Quote Originally Posted by Ashkendor View Post
5-10 members isn't a "personal" FC, though. My own FC is a good example. Myself and several friends broke off from a previous FC and formed our own due to not getting along with a couple of members. With only 5 members when we founded it, we ground up the FC points to reach rank 6 and we got the money together for a Medium house. I really see no need for a membership requirement just for house ownership. Add to that the fact that a house is a huge selling point for recruitment. With so many FC's out there that already have houses and all the benefits that go with them, it'd be quite silly to expect people to stay for long in one that doesn't.

Show me a big FC and I'll show you an FC that was small at one point. Everyone starts somewhere. Over time we've picked up more members and now have around 30. It may not seem like much, but I personally don't believe in standing in town inviting random sprouts or shouting my head off every 2 minutes just to achieve some arbitrary number. I'd rather stick with our tight-knit core of good friends and the wonderful new people we've met along the way that join us by choice. I put up a PF once in awhile and leave recruitment open and that's about it. I get that you want to discourage single-person FC's from house ownership, but there's got to be a better way to do that than to completely bar small but 100% legitimate groups of people from it.
It's about occupancy and changing the system, not sentimental reasoning. If you're not going to add a member limit or login requirement then it is a useless idea in the first place and more selfish reasoning to add more wards/ housing.

The current system is 1 personal house + 1 FC house per account. 6 alts can be used to hold a FC house each with no level requirement, this will essentially do nothing if the system does get changed to FC housing only and has absolutely no impact. People can still buy up whole wards with alts + personal FCs, nothing gets changed, people will still have no housing and no way to deter the current problem.

Same with 1 account per service account, people will buy housing with $5 codes, it's not difficult to get access.