4.2 Housing Update

[AriesMouse]

And it's that whole narrow-minded white knight mentality that I think it's funny you can justify two people owning an entire ward. It's one thing it being 3 or 4 houses, but think back to some of the comments and reasonings why they did it.

My biggest issue with people crying about the Ward 12 pair, is that those same people are completely content to ignore the dozens upon dozens of people that own houses, and do nothing at all with them, and that isn't even counting house flippers.Hate them as much as you want for having obtained something great, while breaking no rules, but you can't ever say that they aren't doing anything with that ward. Every house they have finished decorating has been made open to the public, and they openly encourage people to visit them, to host events in them, and to RP in those houses ( I've spent over 6 hours doing just that with my FC over the last couple evenings. ) They are also frequently editing the decorations, updating and changing things. The ward itself is like a living breathing organism, every week you could go through and find something new or different, and as someone who is actually on the server with that ward(Most the people I see complaining, surprisingly don't have Mateus marked as their realm on here), I can say it would honestly be a tragedy to lose it.

That being said, I feel like they should focus more on addressing issues with house flippers, or people just holding onto houses, but doing literally nothing with them, beyond just running inside once a month to reset the auto demo timer. And before anyone comes at me with the "You have no right to say how people should use their houses", when it is dealing with such a finite resource like this, yes, yes people can say how that finite resource should be used, and people do all the time, like those screaming about multi-home owners. I would much rather see 2 people own an entire ward, and actually do something with it, than see the mass of people owning 1 house, and doing nothing with it.

I think a good balance would be to, at least going forward, put a price on buying houses for alts. Similar to getting retainers, add a higher fee to a person's subscription if they want to own more than one personal home, that way, they are literally helping to pay for the resources it takes to maintain the housing system.