Fake FCs' Housing Abuse

[Warghoul570]

Option C can be a 30-45 day timer to replace member 4 in order to preserve the house

[Sotaris]

Option C can be a 30-45 day timer to replace member 4 in order to preserve the house

It wouldn't fix anything when you can just make alts to join the FC.

[Themarvin]

I think it should be fixed so no 1 person FC's is permitted and have to have 6 active accounts in it, meaning if someone stops playing... the FC will be getting an auto demolition warning after 45 days, however with ships and everything added will be saved to a special storage, if it end going boom boom, evicted for not being able to fullfill the basic requirement.

[Catstab]

if someone stops playing... the FC will be getting an auto demolition warning after 45 days

Again, won't work:

So if you have 3 alts and invite them to your first FC, it resets the timer to 60 days, then? Then you kick them and invite them to fc #2. Repeat 21 more times. Now the demolition process is stopped and your 23 1-man FCs operate as normal until day #59 comes back.

If the solution is "have an alt in the FC once every month or two" then the measure isn't worth taking, because the loophole couldn't be easier.

[TroySoFab]

The only real fix for this is to limit houses based on account not character.

[Arielen]

I foresee a lot of extremely active hardcore RP FCs and housing enthusiasts getting caught up in a "generate x amount of company credits" and having their houses destroyed because of it. There's also no easy or convenient way of seeing how many credits have been generated: you'd have to manually calculate it every month. If the solution requires a chunk of the playerbase to behave differently because 1.8% of housing is owned by solo fcs, I don't think it's worthwhile.

[Penthea]

because 1.8% of housing is owned by solo fcs, I don't think it's worthwhile.

It's not just solo fcs that are dead. There's are fcs in my ward with a few lvl 50 characters as members and they have been lvl 50 for several years.

[Arielen]

It's not just solo fcs that are dead. There's are fcs in my ward with a few lvl 50 characters as members and they have been lvl 50 for several years.

Evidently, there are still people in the FC that are active. I don't see what the issue is. If it was a personal, it wouldn't be a problem but for some reason because there's an FC tag attached we expect a community to be present when we acknowledge that a single person owning a house is fine. Frankly, I'm more annoyed with houses that aren't even decorated, but there's no way for SE to do anything about that: even if they said a house has to have 20% of the max amount of furnishings possible for that house size, people would just pile shit on the ground floor and continue to not decorate. Let's just give subs and rooms for tenants to personals and stop pretending to care.

[Penthea]

Evidently, there are still people in the FC that are active. I don't see what the issue is.

If you call staying the same lvl for several years and only logging in to reset a demo timer being active, then sure that's active :P

Frankly, I'm more annoyed with houses that aren't even decorated

Most of the gardens have no decoration aside from gardening patches that never have any crops. Some don't even have aetherytes. I can't comment on the interiors because the houses are locked but I doubt they were given much attention.

[Arielen]

One person in the FC is active and that's enough. If they had a personal house, it would be no different.