SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[Colorful]

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Did you even read the thread? In every MMO other than FFXIV the rank to promote someone above your own rank is an impossibility, how was the OP to expect that it was possible and to be robbed of 10million gil? Also I'm pretty sure you can't promote someone to FC master even with this system, you have to wait the 30(?) days of them being offline.

Regardless of all that, this thread is like a year old. The OP has probably made that gil back and infinitely more (if they're even still playing).

[ServerCollaps]

basically, there are only 2 ranks, master and everything else

theres no other ranking, you just have the option to give "everything else" some different names with individual rights but in the end its always on par with every other "everything else" which got the same rights

[AnimaS]

Threw in 15MIL on a house at 3.0 was robbed, but we put a bitch in charge and she stole it. whoever owns the house has the leverage. I admit it, i was robbed because we allowed her to have the power to do that.Master IS ALL.

[AnimaS]

Seriously if you give promotion/demotion to anyone as a rank ability you are asking for chaos.

[Moonleg]

Seriously if you give promotion/demotion to anyone as a rank ability you are asking for chaos.

In other games the rules usually are that you can promote someone up to the rank below yours.

In FF14 you can promote people to a rank above your own.

That is usually considered an exploit. Imagine if your supervisor at work could promote you to be his boss, does that seem right to you?

[Canadane]

In other games the rules usually are that you can promote someone up to the rank below yours.

In FF14 you can promote people to a rank above your own.

That is usually considered an exploit. Imagine if your supervisor at work could promote you to be his boss, does that seem right to you?

The issue stems from FC's only having 2 ranks. Master and not-master.
You can make as many categories for non-master members as you like (or up to 5 or whatever the limit is). But giving promotion/demotion privileges to one simply says "you can shuffle people around any category you'd like" as they're all effectively the same rank. There is no hierarchy. There is only a monarchy.

[Moonleg]

The issue stems from FC's only having 2 ranks. Master and not-master.
You can make as many categories for non-master members as you like (or up to 5 or whatever the limit is). But giving promotion/demotion privileges to one simply says "you can shuffle people around any category you'd like" as they're all effectively the same rank. There is no hierarchy. There is only a monarchy.

I do understand that.

However, SE decided to implement a system that's been in MMOs since ... forever. I know there were guild ranks in Anarchy Online, and that's from 2001, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they have ALWAYS been in MMOs. But in implementing guild ranks, they decided to re-invent the wheel and make it octagonal for some insane reason. It is only fair that the players complain and ask SE to use the GOOD, ROUND wheel instead of the bumpy OCTAGONAL one they invented.

[ShaneDawn]

Wow. That's like me being a small section chief of a big time company, hiring my frand and then promoting him as the CEO of the whole outfit. We take the money, run, and no country officials think there's anything wrong with the system....

Crazy stuff!

[Sicno]

Wow... 1.5 years and this is still a thing. Their design decisions are really questionable.

[Etiken]

Agreed. You shouldn't be able to promote above your own rank.