FC Bulletin Board or Wish List

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

lol as long as they take note of it, I can not begin to tell you the amount of times I've put something up on the company board about a event, the event comes and the people in my FC have no idea about it......It's on the Company board! Their response, oh is it?

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

[Ellatrix]

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

If only it was also displayed in the FC menu.

[Martin_Arcainess]

People don't notice it because it only pops up when you first log in and it quickly disappears once other messages fill the chat log, especially if you usually log in to a populated area like a city (which I'm sure most people do most of the time).

Would be nice if there was a setting to automatically re-post the company message, say once an hour or so.

ah good point, never thought of it like that, mainly because I have a Tab just for FC chat only so I think that's why it didn't cross my mind.

[Dyvid]

Howdy, Neighbors!

There are currently no plans to create a furniture item that could serve as a message board; we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other.

On a somewhat separate side-note, we understand that the Free Company activity log can clear out very quickly making it difficult to view ongoing activities and we are looking into adjusting this.

At the moment it is difficult to increase the amount of activities saved in the log that are performed by a Free Company over the current 200 that are displayed, but we will be looking into addressing this with filter settings.

Any plans to add a calendar and FC recruitment search?

[Nalien]

Can we at least have it so that being in the same Free Company is basically the same as being on each others Friends List? So you can at least send mail to anyone in your Free Company right away? That way you just put a comment up saying "I need X", and people can send you X. Would actually give the Mail Mog a purpose outside Mog Station reward distribution, too. Perhaps let us comment of other players comments, too, so that you don't end up with a dozen people sending you X, instead the first person to just comments on your request informing everyone that they've sent you the item. Could also do with giving the Short Messages tab its own page so it is more prominent and less forgettable.

Would perhaps also be an idea to have a message display every time someone adds a Short Message, so people actually check. Say, I log off for the night, three people add Short Messages requesting something, I log on the next day and as well as the regular Free Company message, I see something like "3 Short Messages have been added", so I check them. Maybe instead of commenting on them there is instead just a subcommand that lets you confirm the Short Message which everyone else can see. So I see that Member #13 wants X, I confirm their message so others know I'm doing it, and mail them X. Can also be used for other things such as event planning; Have a Short Message set up like "I'm doing Treasure Maps <date>@<time>, who wants to come?", and people hit confirm if they can come along, maybe even work it like it's own version of the Party Finder within a Free Company and have a subcommand for joining their party if they're online, rather than asking them for an invite. Pretty much the same as the Party Finder, but rather than the entire server being able to join, just Free Company members can.

[Mjollnir]

The Lodestone FC forums/pages are ok - couple of things could improve:

Show a nice table of members progressions in various elements of the game, ie levels, crafts, content unlocks/clears (I think the FFXI site has this iirc)

Create the same infrastructure for LinkShells. I've just made an LS to help ppl through Coil with ppl from across the server in different FCs. I'm having to resort to using an external site to co-ordinate raids.

[Dererk]

Can't you just add a message board on the plot placard for free company's ?

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

Howdy, Neighbors!

There are currently no plans to create a furniture item that could serve as a message board; we would like players to use the current Free Company tools to communicate with each other.

On a somewhat separate side-note, we understand that the Free Company activity log can clear out very quickly making it difficult to view ongoing activities and we are looking into adjusting this.

At the moment it is difficult to increase the amount of activities saved in the log that are performed by a Free Company over the current 200 that are displayed, but we will be looking into addressing this with filter settings.

hello. i sincerely hope you will reconsider. i personally just recently lost like 1.5kk in gil due to the inability to communicate with a FC member that is rarely active and not in my friends list. if there were some alternate means to communication, i may have been able to retrieve those earnings. short message are not a good solution. they can't be immediately seen, nor is there any indication outside of the Short Message tab when a player updates their message.

i may not be currently able to make use of such an implementation. but i am sure there are plenty of others that can.


i think at the very least maybe a new icon in the members list for the Free Company window. like 3 different icons should do. one to show a blank Short Message, 1 to show if the player has one set. and 1 to show if that players short message has changed since the last time you viewed it, or since the last time the other player logged in.

[Rankojp]

It's been a long while since I originally posted this idea and I still think it would be a great benefit to FCs to have in game FC tools to allow for reward and quest/requests. The FCs would of course need to be the ones to supply the rewards members can access and out side of the FC these FC seals would mean nothing.

Maybe as simple as an NPC furnish like item that items could be added to with FC currency prices. Tie it to the FC chest if need be.