Free Company PVP!!!!!

[DuckieMomo]

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this yet but I would like to see how many people would like to have Free Company (FC) PVP in the future Updates/Patches. I know there's a lot of players that would like to see this happen! And i think it would also add a lot of excitement with in the FC. More things to do right!!!

[hagare]

Only if free from GC restrictions, though I guess it's a given.

This might get those lazy bums off their assess. XD

[Saccharin]

The GC should just be a way to make three factions and should be randomly allocated when you join a match regardless of your characters GC affiliation.

[Yaichiro]

Why do you need a FC for PvP? A linkshell can be much better.

[Nalien]

The GC should just be a way to make three factions and should be randomly allocated when you join a match regardless of your characters GC affiliation.

No, don't randomly allocated people into Grand Companies... You may as well just removed them then... I can't imagine getting ADS with completely randomized teams... You basically triple the amount of wins you need...

Completely off topic, but the issue with Frontlines queues is that 72 people can have queued, but if they're not a perfect 24/24/24 split for the three Grand Companies, all those people are held in queue-limbo. What should happen, if for example 24/20/28 people queue up, is for the 4 who get put into a new queue to be giving the option of playing as Mercenaries instead. So rather than having two queues, one waiting for 4 and the other only consisting of 4, we instead have one queue, with 4 fighting for the Immortal Flames. Throw in a system that gives Mercenaries less rewards for coming last, and more for coming first, and that should be enough incentive for Mercenaries not to sabotage their current team for their true team.

That would pretty much fix queues, sadly it requires a more robust queuing system which is probably beyond anyone at SE... Still, it would fix queues while still keeping the existing teams for the most part, and having the same faces on your team is the entire point of the Grand Company restriction in the first place... Make it purely random and you completely lose that...

OT: FCvFC PvP? Make it involve the Workshop and we've got a deal, though perhaps throw in a Free Company Alliance system, so it's more of a FCAvFCA sort of thing... The Workshop though, that allows for some much more interesting aspects to be introduced... Airship verses Airship battles, Skies of Arcadia style? Hell. Yes. A Siege based mode, where we produce war machines in the Workshop? That's almost what Frontlines was first advertised as;


Perhaps the only issue would be the number of PvPers per server... I wonder if SE could set up a zone shared across data centers, though... I guess that's more Server verses Server than FC based, though... Having it open world would be great though, sort of like an extension of Housing... The team that takes the location has to fortify and defend it, which requires items from the Workshop. The teams that want to take it need to build Siege Machines to do so and rule the skies to close down supply routes... Would be amazing, and probably beyond the PS3...

[Saccharin]

No, don't randomly allocated people into Grand Companies... You may as well just removed them then... I can't imagine getting ADS with completely randomized teams... You basically triple the amount of wins you need...

Completely off topic, but the issue with Frontlines queues is that 72 people can have queued, but if they're not a perfect 24/24/24 split for the three Grand Companies, all those people are held in queue-limbo. What should happen, if for example 24/20/28 people queue up, is for the 4 who get put into a new queue to be giving the option of playing as Mercenaries instead. So rather than having two queues, one waiting for 4 and the other only consisting of 4, we instead have one queue, with 4 fighting for the Immortal Flames. Throw in a system that gives Mercenaries less rewards for coming last, and more for coming first, and that should be enough incentive for Mercenaries not to sabotage their current team for their true team.

Well that's pretty much the same except you make it into a new,needless, feature that requires server overhead. What if no on wants to go mercenary.

[Nalien]

Well that's pretty much the same except you make it into a new,needless, feature that requires server overhead.

Actually, there is a pretty huge difference between completely random teams, and being prioritized into your actual Grand Company.

I know people in my Grand Company, who're also on different servers, I know people in opposing Grand Companies as well. Having completely randomized teams destroys that, what I've suggested has all the benefits of randomized teams, while still maintaining that. Win win.

What if no on wants to go mercenary.

Given how many are already just calling for the out right removal of Grand Companies from Frontlines, I wouldn't worry too much about that... They can always just force it if not...

[hagare]

What he meant was FC wars dear

[DuckieMomo]

YEa! So far a lot of FC outings/events are geared towards Raiding/End game stuff to gear up etc... That's awesome!..I know a lot has their own LS for pvp but that's still feel like grabbing random and undependable people to try and organize a solid pvp party.alliance. I do believe if they added FC wars/pvp arena or frontline kind of setting that it will further expand FC organizations. Of course with proper rewards to the winning FCs like FC spotlight or maybe some exclusive FC pvp gear or even boosting stats would rally a lot of people to get more involve in their FC. We all know there are players that loves to do end game contents and a lot also loves to PVP (or both).

[Cheraa]

Make the three GCs to Factions where you can gain Reputation through PvP. If you assign to PvP you (your group) will be joining randomly one of the three GCs for this match.
Give Vanity Items to the different Reputation Level like with the Beast Tribes.

Pros:

- GCs are still relevant in Content. (Chosing a GC in MSQ could give you a Bonus Reputation to this GC (like 15% more Reputation in PvP)
- Shorter Queus
- No imbalance through the GCs

Cons:

- None