Housing and FCs...

[Colt47]

On a healthy server, the housing situation actually isnt that bad - Balmung is not a healthy a server.

Besides that I'm not really sure what your concern here is?

Is it that there are only limited houses available and you're unhappy with "dead" FCs holding on to some of them?
In that case: If the FC is truely dead, if no one is using the house anymore, it will get thrown back on the market 45 days after the last time someone from that FC entered the house. Problem solved - as long as someone is till active, whats the problem?

If its the the whole "people are unwilling to merge their FCs because of houses"-thing, I'm not really sure what the problem is - and I'm also unsure how thats not a problem in other games?

The concern is mostly with the flaw of the system, which is that it can't handle the negative case and can only work under ideal conditions. A good system should have ways to deal with the negative case, which was probably never looked at when they implemented the system to begin with.

There probably needs to be a way to elegantly move the time and financial commitment of one FC that is having it's swan song into a pool that is transferable. They are doing a lot to fix the issues of one person owning too many houses, but the core of the housing crisis is the lack of good liquidation. The current system encourages hoarding and there are people that just log on for a day or two a week keeping a sub just to make sure that housing commitment isn't put into default.

Right now I'm just hoping that the crowd coming in here going "Oh look, a balmunger is complaining about his server" don't flood out the actual message, which has nothing to do with personal grievances or with the server I'm residing on. I merely observed it on the server that is having the issues because the server I am on represents the negative case. a