Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

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And all of this is completely irrelevant to shell FCs. If you're going to cite population, at least use https://ffxivcensus.com/

Congrats on your failed attempt at diverting. The point is that FC housing can accommodate way more people than personal housing. Hence why personal housing is much more problematic, granted it takes up the majority of the plots for a lot less players.

Then again, this is coming from the same person that wrote a guide on how to get a shell FC to the point that it can buy a house ( https://www.xivhousing.com/free-company-leveling ) which is making this entire situation worse. So it's no surprise you're going to overzealously defend shell FCs.

Setting the record straight darling. You think a couple of thousand house owners are a problem but ironically, personal housing has no issues. What a joke you are.

Again, irrelevant to the discussion of shell FCs as I already pointed out 80% of the FC housing have at least 4+ members.

Irrelevant for someone who's dead focused on being deceitful. Let me remind you that you are the one who chose to use the word "we" when JP players don't come around here. Btw, you have yet to address that. Who do you speak for? Who's "we".

Yes, I'm aware of this as I had previously said:

I don't think you are aware of anything really. Again, you are being deceitful by combining everything together. Don't be surprised that you're getting called out on it.

Problem isn't on when they were added, it's that they exist to begin with.

When the purchase happenned is irrelevant when the problem is they exist to begin with.

Not only is that your opinion, but SE has stated that temporary restrictions were not retroactive. You are a literal who, take a seat.

And look! You're even going so far as to leverage the fact that FCs take up about a third of all the FFXIV housing to make the problem appear as if it's nonexistant!

Yes, FC housing is a minority and here you are crying about the minority of a minority. You understand that right (wishful thinking).

As stated previously, personal housing is completely irrelevant to the shell FC issue. Shell FC housing is done explicitly to bypass the personal housing requirements and let one person acquire more houses than what SE intendes.

1: It's not irrelevant when personal housing brings in way more issues.
2: The temporary restriction on FC housing doesn't even work, but you don't know that because you have no experience with FC housing.
3: That's a big assumption for someone so inexperienced on the subject.
4: Funny how you bring in SE's intent when you've previously stated that you believe any FC with less than 4 members shouldn't exist (something they obviously disagree with). The game allows you to own as many FC houses until you cap an account. Don't even need a "loophole", but as I said before, you are unaware.

Going by https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/ the requirement to buy an FC house is four characters. It seems reasonable that the FC should stay at alest four members (which roughly 80% of the FCs do worldwide) to retain their house. There definitely needs to be a discussion around removing the FCs that fall below four (and where that threshold should be) because the data from SE with respect to the FCs isn't the cleanest (especially since there's 0 member FCs in that data).

1: As said previously, the temporary restriction on FC housing doesn't even work.
2: Reasonable to you only. You sound like Napoleon.
3: FCs with 0 members exist because of character recovery. Thanks for displaying your ignorance.

And here we go with using all the houses instead of specifically talking about the FC housing just to water down the stats.

Apple to apple
House for house

You're the one being deceiving by choosing what you want to talk about or even what others talk about.

Here's what those stats are if you only look at the FC housing:

NA: 7.94%
EU: 4.66%
JP 13.30%

EU's low percentage is due to EU having generally less FC housing overall than the other two regions.

Yes, you are crying yet again about the minority of a minority. Congrats.

As stated previously when the purchase occurred doesn't matter, the problem is that they exist because the shell FCs are making this entire housing situation worse.

It doesn't matter to you because it makes you look bad. Not that it's a difficult thing to do.

Yes, because writing a more indepth response is more important than getting to the gym so I stay sexy! =D

In-depth? You are one most uninformed people I've come across on this forum. Try reading books or something... at least that will get you somewhere.

From having worked with PowerBI, I know that whatever you set the query the database uses to pull the data will define the dataset displayed, and as you have shown a pattern of using the data to represent the issue as not as significant as it is, I fully expect all views coming from you to be tailored to best fit your narrative regardless of what the data actually says. As your site hosts a guide on how to cheese the FC system to quickly spin up a shell FC (and yes, that's what your guide facilitates whethere you want to acknowledge it or not), I fully expect you to defend this flaw in the housing system and provide manicured data slices instead of the actual DB of data.

It's not as significant as you claim it is, because well... it isn't darling. The very reason why this website exists is because of people like you who have no knowledge. If you believe I'm tampering with the data, go ahead, prove it.

You need to stop crying about 3% of the house owners when personal housing brings in a lot more issues. Issues you refuse to discuss by the way. Knowing your history on here, this is just another hill for you to die on.

Help does exist if the only thing you enjoy doing is ridicule yourself and play the victim card on a video game forum.