Do you realize that 16 service accounts costs $210 dollars a month? If they can afford 210 dollars a month hats off to ya. I live on Materia and we are not dead. There are ques waiting lines at 3am honey.
FC houses should be taxed weeky with the FC currency.
A normal active FC should not have a problem to earn enough for their house while the shell FCs not.
They would have to start to use bots and that would increase the chance of getting banned.
Any sort of player number or activity requirements is putting small family FCs that may have some people not playing all the time out in the cold. Not everyone just wants to be a number in a large FC. Others are looking for a more laid back style and someplace that will be there when they occasionally log in instead of kicking them because they're overly concerned about numbers. I don't know what SE could do at this point without hurting some legitimate players and it's pretty bad that so many of you are okay with doing that.
This.
A single player, playing (Actually playing, not just logging in and afking) for a few hours a day can easily generate 300-400k company seals a week by themselves.
If having a requirement of 1m/month is too much of a burden for somebody to upkeep, then I'm sorry but you don't really play the game to begin with.
As I replied earlier which you ignored, that would leave 109 fcs with a house on my server while the rest would be deleted including two of my former fcs with more than 100 members. Not to mention the fcs based around a minority language or a niche.
Tell me, how many company credits does one get from savage prog? What about ex trials and unreal? New 24 man raid? Criterion? I guess those are not "playing the game".
They're simply out to turn the game into a job. It's not the first time they've voiced this. Not many people have been on board with that idea though.
Any reqs that force people to log in to complete a quota is ridiculous. Let's not turn the FC system into one that forces expectations on their members like a credit quota or a gil quota, that's how they become jobs. People want to play the game, not stress over meaningless tasks.