SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[PetiteMalFleur]

This is a known bug. It happened in my old FC. A member promoted himself above his own rank and stole all our gil from the FC coffer. I immediately reported the person and a portion of our gil was recovered. I assume the other portion had already been spent as I was told they were unable to get it back. I was instructed by the gm to not allow promotions by any other rank and to keep the FC coffer set so only the FC leader can withdraw from it.

[HumsterMKX]

It needs to get into the JP forums ASAP.

[Iymala]

I noticed this on release as I was able to promote others above my rank no my alt. I thought it was horrible design, but never considered it would be used to do this. I always lock gil removal to guild leader only, but I am paranoid.

It is absolutely shameful that SE will not offer you any help. I hope you get your items restored by someone who actually cares about the community that is still invested in playing their game. Those people should be taken care of as their numbers are getting smaller and smaller.

[Lumia]

It was devastating to lose our hard earned gil. About 3.5 to 4mil of that came from my own pockets which I had been saving since v.1... Our members were getting excited because we made it to about the halfway point on getting a medium house. Losing our housing fund was a blow that is hard to recover from. Quite a few of our members wanted to quit, the FC leader and myself included.

Luckily, our members are strong and supportive of each other and we are managing to bounce back. We don't know if we will be able to get the house we wanted now before they get all bought up. So we will just have to remain homeless for a while longer than expected.

[Randelmire]

This is a known bug. It happened in my old FC. A member promoted himself above his own rank and stole all our gil from the FC coffer. I immediately reported the person and a portion of our gil was recovered. I assume the other portion had already been spent as I was told they were unable to get it back. I was instructed by the gm to not allow promotions by any other rank and to keep the FC coffer set so only the FC leader can withdraw from it.

That's interesting. Can you tell us more about how you get these gils back?

[Renik]

Even if it's a design flaw you should take care with who is allowed to promote/demote and change hierarchy settings.

Also i'm sure you've been robbed by a player not an RMT, RMT sellers and spammers have something in common, original names from stolen accounts, randomly generated names (those follow lore naming conventions), names containing the name of the RMT web page or names that contains "sdf", i would get rid of that "leader" you got with the merge.

[Mirakell]

I wasn't aware of this whole promoting above your own rank thing. I'll need to change things around when I get online tonight it seems >.> I'm sorry this has happened and wish you all the luck in getting your gil/items back. As the leader of a smallish FC I understand how much effort must have went into earning all that gil.

Best of luck <3

[necrosis]

This is a known bug. It happened in my old FC. A member promoted himself above his own rank and stole all our gil from the FC coffer. I immediately reported the person and a portion of our gil was recovered. I assume the other portion had already been spent as I was told they were unable to get it back. I was instructed by the gm to not allow promotions by any other rank and to keep the FC coffer set so only the FC leader can withdraw from it.

I curious when this happened. If it was months ago why the hell has it not been fixed yet?

[HumsterMKX]

I curious when this happened. If it was months ago why the hell has it not been fixed yet?

Maybe it is not written in JP?

[Lumia]

Even if it's a design flaw you should take care with who is allowed to promote/demote and change hierarchy settings.

Also i'm sure you've been robbed by a player not an RMT, RMT sellers and spammers have something in common, original names from stolen accounts, randomly generated names (those follow lore naming conventions), names containing the name of the RMT web page or names that contains "sdf", i would get rid of that "leader" you got with the merge.

We did get rid of him, along with another character we know he is personally associated with (family member).