System to Automatically Relinquish Personal Housing?

[Yeldir]

Reimbursing gil for lost housing plots is a catastrophically bad idea. One of the biggest design features of housing was to make it a method of destroying gil, to reduce the wealth disparity between new players and old ones. If they can simply take their gil back, it isn't really gone, now is it?

[Madjames]

Reimbursing gil for lost housing plots is a catastrophically bad idea. One of the biggest design features of housing was to make it a method of destroying gil, to reduce the wealth disparity between new players and old ones. If they can simply take their gil back, it isn't really gone, now is it?

True but housing is NOT the only gil sink there is in this game. I would simple give the gil back as a way to be fair to all of the cry babys. The ones who let their house go are the ones who will probably not be back anyway.

I have a mil gil, I will get a house and from there I will be one of the riches new players on my server eventually. I always have been in every MMORPG I have played since september 1997. Take as much gil from us players as you want because eventually it will not matter to me one way or another as a 40 mil house will be chump change.

[Niwashi]

Reimbursing gil for lost housing plots is a catastrophically bad idea. One of the biggest design features of housing was to make it a method of destroying gil, to reduce the wealth disparity between new players and old ones. If they can simply take their gil back, it isn't really gone, now is it?

If, instead of getting it back as gil, you get back a voucher item of some kind that you can trade in to purchase a replacement house of the same size, that means the gil spent is still tied up in owning either a house or a voucher for one. (It also takes care of the problem of the houses changing prices. Instead of an amount of gil, you have a voucher for a small, medium, or large house plot. That way it allows an even replacement regardless of whether the replacement house is currently priced at more or less than the original one.)