SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[Penguinmayhem]

I can empathize with you, as we had our gil stolen in the Free Company I was previously in. The GMs gave us contradictory information and then refused to do anything.

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I really hope that they've changed their stance on this since then, and that you get your money back.

There should really be more attention on the topic if this is a problem that still exists. This is a blatant, oversight that can be abused by RMTs and assholes, and it's not even difficult to fix. Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?

This is unacceptable.

[Lumia]

Just wanted to keep people informed that this exploit still exists. I just tried it today with my own characters.

I made a new rank called "3rd" and gave it promotion/demotion permissions. It is in the 3rd position of hierarchy.
I then changed my alt "Chariots Chariots" to 3rd, and my other alt, Kibbles Katze, to a rank below 3rd, Star Onion.
From there I logged onto Chariots Chariots and was able to promote Kibbles Katze to Onion Knight, which is the 2nd in command position. (You can't promote to master).

[Maleha]

I'm leader of my FC and I actually didn't know that people could promote above their rank. Then again we are a medium sized fc of ca 120 people, only me and my officers have promotion privileges. And only I have access to the money in our chest and only me and the officers have full access to the 3rd tab in which we store rare mats. I was thankful to the heavens about patch 2.1 which introduced the "deposit only" permission and the chest log. Before that, me and the officers had full access. But 1 Officer turned out to be a douche, went behind my back, stole 200.000 before leaving the fc with a bunch of others from our core. Those were housing donations he and a another quitter had given but donations are bloody donations. If you take it out without saying, it's theft. I'm hoping for more options to make taking out crystals more limited, like a maximum of 100 per day or such. That would be helpful.

[necrosis]

Wow. SE still has done nothing about this?

[Anapingofness]

I knew about this issue but... wow, it really sucks that this happened to you.
I really hope that they make it so that you cannot promote above your current rank.
And I certainly hope they do something about your situation.
"Working as intended" is a copout and they know it. -_-

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I wasn't aware of this issue until tonight. I recently moved to Balmung to join my friends in the FC they're part of and also made new friends. My FC leader is aware of the exploit and his officers with promote privileges used the exploit for more benign purposes. FC leader was at work. So one of his officers promoted another officer to a rank with access to withdrawals in order to purchase the house.

[LalaRu]

Until this gets fixed, I'd suggest the only rank able to promote needs to be the one right after Master.

[Lumia]

I wasn't aware of this issue until tonight. I recently moved to Balmung to join my friends in the FC they're part of and also made new friends. My FC leader is aware of the exploit and his officers with promote privileges used the exploit for more benign purposes. FC leader was at work. So one of his officers promoted another officer to a rank with access to withdrawals in order to purchase the house.

And that right there is how all our gil was stolen... =/

[Spy]

I really HATE RMT, and the people who feed them!

I just shared this information with the other officers of my FC to hopefully prevent a disaster happening to us as well. Since I wasn't aware of this myself.

I apologize that this happened to you. But whether or not this is resolved, I think you really helped out a lot of other FC's by spreading awareness...so I thank you.

[necrosis]

Until this gets fixed, I'd suggest the only rank able to promote needs to be the one right after Master.

Be careful of the "master swapping" bug as well.