With regards to the possible upcoming housing relinquishments. . . . .

[Xerius]

<.< I hope it's retroactive, honestly. All those quitters have been keeping me waiting for their unused house to vanish a long time already.

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

[Syanis]

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

Not everyone had 40 mil sitting around when houses first came out. For many who aren't market farmers making that kind of money is hard and not everyone believes in controlling the market and buying then reselling higher which is how many of the really rich players made their fortunes.

[Letbluevannback]

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

You are aware that new players have been joining everyday and that we haven't had plots open in months on some servers, right?

[Youkulm]

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

That's incredibly inaccurate for people that joined after housing was already full, which is a fair amount of people active on the housing threads regarding updates to the wards.

Most if not all the houses were gone on my server not long after double wards were released.. which was almost a year ago.

[Valaska]

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

People who bought the game later in its life? People who transferred to full servers? Or simple the fact that alt accounts were used to purchase up to 10 houses in one ward on Lamia all owned by the same FC and throw away one off accounts! Also the Bot accounts which warped to the houses and swiped them faster than humanly possible in order to sell the houses for real money? I think you're pretty blind to the multitude of crap that actually happened!

[mathastora]

A friend and I started a FC together and he purchased our FC house under his name. He has since left the game and I am now the sole master of the FC. Even though our FC is very much alive and still running, will we lose our house because the original purchaser is now considered an inactive? This will be very upsetting considering we all pitched in to get the house.

[Ayerinn]

A friend and I started a FC together and he purchased our FC house under his name. He has since left the game and I am now the sole master of the FC. Even though our FC is very much alive and still running, will we lose our house because the original purchaser is now considered an inactive? This will be very upsetting considering we all pitched in to get the house.

As far as I'm aware, the GM "owns" the FC house - not necessarily the original purchaser.

[Voldemort]

The 3.1 update that will boot inactive players won't solve any issues really.
In a high population server like Hyperion, I would bet that players will be setting their alarm clocks for the update's release, foot race to the nearest housing ward, and purchase all the available land in a matter of hours. And then we would be back to more complaining...

The system that was put in place had a novel idea, and I do like being able to walk around different neighborhoods and see how everyone decorates their houses. However, with an ever-growing population, the system isn't sustainable.

And probably the biggest offense of them all, there is real content locked behind this housing feature that a vast majority of players will never get to experience.
Coloring your chocobo, gardening, exp crafting benches, and airships, with bigger and better plans to expand these airship expeditions in the future...


I had mentioned in a thread before about a system that reconciles instanced housing with the neighborhood feel.
- Perhaps if one wanted to have their house in their own little instanced world, one would choose solitary instanced housing. Just you alone with your cottage on a beach. Or an Uldahn waterfall.
- If you wanted to live next to your free company friends, everyone would choose a "link" feature that put all your free company's houses in one ward. So all your neighbors are your own friends, along with the actual free company house at the top of the hill to have weekly meetings and work on airship stuff.
- And if you liked the whole neighborhood feel, you would "link randomize" which puts you in a ward with other random players who chose the same thing. Everyone around you actually wants that neighborhood feel, and would be more willing to socialize in the streets, hang out at marketboards, etc.

[Valaska]

- Perhaps if one wanted to have their house in their own little instanced world, one would choose solitary instanced housing. Just you alone with your cottage on a beach. Or an Uldahn waterfall.
- If you wanted to live next to your free company friends, everyone would choose a "link" feature that put all your free company's houses in one ward. So all your neighbors are your own friends, along with the actual free company house at the top of the hill to have weekly meetings and work on airship stuff.
- And if you liked the whole neighborhood feel, you would "link randomize" which puts you in a ward with other random players.

That would take so much more work, servers and development time/resources... Interesting idea but not very feasible. You gotta understand this game is not coded the same as others and there are unique issues to this than others.

[T2teddy]

They haven't kept you waiting. You procrastinated and decided you wanted a house once they were all taken up.

As many others have pointed out, no empty plots have been available for months and many people joined long after that occurred.
Here on Sargatanas there are hundreds of level 8 FCs which have NEVER been able to get land due to this issue. Over half of the paltry 1440 existing plots have been scooped up as personal houses, not FC houses.
I hope to god any plots which are reclaimed by SE are sold ONLY to FCs. I also hope they check to make sure the entire FC roster is not comprised solely of BLMs with suspicious naming practices. We have tons of those kind of FC