Houses are lost sooner

[Acilith]

Wait what, Gilgamesh is out of apartments too? It's not just a Balmung issue? Gotta love everyone assuming that's a Balmung only issue.

I have always stood by, if someone can afford it in game, they should have it. I wouldn't even care of my houses were instanced and had to be selected from a list to see, if it makes everyone else able to have one.

[ProjectT]

There are still vacant apartments on Gilgamesh. I just checked as of March 11 2017 7:00pm cst. I did not check every ward and subdivision. Just trying to post some examples that empty apartments do remain for people to buy on Gilgamesh. If someone is looking for The Mist - The Topmast, you might want to hurry it up abit because I was quite surprised I found anything vacant there. And also when looking for vacancies, choose the subdivisions and choose the middle ones, i.e. subdivisions 5-9 first to find them.

Lavender Beds - Lily Hills Subdivisions
6th Ward Subdivision - 30 spots vacant
11th Ward Subdivision - 11 spots vacant
5th Ward Subdivision - 64 spots vacant

The Mist - The Topmast Subdivision
6th Ward Subdivision - 44 spots vacant

The Goblet - Sultana's Breath Subdivisions
I found tons of vacant apartments.

[Besame]

Considering Yoshi promised that housing would NOT be linked to subscription status or maintenance fees. the existence of the current reclaim system is a total break of that promise. No way it should be made worse.

If anything the reclaim system needs to be scrapped entirely or extended to at least 180 days.

Especially when Yoshi also says it's OK for players to take breaks when content gets stale. (Not if they want to keep there house it isn't)


And here's the broken promise itself,

I have only been here 10 months and knew about the bad housing, but why would you keep playing a game that lied to you?

[Solarra]

Please let this idea of seeing 'neighbors' being so critical go. Please let the rest of us have houses.

I enter my house everyday and I see my nearest neighbour once a week if, that. We wave or bow to each other and that's it. She is the only person I see regularly. One person out of an entire ward with no empty plots. Sometimes I see other people standing by the market boards when I walk out of the area, but not often.
Would I be just as happy with an instanced house and a communal area for market boards, bells etc. Considering that instancing would give me more options to customise, more furniture slots and remove the threat of reclamation, absolutely!
A private island in the Sea of Clouds, a beach-side cottage in Mist, offer me something like that and I'd be more than happy to trade the neighbours.

[Besame]

Exactly Solarra. In Wildstar I have an instanced plot in the sky that I can build onto and place gathering plots, etc., best housing in any game so far. In SWtOR, I have all the fortresses there waiting for my return. I never see my neighbors here in the beds. Feel like the Lone Ranger, so much for community interaction, that was an excuse not to make servers able to do instanced housing.

[Dzian]

I enter my house everyday and I see my nearest neighbour once a week if, that. We wave or bow to each other and that\\'s it. She is the only person I see regularly. One person out of an entire ward with no empty plots. Sometimes I see other people standing by the market boards when I walk out of the area, but not often.
Would I be just as happy with an instanced house and a communal area for market boards, bells etc. Considering that instancing would give me more options to customise, more furniture slots and remove the threat of reclamation, absolutely!
A private island in the Sea of Clouds, a beach-side cottage in Mist, offer me something like that and I\\'d be more than happy to trade the neighbours.

Sometimes I think if there was like an all wards chat channel and more relevant vendors in the wards it would help a lot. If you could turn in your tomes and collectibles and various other stuff In the housing wards as well as had a decent chat network might filter a good chunk of the player Base away from idyllshire. And have players spending more time in the wards

[Penthea]

3° When made leader of a company that you didn't found, the login to not lose the house should only apply for the original owner in the first 35 days (so it won't count) unless the old owner is able to login during the 5 days after being given a warning. Or rebuy the house at server pricing as new leader. The house will be lost.

This one is ridiculous. You seriously want to punish an entire fc just because the fc master does not want or is unable to log in? You don't care if the house is still in regular use by the rest of the fc? Really?

I get that you're bitter about not having a house. I've been there. The current system sucks. But the majority of what you're suggesting is practically engineering it to be easier to lose a house. Maybe concentrate your energies into suggesting ways to increase the amount of players who have access to housing? SE would be more willing to listen to suggestions that positively affect players as a whole.

[Lexia]

Considering Yoshi promised that housing would NOT be linked to subscription status or maintenance fees. the existence of the current reclaim system is a total break of that promise. No way it should be made worse.

If anything the reclaim system needs to be scrapped entirely or extended to at least 180 days.

Especially when Yoshi also says it's OK for players to take breaks when content gets stale. (Not if they want to keep there house it isn't)


And here's the broken promise itself,

Things change but it really only affects people that bought a house prior to October 2015, anyone buying a house after that knew what they were getting into and that there would be a reclaim timer and if they didn't well that their fault for not being informed.