Free Login Event completely undermines inactive housing

[AnnietheCat]

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I don't disagree with you one bit. There is a lot of anger/resentment towards people who own houses, but it's usually the people who've had a house all this time and there's not a single piece of furniture in it or the people who never visit their houses. There are people in my ward in the Mist who haven't logged in for like 8 months now(I used to trade with them for cheaper prices) and all their FC members left the company. There are many houses that are just sitting vacant that have no furniture at all or have furniture from early in ARR(which generally lets people assume that no one has been in that house in a long while). I don't think that this resentment is usually fair, and I feel that it should be directed at SE and not other players. The fact of the matter is that this is a massive design flaw that pits players against each other for no good reason.

[Beckett]

I don't think that this resentment is usually fair, and I feel that it should be directed at SE and not other players. The fact of the matter is that this is a massive design flaw that pits players against each other for no good reason.

You're absolutely right that the main issue is that SE needs to provide more housing so that everyone that wants a house can get one without having to fight tooth and nail with other players for it.

On a personal level, though, I hate living next to defunct houses. It makes my neighborhood feel empty and depressing to see houses with zero furnishings, outside or inside, and 0/3 members online for months at a time. I'm looking forward to the housing purge so that people can move in next to me who actually play. I'm really hoping that the members of these FCs that haven't been online in over a year don't log on for the free log in campaign just to reset the clock for a house in a game that they don't even play anymore and probably never will again.

[AnnietheCat]

On a personal level, though, I hate living next to defunct houses. It makes my neighborhood feel empty and depressing to see houses with zero furnishings, outside or inside, and 0/3 members online for months at a time.

You're right about this. But as it stands, there's no real reason to hang out in the housing wards. There's no benefit to it. Lower level players have leveling to do, and endgame players would rather be where all the other endgamers are, which is Idyllshire now. I don't know what the wards could offer that would be enough incentive for players to hang out "at home", but I'd definitely like to see something come of it.

[Archaell]

You're right about this. But as it stands, there's no real reason to hang out in the housing wards. There's no benefit to it. Lower level players have leveling to do, and endgame players would rather be where all the other endgamers are, which is Idyllshire now. I don't know what the wards could offer that would be enough incentive for players to hang out "at home", but I'd definitely like to see something come of it.

There is the reason to meet your neighbors. At least when you live next to active FC houses there is always somebody in front of the market board waiting for duties, crafting or RPing. Also now people gather there for the Hard Diadem.

I can see how the housing can feel dead when you live in "a private neighborhood" or abaddoned square, but it should get better after the inactive players free their spots.

[AnnietheCat]

There is the reason to meet your neighbors.

None of my neighbors, either around my FC house or my private one, are ever there. No one gathers for Diadem or RP on my server(they just use the pf and be done with it). And that's still not a real benefit. Who's to say you're actually going to /like/ the people who live around you? Housing on Siren is really, really dead. Like I said, everyone gathers in Idyllshire now and they rarely, if ever, have a need to port "home". I can find any number of my neighbors there when I stop in for scrip exchange, but they're never in the housing wards.

[Beckett]

I don't really care about talking to or interacting with my neighbors, my beef is with the fact that they clearly aren't using the houses, never have and never will.

I don't need to see them constantly hanging out in the housing area, but I would like to see furnishings in their yard and maybe inside as well. These people with barren landscapes are bringing down my property values!