What is the purpose of fellowships?

[Vahlnir]

Popotoes.... po po toes... boil em mash em stick em in a stew

What's taters, precious?

What's taters, eh?

[Zfz]

It's basically a way to spread information to up to 1,000 players in-game. Think of a Fellowship as a hashtag, everyone subscribed to the hashtag (i.e. a member of the Fellowship) will get all the announcement made to that hashtag, and there's one Fellowship comment board for members to leave short comments.

It serves a different purpose to Linkshells and Free Companies.

For example a player who runs a coffee shop in-game could create his/her own Fellowship and people interested in such interaction can join it, and the player would be able to announce things like "closed on Friday" or "special event next Saturday". Members can see these announcements easily in-game and doesn't have to feel the social pressure to respond or to actually attend.

Or a streamer could create his own in-game Fellowhsip to announce in-game activities. It's also got a survey function that provides for up to 5 options.

Unlike Linkshells, because it doesn't provide a chat room, anyone can easily create and manage a Fellowship without having to watch the chat all the time and respond.

[Rokke]

When they first started talking about it I was excited over the prospect of moving some of the hunting discords back into the game... but after the explanation slides it sounds like a less useful discord channel ^^;

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They help you take the One Ring to the fires of Mt. Doom.

[IntrovertAnt]

Personally I will be using fellowships in two ways (or more probably!)

1. I belong to a community that still runs Eureka - BA and this may help consolidate the community directly from the game (we run off of discord atm).

2. I also belong to an RP community that has really wanted to be able to announce events across servers when particular RP events are happening. Fellowships sounds like a perfect fit for us!

That being said, it does seem like LS and Fellowships should sorta be combined. Maybe they will do this in the future?

[SamSmoot]

I don't have any use for them myself. About the only interaction I have with other players in the game is helping kill things announced in my hunt linkshell, and running dungeons. I may talk to a FC member if they ask me something, but that's about it.

[HakaseNyan]

dot hack bbs?

[RyuDragnier]

dot hack bbs?

ωRICE has entered the chat.

[Fynlar]

I didn't understand the point either; they just seemed like neutered linkshells. Anything that people would use these things for (primarily hunts, I would imagine) there probably already exist not only linkshells but dedicated Discord channels for, both of which allow... actual direct chatting.

[Stanelis]

Its purpose is to reinvent discord