Can we have an official response on the RMT sub FC farms?

[Jojoya]

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

Instead of snipping out the part that shows what you'd like the system to be, try including the rest of the information that's right next to that graphic.

Ownership of Free Company Plots

Each free company may only maintain one estate plot at a time. (The free company cannot purchase additional plots, but moving to a different plot is possible.)

* If one character on a service account purchases and maintains a free company plot, no other characters on the same World associated with that service account will be able to purchase one.
* If the character leaves the free company that maintains this plot, characters on the account will be able to purchase a new plot.
* These conditions only apply to purchases made after the release of patch 4.2. Any land purchased before patch 4.2 will be unaffected, and no land or estates will be lost as a result of these changes.

I underlined the part that is relevant to multiple house ownership. That is why "owned by buyer" is a thing when it comes to FC houses. If the character who made the actual purchase of the plot leaves, that FC house is no longer "owned by buyer" even if other characters from the same service account remain in that FC. Additional FC houses can then be purchased on the same world and service account.

It is not unintentional on SE's part. If they did not want players to have the ability to have multiple FCs with houses, they wouldn't have added in a way for the owner status to be removed.

You can stress the word "maintain" if you want, but what does it really mean? Do I "maintain" multiple FC houses because one of my alts is the FC Master of a FC I maintain for my use and for friends to hide their alts in when they don't want those alts to be in the same FC as their mains, because this character is a member of a different FC with a house also on Coeurl and because I also run the workshop for my cousin's FC on Marilith?

"Maintain" means nothing in all of this unless SE chooses to post a definition of what they mean by "maintain" in the purchase guide.

Do I like this? No, I don't. As far as I'm concerned, it was a very bad decision on SE's part.

Yet it was the decision they made. I'm not going to take out my frustration on players who are doing what SE allows them to do. I'm going to ask SE to change the system.

Maintain as prevent demolition. If you own 8 solo FC houses on 8 characters on one world on the same service account, then you're clearly above 1 FC house limit. Right now game doesn't check that rule and nothing happens.

Where do you find this as the definition of "maintain"?

So question: let's say I have a friend with a FC and I have an alt in that FC on top of having my own FC with house. My friend is on a business trip to a part of the world with crappy internet service and effectively unable to play for 8 weeks. I and up resetting the demo timer as a FC member entering the house.

Am I now maintaining multiple FC houses and so my friend has to lose their house?

There is nothing wrong with having a free company with a house where you are the only active member left. You can still join other fcs with your alts if you want and that's fine, but it makes zero sense that your alts can join/create a new homeless fc and then bid on more houses on the same server. That is currently possible and it's what enables house hoarding using only one account.

You probably should list the context in which you believe it makes "zero sense" just for clarity's sake. Not everyone may be thinking about the situation in the same way as you.

Regardless, it is what SE allows. Rather than get angry with the player doing what SE allows them to do, shouldn't we be getting angry with SE?