Quote Originally Posted by scarmace View Post
Can we maybe make it so a minimum of 4 people must be in an FC at all times to own a plot?
While your idea does sound good, in reality it would probably just punish more real players than the ones you're targetting.

If you're got an FC of 4 close friends and one of them leaves for another server... what then? That group of friends is now forced to add another character into their group just to keep the house.

It also won't really help. Anyone who has put in the time and effort to make an FC, rank it up to 6, make enough Gil for a house, find an available house and actually buy it even with the housing timer... the four person requirement isn't really going to be much of an issue.

They have two very easy options:

A) Just create more characters. Any standard account allows 8 characters and applying to join an FC, even from the same service account, is very easy, even more so if the FC already has a house with a placard they can click.

B) Buy some cheap copies of FFXIV Starter Edition and in the free 30 days create 8 characters and put them into whatever FCs they wanted. They could then just ignore the account/let it expire, but the character(s) would still remain in the FCs to keep the membership count up.

So then you'd have to make sure the member count was using active members only and that just wouldn't work. Many smallers FCs would be at risk of losing their housing in content droughts such as right now where a lot of people are unsubbed until the expansion.