Clarification on Rule for Inactives With Housing

A friend of mine has been inactive in the game for over a year and I have notified them on the new rule that players who are inactive for at least 45 days will lose their house. They don't know if they will be able to return to the game by the time the rule is implemented and they don't want to lose their house. They would like to know if this rule applies only for the owner of the house or if anyone can go into the house to delay the removal of the house.

Some clarification would be useful on this rule please.

Owner of the house.

For personal houses, only the owner of the house. For FC houses, any FC member.

PS, the rule was already implemented, they have till Christmas I believe till the first wave of houses goes down.

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Originally Posted by Novaura

A friend of mine has been inactive in the game for over a year and I have notified them on the new rule that players who are inactive for at least 45 days will lose their house. They don't know if they will be able to return to the game by the time the rule is implemented and they don't want to lose their house. They would like to know if this rule applies only for the owner of the house or if anyone can go into the house to delay the removal of the house.

Some clarification would be useful on this rule please.

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If it's a FC house, any member if the FC should be able to stop the countdown. Quoting here: "Free company housing that has not been accessed by at least one member within forty-five days."

People like your friend are the main target of this reclaim system. Also I'm assuming it a personal house cause FC leadership would of been transferred to another person long time ago. Personal houses only the owner can stop the timer.

While they might be the main target, who knows why this guy was gone. Could be in service to his country or something. Kind of a crappy deal for people who have legitimate reasons to be away, and all that's going to happen is that all the houses are going to be full up by active players, not much different than it is now except with a tiny caveat.

I guess it's too late for this to be reconsidered, but I sorely hope they intend to address the lack of housing in an actual way instead of generating only much misery and false hopes.

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Originally Posted by Arashmin

While they might be the main target, who knows why this guy was gone. Could be in service to his country or something. Kind of a crappy deal for people who have legitimate reasons to be away, and all that's going to happen is that all the houses are going to be full up by active players, not much different than it is now except with a tiny caveat.

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Yeah, OP didn't state why the guy was away or anything so I dunno. If he was deployed or something I could totally see being unsubbed for a year and wanting to have your house to come back to. I'll admit that feel a little differently about voluntarily cancelling your sub and still wanting to keep hold of a limited resource like that while you aren't actively playing, though.

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I guess it's too late for this to be reconsidered, but I sorely hope they intend to address the lack of housing in an actual way instead of generating only much misery and false hopes.

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Nah, it already went in and is a thing. It's been stated by the devs that this is just the first step in dealing with housing.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

People like your friend are the main target of this reclaim system. Also I'm assuming it a personal house cause FC leadership would of been transferred to another person long time ago. Personal houses only the owner can stop the timer.

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Speaking of the transferring of leadership.

Can you imagine if a person of a mansion didn't care about housing then leader was passed to them and they decided to just lock the house and not return just to get all the money for themselves? I am waiting for the all the post of people doing this in future.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

Speaking of the transferring of leadership.

Can you imagine if a person of a mansion didn't care about housing then leader was passed to them and they decided to just lock the house and not return just to get all the money for themselves? I am waiting for the all the post of people doing this in future.

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Well it passes to the most active person of the highest rank, so generally its someone that's already trusted by the original FC leader and someone that's active. Usually such people might already have a degree of that power or are seen as responsible.

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Originally Posted by Terrini

Well it passes to the most active person of the highest rank, so generally its someone that's already trusted by the original FC leader and someone that's active. Usually such people might already have a degree of that power or are seen as responsible.

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And we saw a few threads about this already from bulmung i believe and I recall a few threads about leaders coming back and the new leader refusing to give the fc starter their leadership back :/

I don't mean it is without it's Flaws and it may be that the new leader felt it justified to keep it when the old leader wasn't around reliably. There are two sides to every story.

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Originally Posted by Azazua_azura

And we saw a few threads about this already from bulmung i believe and I recall a few threads about leaders coming back and the new leader refusing to give the fc starter their leadership back :/

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That particular drama bomb happened because it was a role play LS and the old leader wanted to change everything they'd done for their RP story. So the new leader wanted to just take the members and start fresh rather than scrap the RP story they had been working on while the old leader was away. It was eventually resolved, but the members felt that they were absolutely being held hostage since they were unable to demolish their rooms as long as the FC leader had revoked privileges.

Moral of the story: Don't announce you're leaving a FC. Just do it in the dead of night without saying anything.