Quote Originally Posted by Dustytome View Post
I'm not sure if the FC ever disbands itself automatically, but not signing in for that long will cause you to lose the house and the airship parts. Auto-demolition will destroy the house if no one in the FC enters it for 45 days and it will take any airships with it. Go here for details on auto-demolition.
I know about house demolition. That wasn't my issue. I replied specifically to one point only, where he said "if i dont sign in for say 4 years ... my FC will stay mine". I'm not so sure that's the case. If it's all his alts and he isn't online with any of them for years, the FC would be left with no master. Can a Free Company even exist without a nominal leader?

(And yeah, sorry it's a little off topic for this thread, but that statement brought the question to mind, and since I have a private FC too, I'm interested in knowing how that works.)

With long term absence: The house will be lost. Airship parts would be lost if left in the workshop, but can be retained by moving them to your inventory before leaving. (And the same goes for anything else in the house that you're allowed to remove without destroying it.) But I don't know about the FC itself.