I don't think we have enough incentives to join/stay in Free Companies

[OlafQuintessa]

We run screenshot competitions from time to time and hand out Gil that way. Could also spend it on rare minions and leave them in an open tab of the chest for people to take, like at christmas. We used to have a giveaway bot in our discord that we'd use so people could go in the draw for rare items. Thavnairian onions from the garden would go in an open tab of the chest.

I agree it would be nice to have some more fc specific activities in game. How about a version of potd in the fc house basement for fc members to use or something like that. It would be fun to collectively explore it and bring back rewards from under the house. I like the idea of guild quests of some sort too, as long as they're flexible enough to do with very small or large groups. The closest we have at the moment is the company workshop. If we start a big project to do together people seem happy to be able to contribute. Maybe some even bigger company crafting projects would be good too.

[OlafQuintessa]

Sorry I don't know how I ended up with two posts. It didn't appear so I tried again and then it worked

[CNitsah]

Going to say it,

Recruiting fc members is way harder to recruit than ultimate static.

The average method of recruitment being savages invites, without even a tell, I'm not surprised.

[TaleraRistain]

FCs are perfect they way they are - a tool for groups of people to have fun together. If it was mandatory for anything meaningful it would've turned FCs into a toxic environment too often. While most people are nice, the exact worse people for being FC leaders would also be the most numerous, and fighting over FC houses would've been even worse. Heck, one could argue that having an FC house is a huge advantage if you know how to work with submarines.


I have many ideas on how to improve this and other aspects of the game but i'll reserve that for those who care enough to listen.

A lot of those big FCs tend to just turn people into numbers, too. I've had my own very small FC for 8 years now. I do my socializing through linkshells and then a Discord here and there since that's taken off more. I think if they made people tie themselves to FCs more, you would see more of that toxicity.

[ConantSivrha]

Personally, I'm glad there isn't much pressure (built into game mechanics) to be in an FC. I've played games that lock important resources and content behind being part of a guild or equivalent group, and it's usually the foundation of a design that exists to get players to socially punish each other for skipping daily in-game tasks or for taking breaks from the game.