SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[Lumia]

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I call this an exploit because I don't think it is "working as intended".

Long story short, my Free Company recently had 10million gil (plus half the items in the FC chest) stolen from us.

A smaller FC recently merged into my FC and we gave that FC's leader his own rank so he could form his coil static group. His rank (set to 3rd) could promote/demote and deposit gil only.

While the leaders weren't logged in, he invited what appeared to be an RMT looking name and promoted that person to the 2nd rank which had gil withdrawal privileges. This allowed him to take all the gil out of the FC chest when he shouldn't otherwise have had access to it.

This could easily have been prevented if you can't promote to a rank above your own. I'm sure there are many Free Companies out there that don't know about this and could be at risk to this exploit.

We have gotten nowhere so far in trying to get our gil back because "it is working as intended". But I, and probably others, don't see it that way.

This is what I would like to see changed/added:
1. Change it so hierarchy actually matters. (can't promote above one's own rank, etc)
2. Show the "who" invites/promotes/demotes in the chat log and also record it in the activity log.
3. Add a notification setting for leadership positions to see when items are removed/deposited into the Free Company chest (on/off feature) - something similar to something selling on the market wards, except it would say "Name withdraws .... from the Free Company Chest"



If you run a FC and didn't know about this exploit/loophole, I would suggest looking over who can do what. Don't let this happen to you.