We have a lot of housing threads right now. So many. And I'm deeply tired of trying to post the same things in every one of them, in different forms.
So of course, I'm going to solve the problem by adding another thread; this cannot possibly go wrong! (Obligatory XKCD reference.)
More seriously, I kind of want just a place I can post this stuff to link to it in other threads without having to repost this sort of commentary in its entirety, especially as it's likely to hit 'massive wall of text' status. Perhaps it will provide a useful thread other people can also link to/point to in these discussions. Perhaps it will promptly fall to the fifth page of the forums and no one will notice it.
Either way... let's talk about housing! At absurd length, in the usual Packetdancer fashion! ("Pax, are you capable of being concise?" "Not unless I'm making a pithy comment or pun. Now, let me spend two pages telling you why that is." "Never mind.")
Prepare yourself for a trip into... the OUTER LIMI- er, I mean, the limitations of MMO server architectures! *spooky music*
(And bear with me for a few; I've decided to take pity on people and break the sections of this up into individual posts, but the server makes me wait 30 seconds between posts. So it'll take a bit to get these all posted. When I get to something with a tl;dr summary, I'm probably done!)