Solution for dead party finders due to DC travel.

[ChameleonMS]

... There should be some sort of incentive or bonus to making/joining a PF on your own DC. What that bonus is I’m not sure...

The bonus of staying on your own server is FC buffs. Meat n Mead or Proper Care are beneficial raid bonuses.
The value of them is so small that they are not an incentive to stay home.

Meat n Mead makes raid food last 10-15 minutes longer, which means only eating two food for a raid lockout instead of three. As most raid food costs about 3k gil, that is not really much value.
Proper Care has the same problem, gear wear is reduced. Fully repaired gear without the bonus will last for at least one full raid lockout. All proper care will do is prevent your gear from getting as low, slightly reducing its repair costs.

[Toutatis]

The bonus of staying on your own server is FC buffs. Meat n Mead or Proper Care are beneficial raid bonuses.
The value of them is so small that they are not an incentive to stay home.

Meat n Mead makes raid food last 10-15 minutes longer, which means only eating two food for a raid lockout instead of three. As most raid food costs about 3k gil, that is not really much value.
Proper Care has the same problem, gear wear is reduced. Fully repaired gear without the bonus will last for at least one full raid lockout. All proper care will do is prevent your gear from getting as low, slightly reducing its repair costs.

Those FC buffs are pretty much worthless as not only they offer very small beneficial effects, you can activate the same buffs at max level anywhere with items from your GC squadrons or pvp vendors anyway. The best would be cross DC PF and DF. Of not at least a decent incentive for doing PF on your own DC or a penalty, not to stats, but maybe to loot rolls if on another DC. That penalty wouldn’t affect statics as they can plan ahead of time who gets what.