Fake FCs' Housing Abuse

[Zhalar]

Sooo... My FC was formed between myself and two friends. We've obviously put several alts apiece into our FC. The FC leader (my one friend) and I have been active since we formed the FC (June 2020), consistently playing at least every day. (That's just two of us for those of you who are doing math.) The third person in the FC was playing a bit but not consistently.

We had no FC house. We were trying to get one, but no luck. It was the housing crisis due to COVID. Tough times.

Our third FC member had some real life stuff go sideways and quit playing around September 2020.

So it's still just the FC leader and myself who are mainly playing consistently every day. (Still just two of us among our various alts in the FC for the math types here.)

Yes, we've tried recruiting. People weren't interested in an FC that didn't have an FC house.

Then the housing expansion in October came and we got an FC house! Yay us!

We've tried recruiting. People want an FC with more members. More activity.

So... how do we get more members... if members won't join because we don't have members? My friend and I are on every day, but we're also grown adults with real life adult responsibilities. I guess that's not enough activity for some people. We're role players. We don't do raiding. We don't do PvP. We enjoy free form role play and people are looking for things we're not offering, so they look for other Free Companies. It's not for lack of trying that we don't have members, but we're not the sort of fit that a lot of people are looking for and we also prefer quality over quantity, so we turn away people who aren't a good fit for us as well.

So, with just myself and the FC leader being the only two active people in the FC (the third person being inactive due to real life situation)... Should we now be kicked off our hard won plot of land that we've sunk millions of gil into not just buying but also decorating as well?

Please explain. I'll wait.

[Adrameliya]

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So, with just myself and the FC leader being the only two active people in the FC (the third person being inactive due to real life situation)... Should we now be kicked off our hard won plot of land that we've sunk millions of gil into not just buying but also decorating as well?

Please explain. I'll wait.

I’m in a somewhat similar situation, except that I’m alone in my fc because I don’t want to go through the headache of managing people and activities anymore. We used to be 5 at some point but people left.

Because of my work and times zones I can’t always be here at the same time as others during the week, and I have some activities I need to attend to on weekends as well. So most of the time when I logged in it was late for the other members except one who was in the same time zone. And we couldn’t do much all together.
So we ended up being two for a while, then they stopped playing a bit after Shadowbringer release.

The time zone issue is because I’m in the wrong server, should’ve went to a NA one but choose Europe because of language (I didn’t speak English fluently yet back then). But I like it here, and I don’t wanna leave.

The fc is mine (I always been the leader), house is mine, I bought it myself and decorated it, the airship is mine and the submersible is a gift from the member who stopped playing.
I shouldn’t have to loose all that just because I now play alone

You can’t kick people out of their hard earned propriety because their play style doesn’t match your ideals. It’s unfair.

[LaylaTsarra]

You can’t kick people out of their hard earned propriety because their play style doesn’t match your ideals. It’s unfair.

They are not going to kick people (take away their properties) with FC's regardless of size. There were no stipulations other than needing 4 members to start one and being a certain rank in GC in order to purchase a property. The take away crowd isn't going to win this one. If there are new rules implemented it will affect new FC's after the date of the new rule implementation and i highly doubt they'll change them.

What they do need to fix however is the ownership issue where ONLY one alt/character can be leader of a FC per server. That is the crux of the problem with people owning multiple FC's.

And frankly I'd have no problem with those with alts who all own multiple FC's on the same server and who have bypassed the intent of the rules to actually have to transfer ownership or have them taken away.

[Adrameliya]

They are not going to kick people (take away their properties) with FC's regardless of size. There were no stipulations other than needing 4 members to start one and being a certain rank in GC in order to purchase a property. The take away crowd isn't going to win this one. If there are new rules implemented it will affect new FC's after the date of the new rule implementation and i highly doubt they'll change them.

What they do need to fix however is the ownership issue where ONLY one alt/character can be leader of a FC per server. That is the crux of the problem with people owning multiple FC's.

And frankly I'd have no problem with those with alts who all own multiple FC's on the same server and who have bypassed the intent of the rules to actually have to transfer ownership or have them taken away.

The take away crowd always kinda scare me tbh, there’s so many of them asking, I’m always a bit afraid SE would cave in.

And I 100% agree there’s should be restrictions of how many alt/characters can be FC leaders on one server!