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  1. 02-26-2019 05:28 PM #1
    Reynhart
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    Six parties* though. An alliance is a collection of parties. Each one is not an alliance; each is a part of one alliance. This terminology is a holdover from XI.
    Well, the game calls them "Alliance A", "Alliance B", etc..instead of "Party A", "Party B", so, as weird as it seems, it's correct.

    On the topic, even without BA, I don't understand why you can't simply build Alliances for Eureka, since you can already create alliances in the open world and queue for content as a full alliance.
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    Y: I usually compare FFXIV with a theme park, but the Forbidden Land of Eureka won’t be a place where everyone would want to go. For example, there are people who don’t want to go to horror houses because they don’t see the point in getting scared on purpose. For example, on a date, the boyfriend might want to invite the girlfriend to go the horror house, but the girlfriend just doesn’t seem to find it fun. In other words, it’s not like everyone wants to go to the horror house, but there are people who just love the adrenalin rush they get from it. Think of Eureka as something like that.
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  2. 02-26-2019 06:37 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
    Well, the game calls them "Alliance A", "Alliance B", etc..instead of "Party A", "Party B", so, as weird as it seems, it's correct.
    I think it's just to make it easier for you to know you're in an alliance. I like to think of them as being short for Alliance Party A, etc.
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  3. 02-26-2019 06:49 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by linay View Post
    I think it's just to make it easier for you to know you're in an alliance. I like to think of them as being short for Alliance Party A, etc.
    I'd say seeing 2 to 5 other "Parties" in your HUD should be enough to understand that you're part of an alliance, regardless of what they're called. In the end, the terminology is not really the core of the issue
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    Y: I usually compare FFXIV with a theme park, but the Forbidden Land of Eureka won’t be a place where everyone would want to go. For example, there are people who don’t want to go to horror houses because they don’t see the point in getting scared on purpose. For example, on a date, the boyfriend might want to invite the girlfriend to go the horror house, but the girlfriend just doesn’t seem to find it fun. In other words, it’s not like everyone wants to go to the horror house, but there are people who just love the adrenalin rush they get from it. Think of Eureka as something like that.
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  4. 02-26-2019 07:22 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
    In the end, the terminology is not really the core of the issue
    It's always a good idea to use the correct terminology when asking the devs for things.
    Q:"Why can't we play together as six alliances?"
    A:"What do you need 144 players for?"
    It might sound absurd to you but worse misunderstandings have probably occurred over people actually using correct game terminology in their requests.
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  5. 02-26-2019 07:54 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    It's always a good idea to use the correct terminology when asking the devs for things.
    Except, that, again, "Alliance" is the terminology used in the HUD to refer to individual parties in the alliance (as shown in the screenshot), as weird as it seems. And the request is properly described to not be confused about the word used.
    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    Q:"Why can't we play together as six alliances?"
    A:"What do you need 144 players for?"
    Keeping perfect track on the whole FATE train in Eureka, of course !
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    Y: I usually compare FFXIV with a theme park, but the Forbidden Land of Eureka won’t be a place where everyone would want to go. For example, there are people who don’t want to go to horror houses because they don’t see the point in getting scared on purpose. For example, on a date, the boyfriend might want to invite the girlfriend to go the horror house, but the girlfriend just doesn’t seem to find it fun. In other words, it’s not like everyone wants to go to the horror house, but there are people who just love the adrenalin rush they get from it. Think of Eureka as something like that.
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  6. 02-27-2019 01:23 PM #6
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    The game refers to individual parties as alliances. The parties as a whole form an alliance, but the individual parties within are alliances as well.

    The terminology is sketchy, but I would prefer we move discussion away from the terminology and toward discussing the actual subject matter.
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