So, housing mafia instantly bought most of small houses...

[Dyvid]

through alts and now reselling them for 20m+ through PF. Shouldn't there be some rule one house per account or something? It's obviously this feature is abused, exploited and not working as intended.

Rule is one house per character, can't mail anything to people not on your friendlist (alts), and can't sell/trade lots. People always fined loop holes. Best thing to do is not buy from the "mafia" and leave them stuck with an empty lot.

Stay frosty, more lots will open up as the days go on. I know a few people who logged in for 3.1 then re-quit after a week.

[Catwho]

Ooooooorrr move you and your FC to a less populated server where housing is plentiful and cheap.

The #1 rule of real estate has always been location, location, location. That's why the same house in Georgia costs $100,000 while it'll set you back a million dollars in Fremont, CA.

SE really needs to offer people free transfers off Balmung and Gilgamesh at this point.

[Laerune]

We could blame the players that buy more houses on one account, but is it realy their fault? SE added this feature in a way that allows players to buy more then one house. I agree that everyone should get the chance to get a house, but SE disagrees.

Do not dislike the players for buying multiple houses, aim your worries towards Yoshi-P and the other developers.

[ServerCollaps]

Why would you need a personal house on all your alts on the same server?

more gardening, more airships, more profit

[alex4815162342]

more gardening, more airships, more profit

Translation : Money, Money, Money !

[SpookyGhost]

more gardening, more airships, more profit

That's just greed, though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Vespar]

If this is going to be an issue every time new houses pop up, they should just make it so that if you buy a house you cant relinquish it for 45 or make it so the only way to get rid of it is through demolishing it after 45 days (or through transfer of leadership if its an FC house.) Buying a house shouldn't be some willy-nilly purchase a player makes lightly.

Better yet, just make Mog Rooms so everyone can have a place to call home and fill it with their own stuff and not through FC's where they can be potentially be locked from their rooms by poor FC-master leadership.

[ServerCollaps]

That's just greed, though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and greed is no reason?

[Laerune]

The new plots that are going to be released in Ishigard will also be bought by rich players with their alts, that is the nature of the game. Housing is a feature that is damaged in the core. I do not blame players for buying alot of houses, there are benefits to owning more then one house and if I had the gil, I would also have done the same as them. SE f*cked up with the way they added housing in this game and personaly I am suprised how this idea even left the drawing table. Surely even SE would have thought that this would prevent players from buying a house?

Anyway, I can not wait till 3.2/3.3 gets released so we can see more threads where 1 player used alts to buy even more houses in Ishigard.

[Dante_V]

I called this a whole ago. The whole reclamation thing is a drop in the bucket. The demand is ridiculous and the supply is scarce, it instantly becomes an opportunists market. The housing market promotes this behavior without any player restrictions and by having no mechanisms to discourage flipping (cooldown timers between relinquishment and market listing.).

The relinquishment should have been handled separately from the market listing as opposed to the houses directly dropping into the market.