Feels like people get a little hostile any time this subject is touched. They also just assume the worst out of everyone. I'm not sure if that is a commentary on the housing in this game, the community, or what.

While I can understand the worry over possible drama, I do still think it would be interesting just to see how many houses hit that timer, just to get an idea of how much some of the seemingly empty houses are used.

I agree that we can't tell people how to use their houses, decorated or not, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people that have houses and literally do not even look at them more than once every month when they are e-mailed, being told to look at their house. You can't tell me you don't see at least a small problem in that, when we're dealing with a finite resource.

Suggesting people pay money to move servers isn't really a solution, as not everyone has that luxury/spare funds. Honestly, that argument could be made regarding the people that stay subbed only to hold onto a house that they visit once a month. Why not funnel them onto other servers rather than punish actually active players? Really, all I am saying in that regard is hold off a little on the warning e-mails. If the houses are really being used, then the e-mails aren't really needed.

Keep in mind, I say all this, while also having suggested in the past several ways in which they could try to change the auto demo system over all, especially to try to help those that have fallen on hard times, or people dealing with RL emergencies. This isn't so much about screwing innocent people over so much as trying to curb squatters, to a very minor degree.

Realistically, they just need to make instanced housing already and do away with all of the demo stuff.