It's because of the risk of theft that my fc's chest has access attached to ranks.

Those who are in the trial rank can only access tab 1 which has nothing we cannot easily replace. Members can access tab 1 and 2, which also has nothing that cannot be easily replaced. Tab 3 has all the valuable items and only officers can access it. Members can request an officer to withdraw something on their behalf. Officers are also the only ones with access to the gil.

This does mean we have very little space to store valuable items but it also means they cannot be stolen.

Not saying it's OP's fault. Their fc is obviously too nice to consider someone would steal something. They learned the hard way bad eggs exist and it's very sad that it happened.

SE should really make an exception for players like OP spoke about. It is obvious their intention is theft and SE have access to logs to clearly show a player took as much as they could get before leaving.