House Payments

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Making the prices rise to so absurd levels that no one buys them, which when given enough time, will likely make this kind of trade collapse.

As I said above, RMT will have a field day. People who would never normally consider it will be knocking at their door. And Abelfei is right, with supply so limited, there is no such thing as an absurd price.

We already have a situation where people paying a sub can lose their virtual property. If that had been implemented for anything other than housing there would have been an outcry, and I still think it was a bad decision (in it's present form), made even worse due to the fact that furniture from demolished properties isn't stored permanently.
Individuals have lost their houses due to illness, accident or being posted abroad for work/study. And the saddest thing of all? It hasn't made a dent in the real problem.

I assume some of the people supporting these increasingly punitive measures for house owners have given up all hope of getting a house and simply want to give a good kick to those of us who got lucky. Others perhaps haven't thought it through; I expect they will be first to the forum complaining if they do get a house and then find the rules they once supported threaten their ability to keep it.

We gain nothing by turning on each other like this. It simply allows Square to apply a few bandaids and leave the main problem of woefully inadequate supply unaddressed.

The most sensible solution seems to be fully instanced housing running alongside the present wards with both houses and yard being instanced (the older wards all have unused exits that could lead to these or they could use the ferries).
Yoshi P's statement on instanced housing was pretty vague. I couldn't work out if there is a technical issue preventing it or if they are so heavily invested in the ward system that they simply cannot think outside the box.