FC etiquette

[Gemina]

I don't charge my FC anything. The only thing I ask for is to help train the chocobos and with garden tending if myself or the guild leader are not online. They are also pretty good at putting valuable, marketable mats in the company chest that they come across during their adventures. When it comes to crafting, I find time more valuable than gil, and if they save me that, it really goes a long way and I don't mind showing my appreciation with crafts and melds.

[Vandril]

Generally speaking, I follow a very straightforward set of rules when it comes to this.

I will craft for FC mates for free if they bring me the materials. If they do, they get whatever the result of the following craft attempt is. If it fails, they get nothing. If it ends up NQ, they get NQ. If it ends up HQ, they get HQ. If it fails and materials are returned to me, I'll either return their materials or try the craft again if they want. I will always do my best to try to get them an HQ result, but RNG still plays a huge factor in high-end crafts and I can only go so far to augment it.

I always make this policy very clear for those I'm crafting something. It wouldn't be right to let my commissioners, FC mates or no, believe that they're absolutely definitely getting that HQ they really want when RNG could completely wreck the process beyond belief. It's important to me that they understand that RNG-failures can happen and that I will not be covering them for that risk.

Then there's the following caveats:

I'll always give them the rough odds of them getting an HQ piece if I can.

If I have a surplus of a material and/or I'm just feeling generous, I'll often spot them some of the mats for the craft they want.

I typically don't require crystals needed for the craft as part of the materials given to me.

I will accept tips, but by no means do I charge FC mates a commission. In fact, I will usually craft for free in general to those that ask politely.

I will use vendor crafting food. If they want me to use something better, they can procure it or its mats for me.

I will typically not completely reimburse a failed craft even if it failed entirely due to my own error. Whether or not I attempt to reimburse at all is up to me. Mistakes DO happen. Though, in my defense, I've never had this happen on someone else's crafts.

[Bdyer]

So I've heard a split between:

Completely free with crafter providing all mats
Or
Mats supplied by the requestor
--failure or nq failure to be paid by crafter
--failure or nq failure to be paid by requestor

[Jeibird]

I make my fc non top level gear completely free however if they need something difficult to make they have to wait for me to get around to it. I also ask they buy whatever seals or tome matts I need. if they need something particular annoying such as a primal glamor weapon they have to either farm it themselves or buy it. I may have previously maxed everything but I don't know how to work the mb so I'm not rich