Question: How Did You Find Your Core Group?

[skaterger]

Yeah recruitment usually dies off at the end of a patch cycle. Should pick up again shortly before 2.4 hits though. What do you mean by restrictions that prevent new players from grouping? I know balmung is the unofficial RP server, but what does that have to do with finding a group?

[TeaTimeBear]

You have my interests OP and I'm in a similar boat. Really wish we were on the same server.

[Sadana]

Luck of having some awesome people join my FC. \O/

I'm sure it's been suggested already, but just in case, have you perused/posted to your server's forum?

[Fendred]

Yeah recruitment usually dies off at the end of a patch cycle. Should pick up again shortly before 2.4 hits though. What do you mean by restrictions that prevent new players from grouping? I know balmung is the unofficial RP server, but what does that have to do with finding a group?

There are character creation restrictions on Balmung because of the server population. After looking at some other servers, I've concluded it must affect new players just as much as current ones. Not saying there aren't any new ps4 players. There just aren't as many proportional to the server pop as there are on other servers, which on a larger server means things don't get stirred up enough.

[ExKage]

I'm in the same boat as you OP.

I started playing this game with IRL friends. At the time, First Coil still had the lockout and none of my friends or those in the FC really wanted to bring me into the raiding fold with them.

Then I joined an RP FC that also raided end-game. I realized that I had different wants and needs from them: consistency, multiple raids per week, etc and left to form an FC of my own with a dear friend.

This has left me static-less at the point where I was just learning to do T7. I like to think I am competent and have T6 on farm but trying to PUG in PF has been a pain where the groups just dissolve in 2 wipes or just 1... leaving me to think that I'll never find even the players who seemed quite competent and -know- that they are competent since they're in HA gear from higher turns etc. It's quite frustrating because I want to give up and go "fuck SCOB raiding" but I know I can't say it because well... I do care about it. I want to progress in that but I can't find it and building one has been less than fruitful. :/ To say the least.

It's enough that I've shed tears over it at work several times per week out of sadness, depression and frustration.

[mero-ix]

Be helpful. Join people you don't know and help them out with primals/whatever. Talk to strangers in town if there are conversations going on in say. Meeting people gets you in new LSs and that opens up a lot more opportunities. I met someone in a roulette last year who was funny and on our server so I added him to my flist, met people through him, got invited to a LS, met more people, and eventually ended up joining an awesome FC. Have you considered transferring servers?

[Yukariko]

Still haven;t found a core group for raiding
long story short
started playing with small group of friends
was recruited into an FC with like minded players (RL friends joined me)
RL friends eventually wanted to form their own FC so had to leave FC #1
ended up being alienated by FC#1
new FC "with RL friends" fell apart due to drama - all friends but 2 stopped playing
joined a 3rd FC after meeting someone in game
said someone then generated drama and left for another server.

[skaterger]

There are character creation restrictions on Balmung because of the server population. After looking at some other servers, I've concluded it must affect new players just as much as current ones. Not saying there aren't any new ps4 players. There just aren't as many proportional to the server pop as there are on other servers, which on a larger server means things don't get stirred up enough.

But isn't the whole point of character restrictions is because the server is already near the limit of how many players it can support? It seems like its less a problem of new players, but just that your raiding scene on your server is saturated. But anyway, the problems that you mention give further support to your idea of multiple tiered raids, which i like a lot. It lowers the barrier to entry for raiding and ensures that more people can partake in the content, which hopefully will transition to more activity for fcs and linkshells and hopefully 24 man raids at the level of coil in future.