Content geared towards FCs

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Oh, I don't know... Maybe because if FCs actually mattered then recruitment would also matter, and it would end up being important to keep your FC clean of it?

There would still be drama, you can never be rid of that, but people in FCs would make a lot more effort to avoid it.

There's no real reason to be in a FC right now outside of buffs and the workshop(which only ranks get access to anyways). This means it's a mostly social group, and that people hop between them until they find the right one or they decide that they don't need one.

If there was exclusive content for a FC suddenly most people would likely need one, but FCs would also need willing members for that content. This means there could be competitive recruitment, and competitive recruitment would lead to FCs attempting to reduce drama and treat their members better. Otherwise their FC could end up with a bad image, and therefore struggle to recruit members for said content.

Its nice that you have such a positive outlook here, but honestly I'd suspect the opposite would happen.

FC-exclusive content would be gated by something else on top of being gated by FCs - may that be the amount of people who can participate at once, your own schedudle which may or may not allow you to play during the time your FC does the content, the amount of loot (think about how the rare drops from airships/subs are distributed within a FC...) or if its personal loot the question of everyone contributed equally to the task at hand... honestly, I can think of so many things that are basically drama waiting to happen here.

In addition to that I also see potential from turning FCs from social groups into "reward factories" where you dont join a FC or stay in it because you like the company, but because its the most efficient one for you to have access to the content/rewards. I'm being a bit hyperbolic here, but imagine people having to leave FCs with friends that they enjoy playing with because the FC is to small for the content or because everyones schedules dont line up well enough to tackle it. People staying in FCs where they dont like anyone, but get to do the content. People being kicked out of the FC because they dont contribut enough to said content. People going FC hoping to do the content more often. People threating to leave the FC if they dont get XYZ...

I actually prefer FCs being "just" social groups over being forced into a group that ends up being more or less social - and in the end potentially only focussed on getting the most out of the FC. And I'd prefer to be in a FC because people like having me, as a person, around - not because I'm useful to them because of [content].