SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[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!