Quote Originally Posted by Jas710 View Post
What the hell is the point of the demo timers if they always suspend it any time there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world (which is almost always)?

The current housing system is just super-dumb any way you look at it. Yoshi should be /slapped.
The point of the demo timer is to demolish the houses of those that have decided to no longer play the game for a period of 45 days so that the plots may be repurchased. The timer has been paused exactly twice, once for the Japanese servers and once for the North American servers. It is not paused every time there is a natural disaster somewhere, only when natural disasters reach a certain magnitude or multiple hit the same region(s) at once to cause a greater issue.

As for the housing system being 'super-dumb' not really. The idea of housing zones is one that has been used in other games to great effect, the problem is in how SE chose to implement their version of it.