Hoarding Houses - Sometimes a Depressing Sight (a rant)

[Penthea]

Why do you people even care about grandfathered houses?

I am impressed that you have managed to avoid to multiple instances in which this has been explained.

Don't you understand that the actual amount of grandfathered houses is pretty much meaningless and it keeps going down every week?

Oh yes I'm sure a ward full of grandfathered plots means nothing to people who have access to none. Fcs stuck in a cottage that need a bigger house don't care about medium and large plots that are mostly abandoned by grandfathered players.

/s in case that wasn't obvious

Also do you have a source for "it keeps going down every week"? Are you somehow privy to information about activity of every single house in the game? Do you have access to SE's internal statistics for housing?

It makes no sense to complain about a small minority of players owning more than 1 personal house when you can have 8 FC houses, with a lvl 1 character as the leader and unique member, since the restriction does not apply to FCs anymore.

From what I understand being able to purchase eight fc houses on the same server after 4.2 requires using a loophole. If you are the fc master of a house with a fc you cannot buy another fc plot...unless you temporarily give fc leadership to a character on another account, buy the second fc house, and get fc master back again with the first character and...voila you own more than one fc house.

If I'm wrong then please tell me how this is done, because I distinctly remember reading that you cannot buy another personal or fc house if you already own one of each. As far as I recall you can't even buy a fc house if you're even in an fc with a house on any character in that server.

And I remember this because I was unsure about the wording of SE's statement about the 4.2 changes, and I asked in these forums if having my alts in my fc would somehow be affected.

If this is how it's done then sorry no, that's not an intentional feature SE gave us. That's a loophole. If it was intentional then SE wouldn't have bothered to prevent fc masters from being able to buy more fc houses on the same server.

EDIT: I found official information regarding how many plots players can own after 4.2. One section states "Players may only own one private and one free company estate per World on any given service account." You can read the whole thing here.

So yea, it is a loophole as SE have explicitly stated that they do not intend for players to be able to purchase more than one fc house on the same server from 4.2 onwards.