FCs buying multiple plots

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YoshiP has been very clear that Island Sanctuaries would have no competitive element. The marketboard is the most competitive element in the game. That means whatever we can grow on the Island Sanctuaries will not be the same as what we are currently growing with gardening, nor will we be able to trade/sell whatever it is to other players.

That's something I want more clarification on, as I interpreted that to mean "solo instance" and not "cannot generate stuff that can be sold".

I have to disagree. Every FC owning multiple houses via member alts is another player or FC unable to get a house. Why should certain FCs be special with access to double Grade 3 actions on a daily basis when a FC with only one house can only get is one every 3 days and FCs without a house can't get them at all?

What if it's one legitimate FC and multiple members have personal houses? I would be fine with that tbh.

I also doubt that there are that many legitimate FCs that are multiple house owners. Most of them are going to trace back to solo players operating shells FCs for personal wealth and flexing it at other players by using the same FC tag for all their FCs.

This, on the other hand, needs to stop.

First is to finally set up all characters on same world/same account as co-owners of a house so they're officially tenants.

IMO this should have happened a long time ago, and all alts for the owning account should just be owners (and not tenants), and everyone should get a port to all the houses they own (so players get grandfathered in). And then SE forces them to release ALL but one property should the player ever wish to relo somewhere else.

Second is for them to crack down on the multiple house ownership that has been occurring since the 4.2 changes. If someone had ownership of the house (along with leadership of the FC if it's a FC house) prior to 4.2, then they're grandfathered in. I have no problems with that. It's those who have purchased additional houses since 4.2 that SE needs to address.

This needs to be done carefully and not with an arbitrary line in the sand over date of acquisition. Shell FCs need to go away, and tbh, I don't care when they were created as long as the shell FCs (and ONLY the shell FCs) either get axed or have their houses freed and unable to reacquire land until certain conditions are met that would be basically invisible to a legitimate FC. SE should have never allowed these FCs to exist in the first place as they exemplify "this is why we can't have anything nice".