Quote Originally Posted by Valfreyja View Post
If you want to stop Shell FCs from being a thing, go to the root of the problem. Don't punish FCs that are only three friends enjoying the game together.

Workshop access should be available to ALL. Not just FCs.
Everyone should be allowed to access airships and submarines.
Everyone should be allowed to access projects.
Everyone should be allowed to have a communal chest for extra storage.
Everyone should be allowed to access gardening, with indoor growing plots for apartments.

Most people don't care about housing. They care about the Workshop/Airships/Submarines being gated by housing.

Don't blame the players for fixing the system where SE denies us stuff.
And before you say "join an FC", that is meaningless. Every FC I have ever seen gates their members so that only the officers and leader get to access Voyages and Projects. Not the general membership. So that isn't a solution either.
Then what would be the purpose of an FC if private owners had all that you mentioned? They should just get rid of the FC's all together? They need to up the active members required base on plot size. I mean actual active members should be maintained too by recruiting active players on a semi regular bases. FC's are a community base entity with projects that an FC can work on as a whole, take that and give it to everyone, FC's would seem pointless. They need to up the requirements to form an FC and maintain one. Not give every Joe Smoe the exact perks an FC has when joining one.

Anyone in my FC the members are welcomed to use the workshop, gardens and community chest with dedicated tabs for members needs. We also run airships and submarines daily and what they bring back belongs to the FC not any one individual . It's either given away in a random drawing or sold to earn gil for the FC and it's activities. If you're in an FC that doesn't allow these perks, then you should join one that does. These amenities should remain exclusive to an FC and they should tighten the restrictions and responsibility of being a leader of an FC or what's the point?