Quote Originally Posted by Batbrat View Post
Hard agree, +100. CWLs are waaaaaay too tiny.
No one cares about FCs. Like..sorry, but they're just not and never will be relevant. People only have FCs either to get a house or to be kinda weirdly controlling of strangers, in my experience. Most people usually arent on the same server as their friends are anyway, so making an FC doesnt work. Servers get closed for months at a time for being too populated cutting people off from each other, or people move for houses to a newer server, or some just accidentally started somewhere and dont want to leave, or some prefer that servers marketboard-there are a multitude of reasons that players play on different servers as their friends and can't be an FC altogether, which is why CWLs are so important. To take that spot, and let friends still have a way to talk to each other without joining a party-an oldschool 'buddy list' chat, as I used to know it. but as it stands currently, it is simply too small. An update to that number would be greatly appreciated.
That might be your experience with FCs and certainly there are some like that but there are a lot of good FCs out there as well.

I see linkshells as a resource for players with specific interests or to connect across worlds. The 64 limit really is very annoying because ends up leading to even more linkshells being created when fewer could serve the purpose better if the limit was increased.

But I still remember YoshiP's story from some years back when they tried testing a 256 linkshell limit on their internal servers and ran into major problems. I want to say that was around the end of Stormblood though. Perhaps with the infrastructure upgrade they're working on they'll be able to give another (and successful) try.