Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
The RMT FCs usually only have the minimum 4 members.
Not to be pedantic but this is naive.

RMT house flippers usually have multiple accounts and can move around their characters between FCs as needed.

They also have vast gil reserves to fund each of their low level alts with 50m - which is what they are gonna do come 6.1

Also currently, if you delete the character which is the FC Master, the next appropriate member in the FC gets automatically promoted to FC Master - this allows for FC house sales to bypass whatever waiting period SE puts in place.

In the end, the only thing that will address the rampant RMT in housing is to either remove FC housing or go to a fully instanced system where every player and every FC can get a house just by telling the game "I want to buy". As long as it's a limited resource system with the ability to transfer ownership player to player, RMT will always exist.
Agreed on the fully instanced system. Ward housing is profitable to RMTers because it is limited.