Fellowships need some tuning up.

[Valic]

Wont last long without real time chat function. I get it that they don't want to undermine FCs, but we have linkshells and crossworld linkshells, so I don't see what's the point in limiting chat.

The idea is that it isn't a chat. It's not something removed, reset, or scrolled up upon use that frequently. It's a message board, so people can check to see what's happening the moment they get online vs having to check 1-10 linkshells on something. Data center wide being the big catch. Just could use some improvements, like privilege settings for who gets to post in it and things I already mentioned.

I'd like there to be a chat function as well, though I read that they purposefully excluded such a feature for whatever reason. The leader of my treasure map linkshell made a fellowship in hopes of maybe expanding, but since there's no way to "ping" people for map runs it's been for the most part useless in terms of communication. Some kind of notification feature for events would be nice too.

I mean, at that point it's pointless to add a chat. We already have linkshells and junk, the idea for it i to be something to post and people pay attention/check daily/weekly. The point is that it isn't a chat, that gives it more meaning to check on vs the chat that scrolls on by, gets filtered, and missed.. it's a permanent message vs a temporary one. If anything, I'd just like messages on the board to show up in the chat when posted, as a kinda "notice" for people. For a treasure hunting thing, it'd be useful to communicate between multiple worlds something akin to "Going treasure hunting this friday at 3 pm EST, ping me or Blank if you want in". Then people across all the servers may see it, throughout the week pm the person to join for that evening. The point of it is to be a long term planner, not a /tell or a linkshell with sound effects linked to it(which is indeed already a thing). The thing I mentioned prior would help with the concept though, a minor popup message in the chat that a new message is posted and what it says or something. I just certainly think making it into a chat, kinda defeats the whole point of being a message/notice board to host grand events beyond your server.