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  1. #11
    Player
    Penthea's Avatar
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    May 2014
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    Gridania
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    Nettle Creidne
    World
    Moogle
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    Scholar Lv 100
    Did OP manage to end up on a sever on their own?
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  2. #12
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    GeminiReed's Avatar
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    Alys Isshu
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    Malboro
    Main Class
    Summoner Lv 61
    Quote Originally Posted by Fabbro View Post
    ..., but seems everyone just wants to use Discord. Why no love for ingame tools?
    That's a question for Square. Not why the players don't use but why they haven't kept up with the times.

    Linkshells and CWLS suffer from some serious limitations. Once CWLS became possible they should have converted all LS instead of maintaining two styles. The number of participant slots is hilariously stingy (128 for LS and 64 for CWLS). They require you to be manually added by a LS admin while you're both online. If you have the temerity to roll alts each of those must be added separately AND they eat another participant slot.

    Discord suffers none of that. Even better you don't need to be logged into the game on the right character in case somebody is trying to coordinate something for the group.

    Fellowships... just weren't thought out very well. At best they point you to a LS or Discord. Maybe if they grafted Fellowship's recruitment interface onto LS that would fix some of the above.
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  3. #13
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    pigzig pigzig pigzig pigzig pigzig pigzig pigzig land
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    Get into beginner chat, all the cool kids are there, it’s the barrens/lfg of the game
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  4. #14
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    Jojoya Joya
    World
    Coeurl
    Main Class
    Bard Lv 100
    Linkshells and cross world linkshells are used, especially by the hunt community. It's faster to click a macro to relay into multiple linkshells than to copy/paste relays to Discord. Discord still gets used because it doesn't have the member limits that linkshells do so it reaches more players but those in active linkshells are still usually going to be notified first. Linkshell capacity is an infrastructure limit that YoshiP has talked about in the past though we can hope the future infrastructure upgrades might allow them to increase it.

    Fellowships are more popular with JP players. They're designed to function as message boards, not chat rooms, which can make them useful for events planned in advance or to advertise crafting services and the like.

    Party Finder gets used. There's something you're doing wrong if you can't see PF listings. The amount of use is lower right now because we're at end of expansion and most players are done with their farming. Use will pick up once new content is released. SE has made some updates to PF over time and will probably continue to make more in response to specific player feedback.
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  5. #15
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    Vahlnir's Avatar
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    Tent In the Middle of Nowhere
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    Character
    Elan Centauri
    World
    Diabolos
    Main Class
    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    ...The PF is full of activity every time I open it up, especially in the evenings. You must be playing in an alternate universe in which you're the only one present.
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    Last edited by Vahlnir; 09-23-2021 at 05:27 AM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida View Post
    Personal Housing
    While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.

  6. #16
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    TaleraRistain's Avatar
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    Character
    Thalia Beckford
    World
    Jenova
    Main Class
    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    Party Finder is alive and well on Aether
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  7. #17
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    Character
    Ea Sin
    World
    Faerie
    Main Class
    Scholar Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Fabbro View Post
    Well, where then should I ask for active good Linkshells and Fellowships?

    I am in some Fellowships and all of them are quite inactive, for example.

    Also, I use party finder regularly and while it's ok, it's not exactly BOOMING as I would hope (specially the way servers are always full), I would really hope to see each and every extreme and savage with at least two to five parties being formed in minutes everyday (synced) judging by the number of players the game has... yet 99% doesn't even seem to know it exists at all and actual Party Finder numbers are less than ~10% what I mentioned my expectations would be.
    As an FYI. Most of the ff14 community has cleared most of the stuff you'd see in party finder ad nauseum by now. It'll pick up next expansion as players come back to the game and start running content again.
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  8. #18
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    Character
    Oscarlet Oirellain
    World
    Jenova
    Main Class
    Warrior Lv 100
    Linkshells get used primarily for hunting and cross-world linkshells sometimes get used for other activities like maps, statics, extreme and savage content, but discord is where a lot of communication happens. Every free company and static usually has one and finding people for certain content can be done a lot easier through discord because they might not be logged in right now, but you can communicate with anyone from your free company that is logged in.

    You can find free companies and linkshells that are recruiting at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...munity_finder/

    Party Finder actually is cross-world and is a lot better for social interaction because communication usually happens while the party is filling and sometimes to discuss strategy. Party Finder is one of the most common ways to get people on your friends list and is used to advertise all kinds of content from raids and dungeons to maps and roleplaying.

    On Balmung you can find a lot of people in shout at Ul'dah. Fellowships do get used a lot, for example people advertise their statics and roleplaying in them, sometimes people ask for help with their class or look for a few friends, but you have to look through all of the meme ones to see them.

    Extremes are part of the mentor roulette although this version of extreme is synced a lot higher than the item level with an Echo buff that can reach a 30% stat boost, which can make it very easy to clear some of them.
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  9. #19
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    Enjuden's Avatar
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    Gridania
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    Character
    Enju Abbagliato
    World
    Balmung
    Main Class
    Samurai Lv 100
    Most of the in game tools simply have lost their use because Discord is just the better option compared to link shells.

    If you're making the post at close to midnight, I assume you're looking around then. Activity is dead at close to midnight unless content came out recently.

    What are you looking for specifically?
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