Quote Originally Posted by Catstab View Post
Current: FCs can relocate without losing members, FC private chambers, or workshop progress. FCs will relocate if they find an open Mist 35 mansion, for instance.

Your suggestion: FCs will still relocate if they find a Mist 35. If they are within the 30-day cooldown these FCs will lose their workshop progress and kick any members that are offline, in duty, in cutscene, afk, or busy. These members will lose gil and in some cases mog station or event items, some of these members will not come back.

Again, relocation was a step forward for FCs. Limiting it in a way that would force people to use the old system is objectively a bad idea, for the reasons given here. You want people to "pay the price" if they happen to find a rare or desired open plot. I think that inflicting these losses on social FCs is unreasonable. I think undoing Square Enix's work building the relocation system to do so is out of the question.

edit: forgot that FC members that are in duty, in cutscene, afk, or busy would need to be kicked as well. added
And AGAIN, only people who can't be patient and/or play with in the confines of the suggested lockdown "pay that price".
I would hope a social FC would value their members and the hard work they put in over a digital dollhouse because that's pretty much what the scenario you keep bringing up is showing, that that FC values the house over its members.
Why should characters or FCs that already own a house get preferential treatment over characters or FCs that are still trying to get a house?

People keep telling those still trying to get houses to just be patient and persistent, maybe one day you'll get lucky and someone won't casually stroll by and relocate to the plot you've been standing hours at, so I don't see why it's an issue to tell those with houses to be a little patient and to give others a chance to get a house (and maybe even put some thought into where you buy your house, give it some weight).