Best way to recruit for new FC?

[Suirenn]

Like the title says how do you recruit in this game? ive tried wandering around using shout with a macro but ive gotten nothing. Ive tried using player search to whisper people but again no response from anyone. Is it just patience and hoping people with reply or message me? sorry if this seems like a dumb question.

[MagiusNecros]

I'd just shout your FC information and recruitment messages in every major hub and wait for a bite every 2 hours.

So Gridania, LL, Uldah, Foundation, Mor Dhona, Idyllshire

[Astrapls]

Party finder and shouts combined with a lot of patience. You may get a couple people join in a day, or no one.
Or those flaky people that will join and leave within a couple of hours.

Don't send /tells to people to join your FC, as that is very annoying. There's enough gil seller spam, players don't need fc recruitment /tells on top of that.

Good luck with your FC!

[Ashkendor]

I recently started leveling an alt, and I have to say that the few days I spent outside my free company were pretty annoying with some of the ways people have come up with to recruit, if you can call it that. Going into an area, doing a player search, and sending random invites to anyone without an FC is by far the most obtrusive. One FC in particular invited me on three separate occasions (the same person no less) after I'd turned them down. I finally ended up sending them a tell asking them to stop spamming me. After that, I just applied to my own FC to prevent further invite spam from people just looking to pick up every warm body they could.

Basically, just don't annoy people as that can put them off joining. PF isn't a bad option. A lot of it is just going to be patience and time, though. Make friends in the game. Maybe they'll join you later on! My FC started off really small (5 members) and stayed that way for a long time. Recently we've had a few friends join because of various situations with the FC's they were already in, and they ended up leaving theirs to join us. As the FC grew larger even more people noticed and joined and brought their friends with them. :3

[Suirenn]

Yeah ive put myself in Party Finder too now :P guess its gunna be a waiting game. used to other mmos where i would get tons of people join per day but all good im willing to wait thanks all for the replies

[Andrea]

I can't really help, but I can tell you what not to do.

Do not use player search and whisper random people.

Do not randomly send random FC invites to random people.

There is a big FC on my server that does just that and I am willing to bet that most of the server hates the fc just for that sole reason. Nothing is more annoying than receiving random tells/invites. I link FCs that do this to the level of gill sellers. I would advise to avoid doing both unless you wish to annoy people >.<.

Good luck on the fc recruitment, hope you get some members soon ^_^.

[Martin_Arcainess]

your response do vary, some days you may find no interest at all while other days you may get a few. The main key is to not give up.

1 word of advice is when you shout, keep it nice small and straight to the point, not many if any people at all would like to read a long advertisement.

[Ashkendor]

1 word of advice is when you shout, keep it nice small and straight to the point, not many if any people at all would like to read a long advertisement.

This is a good point too. A few FC's on my server have 2 and 3 paragraph shout advertisements.

They just end up on my blacklist.

[Suirenn]

all great advice. im sure once i get up in fc level too that will help attract some people

[Legion88]

If you don't target for the high end of players, try to help some new players.
If you are nice, kind and helpfull they will eventuelly join your FC.