House Payments

[AriesMouse]

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You and I will have to agree to disagree, which is fine. I just don't buy into the narrative that this would be a challenging thing for people to work with, since I don't believe the people that own homes are a bunch of poor beggars in potatoes sacks, with not even enough gil to repair their armor. Which realistically, is what the upkeep price should be equivalent to, keeping your armor repaired. While this system is off putting to some, I don't see anyone else making any other suggestions for what to do, any other suggestions to put into place to at least try to help with the housing dilemma. Most I see is people screeching "1 house per account per server" which is something I personally disagree with (guess I'm full of unpopular opinions).

A big reason I highlighted that this system should use all types of currency, is because maybe in time, it would open the gates to allow houses as a whole to be bought with more than just gil, so all those people that "just barely scraped by to get a house", could have an easier time through other means to get a house. There are so many unused currencies in the game, Poetics come to mind, that you end up capped with, without even trying more days, so why not find more ways to use those things?

Also, the whole "you just want a house, that's why you're saying this" argument gets so old, and honestly just feels like a last ditch effort to try to undermine the person you disagree with, rather than actually conversing about the subject.

EDIT: For the sake of conversation, let's say they do put in a system like this, going forward, grandfathering in all of the old wards/houses with the old system. How best would you say a system like this should/could be put in? While it may never happen, rather than just saying "no", why not try to work out the best case scenario for it? Theory craft what it could be, how it could work, etc.

There are some months I play extremely small amounts of the game daily due to other games being out and can't even make the 250k you suggested for a small.....

You're taking the example numbers to heart. I specifically said they were only examples, not even something close to what the actual numbers would be. One top of the fact, we could use any currency of our choice, not just gil.