Quote Originally Posted by Teuciont View Post
While I agree that there should be a GC presence in Hamlets, I'm not sure it should be competitive. It wouldn't make much sense to have the Uldah company occupying a Hamlet on the island that La Noscea's on. Having RATINGS though, like in XI for conquest would make a lot of sense. Depending on who's top country you'd be able to buy special items from the GC person in town. The whole "not being able to switch GC's" will help with this too, considering people can't just switch to whoever's the most popular at the time. This promotes rivalry between nations and some nationalism that really boosts the sense of community within the game.

If they're going to make Ifrit/Moogle drop better loot if the entire party is from one GC, SE needs to have members of GCs interact with eachother more often and meet eachother. I think Hamlet defense would be a perfect opportunity to meet some of your fellow GC mates and to get those groups together.

The rivalry would also give a good sense of competition for when they implement cross GC PvP.
I'm not sure I see the difference. I wasn't meaning to imply an occupation of the hamlets by a GC, merely showing up to reward their people for doing a good job before heading back to their respective cities. I suppose this could be done for all three GC's per defense, but then going in you know you'll get your XP and some seals to boot. If only the highest-performing GC gets the bonus seals, then there's motive for doing your very best during the defense as well as bringing fellow GC members, yet not so much that you'd be disappointed if another GC got the bonus seals. All I'm suggesting is some additional harmless competition with minor rewards, not anything on the scale of PvP.