The thing I enjoy the most about being in a Final Fantasy 14 Free Company these days is that I get to facilitate a lot of other peoples’ fun. Between all the gear crafting I do, the organization of events I help out with, the formalization of informal activities, and the encouragement to just do the dang thing, I feel like I’ve found myself a pretty comfortable spot in the group. It can be exhausting at times, especially when one thing builds up a lot (currently at the end of a busy week of gear crafting and I’ve still got a full set to do sometime today or tomorrow), but I enjoying helping other people to have fun and get a great deal of personal validation out of being able to offer help to people now that I’ve gotten myself fairly secured in my chosen activities and have learned enough to actually be a positive resource for people. I feel like it fills a bit of a gap in the FC right now, even if I’m not perfect at it, but we really don’t have a lot of people in the group who are the “let me help you have fun” type. Most of the officers only help when asked and the established members of the group tend to be the most vocal and active despite us being a supposedly new-player-friend FC, which means there really aren’t a lot of people asking open questions about what the newer players need or how they could be helpful. It’s way more work and I suspect that some degree of this pattern of behavior in the officers reflects their experiences with players who tend to come and go a bunch before ultimately vanishing, but I still think it’s worth doing even if I can’t do as much as I want and getting any kind of response is like pulling teeth sometimes.