100M GIL taken

[Shaemus_Jodocus]

Hey everyone I took a few minutes today so make a short video to thank you all for the support and show you what I have done with the motivation I have gotten from kind remarks and telling me to go on and not to quit. Please take a moment to check it out because like I said I couldn't have done this without you all motivating me to not give up.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/123773885

[ToasterMan]

Unfortunately, while I may agree, the likeliness of it changing will be slimmer and slimmer as time passes on. The summoner egi glamour system was put in, despite not being an issue and a far newer request (example). The issue only stems from people not realizing promote means literally to any rank other than owner.

I'm going to hold out and hope SE finally gets a clue and fixes this. This "feature", from a security standpoint, is completely unacceptable. This is not something that should come from a AAA developer like SE. I and everyone else should expect a lot more from SE in regards to this issue.

[Adire]

And this is why I'd love to get off Balmung. It's gotten too big and mean for its own pants. Make free transfers happen SE, please.

[Stormrider]

And this is why I'd love to get off Balmung. It's gotten too big and mean for its own pants. Make free transfers happen SE, please.

What would work even better is if thye made a new server. Officially tagged it role play free transferred from Balmung to start. Then after a month or so allowed any other server a one time free transfer. And allowing legacy players some breathing room.

[AmalonStar]

I had always thought that you couldn't promote yourself to a higher rank than you were at never mind promoting yourself to the leader position/owner of the FC.

If that is indeed something anyone that has the ability to promote/demote ppl can do then SE should modify it so a person isn't able to promote them selves to a higher rank or to being the head of the FC.

[Dustytome]

I had always thought that you couldn't promote yourself to a higher rank than you were at never mind promoting yourself to the leader position/owner of the FC.

You cannot promote to the very top, but if you have another rank below that (maybe for an alt to have all the permissions your main does like the op had, or for officers) and a lower rank has promote permissions, they can raise themselves up to any rank other than leader and gain the permissions of that rank.

[Shaemus_Jodocus]

If the only one who could promote or demote was the master than it would never be a problem.

[LalaRu]

Sadly nothing will be done.

SE should never allow anyone to promote themselves into a higher position than they are already in.

I think a given rank must not even be able to promote others up to their own rank.

This is the serious flaw that made me decide to never give promotions/demotions rights to others than Master. Yes I trust my Officers but I cannot risk a whole FC for an error it can happen.

It is quite amusing this flaw running wild for years, makes me feel on this side we are same league with cheap f2p games.

[Alleo]

I am more shocked that the GM cant get those things back just because it would show that they punished the player...Are they protecting those "criminals" while hurting the victims with that? No wonder that there are still quite a lot of such cases..they also probably only give them a slight warning and nothing more. How disappointing..I mean that person did it willingly and with that destroyed the work of months/years for those people and yet somehow they still need to be protected in some way? *facepalm*

@ OP: I really hope that you and your other members can pull it through. If that had happened while I was still in the old FC that I was leader too I probably would have stopped playing for a while. I am also kinda happy with my decisions of only having a duo FC now with a good real life friend. All that drama is now gone and thanks to the rules you cant even hope for help from SE's side..

[Claire_Pendragon]

What's the point of having "promote upwards" as an option at all though? If there's a rank that has all inclusive access to temporarily take over for the leader, anyone with promote privs has access to that rank at any point in time regardless of the leader's status. Just add hierarchy to the entire rank list and if someone wants to make a backup leader rank they can entrust that directly to someone and just tell them to pretend they don't have certain privs unless something happens to the leader.

I have 3 alts in my FC, and I want them to be able to do w/e my main can in its entirety. And SE has mentioned they dont plan to remove this feature, so we should instead be asking for something else, or some middle ground.