Honestly? Another one of these threads? Patch 2.1 comes out next week. Hold your bellyaching until the first massive content patch drops which addresses some of the issues you mentioned here. As far as FC's being multiples of 8? That's complete crap. We have over 100 people in our FC. Only 24 of us raid the coil. In no way, shape, or form are we required to kick all those people out who don't want to or aren't to the coil yet. That is an arbitrary limitation you are giving to yourself, and as such a completely moot point for many of us. Want to help your friends through the coil yet can't? I don't really care. Many MMOs do stuff like this. FFXIV isn't exactly breaking the mold on this, but yet everyone likes to complain about it.