[Suggestion] Monthly Housing Upkeep

[Aronys]

Paying bills is not a punishment. Is this not how owning a house in real life works? Owning a house doesn't mean you get free utilities too, you must pay for those (unless you want to live in a house with no power).

One problem. I don't want to deal with the same issues in a fantasy game, that I deal with in real life.

No, I don't want to pay rent. I finally got my house and I know that I will play this game for a long time. I am happy with my small house, I have everything I need there. I log in every day and enter my house every day as I grow stuff both indoors and outdoors. I have crafting stations in there where I craft and sell on the market board. I am using my house to the fullest, and I don't need to pay more each month, after I finally got enough to get this, just so i don't lose it.

Bills are a RL thing. Upkeep can stay away from my fantasy games. I didn't like that system in LOTRO, and I don't want it here.

[touya]

I think they should just separate housing into 2 category: the personal zone & the FC zone
In the FC zone: Housing will be set in community format, like it is right now, and only FC with a set amount of active people will be able to keep their house after a certain amount of days.

So because some of us prefer to have a smaller FC because it's the number of people we trust, even though we can afford (and actually DO in fact) have a large plot, you're saying because of our number of members, we should be forced into a smaller place? Who are you to determine the quality of players? Our fc has the first new carby house, sold the first ones as well. Just because we are small, we are active, and more productive than many FC's I've seen with large numbers. Quantity does not equal quality. The housing system is fine as is. This post, and the people crying on the reddit, are literally just babies who have entitlement issues.

[Abnoba]

It kinda makes the game into a job, which is the fastest way to make it unfun for a lot of people.

This is exactly right. It is a game and should be fun. Those that are getting bent over the fact that someone else has played and worked for what they got should just let it go. They did the work. Do I agree with having that many houses, no, but I'm not about to tell them they can't. As for charging extra to keep a house, why? If you got a house, GREAT! Good for you. There is already a practice in place that makes a person have to be active to keep it. Yes, I understand that it sucks that others can't get what they want but it is what it is. For those saying it isn't fair that they only have to go in once every 45 days, it is fair. They pay a sub just like everyone else. Calm down and search for those unlucky folks that didn't go into their house. Learn to check the districts every hour for an open plot.

[Mjollnir]

This is similar to the system they use in LotRO. If your upkeep runs out, your furniture/stuff gets held by an NPC and your plot is made available.

Though in LotRO a new housing instance was generated every time one got full.

[Aronys]

LOTRO's housing was also fairly basic. You had hooks where you could put certain furniture and that's it. That's why they could generate new wards every time one would fill up. Less data. And the rent system there was really annoying. You had to pay in advance for a few weeks, and if you forgot, you would get locked out of your house and would have to hunt down the NPC that dealt with this thing.

[Naunet]

Heck no. Terrible idea. We do not need more ways to make housing more annoying than it already is.

Is this a job? Or is this a game? Meant for entertainment and fun? I'm pretty sure Yoshi-P and the dev team are going to see this at some point and ask the same question. I don't pay SE so I can have another job. I pay them for a game to have fun with in their world and systems. The people who bought those plots DID NOTHING WRONG. And also on this note: You're not even on that server. People are whining about something that isn't even affecting them or their server worlds. Tell me, What TOS did these two players break? NONE. If anything, everyone who is against them is in fact harassing them which IS against TOS and all those against it deserve a ban imo under the TOS harassment section.

This, so much.

[Aldotsk]

We were asking developers to fix the problem by being beneficial for -everyone-. Not punish all players including tenants by preventing them from getting housing because they'll never have enough to pay each month.

[worldofneil]

Using your pricing, an entire ward in Mist would cost 1.15 million a month. If you can afford multiple houses, that's really nothing.

But it does penalises everyone else just because you don't like the actions of a few.

[Squintina]

How about making this only if a player has more than one house?

So players who are more casual don't have to pay a fee to keep their house.

[SirBrighton]

Is this a job? Or is this a game? Meant for entertainment and fun?

The game has market taxes. Are those fun? From your point of view, paying additional fees is a punishment. Do you think Yoshi-P and the dev team questioned whether or not to add that feature to the game? Well it's in the game, so you know what they decided on.
Now the real question. If this is supposed to be a game meant for fun, why would they add something so not-fun like taxes to the game, especially when the taxed amount doesn't even go "back into the economy"?