FC owning 12 plots

[worldofneil]

You and I both know that an exploit (in gaming terms) means getting a gain (or advantage) through utilizing a system in an unexpected (and often unintended) manner that is later fixed to prevent the acquisition of that gain. More often than not, this gets patched within a month of finding (at least it should), sometimes it takes years.

Please tell me one time that SE has taken years to fix an exploit? Things like people being able to friend their alts (happened twice now) or the whole Ungarmax thing were fixed in days (admittedly Ungarmax was reported months before, but wasn't actually fixed until it became widely know, but that was still months, not years).

The only time I can recall SE intentionally taking a while to fix something not working as intended was Blue Mage and when people were solo levelling it by quickly changing job to get the exp on Blue Mage. They even specifically addressed this and said how they wouldn't be able to fix it within a reason timeframe and therefore wouldn't be taking action against anyone using that method, even though they were prefer they didn't. This was also fixed within months (4.5 to 5.0), not years.

But FC housing? It was listed under temporary changes and it was a temporary change. They've never mentioned it since January 2018 and it's been over *3* years.

What I find interesting is this line:

You may only purchase and maintain one private plot and one free company plot per World per service account.

Yes, on a webpage that isn't even on the main page of the Lodestone (you have to click Play Guide first, where as the main page has lots of links to other mini sites).

It's also on a webpage that isn't even referenced in the game, where you actually buy the house.

If SE wanted you to enforce 1 FC house per service account, per world, they would. At the very least they'd point you to the housing guide page or actually say something in-game about how it's only intended for you to have one FC house... but they don't.

So you can rage at this FC who owns 12 plots or whatever, but for all you know they haven't even seen that webpage or even been made aware that at one (very brief) time, there was a limitation. They went the buy the house, the game let them.

I know you want to believe the site because it says what you want it to say, but clearly it's out of date and this is all working as intended.

Maybe housing on this game will always be a problem, but you cannot go after the players that earned something fairly using the rules of the game (which are still the rules of the game...)

That's a false equivalency since there are infinite titles and finite properties.

That's not true I'm afraid.

Saint of the Firmament was limited to the top 12 on each crafter/gathering profession (per server) and Beatus of the Firmament was the top 100. You only had 3 (or 4?) tries to get this and now it's gone for good.