Haven't made a thread on it yet when I meant to but one of the ideas they had long ago was Hamlet Defense in 1.0, a content where the crafting and battle side protected a small town through a series of waves. I've always felt that sort of concept could be quite fun for FCs. Especially as you could envision it's more than just defending some location but it might be -your- FC's hamlet. Perhaps multiple hamlets as options, adding both scalability and custom scenarios for SE to deliver players. For example the FC made hamlet, being a group project in and of itself (and replacing any shortcomings the housing system has, so no FC is without a workshop), would have scaling invasions and generally be a bit more 'do-able'. Success and failure being a bit more tuned to each FC's flavor, perhaps you boost the difficulty like a leve quest if you wanted but you could also just be like "we are hyper low key so whatever, hand us a soft ball". Meanwhile you might get other locations in the game as scenarios where hamlets will hire your FC and are far more scripted in the sense of their delivery (like you either perform to "this" bar or you don't win).

Can invert the defense into an offense as well and have FC invasions into the beast tribe strongholds. As mentioned with the whole hire concept, this could generate leaderboards and some FC vs FC light content (or even FC assaulting / defending each other's hamlets). Ideally the competition part isn't seen as the sole purpose (such that if you're a fc that wants to do some here and there you're not like "why bother, I'll never defend 5000000000 hamlets by the end of the season").

The hamlet construction opening up lots of new stuff too like it always felt weird to me the reputation system in the FC was just kind of hanging out there, I thought it would be neat if you could work on behalf of your FC for other nations and beast tribes and npcs specifically to develop relations which would naturally unlock new constructions, helpers, and tech.

Although on a personal note I'd be happy if this was all on a sole player level too (like a Garrison), but I feel it would work well in a group setting so.. either way it sounds interesting to me lol. Similarly for what I've said about airships or magitek garage.