Alliance Chat

[yoshinoharu]

So I'm kind of new to the game and managed to land in a rather sizable Free Company. So large in fact that branch Free Companies are required in order to accommodate that constant influx of members.

The problem with such Free Companies or even alliances between multiple Free Companies is communication. I mean, each Free Company has its own chat and I imagine that developers would probably not expect multiple free companies to come into an alliance or grow to a point where they require multiple free companies to function, but in such instances we have no tools to effectively communicate with each other.

Linkshells provide some relief, but with a 128 player cap they do very little.

My suggestion is that a line of communication be opened between Free Companies that enter into an alliance with each other be allowed an "Alliance Chat"

This would function as another chat (say /a) that you could choose to use or not.

[Pence]

Honestly, I don't think 'Alliance free company' chat is important or even neccessary. It's not a PVP game where such feature could be beneficial. 128 is a large number. Perhaps reorganise your FC? Create a few LS's? One or Endgame runs, one for casual, one for crafting etc etc.

[MetalWolv]

I don't want to sound like a douche here, but that's just plain bad FC management.

Any good FC today should at least have a Discord Channel for itself, even better, you can have the discord server, and have FC branch specifics chats, channels, everything.

[Megha]

I don't want to sound like a douche here, but that's just plain bad FC management.

Any good FC today should at least have a Discord Channel for itself, even better, you can have the discord server, and have FC branch specifics chats, channels, everything.

Why should people have to use a 3rd party app for management? You are missing the point, that fc alliance was a promised feature in ARR and in HW, we do need this to help with our fc but it will also be beneficial for small communities as well. Even with a discord chat or forums, the same issue is still there. There are a lot of PlayStation players without computers and no access, or people without smart phones so no discord/forum access.

[Megha]

Honestly, I don't think 'Alliance free company' chat is important or even neccessary. It's not a PVP game where such feature could be beneficial. 128 is a large number. Perhaps reorganise your FC? Create a few LS's? One or Endgame runs, one for casual, one for crafting etc etc.

We have a lot of members and our fc is well organized. There is no way to use the linkshells for the amount of members we have. We have well over 512. Let alone why ask officers to manage multiple linkshells. We also have 3 Allie linkshells full that doesn't come close to accommodating the volume. The issue with pvp, crafting, raiding, etc linkshell is that you leave players out that want to help or join in.

[Alex_LoneWolf]

I'd like to address what some people have replied with on this topic and then give my own input on this topic.

Linkshells and reorganizing: I'd like to state this is literally what we have and it's just not that great. I end up having to constantly relay things to three different linkshells all just to communicate with people who want to be a part of my own free company, which can get rather annoying sometimes.

Discord and bad FC Management: It really isn't bad FC management. It's just people wanting to be a part of my Free Company because we have a good reputation, but this is the only solution we have since we are at the maximum amount of people. I also saw recently the pains that trying to help someone get onto a Discord server if they're super confused and/or frustrated. There's always going to be people who will have issues getting onto some sort of server like this, and I personally do not want to end up having them miss out because they're having issues with their setup. (1/2)

[Alex_LoneWolf]

If one were to look through the forums, they would note that employees of Square Enix have gone on record with saying that the players would get a Free Company Alliance chat, but it never happened. It's something that I think would be beneficial, even for Free Companies not like yoshinoharu's and my own. It gives people who might be in different Free Companies a way to come together and possibly share many things, including stories of what they're doing or pooling together resources to do things that they may not be able to already. I don't see a reason why we should have to work together outside of the game through something like a Discord for something that Square already promised, and I think that before people disregard it, they should let Square implement it, give it a try with another Free Company, and see how it goes. No one is forced to use this chat, but it can be super beneficial to the community if people are willing to let Square implement it like they said they would. (2/2)

[minglish]

As some one who puts together events for a large community this feature would be tremendously helpful in organizing them. Being able to advertise in one central chat rather then several small ls's would make it easier to spread awareness and also much easier to set up at event time.

[Aryanne]

I remember this was brought up years ago but has somehow never happened. The FC I am in has Teamspeak, Discord, Website etc to stay in contact outside the game as well as several linkshells ingame in addition to the currently 4 large FC's. We are constantly purging the FC's and linkshells in order to make space for the most active and it just doesn't seem enough at times.

An alliance chat would be the most helpful at this point.