Free Company Buffs

[Reptiletc]

I really feel like this has been suggested many times before, but we really need some form of queue system for 24 hour FC buffs.

This was never really that much of an issue until the recent plague, where quite a few FCs I know were struggling to keep buffs up at all times for leveling players since their higher ranks were often sick, dealing with ISP issues, without power, or experiencing a natural disaster in their area.

Simply having a queue system that fires off buffs the moment currently active buffs expire would save a lot of hassle and would be far easier to maintain. A full week's worth of time would be fantastic, but even 3 days would do wonders compared to the current system.

[Illmaeran]

They're not free, the company has to pay for them.



I'll see myself out.

[SannaR]

They're not free, the company has to pay for them.



I'll see myself out.

And unless they're only buying them from the quartermaster you'd run out of the ones made in the workshop and then needing to be primed. If not the mats needed for making those. This sounds more like a those few in my FC that are allowed to put up buffs aren't able to get on daily or the same time of day problem. Which means either they need to give more people access to the buffs or have someone who can but normally doesn't put them up. Or they have really lazy people. I know I know shouldn't shoot down more options.

[Seera1024]

They're not free, the company has to pay for them.



I'll see myself out.

If you had to manually queue the buffs to fire then it wouldn't charge the FC for new ones.

[SannaR]

You'd still have to make sure you didn't run out of said buff. Any time you put up a buff it takes it out of the list of the ones available to use when it runs out or if you have some chaos in your command structure when a person with the ability to put up buffs takes down the one you just put up just to please the one person who asked for X buff to be put up. Or a change in the schedule happened but no one told anyone else. No, I've never ever had this crap pulled on me in past FCs ever. Why do you ask?

[NekoMataMata]

And unless they're only buying them from the quartermaster you'd run out of the ones made in the workshop and then needing to be primed. If not the mats needed for making those. This sounds more like a those few in my FC that are allowed to put up buffs aren't able to get on daily or the same time of day problem. Which means either they need to give more people access to the buffs or have someone who can but normally doesn't put them up. Or they have really lazy people. I know I know shouldn't shoot down more options.

This. Sounds more like an issue with the structure of the FC. I mean unless you're a newer FC, you should have a diverse set of ranks ready to make sure these things don't happen. Cause really, what are the chances that a FC with diverse ranks is going to have all of them unavailable at once?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Just let more people have access to turning buffs on.

I think almost anyone in my fc can activate them

[SannaR]

This. Sounds more like an issue with the structure of the FC. I mean unless you're a newer FC, you should have a diverse set of ranks ready to make sure these things don't happen. Cause really, what are the chances that a FC with diverse ranks is going to have all of them unavailable at once?

It's called cliques happening in the officer structure. Along with the possibility of many having burn out or very busy lives. It happens. It sucks a lot more if a combination of any of these things end up happening. I normally see problems with buffs being put up during the summer months. You know when people are having vacations or family reunions. Or just want to spend time outdoors and touching that grass that may or may not be on fire that I hear people get told to go and do from time to time. And yes I've been in diverse ranked FCs. Heck my current one has buffs put up by the same person and if they can't do it then they ding the discord and say as much. Normally a person who has the power then goes and logs on and puts them up. You'd be surprised how often FCs that didn't have said problem in the past run into said problem due to any of the above problems occurring. And yes adding just one more person who tends to get on more often than others normally fixes it.

[Deveryn]

Just let more people have access to turning buffs on.

I think almost anyone in my fc can activate them

Mine is the same way. Anyone but the newbie rank can activate buffs.

[worldofneil]

If you only use the same two buffs all the time, you can just change the FC permissions so anyone can activate them (Executing actions). It won't let you activate a buff while the same buff is already active so it's impossible to waste them. It just needs someone with permissions to actually add them in the first place so they'll be ready for anyone to activate as needed.