Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
Why is it they can't set up the system so that only one character owned by that person (and there can be 8 characters per server) can be the leader of a FC. I'm not sure how the coding would work exactly but one could or should not be able to transfer lead of a FC to an alt if one is already run (led) by another alt on that same server. That would stop the multiple purchases and ownership by that particular account.
Because it's always possible the player's alts are leaders of legitimate FCs instead of just shell FCs. Maybe one FC is for role play and the other is for raiding. Should the raiding FC be denied a FC house just because of the other character's RP FC. It's probably why they had to relax the purchase restriction of the "one FC house per account" rule added in 4.2 - legitmate FCs were negatively being effective because many players had characters in more than one FC.

What SE really needs to do is redefine what a FC is, and how many active unique player members are required for house ownership. A Free Company with a single active member has stopped being a Free Company and turned into Free Agent for Hire. The game should be disbanding it after a short warning period to allow for recruitment and disbanding it without any warning if it happens a second time.

It's still not going to stop all abuse of the system but it will cut down on some of it.