Suggestion For housing

[Penthea]

They amassed that before the personal house restrictions were in place though didn't they? I don't recall the timing on that, but if it was before then they could have snagged up to 32 plots between the two of them if they each had 8 character and each character had a personal and an fc house. That's just using one account each. The maximum any one account can acquire per world starting from scratch today is 9, so a total of 4 accounts needed to own an entire ward.

And yet this restriction will not help if a huge fc wants to collect shell fc houses. Some have already done it. It would be even easier with a lottery system.

We need a system in which the activity of another person cannot possibly affect your chances of getting a house. Lottery will not give us that.

That's true but if someone is using multiple account to enter a lotto, it's an advantage for them but it wouldn't be against the rules. Kinda hard to prevent some form of P2W in MMO's (not really P2W but you know what I mean. more money = more advantages).

That is precisely the problem with the lottery suggestion. It means players with more rl money could get a very significant advantage. And of course fcs with more gil too. It would be turning the housing system into something super capitalist.

[Thamorian]

And yet this restriction will not help if a huge fc wants to collect shell fc houses. Some have already done it. It would be even easier with a lottery system.

We need a system in which the activity of another person cannot possibly affect your chances of getting a house. Lottery will not give us that.



That is precisely the problem with the lottery suggestion. It means players with more rl money could get a very significant advantage. And of course fcs with more gil too. It would be turning the housing system into something super capitalist.

As far as I can determine, the only system to achieve that goal is instanced housing, which I would be fine with as long as there is still a yard. Instanced housing alongside housing wards. But doesn't look like SE if going to implement something like that anytime soon. I think I remembered reading back that SE is looking to expand apartments.

[Penthea]

As far as I can determine, the only system to achieve that goal is instanced housing, which I would be fine with as long as there is still a yard. Instanced housing alongside housing wards. But doesn't look like SE if going to implement something like that anytime soon. I think I remembered reading back that SE is looking to expand apartments.

I'm starting to wonder if they will even touch apartments. It's been years and they're still merely a more expensive fc room.

And yes instanced housing is the only way to make a system that is universally fair to all, and that the activities of other players would have zero effect on your housing experience. Which is how it should be.