Hoarding Houses - Sometimes a Depressing Sight (a rant)

[MaybeOliverB]

How does this mean grandfathered plots are dropping, and I quote you, "every week"? Literally nothing you have said here states how they drop every week. This is just you saying "well they can't sell the personal houses, so why would they keep them?". Just like how you don't know how many grandfathered plots actually do drop in any given space of time, you also do not know the personal reasons why grandfathered players hang on to their plots. At best you can guess.



I see so what you're actually saying is "grandfathered plots become free sometimes". Absolutely nothing here suggests that it would have to be every week. Literally zero.

And what is this "lack of incentive to keep extra personal houses"? I can't even begin to count how many times in this thread I have been told about people who lovingly decorated their 3/7/15/etc houses. Have you suddenly decided that this isn't an incentive just to suit your argument? Have you now decided that pair on Mateus are actually real estate agents instead of people who actually enjoy owning many houses? Well at least you admitted that bragging rights is a possible incentive.

Love how you miss the point every single time. Why do you care about grandfathered houses when you don't even need to be grandfathered in order to own more than 1 house? You've been barking at the wrong tree this entire thread. Now you're just all over the place trying to tell me that the actual amount of grandfathered houses doesn't go down.

I know housing way better than you do, just look a few posts up. I can tell you that I own more non grandfathered houses in the Mist than the amount of grandfathered houses left in that specific housing area on my server at this point. The % of players with more than 1 personal houses before 4.2 was already low and let's argue that half of those were intended for resell. Well guess what, these plots have been sold since then. Now you're left with the other half of an already small % of houses that are grandfathered. It's been nearly a year since 4.2. Players have move to different servers, stopped playing, got rid of their extra home because of X reason. Chop that number in half and you end up with a handful of people left with more than 1 personal houses.

There was 2 880 plots per server before 4.2. Let's say a very generous 10% of the houses were owned by players that already had a personal house. So 288 houses. Patch 4.2 increased the amount of plots by 50% and now sits at 4 320. Remove half of the 288 grandfathered plots that were only kept for resell purposes. 144. Remove the other half that have let go of their plots for various other reasons, 72. Barely a full ward... out of the 72 wards available. You're getting pretty close to 1% of houses being owned by grandfathered players.

More houses are auto-demolished every month on Gilgamesh compared to the total amount of grandfathered personal houses. But hey, I don't see you complain about all those people who do absolutely nothing with their house for 45 days. Do you think it's okay to have more than an entire ward in limbo all year long on a populated server?

Finally, since you seem so picky about the words I use...

I can't even begin to count how many times in this thread I have been told about people who lovingly decorated their 3/7/15/etc houses.

Show me the posts in this thread where players have come out to talk about their 3/7/15 decorated houses. They don't seem to exist