SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[DarkSeifer]

I'm one of the GM's of Dark Hour and the same thing happened to us, but it was when we first started saving up gil. We lost 1.3m. May not seem like a lot, but it really put a stop to our saving up gil for a while.

Someone joined the FC, got promoted up to the second rank, and withdrew all of our gil. He then left and deleted his character.

We were forced to change the ranks so that no one but the leader can withdraw gil, and no one but the leader can change rank settings.

Our first response from SE was that this was basically our fault for trusting any member with promotion privilages.

Our second response said that this bug should be reported on the forums. But either way, we were told that there would be no way for us to get our gil back.

Our third and final attempt, I was told that it would be brought to the attention of the developers and I would get a follow up later on. Nothing was ever done or followed up on.

I hate to compare this... but in WoW once we had an issue where someone stole gold from our guild, and within an hour we had it all back and every item too. I was hacked and had my gold stolen from my personal character and it was replaced within 20 minutes.

This is not something that is "working as intended" and it is not the fault of any FC. This is an issue with the hierarchy system in this game that lets members promote above their own rank. This is SE's fault and them not replacing the gil stolen due to this ovesight is complete bs.

/rant

[DoctorPepper]

I would like to see this fixed as well, obvious major design flaw that shouldn't be considered "working as intended". This is the second time I've heard about this happening, the first time I heard about it was in game and that FC lost something like 85 mil, don't think they ever got it back either.

[Randelmire]

85M !!?? God... I think I would rage quit, unsuscribe and throw my computer through the window.

[Vilhem]

I hope they fix this and ban the moron -_-; The guy already had a sort of bad rep among pugs (I didn't have a good experience with him either).

[Ninix]

It is incredibly stupid that the Promotion/Demotion permission allows someone to promote themselves beyond their current rank. Like, mind-bogglingly stupid.

That being said, I don't think you're likely to get any help from Square Enix, unfortunately.

[ErikMynhier]

That's why the only one allowed to promote/demote should be the Master.

[Tashigi]

Ow.
Sucks that happened to you.

[HumsterMKX]

I would like to say this again. It will not change because it is not written in JP.

WE ARE SECOND rated citizens pls remember that.

Yes ppl will get mad for me for saying this. But as long it is not written in JP nothing can or will be done.

Yes I am dead serious.

[Zenaku]

I would like to say this again. It will not change because it is not written in JP.

WE ARE SECOND rated citizens pls remember that.

Yes ppl will get mad for me for saying this. But as long it is not written in JP nothing can or will be done.

Yes I am dead serious.

Don't think so just take longer for the NA dev to tell the JP dev then for them to tell someone about it. While if it written in JP the dev just take that info and give it straight to Yoshi-p which could be a few room from them lol.

That or it's such a small issue it's a waste of time and money to fix. In this case you just don't allow anymore to promote too they fix it.

[Keith_Dragoon]

The language this is reported in only matters if you want a direct dev response instead of a community rep response with a translated message from devs. I'm sure they've seen this and have passed it on by now. Let's just hope we get the reply we seek and not "working as intended"