Materia DC - Regarding Free Companies.

[ironbutterfly]

This is something we have struggled with too as an FC. Our entire FC is moving as we are all Aus based. We made the choice to move but it hasn't been made easy packing up just a small FC. We stock piled as much stuff we could and I have 2 retainers full of exclusive mats, ship parts and a tonne of fuel.

[Shibi]

This is something we have struggled with too as an FC. Our entire FC is moving as we are all Aus based. We made the choice to move but it hasn't been made easy packing up just a small FC. We stock piled as much stuff we could and I have 2 retainers full of exclusive mats, ship parts and a tonne of fuel.

With free transfers you might also consider to make a bunch of alts and level them just enough to get retainers. Invite them to your FC, stack them full of stuff you want, including all those ceruleum tanks and stuff off the marketboard, and free transfer them.

[Jojoya]

Considering the way workshops are tied to a house and houses are in the ward system, I don't think there's much they could do to address that drawback of transfers between worlds. SE would need to detach workshops from housing and give them a different access point like the affiliated GC headquarters (similar to squadron barracks).

Leveling your FC and gaining credits is not a problem. Getting a house is the more difficult part.

As others have pointed out, you can do some prep to help take some of your acquired assets with you and help get your new FC established faster. Decommission airships/subs and place the parts in inventory along with any workshop schematic materials you have so you will be able to start unlocking schematics as soon as you have your new FC house and workshop. Spend the company credits on ceruleum tanks, dive credits, flight credits, Voidrake and Althyk Lavender seeds, etc. Fill any leftover inventory space (don't forget your retainers and chocobo saddlebag) with useful items not easily farmed (your new MBs are going to be very empty for a while). Don't forget to include stacks of cheap ShB end game crafting materials to make gear to turn in for Expert Deliveries to help get your initial FC ranks very quick.

With free transfers you might also consider to make a bunch of alts and level them just enough to get retainers. Invite them to your FC, stack them full of stuff you want, including all those ceruleum tanks and stuff off the marketboard, and free transfer them.

Think newly created characters are not eligible for world transfer so that may not work. Can't seem to pull up the support article on Lodestone to confirm due to maintenance.

A lot of us aren't transferring because we'll be losing a lot of progress.

This honestly doesn't make sense. FC progress means so little when it's so easily regained outside of the workshop fleet. That is such a tiny portion of overall game play it shouldn't be a deterrent.

I can understand the concern over not getting compensated for the FC house purchase price but it shouldn't be difficult for a FC with a small but active membership to accumulate enough in the couple of months before housing opens if transferring members don't already have the needed gil.