How to combat housing resellers and make it fair for everyone

[Sylfaein]

That would only be practical if the house was automatically shared by all your alts on your account, but it's not unfortunately.

Honestly, aside from extra storage space, why does anyone need alts, and why do all those alts need a house? We can play EVERY job on a single character: every combat class, every crafter, every gatherer.

And ckc22 is right. I was swapping decorating ideas with someone a few weeks ago who owns five houses. He was looking for ideas because he's got so many houses, he was running out of ideas for how to decorate them. If they were locked to accounts, that'd be four more people that could have a house, not to mention how many other people are sitting on alt houses. It wouldn't guarantee everyone a shot at a house, but it's better than nothing.

[Naunet]

That would only be practical if the house was automatically shared by all your alts on your account, but it's not unfortunately.

This really shouldn't be considered a solution. It turns an already restrictive situation into something that's even less customizeable and fun to play with. Real solutions actually improve the system.

[Chocolys]

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That's entirely subjective. Some will prefer to be able to have one house per character, some will prefer to focus on an unique house shared by their alts. So depending what each different player is looking for, it would be an improvement or not. (See: Can't give and my alt character access to my private house)
For example the only way to currently share a "personal house" with your alts is to create your own "personal FC", buy a FC house and have your alts join the FC. But then all your characters cannot be part of real FCs.

Now, I was not proposing it in my previous post as a solution to the house plot availability issue (which woud not be really doable anyway since some players already have many houses per account). I was just pointing that ckc22's proposed limitation of one house per account would not be practical since you can't currently share a house with your alt. ckc22's idea in the current system would make all alt homeless

As for myself I support the current state of allowing one house per character, I just don't like the fact that they cannot be potentially shared with alts.

[Naunet]

Oh I'm definitely 1000% down for alts having edit/etc access to a house. That should be automatic! I just get cautious when it starts seeming like people are presenting such things as a fix for the housing supply issue.

[StouterTaru]

It would be a start. But every time anyone proposes anything everyone says "it wouldn't do enough"

Well... you know what doing nothing does? Nothing. And I'm tired of it.

It wouldn't even be half a start. It would lower the demand by maybe a couple dozen houses per server, because there aren't several people with 20 houses each, if any. Adding one more division would have a larger impact.

Housing reclamation was a start; the initial wave reclaimed over 300 houses on my server.

[ckc22]

It wouldn't even be half a start. It would lower the demand by maybe a couple dozen houses per server, because there aren't several people with 20 houses each, if any. Adding one more division would have a larger impact.

Housing reclamation was a start; the initial wave reclaimed over 300 houses on my server.

I can think of multiple players on gilgamesh with 20+ houses. Most of those are just people trying to flip/sell them for 10-20x what they're worth. Sorry - but you're just wrong on this issue.

Adding another division would likely just have these exact same people buy up >half the plots anyway.

[Madepossible]

Auto-demolish after 45 days is ridiculous anyway. My swtor fortresses , 4 of them and my housing on wildstar are always available because those games used sense and a good enjin setting up the game. I am able to take a break when I wish from games to make it more fun. In this cheesy game, there are no seperate instanced single housing. If I leave here for a few months off like people sometimes do, I will never be back because of my house loss.

I agree!
I just wonder why people can't just resell their house for a few million Gil less than the market value? I mean, im frankly NOT surprised people go in pf and sell it if they KNOW they won't make the 45 day cap or want to server transfer. Why not just sell it to the npc for a few million Gil less? Problem solved?:3

[StouterTaru]

I can think of multiple players on gilgamesh with 20+ houses.

In order to have 20+ houses on the same server, you would need multiple paid accounts. Just because someone says they have 20+ houses, doesn't mean they do. If they have friends owning them as a proxy, your solution would do ziltch.

[ckc22]

In order to have 20+ houses on the same server, you would need multiple paid accounts. Just because someone says they have 20+ houses, doesn't mean they do. If they have friends owning them as a proxy, your solution would do ziltch.

Which people do.... Like... I feel like you don't understand what Gilgamesh is like lol.

It would do _something_ because there are people who have many alts with many houses - sure the number with 20+ might be pretty few (though they're draining resources extraordinarily) there are many people have 10+ also.

Your solution is "there's no problem just ignore" which just isnt reality. The other day someone trolled on our server claiming something was going to demo soon.... no fewer than 30 people showed up to try and buy it...

[Dustytome]

In order to have 20+ houses on the same server, you would need multiple paid accounts. Just because someone says they have 20+ houses, doesn't mean they do. If they have friends owning them as a proxy, your solution would do ziltch.

With just one account you could hold 16 houses to yourself (8 x personal and 8 x fc). Just a couple of accounts would let someone hold up to 32 houses if they were driven enough to level that many characters.