PSA: Giving promotion privilages to someone in your FC gives them all privilages

[ToasterMan]

Now you're probably wondering how that works.

Well right now, the promotion privileges in game work in a very different way from what is standard in a rank hierarchy.

Lets say I have a large FC and I'm taking steps to make it more autonomous. I give the person who I intend to be the highest ranked officer the promotion privileges so that he can he promote players as he sees fit. Guess what he can also do? He can also promote someone to any rank that they want besides the master rank. Someone has mentioned he could make an alt in the FC and promote that alt to a rank they were not suppose to have.

Yes you heard right.

They can basically promote themselves to a rank that has privileges that they weren't suppose to have.

Someone in the thread has mentioned that this is because every rank that is not the master rank is treated as equal. As an FC master, you are not able to define which ranks are higher than others. Someone else has said that the initial impression of the rank structure is that there is an enforced hierarchy, when in reality there isn't.

It has caused many problems such as the one that this thread was about:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...100M-GIL-taken

The purpose of this thread to petition to get this changed so that rank hierarchy is properly enforced. Hopefully we can get a Dev response on this.

Here even more information you'll want to know

Two more additions:

Anyone with the permission "rank settings" can give themselves ranks they didn't previously have.

Anyone with the permission "purchase/relinquish land" and "hall construction/removal" can demolish the FC house, relinquish the plot and buy the plot as a personal to themselves, without ever asking for FC master confirmation.

So as a FC master you should remove these permissions from everyone as they are not used very often: Rank Settings, Purchase/Relinquish Land, Hall Construction/Removal, Workshop Construction/Removal, Airship Registration/Dismantling, if anyone needs to mess with any of those settings they can wait until you're online.

And just so I can hammer it in:

WARNING: GIVING AN FC RANK THE PRIVILEGE TO PROMOTE OTHERS WILL ALLOW THEM TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES AND OTHERS TO A RANK YOU DIDN'T WANT THEM TO HAVE