Please bring FC Alliances to the game

[Psychosamm]

Jeeze I remember them planning FC Alliances, but I forgot that they were planning on doing it in 2.2... Well here we are almost 3.2 and no FC Alliances, what the heck SE?

I would really love this to be added, sure you could make a giant FC, but that doesn't necessarily mean you want to deal with that FC's requirements or politics or particular rules. Maybe one FC only allows their highest ranking members access to the garden and you allow everyone. Or one FC has a set buff rotation, and you like to put them up as needed. It's simple things like that that keep people from merging FCs, even though they may be good friends.


PLEASE GIVE US FC ALLIANCES SE! <3

[MilesSaintboroguh]

It'll come as soon as we get more GC ranks.

[Xander_Valefor]

It'll come as soon as we get more GC ranks.

Which that also needs to come now lol. Its way overdue!

[docrob]

It needs to be done

[Megha]

Hey everyone! Many people were talking about the restrictions of how many FCs will be able to alliance up?
I am wondering if because of shared housing, you will be able to alliance up with 3 other fcs, for a total of 4 together?
Or maybe they will say due to 3 grand companies, 3 fcs can be allianced together?
I feel the more fcs able to alliance the better. This will be very beneficial to very small fcs with 10-20 people. And no, due to FC politics as mentioned earlier alliances will server the best option versus all merging. Even large FCs will be able to benefit from Alliances with other FCs. I hope when it is implemented there will be more than 3 FC alliances.

Think of heavy raiding FCs + social FCs or + crafting FCs or small FCs + medium/big FCs for various reasons.

[ServerCollaps]

so what are the advantages of so called "alliances" over a big company? It just sounds the same and makes no real sense imo

[Turial]

so what are the advantages of so called "alliances" over a big company? It just sounds the same and makes no real sense imo

What are the disadvantages? Surely you must have several reasons why alliances are a bad reason since you seem to be set against them?

What are alliances? Let's face facts here and say that you cannot please everyone, sometimes parts of your fc are hardcore raiders, some times they are casual bunnies. What if you joined together in a trio of alliances, one is a casual fc, one is raiders and the third is a pvp only aspect. By joining these 3 together the members can take advantage of several areas of the game without having to play with random folks or bug their own fc who may not be interested in pvp perhaps. They can at least ask in the alliance chat and group with a different fc, make friends, learn new aspects of the game, etc.

[Turial]

Each fc in that alliance would have their own rules, their own officers and leaders, their own events, etc. not governed by one person but by coming together there is mor thing for the players to enjoy. Maybe you are bored of raiding this week, maybe you want to try pvp, maybe you are just playing casually due to life events. Each fc aligns to helping out each other, one fc does not rule over the others and force their rules upon another fc (wherever that thought process came from)

512 is the max in an fc right now and I can assure you there are people being turned away from these ones every day. 512 is simply not enough, for the larger fc's, they can join together 2 or 3 of their own fc's to create a super alliance. For the smaller fc of say 20 people, wouldn't having an alliance of another 100 people help you out and keep your identity as an fc while providing the benefits of more players to your fc.

[Turial]

So answer me this, have you ever played a game that had alliance based guilds? Don't forget to list your disadvantages.

[ServerCollaps]

So answer me this, have you ever played a game that had alliance based guilds? Don't forget to list your disadvantages.

disadvantage: wasted resources and development time for no real benefit

i still dont get why a single fc shouldnt have a raiding, a pvp, a crafting scene etc. 512 slots are way more than enough to cover that.

and yes, I played games with alliances and its only benefit were more member in huge pvp zergs, which ff14 wont support anyway