Suggestion to SE (Housing)

[Penthea]

It's gotten to the point of abuse. So much so, that I'm starting to see a pattern of the same players relocating in order to give their friends a favorable estimated timeframe (when there's less competition) at odd hours in the night to camp for their house.

I find it hard to believe that there are players constantly transferring their plot location. That's a lot of money, never mind how doing this automatically stores most of your furnishings so you would have to refurnish again every time if you actually want to use your house. It's potentially an incredible amount of money and trouble. Not impossible but unlikely.

When a plot is auto-demolished due to non-use, place a restriction that both prevents players from buying AND relocating to that plot for a random period of time.

I fail to see how this would improve anything. Let's not make the system any worse than it already is just because of a few bad eggs. A better fix would be to limit how many times a player can transfer plot within a certain timeframe.

[Rokke]

I find it hard to believe that there are players constantly transferring their plot location. That's a lot of money, never mind how doing this automatically stores most of your furnishings so you would have to refurnish again every time if you actually want to use your house. It's potentially an incredible amount of money and trouble. Not impossible but unlikely.

Everything on Balmung is cheap since the population is so high so housing is the only thing to really spend your gil on... and cottages are dirt cheap if you're transferring. When there were still plots available from the last ward increase, there were people who were transferring back and forth to troll those waiting out the timers. I didn't think it was still going on since plots have all been full for a loooong time now, but I honestly don't doubt that people with time and gil would find ways to bounce plots between themselves if given the chance.

That said

I fail to see how this would improve anything. Let's not make the system any worse than it already is just because of a few bad eggs. A better fix would be to limit how many times a player can transfer plot within a certain timeframe.

I agree with this 100%