Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
Think the grand company stuff is legacy code at this point which is probably why it flew under the radar. The only use I have for the grand company is the squadron missions for the free buff scrolls, since they help with the cross data center travel more than the FC buffs that only work on the specific server. Looking back, DC travel really destroyed the social ecosystem even more than the ravages of time usually does. If every DC were a nation, we basically had every nation except Aether have a massive emigration and active population decline, which crushed the ability to play on those servers effectively. This in turn also rendered content like the island sanctuary completely useless as people who were DC traveling couldn't even access the content. Going back and forth is taxing and involves multiple loading screens, so people usually just ignore the content they can't access.
DC travel basically turned the world visit system into a world squatting system. People are essentially living nearly full time on 1 DC while occupying housing resources on another. Honestly at this point I feel like visitor status on another world should have the same access limitations as a free account so people either return to their DC for most content or commit to moving to the other DC.