Quote Originally Posted by PewPewPewPewPew View Post
Posting this from another thread here because based on the above data:

One-man FCs or FCs with less than 4 people are not a significant cause to house shortages.
Maybe not now but it is a problem that will get worse if SE do not make the purchase restriction on fc houses permanent. Removing that has increased the amount of shell fcs quite noticeably on some servers. As I mentioned before in another thread, it is an issue that will one day far outpace the hoarding of grandfathered players if SE continue to turn fc purchase restriction on and off instead of keeping it on. While the problem with shell fcs is relatively small right now when you look at the game as a whole, there is something to be said about tackling an issue before it becomes a serious problem. History has shown us several times that some players or fcs buy as many houses as they possibly can and sometimes it's to the point that they strongly dominate wards. This is not good when housing is a limited resource.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut OP's suggestion on how to tackle the above is not what I would consider a good solution. It would too easily punish legitimate fcs who are small whether that's through just starting off, having difficulty in recruiting the sort of members they want or wanting to stay small for the happiness of the members.

If a requirement on the amount of members having access to a fc house is to have a specific base number, then it should be 4. Not 10. As it is now 4 is the minimum requirement to do group content. 10 doesn't even make sense considering it's not even a group size for any content and you need only 8 to do raid content. But even this I disagree with, I just happen to be more okay with 4 as a base requirement than 10.