I know my area is dominated by spectrum, so during certain times it gets throttled to hell and back and I get disconnected, maybe you're having the same issues if it's consistent
There are based FCs around, you just have to hop around. Nobody in this thread actually likes each other though so we can't be in social groups together.
That and it's just a spectacularly bad idea to try and tie your character to the alt-right incel Nahtzee Kiwi Farms.
Aside from the other reasons I imagine most of us are also spread across various servers and data centers. I got into a decent FC first try but if I hadn't I'd also just hop around and keep an eye out in shout chat and ignore every message that mentions being "LGBTQ+ friendly".
The only quantifiable reason to join an FC is the XP and crafting bonuses. A renowned FC can still be equally populated by poop-socking try-hards and paste eating morons. Putting the farms in the title of anything, like @Kane Lives said, is a lightning rod to getting yourself permabanned for just existing. Personally, you're better off joining a big FC, getting lost in the crowd, stuffing FC chat into a chat tab you don't use, and sticking to linkshells if you really, really want to do shit like use the gamer word.
Why's the kid sounding like he's about to cry in his video? Stop trying to make slightly difficult content into your lifestyle.
Some of you guys are total fags, just saying.
LGBTQ+ friendly is dogwhistle for drama.
Nah, there's basically no communication - both because people are split across DCs, and because people are worried about their identity getting connected to here, generally antisocial, or some blend of them both. How am I supposed to groom people in these conditions?
I've a friend who was for a long while having issues with packet loss and general instability only when he was running ACT. He would disable or enable his VPN and find no real performance difference, yet run into latency and connection issues with ACT on. Not entirely sure why, as I myself have never had any issue - and I use ACT frequently as a healthy metric to let me know when I'm outdamaging the DPS in expert roulette so I can just eat the penalty and enjoy life that much more.
This is basically the issue. I had a crossworld linkshell for Crystal but it only got like two or three people in it and was basically dead after the first week. The people in this thread generally don't run content together so there's not a lot of need for the fast turnaround time that you get with an LS. Maybe whatever new social feature Yoshi-P is cooking up will be more amenable to this, but it's doubtful.
I didn't mean to imply that I would start a Farms-centric FC, I just meant starting my own in general so I don't have to sift through the shit to find bearable people to play with
If you don't already have a few people you're friends with to sign a charter and start the FC in the first place, then you're technically going to be having to sift through shit to find people to play with either way. Hell, even if you did have some people to start your FC, you're still going to have to sift through people in order to recruit them, and you never know when someone's gonna be fine one day and then a shitter the next.
dude what server are you on? On mine there are countless FCs advertising for recruits every minute. I'd say fuck that and just join another FC.
Not really getting positive vibes from that extremely whiny twitter post
Pass. I don't know who this fellow is or why I should give the slightest shit about his reason for playing an extremely popular game. Perhaps he should instead make actual content that isn't predicated on talking about himself about the game instead. Even some lazy top 10 guides using old 2006 style video making would probably perform better.
Tried watching some of his videos and it's all clickbait bullshit. Dude even gives out wrong information knowingly like all his sage videos when there was no potency numbers and shit. One of his videos he talks about how he doesn't have a Patreon but he's trying to ride the ADs and algorithm by making his videos as long as fuck.
I'm positive he's an unironic gay furry Hrothgar player, because I remember when I first found him he was talking about coming to FFXIV from WoW, he made a comment about how he met who I believe is his now boyfriend and said something to the effect of "Who is this majestic hrothgar?". Considering the tendency for furries to be total spastics, being LGBTBBQ+-SquareRoot, his near DSP levels of "positivity", and tendency to get all depressed and whiny about random shit (like positionals on melee dps or Blizzard shit) I can very much believe he is very capable of causing some drama shit that gets him kicked from a static.
As a shitty static leader, I've had to kick people from my statics for a number of various reasons, and 99.99~% of the time it has nothing to do with in-game performance even when they're bad. It's almost always because of petty drama, or a lack of respect to the group as a whole (ie. not showing up on time).