My FC, since September has always had this set up on the Company Chest:
Chest 1 and 3 Accessible to all approved members (rank above the initial rank)
Chest 2 is Deposit only, for housing items or high value items.
Gil is Deposit only for obvious reasons
Crystals were accessible to all approved members.
This worked very well for us, people shared and shared alike, people took acceptable ammounts of shards when levelling crafts and left shards they didnt want in return, very happy and honest way of using the chest feature and that is how it was intended i assume.
We have an inactivity kick just like most FCs would, and there was a member who had been kicked for being inactive over 2 months.
This player returned and he was welcomed back into the FC and as he was known to us he was approved straight away.
The next day he took 10k shards from the FC chest, all the crystals and all the clusters and then left the FC
After this happened we wrote to a GM, this is clear theft.
the GMs response was that they do not get involved in FC problems as the chest restrictions are there for this reason
the problem is, this has NEVER happened.. since September no one has ever done this, we have had people leave the FC on good terms and bad terms and no one has ever taken from the chest upon leaving.
So the GMs solution, as well as saying we cant punish this guy.. was that we lock everyone out, cos of what this one guy did
Why should a whole FC suffer cos of one DB?
--Justice happened, I got the word out about this player and eventually he sent me all the shards back

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