Bot Free Companies and New Housing Sale Rules

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I was poking around with the advanced search today and noticed an influx of bot FCs with gibberish names:



This made me curious.
What is the effect of property sales being limited to FCs?

So, using a few Python tools, I scraped the available FC registrations and came up with this chart. The date range is limited to 20 pages as returned by the search tool.



When looking at this, keep these three major news dates in mind:

• Dec. 15 - Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XL
• Jan. 19 - Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI
• Jan. 29 - Lodestone Additional Plots and Purchasing Guide Update

I wish everyone the best of luck on securing a space tomorrow.

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[Tussin]

Sweet Jesus it makes me want to be on the smallest server possible!

[Dustytome]

Just a bunch of bots revving up to pour all their funds/gathered goods into an fc chest so they can pool it together before shipping it off to some halfwit that feels the need to break ToS because they want something but don't want to take the time to earn it.

[illgot]

Just a bunch of bots revving up to pour all their funds/gathered goods into an fc chest so they can pool it together before shipping it off to some halfwit that feels the need to break ToS because they want something but don't want to take the time to earn it.

this. The gold sellers form FCs so they can use the company bank to transfer gil around quickly. There is a limit of 1 million per trade or 2 million per mail, so using the FC bank is much faster since there is no deposit or withdraw limit.

It would be counter productive for gold selling sites to buy houses and try and sell them to individuals considering they can earn gil faster and offload it faster than house flipping.

[Hasrat]

Will just have to wait and see how the next few days/weeks pan out, if the new house flipping becomes selling shell FCs for the housing plot they own. Maybe poke around a while after release and see if any empty plots are owned by trash FCs.

[HyoMinPark]

These bot FCs are not anything new, nor have they been used to purchase housing. They’re used for RMT purposes, and that’s about it. People shouldn’t start worrying that they’re going to suddenly swoop in and start buying up all the new plots.

[MiniOmegaDragon]

going to be 100% honest i have reported well over 100 botting fc's from moogle to omega yea on both servers

[Sashazor]

Bots are generally not interested in purchasing land, I've never seen a plot owned by a bot and I live in an enormous server. Also, with the timer in place, there's no way they can efficiently sell a house. Bot FCs are generally done for them to dump money into an FC chest that buyers sometimes request.

[Hasrat]

Also, with the timer in place, there's no way they can efficiently sell a house.

They don't have to sell the house. They sell the FC that owns the house (or plot of land).

Yes, we all know in the past bots of all shapes and sizes have used and abused any system they can. I'd call it too early to tell whether they're going to take a stab at FC housing, due to changes in the relinquish timer as well as the FC-only limitation currently in place. Additionally, OP has a point. Though it may be sheer coincidence, the rise in FC creation may possibly correlate with information on housing being revealed. It's easy to say bot FCs have always existed. But that's ignoring the point that there has evidently been a significant* increase in their occurrence.

[MizArai]

Bots are generally not interested in purchasing land, I've never seen a plot owned by a bot and I live in an enormous server. Also, with the timer in place, there's no way they can efficiently sell a house. Bot FCs are generally done for them to dump money into an FC chest that buyers sometimes request.

They can totally sell the demolition to someone trying to relocate, as the RNG timer does NOT apply to relocations.