Day 1 of nonsense: Why is this allowed?

[Kirutsuki]

Actually, that specific screenshot you added was mainly done through player trading. Aka reaching out to people who wanted to leave the then 'dead' Spriggan server. Not only did they get to play wherever they wanted but they also had a nice fund to get a better plot right after. Regardless the Paissa Iron Dome will fend off any of your nukes.

So an exploit. Gotcha.
I know how player trading works.

It's not intended to be used that way.
Otherwise you could just trade houses by giving player the house instead of logging off from the DC until you get booted from the property.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

So an exploit. Gotcha.
I know how player trading works.

It's not intended to be used that way.
Otherwise you could just trade houses by giving player the house instead of logging off from the DC until you get booted from the property.

I think exploit is not really a accurate term.

Its more that its probably being used as intended but in bad faith; I pondered why SE allowed this to work - reality is if SE wanted to stop this they could very easily - the flag they set for personal housing is a character file flag that associates your character to your account (think of your account name as your character and every "WOL" you make is just a alias of your account) the flag is world specific - this is why you can't have more then 1 personal per world. SE decided not to apply this same limit to FC's which is a odd choice but I suppose it does allow friends to FC sit for their friends while they submerge their FC's until the last content delay concludes. This is also contingent on those FC house-sitters logging in and visiting each of those houses roughly every month (which is easy because if they are running a sub-farm then they are already doing such.)

As such its likely not a exploit - just not in the spirit of the mechanic; SE could easily stop it from happening; its not like they cannot see multiple wards in game that are all ran by the same 4 accounts. If SE isn't doing something that's a choice; not because SE is helpless and if it were a violation of their rules they would have acted by now; SE has quickly responded to far less significant rules violations in the past and this one would probably be a pretty easy fix with a simple patch to have FC houses treated like personal homes by setting the same flag. Note that it's likely not a exploit because even if someone has a FC on that character; they cannot move that FC without first starting over.

Personally I think a easier fix would just to allow people to consolidate all workshops in 1 location and then apply the aforementioned flag.

Also note whats good for the goose is good for the gander; so if we applied those rules it would also apply to the Kingdom of Noctis (I think thats what its called) On Spriggan; which is actually a beautiful accomplishment where they turned a entire goblet ward into a full blown city with amenities and made the Goblet look much nicer.