Theft and an FC

Well, reading up on some things this may not come as a shock.

As an FC leader, you choose your officers and give them a position of power because they have or do seem to be trustworthy. But what if someone whom you thought to be thusly is not?

I run my FC as an FC where everyone has a say. I council with my players on all matters of import. Today I logged in to find that all of my FC's airships had been dismantled. We had three airships going out on missions, ten million gil was taken and several stacks of high-end mats. All by someone I thought would be trustworthy. Imagine my surprise and horror to find out this was not the case. -more-

This person is no longer on our server. He has transferred and I have reported him. Unfortunately I am being told that GMs don't deal with FC thefts. This should not be. GMs should deal with this, in my opinion. There are rules against scamming people. If it would have been theft from me personally it wouldn't be an issue to me. He stole from my players. I've screenshots showing it. Proof that it has been done and it is aggravating to say the least that someone could get away with this. That those in charge of the game would allow this to happen without punishing those who did such. -more-

It's appalling. As an FC we are now unable to use our ships for new content. As an FC, we have been set back on purchasing and building a larger house. As an FC, we no longer have mats needed to make the ship. It has set us back and interrupted our play quality and nothing can be done about it? Rules haven't been broken? This is an issue that must needs be fixed and addressed. One player should not and does not have the right to ruin game play for an entire FC.

That said, if you are reading this thread, and I know you know who you are. You should be ashamed of yourself. You were trusted and you betrayed the trust not only of me but everyone in the FC. You have made me out to be a liar for defending your honor. You have insulted me and all the officers and players of the FC and do not think I will not pursue this issue. Do not think for one minute that I will idly sit back and allow this to happen and allow you to get away with it. I will take it to the top of need be. I may have came off as soft because I value the input of all the players in my FC, but know action will be taken and I will not sit down idly and let it happen.

Live and learn, the cost of trust and it's consequences. As much as we want a rainbow perfect world, humans are humans unfortunately.

As much as I would like GMs to handle this, if they can't even handle spam bots in major cities- this would be a way huge undertaking for their capabilities.

Has been an issue since the beginning of MMO's. You give them access to things then there's nothing GM's can do.

I'm sorry this happened to your FC, I really hope SE do something to help you out.

Sadly, like Mihael said, humans are humans. Keeping everything that has a considerable value/importance to the FC under your control is the only way to avoid that kind of thing. Some people will dislike it, others will understand, but if something bad happens, everyone loses.

So sad but this is why our FC leader and only 1 other person has that kind of access to our stuff cause of horror stories like this unfortunately like said before SE can't really do much since the person was given access

Our guildbank in World of Warcraft was robbed by a player who claimed his account had been hacked. We contacted a GM and he returned all our gold and items in minutes. We didn't even have to tell what had been taken.

Perhaps there is a similar system in FF14?

Okay, i see there is a problem. I feel sad for that this can happen.
Technicaly there was no theft at all, the player took what you give him the permission to take it and use it.
I don't want to blame you for this, but we are on the internet. We ar anonymous. And anonymous people do terrible things to anonymous poeple.
The only way to be sure you can trust a person is a personal connection to this person.