This will be a familiar situation to some of you. A friend suggests you join their FC. It's tempting but you put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into getting your own FC up to level 8, you just don't want to give up the house with the beloved Behemoth Wall Trophy and moogle mail box, and you have friends in it etc. Too bad. What if there was a sort of FC Alliance system where FCs can affiliate with other FCs, with some benefits associated? At a minimum there could be an Alliance chat channel. But other things could be put in place as well - privileged access to houses - "hanging at your friends place", maybe shared notice boards, bonuses for doing certain things together... Lots of other things could be built on this too... A system like this could be good be good for building communities beyond the current FC system.