Simple solution to stop house flippers.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Implement a cooldown period after someone relinquishes their land of somewhere around 24-72hrs or so, where the land can not be purchased. This will discourage people from buying land from other players since you won't be able to immediately purchase the land after the seller relinquishes it and thus acquiring the land is no longer guaranteed.

In addition, make the exact time that the cooldown will be lifted visible to anyone who checks the house placard. In the case that the seller and buyer do make a transaction, the buyer will not have an unfair advantage over everyone else by being the only person who knows the exact time that the land will be made available for purchase.

This solution will help to discourage, if not stop completely, the practice of purchasing land for the sole purpose of making a profit.

It will also allow those who are looking to purchase land fairly, a time period to become aware that the land is available and make an attempt to purchase the land in a way that gives everyone a fair opportunity. For this reason, I would also suggest implementing this cooldown period after a house is automatically demolished.

Thanks for reading

[Thyranne]

How about 1 house per account/server and make all characters on that account/server have full access to that house.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

How about 1 house per account/server and make all characters on that account/server have full access to that house.

They will never do this because it would mean removing houses that people already possess. A system for allowing the player to select which house they would like to keep and which to be destroyed would have to be implemented. Since this is a process that would only ever need to be completed once and then never again, devoting development resources to creating such a system just doesn't make sense.

Also such a restriction could be easily bypassed by simply creating an FC with an alt and purchasing an FC house. Preventing this would mean making the player decide between owning an FC house but not a personal house or vice versa.

[ZStar]

True.

Personally, I would settle for instance housing (with the current housing plot remaining and improve the apartment). But many people are asking for it. If you are one of those people who own more than 1 house, prepare to forfeit/get refunded if that happens.

If that happens, some people say it is karma because people were greedy and they got it coming. However, I do hope the improve apartments like I had mentioned in my other post.
- Double Storey (Like a small house)
- Balcony for gardening
- BBQ (for people to gather and meet other apartment owners)
- Indoor/open air top swimming pool
- Pay more gil for upgrade in size
- "Utilities like a condo" where you can have gym, swimming pool, Air Transport (for exploration) and Parking area(Chocobo ranch to do choco stuff)

That way it will cut demand for housing plots and reduce server stress. Better yeah?

[Tussin]

having the option to upgrade or have those features would alleviate so much. plus i like apartments in the fact you can't lose them if you take a slight break from the game ever.

[Dustytome]

They will never do this because it would mean removing houses that people already possess. A system for allowing the player to select which house they would like to keep and which to be destroyed would have to be implemented. Since this is a process that would only ever need to be completed once and then never again, devoting development resources to creating such a system just doesn't make sense.

They could simply implement the rules for it at the placard when moving/purchasing. You cannot move a house with more than one on the account, you cannot purchase a plot if there's 1+ on the account. Could also put a cooldown before you can purchase another plot on the account if you relinquish a plot (voided if you move servers). As for FCs, block the transfer of ownership to someone who is already a leader of an fc with a house, block the purchase of an fc house for someone that's a leader of an fc that already owns a house and if the only one left in an fc doesn't meet the criteria to take over then the house goes into repo after a short period of time.

[NaoTenbe]

The idea of 1 house, one FC house per account is becoming a heavy chorus on here and elsewhere.
If people have multiple houses per chara on their account currently, then yes, there would need to be a way to divest them from the players, but I think they would need to be divested. The house/property flipping is another thing that needs to be addressed.