Echoes is a social gaming (18+) free company in Final Fantasy XIV, based on Excalibur server. We aim to provide a fun, troll-free, friendly environment in which our players can play how they want to. Whether your play style is casual, or hardcore progression (and everything in between!), we look forward to providing you with an in-game home. Whether you play to raid, craft, pvp, shoot the breeze with like-minded people, or down endgame content with a passion, we are your FFXIV free company!
We welcome you into this venture with open arms, but entry is conditional upon agreeing to a few basic guidelines. If you read them and figure this is not for you, we totally understand and respect your personal decision to seek a home elsewhere.
That said, we hope our basic principles of respecting others, avoiding drama, and working together to light this game up will entice you into battle on our team!
Below are the rules and guidelines our leaders felt fitted with who we are, and how we want to play in FFXIV ARR....
Laws to Live By
1. General Respect - Don't be “that” person. Respect others and their right to share the space we have provided. We won't tolerate blatant disrespect or the putting down of other members in any shape or form. We understand that some players will have differences of opinion and personality clashes and we would hope that you resolve these in your own time, like adults, and without impacting on your fellow guildies.
2. Be Respectful of the Schedules of Others - This is an important one: not everyone has a lot of free time. If you plan on organizing parties or raids, please be on time and ready to go. Make party or raid expectations clear in your communications prior to the related events. Attempt to minimize “breaks” that could hold up the party for extended periods of time.
3. We will not hand-hold or personally cater to players - It’s a game for you and others to enjoy. The biggest part of the game is playing it. Please do not expect anyone - especially officers - to “carry” you through content. Lots of people work hard to manage progress; we expect the same out of you. Organised groups are a privilege, not an entitled right. We welcome and encourage you to start groups and make stuff happen, whether you are the leader, an officer, a member, or someone new to the crew.
4. Avoid Controversial Topics - This guild exists to support cooperative play within Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. It does not exist to support discourse about controversial topics - especially those topics that may deliberately incite the ire of your fellows. If there is an urgent need to discuss a controversial topic, remember the following: “feel free to have your opinion, but refrain from shoving it down anyone else's throat”. If a controversial discussion needs to take place, please take that discussion to an unpopulated channel. Otherwise, controversial topics (esp. religion, politics, racism, sexism, sexual orientation) are actively discouraged in all guild communication channels (RaidCall, FC Chat, forums etc.). We have zero tolerance for hate speech, so if you try to use our FC as a platform for this, an insta-ban of no return is the likely outcome.
5. One Strike Rule - If you are found to be in offense with malicious or purposeful intent, you will be warned and asked politely to remedy the situation. If after the one warning you persist, we shall show you the door. However really serious stuff like blatant hate speech or serious personal harassment of our players may result in an insta-kick, at the discretion of our officer team. We hope to never have to use the kick button, but please be aware that it is a possible consequence of ignoring these guidelines.
6. Leave your EGO at the door - We don't care if you were the best PvPer in the entire world, or your “Old Guild” was a “Top Raiding Guild” in a previous game. Attempting to tout clout about previous endeavours will only serve to annoy the rest of the populace. Feel free to share your stories, but ego-tripping is discouraged. Respect is earned in the present for good deeds done - not for grandstanding over past exploits.
7. Don't "Poison the Well" - We formed this guild to share in the experiences and fun that stems from creating a friendly and considerate team within FFXIV. If you feel that you are about to do something that would negatively impact the guild or game atmosphere for others within the guild (i.e. “poisoning the well”), please take a few moments to reconsider those actions. If there is a more constructive path that can be found, please use it. Many experiences in-game can produce lasting and fruitful relationships out-of-game. We hope to cultivate and strengthen such relationships rather than to kindle the fires that burn bridges.
8. Leadership Decisions - FFXIV Echoes FC formed with many members of Gaiscioch guild as our founders. However, Echoes operates independently of Gaiscioch, and the decisions of our officers are at our own discretion, and are not up for appeal to Gaiscioch leadership. We are privileged to be able use Gaiscioch forum space, but operate as an entirely separate entity.