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The FINAL FANTASY XI Linkshell Community Beta Version is a new service that will be available to adventurers in the very near future! Now you will be able to communicate with your linkshell members from any location with Internet access!


Community Support Tools

Many tools are provided by the Linkshell Community to support the groups that adventurers have formed within the world of FINAL FANTASY XI. For example, members of a linkshell will have access to an exclusive message board, as well as an up-to-date list of current member information. The Linkshell Community will also provide a linkshell search function and a list of recently formed linkshells for each individual World.


Official Game Data

The character profiles displayed on the linkshell member lists will be directly connected to in-game data. Character information will be automatically updated at regular intervals, making it unnecessary for players to manually adjust their profiles. In addition to job levels and synthesis skills, other information such as current titles and mission ranks will also be displayed, allowing members to easily recruit for missions and plan events for their linkshell.

We will continue to add many more useful functions as the Linkshell Community evolves.

The Linkshell Community is an official SQUARE ENIX site;, however, please be cautious when registering your information on other FINAL FANTASY XI-related social networking sites. We hope this new service will help bring a new dimension to your life in Vana'diel!
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http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/060609.html
 
Wow this will be a good thing Se has done in ages....
 
From Sage Sundi, Global Online Producer:

Beta service for the new "Linkshell Community" community tool will be launching soon. Detailed information can be found on the FINAL FANTASY XI official website, but I thought I'd explain some additional points which we would like our community to understand.

We believe that most community activities in FINAL FANTASY XI are based on linkshells. However, for various reasons, there's currently no way in PlayOnline or FINAL FANTASY XI for these communities to "leave footprints." The community management team feels that we're lacking a place to record these live experiences.

Generally speaking, for MMO games, there are two main methods to record live, in-game activities. The first way is to use blogs or forums outside of the service, and the second way, though currently the minority, is by using officially provided methods.

The FINAL FANTASY XI Linkshell Community doesn't favor one or the other. While its aim is to encourage communication between different linkshell communities, ideally we would like it to coexist with existing sites, such as general information sites which don't belong to any particular linkshell or world, premiere sites, and other major sites and forums.

We're aiming to build systems like the following to create synergy between our communities:

o Premier sites: Premier planning, main discussion
o Community sites: Information sites & forums
o Linkshell Community: Communication between linkshells, linking to outside blogs

There's one more important point for us in the FINAL FANTASY XI community. Linkshell Community gives moderation authority (management of information written on the site and message boards) to the linkshell owners. Thus, all text or images posted on Linkshell Community website will be moderated by the linkshell owner and up to 2 moderators which are named by the linkshell owner. Any reports about site content will also be sent to these moderators.

This is because we think it should be left to each community's moderation policy to determine what do about borderline issues that don't fall under official user agreements and policies. This will be different from an official forum moderated by the community management team. We believe that creating rules and communication for linkshells will encourage self-regulation which results in good community functions for all players.

However, in cases where moderation hasn't been done properly or the moderators cannot be contacted for a while, Game Masters may take appropriate action, such as temporarily suspending that Linkshell Community site. Also, because the Linkshell Community is strongly linked to in-game worlds, some penalties may apply to PlayOnline accounts if severe violations are detected. This should not affect communication, but in case of problems caused by non-real-time communication, each linkshell owner's moderation is needed for the Linkshell Community to run smoothly. We're hoping that lots of players and linkshells will use the Linkshell Community beta service while taking this into account.

During the beta test, some data is already linked to the in-game world, but we believe you will come up with various ideas while using the Linkshell Community. We're looking forward to seeing interesting discussions and hearing your suggestions for the service.

Finally, the beta service and future official service will be free to use and open to every player who is a linkshell member regardless of their region. Also, after the beta ends, unless any problems prevent us from doing so, we're planning to carry over all the data as-is to the official service.
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http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/news/sdetail7497.html?story=7497
 
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Does this mean they might allow you to alt-tab to actually check this site out for convenience?

Probably not.

Whoever came up with this should have rebuilt the LS system and made this usable in game. :\

edit: Oh it might have a use, you can see all the rogue pearls in the shell... and /cry about how you can't do anything about removing them :p
 
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But really, its just a fancier version of what some leaders do and make a linkshell site.

It looks pretty but the concept is old.
 
I have 3 up to 4 computers running at the same time on the same IP-adr., so I think you can feel safe Eulore. ;)
 
i thought it meant u could chat in linkshell, this is just another way of having a messageboard for your linkshell...which most respecting shells already have.
not as cool as it sounds.
 
Eulore said:
Windower ftw D:

Though they may be like "Hay how's this guy checking the site an on the gay from the same IP?"

That might be bad...
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easy say your on more then one screen at a time all ways works
 
The FINAL FANTASY XI Linkshell Community doesn't favor one or the other. While its aim is to encourage communication between different linkshell communities, ideally we would like it to coexist with existing sites, such as general information sites which don't belong to any particular linkshell or world, premiere sites, and other major sites and forums.

We're aiming to build systems like the following to create synergy between our communities:

o Premier sites: Premier planning, main discussion
o Community sites: Information sites & forums
o Linkshell Community: Communication between linkshells, linking to outside blogs
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Hmm, if they managed to get on http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/ does this mean that there's some behind the scenes stuff we don't know about? Most if not all popular FFXI information sites have gilselling ads in them ... :ph34r:
 
Wow, this looks pretty awesome. It doesn't matter to me if it's online without being in the game. I play on PS2 and have a computer with internet access right beside me :D
 
GhostinmyShell said:
Does this mean they might allow you to alt-tab to actually check this site out for convenience?

Probably not.

Whoever came up with this should have rebuilt the LS system and made this usable in game. :\

edit: Oh it might have a use, you can see all the rogue pearls in the shell... and /cry about how you can't do anything about removing them :p
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They did mention this in the 1up interview from the Fan Fest. They said they'd like to do a system like this in game, ala WoW's Guild system. But linkshells were one of the first things they did in FFXI, so reworking the system could take a lot of work. Although, if they can do this, I see no reason why they can't use the same type of coding that gathers the info from ls members and uses it in game. Maybe we will see a system like this in game eventually.
 
bah i thought maybe they was going put this on there play online board. One the problem i see with some people is that they dont have computer to go look on linkshell website, so they out of the loop. This does not help the ps2 or xbox comunity at all. SE fails agian:mad:
 
iam going to wait and see how thing going to trun out ... who knows maybe its going to be an official fourm or something
 
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