[Suggestion] Housing Deed For Players to Sell Plots

[Grimmel]

It doesn't take full main story line to buy a house, I'm pretty sure you can buy one without progressing very far past story Ifrit at level ~20.

They still need to be ranked Second Lieutenant in Grand Companies to even purchase a house; which how many level 50 Black Mage RMT do you see in a Grand Company? It's not worth it to them. 90% of the RMT you see in game aren't in a FC much less own one. And as I stated before; RMT won't waste millions of gil on housing when their purpose is to sell gil, not spend it.

[Teslo]

If the RMT's decide there's a profit to be made, you can bet yer ass they'll do whatever they need to do in-game to make that profit.

Who said anything about gil?

Large house: $100
Medium house: $60
Small house: $30

[Grimmel]

I'm saying that Balmung is a special server and that not all servers have a huge amount of RP'ers like Balmung does.



Yes and if you're a sane player and don't care about RP, you'd rather buy a medium plot than pay twice for a small plot.

There are RP'ers on Balmung with Medium and Large plots. I'm original from Balmung and am taking a break on Mateus... Unless you have a Balmung alt, don't assume something you have no factual evidence on. :\

[Grimmel]

If the RMT's decide there's a profit to be made, you can bet yer ass they'll do whatever they need to do in-game to make that profit.

Who said anything about gil?

Large house: $100
Medium house: $60
Small house: $30

*facepalm* How do you think RMT will buy these houses? They'd have to spend their gil to purchase the land; which to them is "Why waste gil?" RMT won't spend millions of gil on a house when they can make and sell that gil faster than anyone knows to people who will use the gil to buy a house?

[StouterTaru]

Why would RMT not buy houses with gil to sell for cash. It follows the underpants gnomes guide to making money:
1 - collect stuff in game
2 - ???
3 - profits

They still need to be ranked Second Lieutenant in Grand Companies to even purchase a house; which how many level 50 Black Mage RMT do you see in a Grand Company? It's not worth it to them. 90% of the RMT you see in game aren't in a FC much less own one. And as I stated before; RMT won't waste millions of gil on housing when their purpose is to sell gil, not spend it.

It's not very difficult to proceed through level 20 in the MSQ, and top rank in GC takes 2 hunting logs, a ~30 dungeon, Dzemal, AK, and WP. Not all that much effort to have a new means of income.

[Teslo]

*facepalm* How do you think RMT will buy these houses? They'd have to spend their gil to purchase the land; which to them is "Why waste gil?" RMT won't spend millions of gil on a house when they can make and sell that gil faster than anyone knows to people who will use the gil to buy a house?

I'm gonna... assume you've just... never bought anything. Okay, look. Let me break it down for you.

RMT's collect gil in game with a massive number of accounts all working tirelessly using exploits and/or the Marketboard.
RMT's sell that gil for real money through websites.

With me so far?

If something like this went through, the RMT services that have tons and tons and TONS of gil ready to sell at any given point in time will buy ALL the housing. Since there is now a convenient way to transfer housing, they instead sell those houses for double, triple, quadruple, or however much they set it as, markup on how much they normally sell gil for. On Behemoth I see Ads all the time for gil going for something like a buck per million. A large house sells for 52m gil. RMT buys the house for 52m, sells it for real cash for $100 or more, and doubles or triples what they would have made off the gil. And people would have to buy them because supply/demand and the fact that SE won't make unlimited housing plots so that everyone can enjoy this feature.

[Grimmel]

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What I don't get is why you're so worried that RMT would do this in the first place. Even if they did I have faith that GM's would instantly crack down on them for doing this thus making it a mute point for them to even do this to begin with. It's pretty easy to tell if a house is owned by RMT with their faceroll names and I'm sure dozens if not hundreds of reports would flood in a single day and it'd be acted upon quickly.


I also don't understand why you all think the system would be extremely abused.

I'm currently trying to sell my Medium house on Balmung on my Main and it's extremely difficult to sell to people because they don't want to have to pay 15-20 mil for me to relinquish it then pay another 24-32 mil just to buy the plot; thus I am having to sell it for below 10 mil via party finder which is about three times less than what I originally payed for it.

Why is it so hard for people to understand that people eventually get tired of owning their house or want to upgrade but are forced to stay with what they have because they're scared they'll loose money on it.
My proposal would lessen the fear of people loosing their hard earned money on something they wish to be rid of.

I'm honestly shocked that there are people who probably don't own a personal house or did little to contribute towards their FC getting a house that are commenting so negatively on this in the first place.

Why don't you look at it from a sellers point of view; from someone who has been advertising a week and a half to sell a plot with very little interest because of the sellers price and then the amount one has to pay to buy the actual plot after they pay the seller?

[Teslo]

My proposal would lessen the fear of people loosing their hard earned money on something they wish to be rid of.

First of all... ^ This. That pretty much sums up why RMT's don't do this now, and would do it should such a proposal even catch the ear of a dev.

I think the mistake that you, and many other people have made is to assume that a house in this game is a THING. A THING that can be bought, used, then traded when you're done with it. Like a weapon or a piece of armor.

A house in this game isn't a THING, it's a FEATURE. Think of it like a mini-expansion to your character. It allows you to do things that you can't do normally, like raise a chocobo or garden. It also has some value to roleplayers as a place to hang out, or to people who just want to decorate stuff. It costs so much money because it's an investment. Not because it's rare. It SHOULD be difficult or impossible to get rid of. This is something you should really THINK about whether you need it or not, because once you get it you're virtually stuck with it. And that's the way it SHOULD be.

I don't own a house because, #1: I don't feel that it's a worthwhile investment. I don't use my chocobo very often, and chocobo's pretty much suck even when they're maxxed so meh. I don't garden because it's another system that I don't need to play the game, get achievements for, or anything that adds value to what I do in game. And #2: They're expensive and I don't feel like working to raise that kind of cash when I've already decided I don't need to.

Also this: http://grammarist.com/usage/moot-mute/

[StouterTaru]

What I don't get is why you're so worried that RMT would do this in the first place. Even if they did I have faith that GM's would instantly crack down on them for doing this thus making it a mute point for them to even do this to begin with. It's pretty easy to tell if a house is owned by RMT with their faceroll names and I'm sure dozens if not hundreds of reports would flood in a single day and it'd be acted upon quickly.


I also don't understand why you all think the system would be extremely abused.

-It takes very little to get a character to the point where you can buy a house.
-There are a very limited number of houses.
-RMT (or legit players) could easily buy up the houses, and set the market for them.
-RMT can easily make character names that aren't a keyboard smash, there's just no need for them to.

[Grimmel]

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I am an RP'er on Balmung; and thats what the purpose of the house was. A house for a character. But that Character is being retired and I won't be using it for RP any longer. Yes RP'ers do feel the need to get rid of things, like houses. I'm also trying to help afford a large for my Free Company

Lastly I find your finishing statement a bit offensive because it makes me feel you think I'm not competent enough to realize my mistakes and that I need someone to point out the correct way to use a word. So please don't do that. I hadn't had time to reverse the error because I was closing up shop early and had to leave work.