New look to the FC house: “Forge’s Walls”

Scott/ / FC

We’ve had the “Shirogane Castle Walls” on our FC house since we bought the house back in 4.1, all the way back in October 2017 and it felt like time for a change. When 5.5 was released it added some new items, including the “Forge’s Walls” and now that’s what our house is using:

Large Forge's Walls

Looks great doesn’t it? It’s very different from the previous Shirogane Castle, but a change was definitely overdue.

The main reason we hadn’t changed the skin earlier was because we had a “Stump Elevator” setup which allowed us to get onto the roof of the house and also to glitch “inside” the house as well. The first time people saw that it always made them say “What the…” and that never got old!

Sadly, changing the skin around actually broke that and the stump which should have been on the ground, floated into the air, breaking the elevator as you can see in this picture below:

Broken Stump Elevator

It took many hours of trying to get the elevator to work in the first place as it had to be pixel perfect, but I’m actually relieved it broke. It means that now we can change the house skin more frequently without having that stump elevator holding us back. It was great, but we had it for well over 3 years, we got our use out of it!

I hope you all enjoy the new look too!

Great start to 2021!

Scott/ / Treasure Maps

We just completed our first map party of the year and it was a massive success! It did start off really badly and for the first hour we had hardly any portals and those we did have, didn’t last long.

And then it all changed… portal after portal and we got to final room, not once, but twice! We also had 4 calfskin leathers drop too (currently worth approx 830k Gil each). If that wasn’t enough, we also all walked away with 527k of Gil each too (just from the cash drops), so that’s not a bad week!

Thanks all who came, see you next week and let’s try and get even more!

We made it to the end!
And then we did it again!

Congratulations to our winners!

Scott/ / Events

This years raffle has now ended and all prizes have been mailed! Like last year, we had 5 main winners who each won 1 million Gil, but we also had 13 runner ups who won 100,000 Gil each. Then finally we gave out prizes of 50,000 Gil to each of the 13 other FC members who didn’t win anything else.

This means we gave out a total of 6,950,000 million Gil, but because the fundraising for this event was so successful, it’s resulted in an additional donation to the FC chest of 3,480,148 Gil (which will be used in the future, such as paying for FC rooms for members!).

DateWinnerRunner-ups
27 December 2020Elydith NelhahTiny Ice, Momo Blakes, Lyallon Estaqur, Erza Keso, Sonja Tswarra
28 December 2020Momo BlakesElydith Nelhah
29 December 2020Grandluck BloodTatashi Tashi, Geralt R'ivia, Ahrimance Kynne, Bearn Livingstone, Ellie Burrfoot, Mel Arky
30 December 2020Tatashi Tashi
31 December 2020Roy YunomiL'ireiya Tia

Thanks everyone for playing and here’s looking forward to 2021 and hopefully a better year for everyone!

Raffle (2020)

Scott/ / Events, FC

Wow has it really been a year since we updated this site? Ouch.

I’m glad to say that the Free Company is still up and running and we’re well over 3 years old now. Although the faces change from time to time, I’d like to think it’s still somewhere fun for everyone. Oh and yes, we still do treasure map runs every single Sunday!

So like last year, we will be doing another raffle for FC members and the total prize money will be at least 5 million Gil! The prize amount will vary depending on how many runner-ups there are, but last year the total prize money was just under 7.5 million!

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!

Good luck to you all!
If you want this outfit for free, just ask Scott!

Congratulation raffle winners!

Scott/ / Events, FC

Our raffle has now ended and the prizes have been handed out! We had 5 main winners who won 1 million Gil each, but also 13 runner-up prizes of 100,000 Gil each. Finally, the 23 people who didn’t win anything at all received 50,000 Gil each as a consolation prize. This brings the total prize money to 7,450,000 Gil.

DateWinnerRunner-ups
27 December 2019Hayley LuxswornSiyenna Myst, Mana Kinomoto, Hatryna Yuki
28 December 2019Perminator CottontailRaanham Bloodmoon, N'kora Khah, Prandine Archibald, Bearn Livinstone, Finnel Tsuga, G'lion Mewrilah
29 December 2019Inki StarkSylvia Flutterstar, Ashelia Raphael
30 December 2019Ashelia RaphaelInki Stark
31 December 2019Hatryna YukiHayley Luxsworn

Thank you all for playing and I’m sure we’ll do another raffle again in the future!

Shinryu Extreme

Scott/ / Events

Another week, another mount farm! As you can see from our past posts we didn’t really do them in order, but this week it was Shinryu!

I do appreciate that it’s now old content, but as we had new people I thought it’d take us longer to get a clear. However, I’m glad to say we cleared it on the second try. Subsequent farming runs weren’t perfect, but we were still consistently clearing it. Sadly no mounts dropped, but I think we all had fun anyway!

Thanks to all those that came, especially those that didn’t even need it and were just helping us out!

Treasure hunters

Scott/ / Treasure Maps

There’s been quite a few posts on this before, but we’re still continuing to farm treasure maps each week. We now alternate the time (from afternoon to evening) and I was initially concerned it might get confusing, but everyone seems to have adjusted well.

Kill!

Generally speaking we seem to walk away with 300k-500k each, not including any items that drop. Although they are rare we do still see things like Shell Leather, so that’s a nice bonus when it drops.

Thanks to all who join in each week, and let’s keep getting more free money!