[Dev 1024] Linkshell Administration Options

[zaviermhigo]

I was at least nice enough to drop my pearl when I quit playing for a while. This is definitely SE's fault for linkshell features but it bugs me how many people don't drop shells when they know they are going to go inactive for a long period of time.

[Renshi]

And agai-

Heya!

We obviously need more control of our LS. Not just for the fun to kick and rejoin just to see the member's reaction swearing to the Lord that he would kick our f*cking asses (which was a more arcticulated story that happened, and was a lotta fun =D), but to have a solid grip to our LS members.
Now, I've never been an LS leader in a game where there's a complex Guild/Legion/Biggroupofpeoplewhojustwanttohavealotoffunbytellingjokesonthemselves, so I'd like the Dev team to have some meetings about the Linkshell Administration Issue. It would be great if someone of the FFXIV staff could tell us their ideas and share those with us =)

See ya!

[Rukkirii]

The development team is aware of your concerns but due to the fact that their current priority is the battle system, changes can’t be made right away, but they are thinking about doing this after. In order to implement these features, they would like to first implement text commands before this.

Please continue to send in your ideas for the dev. team!

[Rentahamster]

The development team is aware of your concerns but due to the fact that their current priority is the battle system, changes can’t be made right away, but they are thinking about doing this after. In order to implement these features, they would like to first implement text commands before this.

Please continue to send in your ideas for the dev. team!

Good to know that this is on their radar. However, do they really have to wait until after the battle system changes? I mean, how long does it take to program in a "/lcmd kick player" and "/lcmd add player" commands?

[Jennestia]

Good to know that this is on their radar. However, do they really have to wait until after the battle system changes? I mean, how long does it take to program in a "/lcmd kick player" and "/lcmd add player" commands?

They're focusing on one of the main foundations of the game in order to get content to us soon. It doesn't take long to add simple commands but you DO set priorities in order to get work done.

[Rentahamster]

They're focusing on one of the main foundations of the game in order to get content to us soon. It doesn't take long to add simple commands but you DO set priorities in order to get work done.

Yeah, I know they have their priorities, but it seems like waiting until after all the battle changes are done would take a long time. I might be wrong since I don't know what the inner workings of the programming team are like, but adding 2 simple text commands and testing them for bugs should only take, what, a day? Two days?

From a simple cost/benefit analysis, and assuming it would only take a couple days to implement, the benefits to the players would be a lot compared to the time spent.

[Rhianu]

The development team is aware of your concerns but due to the fact that their current priority is the battle system, changes can’t be made right away, but they are thinking about doing this after. In order to implement these features, they would like to first implement text commands before this.

Please continue to send in your ideas for the dev. team!

At the very least, do you think we could just get the ability to remove offline people from the LS? This alone is the single biggest problem with the current system, and if just this one function was added to the game, it would serve as an adequate placation for the time being while the dev team works on the battle system.

[Keith_Dragoon]

The development team is aware of your concerns but due to the fact that their current priority is the battle system, changes can’t be made right away, but they are thinking about doing this after. In order to implement these features, they would like to first implement text commands before this.

Please continue to send in your ideas for the dev. team!

All I needed to know, I can now torch my pickett signs and back down from the protest podium.

Yes i had totally forgotten about talking in multiple linkshells at a given time, I was more concerned with the administration side not the user functionality

Heres a list of ideas I thought was either needed or would just be very helpful.

•Linkshell message.

•Leader controls to Demote/Promote/Remove linkshell members remotely. (INCLUDES offline members)

•A way to show/hide offline members or change it so members can be sorted by online status..

•Being able to select a color pallette to change LS emblems to desired color combo.

•The ability to invite members of the LS to a group without having to use to the group search funtion OR social list.

•The ability to pass leadership to another player in the linkshell.

•The ability to see what Location/Rank/Class my members are.

OPTIONAL:

•An option to show last login time/date of members.

•The ability to talk to multiple LSs with out having to change my current one. (maybe by doing /l#?)

•Ability to leave an oflline message or note.

[DantesAmore]

All I needed to know, I can now torch my pickett signs and back down from the protest podium.




•The ability to invite members of the LS to a group without having to use to the group search funtion OR social list.

"<Do you need it>"
/pcmd add Players Name
already exists and works world wide

[Molly_Millions]

"<Do you need it>"
/pcmd add Players Name
already exists and works world wide

Indeed, this IS NOT a crystal tools problem, its probably is a resource problem of the human variety. Unless of course crystal tools is so utterly convoluted that they can't remove a where clause from a simple update query.