About Plot selling

[Ashkendor]

Pretty sure buying up plots and reselling them for obscenely high prices has gotten a few people in trouble.

If someone's doing it repeatedly, just start reporting them every time they put up a PF or shout about it.

[Kosmos992k]

Pretty sure buying up plots and reselling them for obscenely high prices has gotten a few people in trouble.

If someone's doing it repeatedly, just start reporting them every time they put up a PF or shout about it.

Indeed, Someone posted a complaint topic about this recently because they felt unfairly disciplined, because they sold their plot (that they had bought genuinely, but never had time to actually use.

Personally though, I feel that if you bought a plot and subsequently realize you can't use it, then relinquish it. In fact, since SE is giving absentee land lords 80% of their investment back, I don't think it's too unfair to suggest that when players relinquish their plot of land back to the system they should get some proportion of their investment back, perhaps 60% rather than 80% since they don't have to wait 45 days. That might help control the plot reselling via PF. Certainly it would remove one of the excuses people use to justify gouging players for a plot of land.

Oh, just noticed Niwashi's suggestion above, and I agree, but would reduce the returned gil to 60% because you don't have to wait for 45 days.

When you buy a personal house, it should become the personal house of all alts on that account on that server. All alts would have full ownership privileges, but be unable to buy other personal houses without relinquishing the first one. (This would change who can have a house. I'd propose that the current rule about needing to be level 50 and 2nd Lt apply just to the character who makes the purchase, but not be needed for other alts using it. Another alternative would be that other alts only gain full ownership rights (decorating, use of gardens, stables, etc.) once they, too, meet the requirements.)

Yes, this would be excellent, and the system needs to be able to allow players to own one 'personal' house and one Free Company house, since otherwise FC masters are screwed.

That last one (though it would have been a good rule to set in the first place) would be the hardest to add at this point, just because they'd need a way to deal with all the accounts that currently have multiple houses. There's no obvious way to determine which of them the player would keep as their account-wide personal house. All the other changes listed should be relatively straightforward to add, though, and would be helpful even without that last one.

It could be done by messaging the player, ask the payer to choose which home they want to keep, refund 100% of the gil spend on the others, and store all related furnishings with the residential Caretaker indefinitely for the player to recover.