Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

[Isseth_Shadowheart]

In 1.0, our linkshell was full of people. During downtime, we kept growing. We played other games, and alpha/beta. One of our guiding principles is: we never make anyone choose who their friends are. I promised everyone we would not force anyone to choose our free company. Most did. Some did not. Between the ls and fc we now have over 150 members.
To combat this problem we did the following:
Only 1 of character per person in the ls. (This is annoying, and already not enough.)
Encouraged mumble use. (Some have hearing problems.)
Looked at chat programs. (Leaves out PS3 players.)

I can think of 3 soultions:
1) Raise the 128 member linkshell limit.
2) Allow players to join more than one free company.
3) Allow for an add to the game that could echo chat from one chatline to another.

Right now: we have members of our community in our free company only, and members in our linkshell only. There is no one place everyone can talk. Please help!

I'll chime in on this because I think it's a wonderful idea! Linkshells offer a common place for friends and Free Company members to talk. I think raising the linkshell limit significantly is a fabulous idea!

I'll offer an opinion on item #2 allowing players to join more than one free company. I was recently a part of a guild in GW2 which due to it's huge size, was forced to have people in 5 different guilds, each with the name of the guild spelled slightly different. There was also no common chat space for the different guild members to all talk with one another (similar to a linkshell), the end result was the guild seemed to have lost cohesiveness and continuity, as members not in Section A couldn't have a common chat with Section B, etc. Some members were switched to Section C and effectively couldn't engage with guild mates they had in another section. For officers it was a headache too, as they had to switch guilds to keep in touch with their members and share news.