Quote Originally Posted by MizArai View Post
I really don't understand why you are filled with so much hatred towards anything being grandfathered in.
Because grandfathering stuff in continues to perpetuate the problem and if the servers are as bad as SE claims, allows some people to put disproportionate and unfair burden on the servers thereby causing other people to have nothing.

When grandfathering doesn't fix the problem, you don't do it. That's why they don't tend to grandfather in many requirements.

I read a great example in the forums somewhere (I may try to find it later to add the quote), but it basically said in real life if you build a house, you have to build it to the codes and laws as they are right then. If your city/ town/ county/ state/ country/ whoever changes the codes which housing has to be built to, you don't have to rebuild/ fix your house to meet those new codes even though any new houses have to meet those codes. If you try to upgrade your old home, then you have to meet the new codes, but just because the laws (rules) changed, doesn't mean that they should be retro-active and everyone in the town should have to rebuild everything just to meet the new coding. That's how things get grandfathered in, and it's almost always a better system for everyone.
And when they change the property tax law governing your house, they do NOT typically grandfather you in. You get to pay the new system. If that makes your house more expensive, too bad. Building codes get grandfathered in only because it's extremely impractical to constantly change old buildings.

This is not that. SE needs to bring the hammer down and actually fix this, and if they don't have the capacity to do it with grandfathered people owning 15 houses, then SE needs to choose if those people are more important than the multitudes who are left out entirely. Business wise, the math behind that decision is easy. But, SE has shown nothing but ineptitude on this issue, so expect things to continue to limp along in a broken state for god only knows how long.

What they SHOULD do is in 4.3, add a deed item that you can trade to transfer ownership of a property (effectively putting house selling in game). Change the rules so it's one house per service account, period. No FC/personal split. You get one house. For anyone with more, start the demolition timer in 4.4. That gives them 4.3 to sell off the ones they don't want.