Can we get an Official clarification on housing Demolish timer (45 or 90?)

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Seeing as how almost no1 plays this game longer than 6 months. There's going to be a TON of lots available!

[Sicno]

all your furnshings

Not all of them. There are items that get destroyed when you remove them, and they specified on the notes that those WILL get destroyed by this system. And they happen to be very expensive. If you have a few of them those may sum up to way more than what you paid for the house, especially nowadays that unsynced farming has skyrocketed the prices on ex primal mats.

[Tyrn]

nowadays that unsynced farming has skyrocketed the prices on ex primal mats.

25 million for a kingly whisker, hope people on my server don't want the regal letter box because that could end up extremely costly if they decide to take a break.

[sirDarts]

Not all of them. There are items that get destroyed when you remove them, and they specified on the notes that those WILL get destroyed by this system. And they happen to be very expensive. If you have a few of them those may sum up to way more than what you paid for the house, especially nowadays that unsynced farming has skyrocketed the prices on ex primal mats.

So you invested INCREDIBLE amounts of time and money into the game, and gained something that's extremely expensive.
Yet you would NOT log back in to save these things after you got TWO emails informing you about imminent destruction of these things?
You are joking, right?

[Sicno]

So you invested INCREDIBLE amounts of time and money into the game, and gained something that's extremely expensive.
Yet you would NOT log back in to save these things after you got TWO emails informing you about imminent destruction of these things?
You are joking, right?

So that means that I can never ever take a break from the game without losing that for which I worked so hard to get?

[Malicewolf]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me, it sounds like you just need to enter your plot of land to prevent the house from demolishing, not actually enter the estate. Because, otherwise, there would be no way to prevent someone from losing it if they never built a house in the first place. Why this wouldn't apply for 1 but the other seems odd to me. So if that is indeed the case and the complainers out there who log in once in a blue moon; just log out while in your yard (or heck, just log out while inside your estate). Problem solved. Every month, log in ONCE. ONCE PEOPLE! You don't even have to do anything for longer than a minute. If you can't put in the effort to do that much, I don't believe you deserve to keep a house. I understand for those who've been here for a long time, there will be lull's, but for those of us who haven't, we have desperately been searching for open lots to get a house. I have spent more time in other people's houses than they have I feel at times (creeper mode).

My FC and I DO have a house now and I do understand, you don't always per say "enter" it. But if you're bored of the game during lull times, take 5 minutes to get your character to your house, put him inside, log out. Tada. When you get an email, you log in and log out. Was that so hard?

[Noxifer]

Quite frankly, if you are not even logging in once every 45 days, you have no need for a house, and you are just keeping it from people who'd ACTUALLY utilize it.

Well, to be fair it's not only about logging in, it's about logging in and accessing your house. Which was one complaint raised last time SE proposed this thing. Because a lot of people just hang out in the garden, use the garden plots and chocobo stable, and stuff like that.

Of course, now that there's the workshop and armoires and wheelstands, there are more reasons to actually enter the house, plus you get the warning in the FC window -- and if that's not enough, you also get the emails. =)

But like others, I hope that this time limit is just an initial measure to quicker weed out the currently inactive houses, and that it'll be extended to something a bit longer later on (say 2 months until the initial warning, and 3 months until the house+plot is actually forfeit). At the very least, I hope they extend the time period that the reclaimable items are available with the Resident Caretaker.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me, it sounds like you just need to enter your plot of land to prevent the house from demolishing, not actually enter the estate. Because, otherwise, there would be no way to prevent someone from losing it if they never built a house in the first place.

Considering the Lodestone post says:

Purchased plots of land upon which an estate has not been built within forty-five days.

I'd say that yes, you have to enter the estate (i.e. building) for it to count.

My FC and I DO have a house now and I do understand, you don't always per say "enter" it. But if you're bored of the game during lull times, take 5 minutes to get your character to your house, put him inside, log out. Tada. When you get an email, you log in and log out. Was that so hard?

Or rather, "log in, enter the house again, log out", since logging in automatically places you outside of your house ^^ But yes.

[sirDarts]

So that means that I can never ever take a break from the game without losing that for which I worked so hard to get?

Indeed. You are taking away resources from people that would actually utilize them. And thus you do not deserve those.
Come on... You just need to log in every 45 days...

[Devils_Lawyer]

Use it or lose it, if you care so much about the house you will make sure to enter it once every 45 days.

If not then clearly the house didn't mean much to you and you just wanted it for the sake of owning one.

There are plenty of players with enough gil just waiting for a plot to open yet it never happened cause people who were inactive 3-4 months kept hogging the plot but never use it.

[Sicno]

Indeed. You are taking away resources from people that would actually utilize them. And thus you do not deserve those.
Come on... You just need to log in every 45 days...

While we're at it, why don't we take away people's zetas if they don't log into the game at least once every 45 days?