Quote Originally Posted by Zigrin View Post
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/ It is against the rules to own multiple FC houses on one service account on the same world. Only people allowed to do that are players owning multiple houses before patch 4.2, which was released January 30th 2018.


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You may only purchase and maintain one private plot and one free company plot per World per service account.
I actually like this; but there is a "small" problem with it.

What defines maintain in this example? I'm on record saying I am fine with no shell FC's; I hate the concept of it to begin with. The issue is that language has some issues.
"You may only purchase and maintain one.."that's not entirely true in the literal sense; you may purchase as many as you wish; but you can only maintain 1 per world per service account for private homes; mechanically this is built into the game (if you attempt to take on a second private on a alt it will let you know you cannot). You can bid on a 2nd FC home on the same account or you can have it abdicated to you which is what we are seeing happen and I have no beef with that being changed - its probably worth noting in the example we started with that multiple service accounts are involved (as there are more then 8 homes listed).

Furthermore the above statement can only be true *if* we combine both conditions "You may only purchase AND maintain"; because by SE's grandfathered rules - long time accounts can maintain multiple private estates due to grandfathering; and this brings a interesting question to mind; what if a grandfathered account tries to bid on a new private? Does it ask them to pick what home on the list they wish to give up or (more likely) informs them that they will give up ALL estates to relocate?

I wish lodestone was up so that I could examine more of the context that quote came from; thats not to accuse you of bad faith; more so to see if in the entire post that SE addressed their own grandfather clause.