In reguards to SE's decision on halting automatic reclamation of housing......

All i can say is, if the house is not important enough for you to enter it for 45 days, then i don't really know if you need one in the first place. consider how so many of us dont even own a house, and some own 5 houses. you can argue that gardening is usefull cause it can make gill for you, but in that case, SE should do some plots decicated to gardening or farming for those people who don't want a house or don't need to use one inside but are only intrested to garden and make gill out of it.

The fact that they halted the reclamation timer due to the earthquakes is a perfect, current example that the 45 day timer is too short.

I hope they will reconsider it.

I wonder if they'll end the reclamation once they double the wards next patch?

Sorry for the loss, OP D:!

I think the demolition should stay forever. Imagine this game in 2-3 years with a ghost neighbourhood because 50%+ left the game or something. This game needs some measure to prevent that!

45 days are ok, maybe when they add more wards they could increase it to 60+ days.

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Originally Posted by OMG

I wonder if they'll end the reclamation once they double the wards next patch?

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Double the time will be better.
Remove it and in some years some wards are full with houses from players who don't play anymore because other players will have no chance to buy those deserted houses.

Square is damed if they do and damned if they don't.

Not that I feel sympathy for them they created this monster when they bailed on the original idea of keeping Company and Private housing separate. The current system is perfect for the Company system it was never designed nor can it ever truly support the personal housing demands of all the players who want a home.

I pray one of these days they will stop putting bandaids on the real issue and separate personal housing from the wards, and work on a better system giving both Company and Private housing unique systems and allow them both to grow instead of this stagnating system where they are focusing their efforts on patching a broken system.

I'd like to see reclamation go completely.
Failing that, extend the period of time a player has to be inactive and only reclaim if a subscription has lapsed. Of course, for this to work, supply has to be increased and players being able to own multiple properties probably needs to go too; account bound housing shared with a player's alts would do a lot to decrease demand.

Alternatively, keep reclamation as it is but store all furnishings indefinitely (and stop making furniture that breaks when moved), that way players don't lose everything when their house is reclaimed.
At the moment, tenants are in a particularly bad position; it doesn't matter how active they are, if the owner is inactive they stand to lose access to the house, any breakable furniture they have placed and any crops they have growing in the garden.

To many houses are owned by 1 player, so to combat the lack of free plots, they need to keep the reclamation. When they add a system so everyone has 100% chance (no matter when they joined, like with Wildstar), then they can remove the reclamation system.

Reclamation is definitely a good thing. I don't want to see wards become ghost towns because all of their occupants have left the game, and players insist on permanency because one of those players MIGHT just MAYBE POSSIBLY come back someday... and then be the sole living occupant in an otherwise totally abandoned ward.

That said, the whole "Must enter your house" thing is silly. A paid subscription should be all you need to maintain your house. If your subscription lapses, THEN start a timer. Maybe shorten it from 45 days to 15, to prevent folks from abusing the duration to keep the house while spending most of their time unsubscribed (e.g. pay for a month, lapse for a month and a half, pay for a month, etc).

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Originally Posted by ChocoFeru

Sorry for the loss, OP D:!

I think the demolition should stay forever. Imagine this game in 2-3 years with a ghost neighbourhood because 50%+ left the game or something. This game needs some measure to prevent that!

45 days are ok, maybe when they add more wards they could increase it to 60+ days.

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I totally agree with this, I am sorry that you might lose your house but I don't want it to go away. I blame SE for only putting a bandaid over this issue instead of remaking a better system. Housing should be available to everyone that wants one but as it stands now, its such a fail that this measure as to stay in place so others that are ACTUALLY PLAYING can have a chance on geting a house.