Free Company

Revision as of 06:57, 18 October 2013 by *>Jon bon

Free Companies are community groups that can be created by one player level 25 or above by talking to an OIC Administrator, finding 3 other players to co-sign, and by paying 15 000 Gil. To join a Free Company, you must first be invited. While in a Free Company you will be able to converse with other members of your Free Company over the “Free Company” chat mode, regardless of where you are.

  • A single Free Company can have a maximum of 512 members.

Creating a Free Company

Requirements:
  • Be a member of a Grand Company
  • Reach level 25
Restriction: A player can not found a new Free Company until 24 hours (Earth time) has passed after leaving a Free Company regardless of their previous rank.
  1. Acquire a Company Petition
    Locate at an OIC Administrator in any of the three City-States.
  2. Name the Free Company
    A Free Company’s name can be anywhere from 3 to 20 alphanumeric characters long including punctuation. Spaces cannot be used at the beginning or end of the name, or in succession. Names consisting of only punctuation are not allowed. This can only be chosen once.
  3. Choose a Free Company Tag
    A Free Company Tag is displayed above the player character to represent the Free Company to other players. It may consist of up to 5 characters and can be changed after chosen.
  4. Acquire Three Signatures
    The player must find or know 3 players currently online invite in person. The current signatures acquired will be displayed on the right side of the screen by default.
  5. Pay Registration Fee
    Pay the OIC Administrator 15 000 Gil in order to found your Free Company.

Free Company Membership

Inviting Members to a Free Company

Players with the proper permission within their Free Company may invite other players from anywhere they can target another players name other than the chat window by selecting 'Invite to Company'. Examples; Friends, Linkshell Members, Party Members, Search Window, and Players beside you.

Joining a Free Company

Restriction:Players can only be a member of one Free Company at a time.

Players must be invite to a Free Company or form their own in order to be join. When invited to a Free company players are prompted with an oval window on the right side of the screen much like a friend request or party/linkshell invite. By clicking said window, players can accept the a Free Company Window.

Leaving a Free Company

In order to leave a Free Company players must go to the Free Company window from the Social Lists in the Main Menu and from the Members tab select the 'Leave Company' button located at the bottom.

Chatting

Any message input in the Free Company chat mode can be seen by any and all players in the Free Company currently online. This chat mode is activated by prefacing a message with either /freecompany or simply /fc. In addition, the active chat mode can be set to Free Company mode by entering the command /chatmode freecompany or /chatmode fc, or just entering /fc without a following message. Alt + F can be used to switch to Free Company chat.

Free Company Administration

===Ranks Free Company are made up of masters, leaders, and members. Free Company administration is only handled by masters and leaders.

Powers allotted to masters:

  • Disbanding the Free Company
  • Inviting new members
  • Promoting members to leaders, demoting leaders to members
  • Exiling members and leaders from the Free Company
  • Promoting someone to Master status.
  • Purchasing Free Company abilities

Powers allotted to officers:

  • Inviting new members
  • Exiling members from the Free Company