Even with Auto Demolition on Existing Housing Supply is NOT Sufficient

[Asheloux]

Yes, but demand is much higher than supply and people shouldn't be investing they won't be using.
It's like buying a car and living in a city with no streets, or something...
I did hear you can actually plead your case to SE if you get a letter about demolition if you're away for a long period of time for medical or military reasons. Like legit reasons with proof. I could be wrong, but a friend told me someone she knew did that.

[Touch_Fluffy_Tail]

I feel the need to put my two sense in here, as Ive been on both sides.

First things first... by not implementing an in-game system to sell houses, by making furniture that is destroyed if you try and remove it after its placed, and by not doing a better job of monitoring the people buying houses just to resell them... Square has made a pretty disgusting environment of very high demand and absolutely minimal supply. Causing frustration for everyone on both sides.

[Touch_Fluffy_Tail]

On my side... It took me three years of playing the game, saving up gil, and waiting for it to become available, and on top of all of that...I managed to get a medium house, in the same ward and area as a bunch of my friends... 12m gil....and Im with all my friends there... but Im at that point in life where I would like to take a break...Im not saying I want to quit....Just take a break so Im not playing the same game, every single day...Like I said, Ive been playing for 3 years... Thats... $432, not counting mog station items or fants of course... thats 3 years worth of the cheapest level of subscription... but now. if I take a break at all...I lose my house, and my neighborhood, likely to never ever get a chance to get it back...This would change nothing... One person would be happy, one person would be unhappy. So try and understand that viewpoint...

[Touch_Fluffy_Tail]

On the other side, I can see how its frustrating to even higher population servers, to want a house, but none are available. I think we really need a better system here and I think there are at least a dozen ways to improve it for both sides...

I just wanted to share my side here...Im at the point where I dont want to quit the game, but at the same time I feel like I am forced to sub every single month strictly to keep my house. Im not really allowed the chance for a break.

[Touch_Fluffy_Tail]

A) Make housing locked to an account, or even to a Server/Data Center
B) Increase Auto Demolition to 120 days... Or even 90 days, please
C) Implement a system of selling houses, limit the cost at which you can sell to prevent obscene prices, nothing above the min value of the land at which it can be sold by itself
D) Housing Leasing....Lets say I want to take a break for 6 months to a year... and I am estate sharing with a friend...I should be able to give that friend temporary ownership of the house, they can furnish, paint, remodel, plaque would change, basically anything I can do, even adding others to estate sharing, the house would be theirs for the year.

Please if you have other ideas, share too...Id love to have a good solid discussion with ideas about this... If we can come up with something good here then maybe we can help be a part of the solution.

[ckc22]

It's probably because some of the playerbase asked for apartment housing as better idea, but they couldn't just throw away what they had already made because of blowback from the suburban home-owners that decision would cause. If it just wasn't so ugly to look at.

Edit: They should seriously try to increase the item limits though.

If there are people who have houses who would be made angry by making apartments better - sorry but too bad for them. Wanting something to be excessively limited and a worse experience for everyone else so you can feel special is toxic.

[Asheloux]

I'd also like to point out that there are people who exploit loopholes in the FC ownership/housing system...by having non-qualified characters (level 1/no GC) buy 6-8 rank FCs with houses and have their level 1 alts they never use have the house. I wonder if that's considered cheating/exploiting a loophole though...

[Lexia]

but Im at that point in life where I would like to take a break...Im not saying I want to quit....Just take a break so Im not playing the same game, every single day...Like I said, Ive been playing for 3 years... Thats... $432, not counting mog station items or fants of course... thats 3 years worth of the cheapest level of subscription... but now. if I take a break at all...I lose my house,

Those two kind of contradict each other cause you saying you don't wan to play the game game every day and want a break ok but then you jump to saying you can't take any type of break of you lose your house. It not like you have to log in everyday to be able to keep your house.

I just wanted to share my side here...Im at the point where I dont want to quit the game, but at the same time I feel like I am forced to sub every single month strictly to keep my house. Im not really allowed the chance for a break.

This I see a lot in housing threads, people equate having to pay a sub as not being able to take a break, which is does not. You can keep sub going an still go on break, ok maybe some view that as wasting money but if the house that important to them it still allows them to log in go in their house log back out and continue on their break. Usually more about person not wanting to pay the sub then actually wanting to take a break as said earlier in the post.

[Touch_Fluffy_Tail]

Those two kind of contradict each other cause you saying you don't wan to play the game game every day and want a break ok but then you jump to saying you can't take any type of break of you lose your house. It not like you have to log in everyday to be able to keep your house.

See the problem here is that I recently became unemployed, Im still making a little money but not nearly as much as I used to... so the option to pay a sub only to keep a house is money just thrown away when I cant really afford that. So I said that because its what it truly is. A break is a break, a temporary stop of the game which shouldnt involve me continuing to shovel money into it to keep something I already put lots of money, effort, and time into, to obtain. Can you imagine if you lost your relic after not playing for only 45 days? Im not saying its the exact same, but the feeling would be the same. I would just like to come up with a solution that would help both sides.

[Zarex]

I waited a few years to be able to get my Medium house in the Mist but that was prob only because I'm on a smaller server. Couldn't imagine what it would be like to get a house on a large server