Please restrict FC houses to one owned per account

[LaylaTsarra]

Does someone need to be the leader of more than one FC? It doesn't preclude alts from being officers.

I have a small FC on Gilgamesh and one on Balmung. My home server is Siren where I belong to a FC and don't plan on being the leader of that one and have been a member for years. I'm leader of the two i mentioned, puchased both of them myself and don't plan on designating an alt to be leader so I can buy another. I was just curious if you were talking about restricting one FC per account regardless of server.

And I'm not really sure how you stop people who would designate an alt as leader and then move on to buy another.

[Dustytome]

And I'm not really sure how you stop people who would designate an alt as leader and then move on to buy another.

Simply apply the same rules to changing leadership as you would to purchase. If the person already owns an fc on the server that has a house, deny transfer of ownership of an fc that has a house. In the case of the leader not signing in for 35 days, the same applies. The ownership will attempt to transfer to a valid character, if there are none, the fc plot is back on the market.

[Gula]

Simply apply the same rules to changing leadership as you would to purchase. If the person already owns an fc on the server that has a house, deny transfer of ownership of an fc that has a house. In the case of the leader not signing in for 35 days, the same applies. The ownership will attempt to transfer to a valid character, if there are none, the fc plot is back on the market.

That. Is. Stu-ahem, a bad idea.

[LaylaTsarra]

In the case of the leader not signing in for 35 days, the same applies.

35 days seems awfully short (even shorter then the 45 day time for private houses). I'd be curious what the current time is for leader transfer. Seems to me some people might actually take a vacation for that amount of time.

There are certainly a lot of ideas to add restrictions in an attempt to remove housing from owners by many means. I'm personally of the view that a paying sub is all that should matter when it comes to keeping a house but that's me. I've never been a fan of having to enter the house model.

[Dustytome]

35 days seems awfully short.

That's exactly what the 35 days is. They could add a 10 day grace period for transfer attempts to meet up with the 45 day auto-demo timer, but in that special case, literally everyone else in the fc doesn't qualify because they themselves are already the owner of an fc with a house on the same world.

[LaylaTsarra]

That's exactly what the 35 days is.

My question is what is the current time period before a FC is transferred if a leader doesn't log in? You're saying it is currently 35 days or is that something you're proposing?

Edit: Appears it's 35 days after googling and reading about it. I wasn't aware that the time was so short.

[NanaWiloh]

FC houses belong to the FC itselo not a singular player. It's the reason FC homes are handled the way they are.

[Dustytome]

My question is what is the current time period before a FC is transferred if a leader doesn't log in? You're saying it is currently 35 days?

Unless it was changed, it should be 35 days according to some really old patch notes.

In the event a free company master does not log in for 35 days (Earth time), ownership will be automatically transferred to another free company member, based upon the following criteria:
1. Members who have logged in within the past seven days
2. Higher-ranked members preferred
3. Senior members preferred

That. Is. Stu-ahem, a bad idea.

What part is a bad idea to you and why? It blocks FCs with houses from being handed over to anyone on a world that already has an fc with a house on their account.

[Big_Bap]

Please go back to restricting the number of FC houses an individual account can own. Certain players have taken advantage of alts to buy up entire wards, an act that is clearly against the developers' intent.

Also, please consider adding more housing wards. With all the new multi-FC owners, and the grandfathered multi-personal home owners, it's still difficult to find housing.

(Here's hoping Ishgard housing is all instanced. With the snowy weather, it would be a great location to try out larger apartments with "greenhouse" balconies.)

Go back? Taken advantage?

You're aware that in the (nearly) 5 years since patch 3.1, the only time FCs had to deal with any sort of restrictions were during the 2 weeks following the release of patch 4.2 right? If SE would have had any problems with players grinding FCs to rank 6 and then using housing as a gil sink, which is the very purpose of housing, they would have done something about it.

You speak of multi house owners as the reason why some servers having accessibility issues with housing and you couldn't be more wrong. Patch 2.38 is the primarily reason as to why there's a housing crisis to begin with. That's right, there was never accessibility issues when housing was restricted to FCs only.

In the case of grandfathered personal houses, their amount is so ridiculously low that you might as well be complaining about anything else and it would have more weight to it.

By the way, the amount of plots is nearly 10 times what it was on release...

[Arazehl]

In the case of grandfathered personal houses, their amount is so ridiculously low that you might as well be complaining about anything else and it would have more weight to it.

By the way, the amount of plots is nearly 10 times what it was on release...

Real nice chart but doesn't show available plots, occupied plots or owners of multiple plots to current patch. This chart needs more data added to it to make it sound. Make a chart showing availability over several patches to the most current. That I would like to see.