Quote Originally Posted by NolLacnala View Post
Gil sellers invalidate auctions and bidding.
Bingo.

The only "fair" way to deal with housing is to get rid of the housing entirely and just give everyone instanced apartments that they can expand with cash shop money. That's not very fun though. Giving everyone a "house" instance likewise doesn't give players any ability to explore the housing area because the instance switching takes forever.

The alternative requires a sort of Minecraft/Landmark solution where you simply get a large housing "area" and you claim a chunk of land (to place your house "instance", which all editing takes place in the instance except when outside) and when all the land is used up, another housing instance pops up. Unfortunately it's not a solution to bots and RMT jacking entire instances.

Basically no game has ever solved the housing problem and it's unlikely that it can be solved without identity tokens attached to all users.