Thread: Linkshell Management in 2.0

Originally Posted by Okipuit

Good evening!

We know the lack of administration features for linkshells was a major concern in version 1.0. In A Realm Reborn linkshells will focus mostly on being a way to chat with friends and Free Companies will have the features that players have been requesting for linkshells.

It will be possible to remove members and change authority levels even if the Free Company members are not logged in. We are also looking into a feature where leadership will be passed to another member of the Free Company if the leader does not log in for a certain period of time.

So, am I understanding this correctly? It seems obvious I am, your words are clear, but I'm appalled if this is really SE's intention given your never-ending talking about 'community'.

In ARR Linkshells cease to be the main focus of one's social and playing 'community', where one's 'friends' are often thought to be, and shells become nothing more than chat channels?

So small linkshells of close friends have no place in ARR, and will receive none of the features so badly missing in 1.0?

Really?

For me, Free Companies are simply a commercial enterprise, an in-game mechanic for leveling and general progression, a million miles from a linkshell where one interacts with friends and do things with them.

In some ways I see FCs as the equivalent of 'Dynamis shells', 'Sky shells', etc., which one equipped for specific progression events before returning to one's real 'friends' in your 'real' shell.

Seems the concept of a 'social linkshell' is dead if mechanically linkshells in 2.0 are going to be left in the pitiful state they were in 1.0.