Hoarding Houses - Sometimes a Depressing Sight (a rant)

[MaybeOliverB]

As for people who stop playing the game...wow, what weak reasoning "hey it's okay for me to own 27 houses because some house hoarders stop playing the game". That's akin to saying "hey it's okay for me to own loads of toys even if it means some children will have none because children grow up and then are adults".

What are you even going on about, you completely missed what I was saying and ended up extrapolating. Once again, you're hard pressed to put words into other people's mouth.

Only affects personal houses? I have personally seen grandfathered plots that are fc houses, care to explain this?
If there are no loopholes then please explain this:

Is this information out of date? Then if so please provide official information from SE stating this. If you do then I will bow down on this particular argument on who can buy what.

You are clueless. Here are the current requirements for a free company




What you are all overlooking is the temporary changes to purchasing land. Some are still ongoing, some are not. How do I know? I wasn't able to purchase more FC houses on the same account when the new wards were only available to FCs or personal houses relocation.

It's true that the limitation on FC houses per account was quietly lifted (probably when personal housing could be bought again), and I actually agree that this is a good thing. SE needs to make up their mind about how to deal with alts, and the housing situation has kind of forced their hand but they're still waffling over it, probably because it goes against their original stance.

Alts were supposed to be completely independent characters in their own right, separate from the "main" and fully actualized. That was the excuse for not being able to mail them from your main (and something something rmt as if they don't just use the FC chest but anyway). Not allowing them to own their own houses is a good move considering the housing shortage, but it breaks from that original premise. You CANNOT be a full characterwhen you're restricted by the other characters on the account. For this reason, the FC restriction was good only as a temporary measure alongside the temporary freeze on personal housing purchases, to allow homeless FCs the chance to snag houses without worrying about someone buying a bunch of them up in single-person FCs with their alts. However, there are a number of players with multiple active characters that they have in separate FCs and IN GENERAL if one of those FCs happens to not have a house, they shouldn't have to kick someone just because their alt is in a different FC with a house. It was a special situation, and it's over now. The playerbase as a whole shouldn't have to be that restricted on a regular basis, especially on smaller servers (like mine, where there are still lots of empty houses sitting at the minimum price).

Correct, it was a temporary change while they were altering the current housing rules. There is nothing stopping a player from owning 1 FC house and 1 personal house per character right now. Until SE changes the rules people should be focused on trying to alter the rules, not witch hunt players because they had the resources and patience to play the game with in the rules.

Thats not how the temp rule worked. You could have multiple characters on the same world in multiple FC's, but if one of more of those FC's owned a home no other character on that world could purchase a FC home.
The temp rules!! No where does it say you could not have every character on a single world in a FC.