SE need to stop this!

[UkcsAlias]

and give it a thorough overhaul

Step 1: make a seperate section in the eula that makes it clear that ward takeovers are NOT allowed.

This way such behaviour can be punished. It wont affect grandfathered houses (unless that was a ward takeover, most grandfathered houses arent)

Even if they then would still do one using 30 accounts, its 30 accounts that are paying. And if they are only paying for that house... i would say thats cheap income for SE. It will in this case be relatively easy to handle the accounts that have multiple FCs with multiple houses for this purpose. As in the end, detecting such abuse is plain easy when you can just check the number of houses players have. 8 shell FCs on 1 account with each a house is simply just a red flag, and on that can you can easily decide to remove all houses.

The first step is to always make sure that whoever wants to exploit the system cant. Either by rules so you can punish afterward, or by simply not making it possible entirely (which can be very hard in the current system)

[Yodada]

Step 1: make a seperate section in the eula that makes it clear that ward takeovers are NOT allowed.

This way such behaviour can be punished. It wont affect grandfathered houses (unless that was a ward takeover, most grandfathered houses arent)

Even if they then would still do one using 30 accounts, its 30 accounts that are paying. And if they are only paying for that house... i would say thats cheap income for SE. It will in this case be relatively easy to handle the accounts that have multiple FCs with multiple houses for this purpose. As in the end, detecting such abuse is plain easy when you can just check the number of houses players have. 8 shell FCs on 1 account with each a house is simply just a red flag, and on that can you can easily decide to remove all houses.

The first step is to always make sure that whoever wants to exploit the system cant. Either by rules so you can punish afterward, or by simply not making it possible entirely (which can be very hard in the current system)

You should re-read the "how to aquire land in FFXIV" help page from Square themselves. Would be enlightening for you