If no one access a FC house in 35 Days you lose everything! Coming Patch 2.3 ><

[lackofwords]

4 years from now I dont want 19 wards where only 1/4 of each one is populated by an active house. Granted 35 days might be a bit early but its still more than fair. If you seriously think it should be left for all time even if no one is using it...thats not how instanced housing should be ran.

This is not how I expect nor want them to treat personal housing, but for FC housing its just fine with me.

I understand your sentiments, as too I feel that way.
However, that 'abandonment' of a 'dead' FC is only natural and has been mainly dealt with on the user end, not moderated by the creators.

People will always re-shuffle their FC/LS as the social ties and activity decay away on their own terms, but here SE literally defined an 'active' FC in terms of someone playing within a 35 day period (in the FC house).
Those who would suffer the most are smaller FC and more casual FC, as they will most likely lose their plot first, and also be shafted when trying to fight to buy a plot.

[Nicobo]

I don't agree no accessing for 35days equal to you don't need it.
For example, do you agree to remove any of your minions or mounts have not been summoned in 35days as you don't need it?

[Tupsi]

I don't agree no accessing for 35days equal to you don't need it.
For example, do you agree to remove any of your minions or mounts have not been summon in 35days as you don't need it?

Comparison makes no sense - Minions take up no server resources if left alone. Inactive housing you can fix the 'congestion' by getting rid of inactive ones because after over a month, it's not getting use or it would have been used in those 35 days. You can keep building ontop of it and eventually you just cause more problems than solve.

[Keikun]

Dont expect to buy a house and quit the game and keep the house forever.

[Merciless]

Comparison makes no sense - Minions take up no server resources if left alone. Inactive housing you can fix the 'congestion' by getting rid of inactive ones because after over a month, it's not getting use or it would have been used in those 35 days. You can keep building ontop of it and eventually you just cause more problems than solve.

Maybe once they make houses more useful this works. Right now there is very little reason to enter my house.

My question is does tending my garden count as "using my house"?

[Naunet]

This is a massive company and yet with all the server excuses you'd think all of xiv is hosted on some girl's laptop in a japanese manga cafe basement.

That would explain quite a few things...

[Felis]

I mean, in my FC only a few people are actively in that house due to other things to do like end game and leveling. So lets say the active people take a break. Suddenly its a chore to make sure we don't lose our houses.

I mean, I say make it to where if the FC itself isn't active for 35 days, then to forfeit the house. That way you know for sure the FC is dead instead of they just aren't in the house all the time.

So long 1 member in your FC is active, he can spend 2 minutes to visit the house once in a month.

[Djeserit]

Maybe once they make houses more useful this works. Right now there is very little reason to enter my house.

My question is does tending my garden count as "using my house"?

Personally I would assume so. I would even argue that just teleporting to it counts, since that is technically interacting with something in the yard. With the perma-favorite and the new instant teleport to the linked city, there's no reason NOT to use that as your main way to return to whatever city your housing area belongs to.

[MurakumoMillennium]

Suddenly the idea of "big" (they @#$%ing tiny!) housing wards doesn't seem all that great eh? I'd imagine it's only going to get worse when personal housing comes out.

Meanwhile, I haven't played XI in almost 3 years but if I reactive my account my mog house will be there waiting for me exactly how I left it. My items are still there, no squatters will have moved in and taken over, etc.

[Bufkus]

35 days is PLENTY of time. Every other MMO with personal housing makes you lose it after 2 weeks of nonpayment.

Meanwhile, I haven't played XI in almost 3 years but if I reactive my account my mog house will be there waiting for me exactly how I left it. My items are still there, no squatters will have moved in and taken over, etc.

But there's nothing special about your mog house since it's instanced.