More information please

[Xeno]

Greetings everyone!

We know you're all anxious to learn just what this whole "Companies" thing is all about, and I know the dev. team is just as excited to tell you!

In "Letter from the Producer, VI" Yoshida stated:


With that in mind, we appreciate your patience leading up to the release of info! We can't wait to hear what you all have to say about Companies once we announce all the juicy details!

That's where a lot of us are confused. By "shortly" does he mean right before 1.17 or sometime in the next few days?

[Laughlyn]

Sure does sound exiciting.

So, ever since i first read about "Companies" imma throw out some of my
speculations and thoughts about this.

I think companies will be something for High level classes,
this however seems rather odd because obviously rank 50 isnt the final level cap.

So ya i base my specualtions on high level classes, if it's for Mid/low level classes
im sure there would be some rewards of EXP /SP aswell, but for now im excluding that option.

So what could Companies possibly reward / offer high level players? (something to discuss)

Some ideas... - Possible Spoiler Alert -

Terratorial control?
Company rank / status?
Rare gear / items / materials?

Something tells me im getting close because of SE's previously
announcements saying something like Company owned houses / ships.

Besides that what do "Companies" usually do?

The Company:
Work as a team (Company) to build something together using the members crafting skills perhaps.
Battling monsters for area control, Company rank etc.

Company Crafting:
With the current crafting system in place, i see no reason for what i just wrote
above would not be connected with "Companies".
This might include craftable "Furnitures" for the "Company House",
maybe even Cannons for the "Company Ships" for example.

Company Battles:
Companies in Battlefield could be anything from offense to defense using ships (possibly sea battles)

Hamlet's:
And then there's "Hamlet's", im pretty sure those Stone-structures (Forts) in
Coerthas are "Hamlet's" and serve a purpose for defence, possibly for area-control.

Company Houses:
Well, dosent take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
I dare to say this is the new "MH", but diffrent ofc, i just hope it get's more interesting.
Possibilty to have Company Meetings, share crafted items,
gear etc in a Company Bank-vault or something.(Much like WoW guildbank)
But not just for sharing, but maybe collecting building materials for a "Company ship" etc.

But hey...these are just pure speculation & ideas.

Now some of what i'd like to see:

* Company Banner (With Company Name on it, for the Company House)
* Some kind of Company "Tabard" / "Cape" (not like WoW's Tabard, they just lame)
* Company Vault / Bank
* Craftable furnitures. (obviously for the Company House)
* Some sort of in-game Calendar to set up Company events so members can sign up for ingame.
* Company Chocobos + Lance = CHARGE !!!!

Edit: Sorry for bringing up some WoW ideas, but it did have some great features.
And no i dont play WoW anymore, it got boring fast after 3 years.

Ninjarrrr Edit:
i hope my speculations didnt spoil anything, cuz hell i know as much as anyone else. lol

[Kiko]

Sure does sound exiciting.

So, ever since i first read about "Companies" imma throw out some of my
speculations and thoughts about this.

I think companies will be something for High level classes,
this however seems rather odd because obviously rank 50 isnt the final level cap.

So ya i base my specualtions on high level classes, if it's for Mid/low level classes
im sure there would be some rewards of EXP /SP aswell, but for now im excluding that option.

So what could Companies possibly reward / offer high level players? (something to discuss)

Some ideas... - Possible Spoiler Alert -

Terratorial control?
Company rank / status?
Rare gear / items / materials?

Something tells me im getting close because of SE's previously
announcements saying something like Company owned houses / ships.

Besides that what do "Companies" usually do?

The Company:
Work as a team (Company) to build something together using the members crafting skills perhaps.
Battling monsters for area control, Company rank etc.

Company Crafting:
With the current crafting system in place, i see no reason for what i just wrote
above would not be connected with "Companies".
This might include craftable "Furnitures" for the "Company House",
maybe even Cannons for the "Company Ships" for example.

Company Battles:
Companies in Battlefield could be anything from offense to defense using ships (possibly sea battles)

Hamlet's:
And then there's "Hamlet's", im pretty sure those Stone-structures (Forts) in
Coerthas are "Hamlet's" and serve a purpose for defence, possibly for area-control.

Company Houses:
Well, dosent take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
I dare to say this is the new "MH", but diffrent ofc, i just hope it get's more interesting.
Possibilty to have Company Meetings, share crafted items,
gear etc in a Company Bank-vault or something.(Much like WoW guildbank)
But not just for sharing, but maybe collecting building materials for a "Company ship" etc.

But hey...these are just pure speculation & ideas.

Now some of what i'd like to see:

* Company Banner (With Company Name on it, for the Company House)
* Some kind of Company "Tabard" / "Cape" (not like WoW's Tabard, they just lame)
* Company Vault / Bank
* Craftable furnitures. (obviously for the Company House)
* Some sort of in-game Calendar to set up Company events so members can sign up for ingame.
* Company Chocobos + Lance = CHARGE !!!!

Edit: Sorry for bringing up some WoW ideas, but it did have some great features.
And no i dont play WoW anymore, it got boring fast after 3 years.

Ninjarrrr Edit:
i hope my speculations didnt spoil anything, cuz hell i know as much as anyone else. lol

so what u mean companie could be something like where your group will be a LS... do stuffs together like how laughlyn explain it... lets say a lil bit of PVP action? i mean when i was playin XI back on 05, we used to have ballista... where we used to kill our self lol... idk now... but hey if it something like that oh man i cant wait for it!! i mean that give us a great deal on working together as a group... or with ur group lets just say "linkshell"... lol i mean a lil of pvp action wont hurt u know hehehe

[Laughlyn]

so what u mean companie could be something like where your group will be a LS... do stuffs together like how laughlyn explain it... lets say a lil bit of PVP action? i mean when i was playin XI back on 05, we used to have ballista... where we used to kill our self lol... idk now... but hey if it something like that oh man i cant wait for it!! i mean that give us a great deal on working together as a group... or with ur group lets just say "linkshell"... lol i mean a lil of pvp action wont hurt u know hehehe

well, i suppose there could be some pvp, but if these so called company "quests" is a major part of it im guessing it
would be more PvE im afraid, to gain control over certain areas etc.
(If we had some kind of faction control system in place i guess PvP could be perfect for this)

But who knows, 2-3 companies "fighting" over control for a specific "Hamlet" could be possible,
but im not sure this would be considered as PvP. >.<

lol it's so hard to actually make any sense of what could be,
with what we currently have & what SE might add,
when there's so little information out there about Companies.

I guess im thinking back to the old FFXI's "Dynamis" runs when people
changed from Main social LS to their "Dynamis" LS.

But...instead of calling it "Dynamis LS", call it company instead. (Cuz Dynamis was an area not the group)
So ya, large-scale battles with a company.

I find it really strange if this "Companies" are only based upon high level classes, because what good is EXP/SP as reward at rank 50?

So the rewards must be something really new, or based upon some sort of "Company" growth system, like special currency perhaps.

anywayz, these are just random ideas.

[Haraldsson]

The Company:
Work as a team (Company) to build something together using the members crafting skills perhaps.
Battling monsters for area control, Company rank etc.


Company Houses:
Well, dosent take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.
I dare to say this is the new "MH", but diffrent ofc, i just hope it get's more interesting.
Possibilty to have Company Meetings, share crafted items,
gear etc in a Company Bank-vault or something.(Much like WoW guildbank)
But not just for sharing, but maybe collecting building materials for a "Company ship" etc.


* Company Banner (With Company Name on it, for the Company House)
* Some kind of Company "Tabard" / "Cape" (not like WoW's Tabard, they just lame)
* Company Vault / Bank
* Craftable furnitures. (obviously for the Company House)
* Some sort of in-game Calendar to set up Company events so members can sign up for ingame.
* Company Chocobos + Lance = CHARGE !!!!

It a company could combine it's crafting skills to build a large project that would be amazing! I would LOVE to build a boat with my guild and go sailing.
Also the guild representation is a very cool idea.

[Speeral]

This is actually exciting to see the forums being updated with a section for us to discuss. This must mean it is close at hand, and I for one an watering at the mouth to see how The Grand Companies of Eorzea are introduced. With Six months since any really meaty content has been added I am hoping this is a big update and the beginning of the real reformation of XIV for the player base.

[Ilethius]

I just hope there more than just building cakes!

[Alixandir]

I'm actually a bit worried about how they will turn out. They were pretty specific in that post that was linked to in an earliers post, telling us that they were a special type of LS etc, they have also earlier been referred to as "player-run guilds".

However since the new dev team took over they've been very silent about this aspect of the game, which leads me to believe they have changed the direction of them. Also, what little info we have gotten points more to the companies being NPC run.

So what I'm worried about is that they have changed one of the old dev temas ideas that seemed really good and replaced it with something more generic. Hope I'm proved wrong though.

[Speeral]

From my reading and understanding of the Company system it will be introduced as an NPC run system at time of release. But at this point we can only speculate on this until Yoshi posts a letter detailing company features and its place within eorzea.