House Payments

[AriesMouse]

The more negligible it is, the less it would affect house flippers. The less negligible it is, the more it would affect innocent players just trying to enjoy housing.

A valid point, and one that would require fine tuning.
Honestly, this sort of system might not effect flippers too much, bit it would still help to weed out the people that hoard houses as trophies, rather than actually doing anything with them. People that do not actively use their house, or even log on enough to avoid getting an email telling them to log in an check their house, would be the ones mostly punished by this system. And it would make many people think twice about trying to maintain a house for an alt.

[Dualgunner]

A valid point, and one that would require fine tuning.

I don't think any amount of fine tuning would result in a system that works better than the one we have now.

Honestly, this sort of system might not effect flippers too much, bit it would still help to weed out the people that hoard houses as trophies, rather than actually doing anything with them.

I know you don't just mean people who own multiple houses here. Sorry, there's no reason to have a house but as a trophy, so this reasoning is flawed.

People that do not actively use their house, or even log on enough to avoid getting an email telling them to log in an check their house, would be the ones mostly punished by this system.

Everyone is punished by this system. No matter how negligibly: you're proposing we go from a system where people pay once, then own the house so long as they log into it to a system where people have to pay multiple times over a period of time.

The only way I'd ever consider something like that to be okay is if, say, this only applied at the start of 4.2, and everybody who owned a house prior to that was grandfathered in. That way everybody who purchased a house from then on would purchase it with full knowledge that there would be more gil they'd need to pay to maintain the house.

To add, even the people who only log on when they get the email are paying a sub. Many would argue, including me, that the sub is the rent that one is paying. I don't think you have a very good argument that they're less entitled to a house due to their own inactivity: they are maintaining their commitment to the game in rent that's far more valuable than any ingame currency there is.

And it would make many people think twice about trying to maintain a house for an alt.

Or they could just make a house bound to an account, and give every alt access to the same house owned by the player.