I see that it's been covered already, but I'll drop it here all the same.

Another thing that I want to point out is that even going forward FCs and people in the system will have an advantage. If a house is demolished you have that random timer blocking purchases... but you can still relocate into them, because relocating and purchasing are different. So to get a medium or large you would either need no FC to notice the demolition, or you would first need to find and win a small plot somewhere and then relocate using that.

Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
I was originally under the impression nobody could own more than 1 FC house on 1 character, that you could not transfer ownership of an FC with a house to someone that already owned an FC house. Are there examples of this happening already?
We won't have examples until after 4.2 drops, but it works if you follow the path of least resistance. Using their wording in the official translation:

- Player E isn't buying those plots, so until the point of Player E-2 being given Master status they shouldn't be stopped.
- Player E-2 and beyond own FC plots, but technically so too do countless not-jerky-people. If you can't purchase an FC on an alt while your main is in a different FC, then the game counts your main as owning an FC. If you're in an FC on your main and your alt, as far as the game is concerned, you already "own" two FCs. And so, continuing that logical process, there's no difference between Player E and any other player.
- People that are being grandfathered in will own multiple FCs, and the system doesn't seem to be doing anything to them - they specifically say that people owning multiple free company estates can freely relocate (so, no checks there). Unless, perhaps, the person chooses to pass Master status to someone else - then we're in the above scenarios again.

While you're all correct in that it makes it slightly more cumbersome for your run of the mill individual to begin house flipping (unless they're selling their plot to FCs), all we're really doing is encouraging them to band together (if they aren't already) while simultaneously giving them less competition at the outset to acquire a stock of houses.