Reclamation of Inactive Housing announced

[Silverbane]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3e7ccabefa9954

To ensure that plots of land are not claimed and left unused, estates not accessed for extended periods of time will be automatically demolished, and the plots of land will be put back up for sale.
Estates Subject to Demolishing

• Free company housing that has not been accessed by at least one member within forty-five days.
• Private housing that has not been accessed by the owner within forty-five days.
• Purchased plots of land upon which an estate has not been built within forty-five days.

* The count for days of inactivity will begin on the release of patch 3.1.

Steps Prior to Demolishing
Thirty days of inactivity
A notification indicating that the estate is being prepared for auto-demolition will appear in the Timers interface in the Duty tab of the Main Menu.

Thirty-five days of inactivity
An e-mail will be delivered to the registered e-mail addresses of all free company members, or the owner of a private estate, indicating the estate is being prepared for auto-demolition.

Forty-two days of inactivity
An e-mail will be delivered to the registered e-mail addresses of all free company members, or the owner of a private estate, indicating that the estate will be demolished automatically in three days.

Forty-five days of inactivity
The estate will be automatically demolished.

Halting Demolition
Any free company member or private housing owner entering the estate at any time prior to demolition will cancel the demolition process.

After Demolition
When an estate has been demolished, or the rights to an empty plot have been relinquished, said plot will be made available for purchase to all players on that World. The price will decrease every six hours from the time at which it is made available for purchase.

Reclaiming Gil and Items
When an estate has been demolished, gil and certain furnishings will be placed in the care of the resident caretaker for a fixed period of time.

Redeemable from the Resident Caretaker

• 80% of the price paid for the estate grounds.
• Indoor and outdoor furnishings that are not destroyed upon removal.

Not Redeemable from the Resident Caretaker

• The construction permit required to build an estate.
• Furnishings destroyed upon removal.
• Housing exteriors.
• Private chambers.
• Company workshops and any registered airships in the workshop.

* Players will have thirty-five days to redeem items from the resident caretaker before they are made irredeemable. Items belonging to a free company estate can only be retrieved by members with the authorization to purchase or relinquish land. Items belonging to a private estate can only be retrieved by the owner.

[Celef]

Finally, we are going to pay a sub for the same amount of content than others \o/

[Gryzz]

80% back isn't that bad.

[Cherie]

I think on the same live letter they announced this change, they said something about making subdivision easier to find.

Does anyone remember anything about that or did I imagine it?

I guess I'll check in another hour and a half when servers go back up. I would be nice for people that don't know a lot about housing to find them more easily.

[Nalien]

I think on the same live letter they announced this change, they said something about making subdivision easier to find.

Does anyone remember anything about that or did I imagine it?

I certainly hope they do so... I get what they did with Subdivisions, but there is no real reason for them to be different to additional Wards on our end... Having to go to Ward 6 then move to the Subdivision is pretty annoying, all the Subdivisions should effectively appear to be new Wards to us, and they certainly should have the same ferry NPC...

[Meimi_chan]

Time to start to camp out of those abandoned houses.

[Celef]

It remebers me of Archeage ^^"

[kamikrazy]

This doesn't fix the problem, this just needlessly punishes the players who got houses

This isn't going to work when every estate is owned by someone who doesn't leave it be for 45 days, in a year or so everyone will once again not be able to buy houses, and all this will do is annoy people and feel like a cheap gimmick to force you to keep playing the game every month even if you want to take a break from it

Terrible choice, I'm very dissapointed in this awful design decision

[XLauncher]

Frankly, I'd much prefer that SE just faced facts and acknowledged that their server tech simply can't accommodate the neighborhood vision that the devs have and implemented instanced housing. It's really weird that they invest as much effort as they do into systems tied to housing content (gardening, airships, furniture, etc.) when only a small fraction of the playerbase, by design, is in any position to take advantage of them. What we have here is a band aid fix. A good and overdue band aid fix mind you, but a band aid fix.

[Pyroxene]