, we have our ups and downs, but that's mainly because we won't adjust to the game's endgame community. We want to play the game how the developers wanted us to. For instance, doing a normal non-0-click run of Turn 2, and actually being able to run Turn 3 for completion's sake. I don't care what people do to break us apart, I like the FC I'm in, even if we only have 5-7 active members (including myself.)

Not requiring a website or voice chat sometimes actually helps get more members, contrary to popular belief.

[HumsterMKX]

I don't have 1... I jumped around various grps as mainly a back up guy, since my work timing is totally Alien.

I didn't start T6 for like around 2mths after release.

[dragonflie]

Met mine around October, when I was trying to clear Garuda HM. They liked me and my friend enough that we eventually joined them.
Since I was the most talkative and active of my buddies, I got invited to the eventual Coil group as the melee dps.
As we progressed, our leader eventually played less and less, and I sorta became de-facto leader. The leader didn't like how we progressed, and me and the others kinda hated how he ran things around, often shoving things to me to fix. So he transferred off to another server, while me and the others merged to a raider FC.
I think the one thing that helped us keep together during that rocky time was that we talked to eachother a lot, and most of us were on the same page on the whole situation.
Discussing your issues in a group can makes things better, rather then being like my former leader who just did things his way.

Today, I'm still in a group with 4 of the original members of the Coil group with a T9 clear, and I couldn't ask any better people to play with.

TLDR: Communicate a LOT. Be willing to talk to others about issues. Have a off game chatroom.

EDIT:
Anyway, to answer the main question, since I went on memory lane: Start a raider LS.

I did this a few months back. I started an LS for raiders who didn't have a group to meet up in. I saw a large amount of people in PF looking for a group, so I simply invited each of them in. I made the req to join was to have T5 exp, which imo usually indicates some seriousness in raiding.
The LS grew well enough, I even invited some FC leaders in so that they could either pool out from the LS or have some of their own members join it.

For now the LS is currently sorta dead, since the hunts made the static grouping kinda moot. It doesn't help that most of the people that joined didn't want to start a group on their own, and preferred others to pick them up. This sort of things never really work out, if you want a group, you have to make it. My LS is only there for you to seek out others like you, if you are unwilling to connect to others and interact, you won't be joining a group anytime soon.

I didn't keep track, but I know that my LS produced at least 1 raider group that managed to fly on it's own.