Multiple Houses

[Sauteed]

Make apartments something actually useful. Give us public access to the crafting workshop through Garlond Ironworks or Skysteel Manufactury. Let us launch airship and sub missions without needing to be in an FC to do it. Give us cross gardening without requiring a house.
IMO.

I do not think giving individuals the ability to have workshop access is a good idea. That should remain as a perk for a free company. It keeps what is there scarce which I think is good for the particular resources to have some sort of value. If a player does not like that within an fc they can found their own tho, as I have and many others like me who were not pleased with how many fcs run things. I do think better apartments is a HUGE step in the right direction.

[Almagnus1]

I do not think giving individuals the ability to have workshop access is a good idea. That should remain as a perk for a free company. It keeps what is there scarce which I think is good for the particular resources to have some sort of value. If a player does not like that within an fc they can found their own tho, as I have and many others like me who were not pleased with how many fcs run things. I do think better apartments is a HUGE step in the right direction.

Given how we've got a woefully inadequate supply of houses compared to the demand, anything that can be done to incentivize players to release a house (in this case by making housing stuff available to the general public so there's less reason to have a house) should be done. Besides, how many FCs actually have the permissions loose enough that the average person in the FC can use the workshop or run an expedition?

By making the workshop available to the general populace, it's going to cause people that are in the micro FCs think twice about why they have it... and possibly lead a few of them to release the house (or delete the FC which will release the house) as they have less a reason to keep it around.

Ima have to stop you there. I have 2 FC's in my server that own more then 10 FC houses. 1 HAS 11 the other 13. That right there seems to be more then 8

I'm suspecting a math error here, but how many distinct service accounts are in each of those FCs?