(08-22-2013, 07:25 PM)Eva Wrote: This is kind of how we're probably going to be doing it with Crystalline as well after seeing it in action in Beta, since a couple of our members wanted to join other FC's for varying reasons. Our plan is not really to use the FC chat for anything substantial and keep most of our content/conversation happening over the linkpearl. We're still hammering out all the nuances though since there's that balancing act between wanting to keep an accurate roster and use the FC to its fullest (thus providing perks to those members who remain a part of it), but also not wanting to exclude anyone or leave anyone feeling like a second-class member. It's tough.
Indeed so. One solution I've been kicking around is keeping our OOC channel as an LS as well, but then we've got this FC channel that doesn't get used.
At that point, other than the housing (which has immense RP uses) and name recognition via tag, what's the benefit of an FC? A big PvE FC that's RP friendly can provide every other FC advantage faster. Originally, we were going to use the IC LS just for our "Dear Friends" (external allies) and keep FC chat as a private IC channel, but I didn't want to pass on players who joined, say, Wildsky or Unity for their PvE desires, nor did I want to block people from joining who would ICly swear the oath but are already members of another FC.
It's certainly a complicated problem... do we have any other LS+FC leaders willing to weigh in with their thoughts?
EDIT: On the topic of RP progression guilds, one of the most hardcore progression guilds on Firiona Vie in EQ was Prime Nightmare, which was an evil-only medium to heavy RP guild. Just sayin'.
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