Housing Situation

[Luca_]

They also have severely nerfed the number of houses available to FCs even though FCs have access to company workshop that single player housing do not get. All of the company workshop features have been nerfed to only require a single person to perform, so they've turned into lowman FC "fight club" submarine retainers that give the privileged few 1million gil per 24 hours. I'm honestly amazed SE hasn't nerfed the NPC sellable items from subs, nor have they just made the workshop available to all housing. At least they TRIED something with FC airships getting access to a special diadem zone back in the day, but it was really unpopular and disappeared pretty quickly.

I own a large with high level subs and airships and I kind of have a hot take:

Workshops were a mistake and shouldn't be limited to housing at all. They've ruined FC wards because they're so lucrative that it's worth the effort to make multiple alt FCs and buy as many houses as possible for more of them, and extending that to personal housing would just make it easier. There should be an unlockable workshop elsewhere in the game that's available to all players with housing workshops being more of a convenience than anything.

[Devotions]

Workshops were a mistake and shouldn't be limited to housing at all. They've ruined FC wards because they're so lucrative that it's worth the effort to make multiple alt FCs and buy as many houses as possible for more of them, and extending that to personal housing would just make it easier. There should be an unlockable workshop elsewhere in the game that's available to all players with housing workshops being more of a convenience than anything.

Which would also mean that if you unsub for a while, your hard work isn't destroyed. Subs take something like a year to level to max, but if you lose a workshop, they're gone forever.