Free Company Chest Thieves

[DiamondTumbles]

The support desk says I'm encouraged to make a post here about this, so let's give it a shot.

We've recently run into a thief in Hyperion who joins Free Companies just to steal whatever they can from the chest and leave. Not just skimming or a slow bleed either, we're talking up to 9999 of each and every crystal, shard, and cluster in the span of five minutes. And we have confirmation that this individual has stolen from another free company recently in the exact same way.

We have record of them doing this via FC Chest History, we have chat logs of their joining and leaving, and we have an exact name on-server to identify the character. So... even if our materials can't be recovered - which is understandable, we're replacing the stolen materials anyway - why can't the perpetrator be punished for griefing when theft is demonstrably done on the scale of millions of gil in value? I don't want this happening to other FCs, but our only defenses at the moment seem to be more restrictive permissions that harm the majority of our membership or straight-up word of mouth blacklisting of the thief among on-server FCs.

This sort of behavior means we can't just offer sprouts and new sign-ons access to shards as a service of the FC without inconvenient middle management or thorough vetting, despite operating that way for months without issue until now. If it's infrequent enough for that to be the case, with only one perpetrator in that long of a span, I have a tough time understanding how they can just get away with that and make it more difficult for us to help other players. I know that's only anecdotal, but I haven't seen or heard tell of such occurrences being any more frequent.

Like, are we just letting this be a lucrative way for thieves to get millions of gil by harming FCs? I want to understand why nothing can be done about the behavior, even if recompense is off the table.

[Canadane]

You're going to hate the answer, it's because it's not griefing.
SE gave us the power to administer our FC ranks, don't let new people get full access to stuff.

Things like this have happened since the dawn of MMOs. People have complained about it in this one. Nothing has changed, nor does it seem like it will.

[JerryBerrry]

It’s still your fault. There is an option to prevent that.

[CCheshire]

I mean, you can give new members no FC chest rights for like a 1 month long trial period too, but yeah, this is a common problem for all kinds of FCs and guilds for time immemorial. Also, I would stop inviting random ppl and be sure to set the correct FC chest permissions for everyone too.

[Burmecia]

SE gave us the power to administer our FC ranks, don't let new people get full access to stuff.

simple solutions are the best, aren't they

[DiamondTumbles]

Looks like the thief's lodestone is turning up a blank now, so either they deleted their character and moved to another server (which wasn't done after the previous theft) or action was taken.

Either way, as said before we have updated our perms to prevent this in the future. Lesson of the day's to be aware and careful if your FC can't afford an accident like that happening to you.

[hynaku]

Trial period doesn't work. I was in one where a person was in it for years then when they got promoted to full access then took everything and left.