Eight year anniversary!

Another year has passed and we’re still here! So as with previous years we got together and played some games!

There was another new outfit for us all to wear and this year it was Southern Seas Shirt (Gunmetal Black and Snow White), Pagos Gaskins (Metallic Orange) and Guoc shoes (Soot Black x 2).

Following on from last year we used some of Nae’s FFXIV Jumping Puzzles, but this year we travelled to Ragnarok for their room 8, “Pillars, You Said Pillars?” and room 4, “Jump the vases”:

After we had some winners we moved onto Limsa Lominsa for a game of hide and seek. Before the event I had placed some of my other characters around the zone and everyone had to find them. The first three people who find them get a prize and a bigger prize for finding them faster. Because you can’t hide the name tag of your character it’s quite tricky to conceal them, but they generally weren’t found right away so I think it worked okay!

Next we headed back to our FC house for a quiz. Some of the questions are about the house and garden (how many of these things are there etc), but other questions are about the FC and double as a reminder to make sure people know about FC perks and what they could be doing etc.

Next we headed out to throw ourselves off high areas to try and land on a tiny marker! Each jump is scored for points and the total score over three jumps is used to allocate the prizes.

After this it was back to the FC house for the raffle. We had prizes for both items and Gil, see the tables below for the results!

Finally we headed off to the PVP area for a quick tournament!

The total prize money we gave out was a 18.66 million Gil and here is a list of who won how much:

NameGil won
L'ireiya Tia3,550,000
Niners Dawnheart2,650,000
Gwendolia Mangold2,500,000
Driess Raronek2,150,000
Nekomi Hounami1,960,000
Lyallon Estaqur1,750,000
Blithesome Carl1,200,000
Ragner Defgar1,050,000
Suki Hagane1,000,000
Sarah Sugarcube850,000

And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:

NamePrize won
Driess RaronekBallroom Etiquette - Personal Perfection
Driess RaronekWhere All Roads Lead Orchestrion Roll
L'ireiya TiaBallroom Etiquette - Personal Perfection
L'ireiya TiaCelestial Screen
L'ireiya TiaPunutiy Crossing Orchestrion Roll
L'ireiya TiaStargazers Orchestrion Roll
Nekomi HounamiAxolotl Eft
Niners DawnheartAntelope Stag Horn
Niners DawnheartBarding Of Eternal Darkness
Niners Dawnheart
Hyperboreia Bench
Suki Hagane[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane[Awaiting choice]
Suki Hagane[Awaiting choice]

Thank you everyone for a part of our FC and let’s look forward to our ninth anniversary!

Joint FC event collaboration

As you’re probably aware, the current game content (or rather lack of) means more players are taking longer breaks away from the game. Unfortunately this also means that it’s been harder for us to fill in-game events because of having less people available.

However, we have good news and we are going to be teaming up with the members of TechnoCore, a fellow Free Company based on Sagittarius. This isn’t a random FC, some of our members actually already have alts there and vice versa some of their alts are in our FC. What this means is you already know some of the people and for some events, members of either FC will be able to sign up and join in.

You won’t need to do anything differently, the events will still be posted on our Discord server like before and mirrored to theirs. You just need to react to the event/sign up like usual (they’ll sign up the same way on their Discord server). Regardless of which server someone joins an event on, it will automatically be updated to both servers. Easy 🙂

Any questions, please let me know!

Happy New Year!

It’s the start of 2025 and I’m glad to say that our FC is still here, 7 and a half years later and thank you all so much for being a part of it!

Our raffle has now ended, congratulations to all winners! We had 7 main winners who won 1.5 million Gil each and 10 runner ups who each won 250,000 Gil. We also had 7 people who didn’t win anything at all (sorry!), but they still received a 100,000 Gil consolation prize!

This means the total prize money for this raffle was 13,700,000 Gil and here’s a table of the winners:

DateWinnerRunner-ups
25 December 2024Bifi BifiSuki Hagane
26 December 2024Lyallon EstaqurL'ireiya Tia
27 December 2024Terazoic Willowstar
28 December 2024Ninuh KhatkaKendra Covell, Niners Dawnheart, U'anna Nitsah
29 December 2024Niners DawnheartNinuh Khatka
30 December 2024Damon EvangelistaBlithesome Carl, Gwendolia Mangold, Nekomi Hounami
31 December 2024Fist LovefuryPome Kneenibbler

Congratulations again to everyone who won and hope you all have a great 2025!

Raffle (2024)

The Starlight Celebration has begun once again so that must mean it’s time for another FC raffle!

As usual this is free to enter for all our FC members who were with us at the start of 17th December and has been active within the last 30 days!

This year we will be giving away 7 main prizes of 1.5 million Gil each (1 per day from 25th to 31st December inclusive) and runner ups on those days will get 250,000 Gil each. Anyone who doesn’t win anything during the event will still get a 100,000 Gil consolation prize at the end!

For more information, please see this years special page for the event!

You can change your number as much as you want until the first draw, but it’s first come first served so get your number now!

Good luck to you all!

All new FC house!

Our FC house has had the same style for a while now, but thanks to two of our members, Lyallon Estaqur and L’ireiya Tia, we have a whole new look! A picture says a thousand words so here’s a lot of “words”!

Thank you L’ireiya and Lyallon for your time and skill, it all looks amazing!

We’ve also changed the exterior to the recently released “Country Mansion” skin in a bright ruby red colour:

We’re located in Shirogane, Ward 8, Plot 16 if you want to come and have a look! (on Omega/Chaos)

Halloween Glamour Contest

Yesterday our Free Company had a glamour contest with various Halloween themes!

It was organised by two of our members, Niners Dawnheart and Zolukai Pestishyde, and two more of our members, L’ireiya Tia and Lyallon Estaqur, also donated their time and skill to create the venue area that it was hosted it in.

There were three categories and the winner of each category won 1.5 million Gil:

  • Spooky
  • Cute Autumn wear
  • Group outfits and cosplays

There were some really creative costumes and here’s some of the photos from the event:

There was even some dancing!

But all good things must come to an end…

Thank you to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun!

Seven year anniversary!

As you probably guessed from the title, our Free Company has now been around for seven years! Wow! In usual tradition we celebrated it with lots of games and lots of prizes!

Also as usual we had a new outfit for everyone to wear. With the Dawntrail expansion releasing in under 2 weeks the outfit theme this time was an attempt at a crossover between a vacation outfit and the new Pictomancer job. At least that was the idea!

Here we all our on our FC roof!
Suiting up

Specifically the outfit was White Beret (Pumpkin Orange), Extreme Survival Shirt (Undyed), Hose of Happiness (Pumpkin Orange) and Leather Sandals (Pumpkin Orange).

This time for our jump puzzles we went on location and I need to link and give credit to Nae’s FFXIV Jumping Puzzles. They have many different jumping puzzles on many different servers and while I’ve only seen a few of them, they are very impressive and really recommend taking a look! We used two of theirs (Chaos -> Omega -> FC house rooms 5 and 6) and gave our prizes for the first 5 people to finish.

After this we headed to Upper La Noscea to play hide and seek. How this works is that I place some characters around the area and everyone has to find them and you get a bigger prize for finding them faster. In previous years this has dragged on a bit, so this time I made it easier by picking a smaller zone where we can fly, but compensated by increasing the number of characters who were hiding. We had some problems with people finding them a bit too fast, but overall I think it worked well and next time I think we’ll just use a slightly bigger zone.

Then we headed back to the house for a mini quiz. The first person to answer correctly won Gil and the majority of questions were on things related to the Free Company (and also to make sure people are aware of some of the perks of being with us etc!)

Then we went back out into the world to throw ourselves off tall buildings to try and land on a tiny spot far below! Everyone had three chances and got points for how close they were to the marker and then the overall scores were added up to allocate the prizes.

We then moved back to the FC house to do the raffle. There were items prizes, but also some Gil prizes (see the lists below for who won what). Finally, we moved to the Gold Saucer to do a quick run of “Cliffhanger”. It’s not very hard and everyone who went made it, but it was just a fun little thing to end on!

The total prize money we gave out was a 23.55 million Gil (that’s 10.25 million more than last year) and here is a list of who won how much:

NameGil won
Kenda Covell2,850,000
L'ireiya Tia2,750,000
Bifi Bifi2,500,000
Lyallon Estaqur2,350,000
Zolukai Pestishyde1,500,000
Key Ceallaigh1,300,000
Rydia Nishiyama1,300,000
Terazoic Willowstar1,200,000
Blithesome Carl1,100,000
Fist Lovefury1,000,000
Leonceault Ferdillaix750,000
Tiny Ice750,000
Wilderis Sikk750,000
Sylvia Flutterstar600,000
Driess Raronek550,000
Nekomi Hounami500,000
U'anna Nitsah500,000
Ashelia Nightfall400,000
Noda Moonlight350,000
Thea Belles350,000
Sarah Sugarcube100,000
Zack Wolf100,000

And here is a list of all the prizes that were won in the raffle:

NamePrize won
Driess RaronekKingdom of Baron (Endwalker) Orchestrion Roll
Fist LovefuryWind-up Golbez
Fist LovefuryWind-up Kangaroo
Key CeallaighStatice's Wings
Lyallon EstaqurTheir Deadly Mission Orchestrion Roll
Nekomi HounamiAssorted Candles
Nekomi HounamiAssorted Candles
Nekomi HounamiMinmisle Hat
Noda MoonlightFlying Chair
Rydia NishiyamaIndoor Pond
Rydia NishiyamaTier 4 Aquarium
Rydia NishiyamaTier 4 Metal Aquarium
Sarah SugarcubeStatice's Wings
Sylvia FlutterstarArchangel Wings
Thea BellesGreener Gleaner
Tiny Ice[To be decided]
Tiny Ice[To be decided]
U'anna NitsahBlack Hayate
Wilderis SikkFlying Chair
Zack WolfByakko Cub
Zolukai PestishydeZurvanite Barding

Finally I was quite chuffed to see that some of our members still had some of our older outfits (and this wasn’t even from the last year!)

Thank you everyone for a part of our FC and let’s look forward to our eighth anniversary!

New FC feature: Sweepstakes!

We’ve got too much money! No really.

For those of you who don’t know, we have 4 FC submarines that operate like massive multi-day ventures. These are constantly running to bring back items which either go in the giveaways or are just sold for Gil which goes into the company chest.

We use this Gil to fund the purchase of FC rooms whenever anyone wants one, but also to pay for our much bigger events like the birthday parties and the Xmas raffles.

Lately we’ve started to get more money than we really need, so we’re going to be starting a sweepstake where anyone who has played within the last 7 days is automatically entered into a draw for a chance to win 250k Gil! We’re also going to be running this twice a week! (Tuesday and Saturday).

Updated 14 April 2024: We’re now running this three times a week! (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday!)

For full details, please see our dedicated page about this!

Good luck everyone!

Congratulations to our winners!

The raffle has ended and we actually added an extra bonus day too! This means we had 8 main winners who each won 1.5 million Gil and 13 runner-ups who each won 250,000 Gil. We also had 5 people who didn’t win anything at all, so they each received a 100,000 Gil consolation prize!

This means the total prize money for this raffle was 15,750,000 Gil and here’s a table of the winners:

DateWinnerRunner-ups
25 December 2023Geralt R'iviaBearn Livinstone
26 December 2023L'ireiya TiaMaralade Ferilla
27 December 2023Ashelia NightfallBifi Bifi, Eon Qirin, Qorfrog Pensildic
28 December 2023Blithesome CarlLynn Grey, Pome Kneenibbler
29 December 2023Bearn LivinstoneGeralt R'ivia
30 December 2023Thea BellesLyallon Estaqur, Ninuh Khatka, U'anna Nitsah
31 December 2023Ninuh KhatkaThea Belles
1st January 2024 (EXTRA!)Zolukai PestishydeSylvia Flutterstar

Congratulations again to everyone who won and I’m sure we’ll do another raffle again in the future!

Raffle (2023)

It’s December once more so that mean it’s time for another FC raffle!

This is free for all FC members who were with us at the start of 17th December and has been active within the last 30 days This is also our 5th raffle and for this one we are going to be increasing the prize money!

We will be giving away 7 main prizes of 1.5 million Gil each (1 per day from 25th to 31st December inclusive) and runner ups on those days will get 250,000 Gil each. Anyone who doesn’t win anything during the event will still get a 100,000 Gil consolation prize at the end!

For more information, please see this years special page for the event!

Don’t miss out, enter without delay and pick your (hopefully) lucky number!

Good luck to you all!