Free Company Housing Census - July 2021

[Almagnus1]

If the player only ones a single shell FC, that's understandable. It could be that they ended up the only one left active in a formerly active FC as other members transferred to other FCs/worlds or deleted characters they had stopped playing.

I think that's where FC rank should play a part with the detection criteria in addition to FC population. I highly doubt that a former FC is going to be stuck at R6, or (like the example posted in the other thread) a FC of the married couple is going to be R6. Key part is figuring out what is (and isn't) a shell FC and hope the net causes as minimal collateral damage as possible.

If the player own multiple shell FCs, that's a problem that SE needs to address.

I honestly don't know if there's a good way to differentiate between one and the other. Although I would be open to a Mogg Station transaction for an FC house to allow the leader to turn it into a personal house if there has not been a leadership change in over a month or two.

Personal housing wasn't a mistake. FC housing tends to end up the plaything of a couple of officers while the rest of the members don't get to do anything other than walk around. It's not good content design when you give a small percentage of players control over other players' access to participate in content.

Agree 100%

The real mistake was ward housing instead of instanced.

Unfortunately, there's no way around this at this point as we're looking at Yoshi-P stuck with sunk cost fallacy.

While I would love to have a GC squadron based airship base, as that could have made sense story wise if Garlemald would have stayed the big bad (as I suspect we're going to be ending that empire with Endwalkers), I don't really see the need for this justification as we'd need some sort of big bad that we could perpetually deploy our GC squad against, and use the airship to help with said deployment. That doesn't really work if we keep taking out all the big bads as the warrior of light >.<