Fresh Player's Perspective.

[SynysterBlitz]

Welcome Jimsvaliant nice of you to join our FFXIV community one thing I didn't see so far is helpful websites you could visit.. YG ( yellow gremlin pre sure, just google YG ff14) and Mooglebox ( google it also, at work so cant provide links)
and there is a great gathering location site also.. pre sure its disciplesofthehand.com or replace hand with land.. someone will be able to probably provide you all the links.. at work for another 5hrs ; ;

[Rau]

Thanks for the feedback. In regards to the LS situation, I figured that that would was the case. After over a year of development there hasn't been any LS management implementations? Are there any planned for the future? That kind of thing seems like a big deal to me lol. Are there ways to manage people that end up disliking a LS for whatever reason and griefing the rest of the members? I have every intention of completing whatever story missions I can along the way. I'd probably go crazy if I were to just grind all day.

There have not been any rehauls to LS Management. It's pretty bad.
But I think you understand why, but I hope you understand his sentiments. Linkshells fill up fast, and its annoying when you have reroll a new shell because you only have 30~ active players.

[Jinko]

It didn't take very long for me to see that this game revolves around its small communities. I'd only heard about the Final Fantasy community so I was pretty interested to see what it was all about. Finding a LS proved to be pretty difficult though. Plenty of threads for recruitment in the worlds forums but the modest amount of traffic that flows through the forums really age the threads. =/ The first LS I tried to join turned me away despite having no level/class criteria for joining. I let the guy know that I was going to be playing both Star Wars and FFXIV and he pretty much told me flat out that they wouldn't take in short term players. I'd more than likely stick around in the long run just to spite someone like that rather than stick it out so I could join their LS. Clearly this guy wasn't doing his part in trying to retain the games playerbase and I understand that players like this don't speak for the rest of the community, but I'd like to urge the community to be as noob friendly as possible. The game itself isn't very noob friendly so having to solo grind with no one to talk can be a huge turn off. Not knowing mob layouts doesn't help either.

You will find that due to the lack of linkshell management functions people will turn away players who don't spend a lot of time with the game, if they decide to leave or don't play very often it is impossible to remove them from the linkshell and they just take up space.

The only way currently to solve this is by making a new linkshell and transfering everyone over.

I wouldn't take it personally and things will get better once SE sort this LS issue out.

[Holy_Dragoon]

http://www.mooglebox.com
http://www.disciplesoftheland.com
http://ffxiv.yg.com

That should cover the links mentioned earlier.
I'll also mention http://www.ffxiv-db.com < includes a handy quest tracker.
Really good character tracking http://www.xivpads.com