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[Penthea]

100% this. The random timer was put in place to help with people selling house plots. People still sell house plots all over the place. The timer just made it harder for people to buy their first house. It didn't stop what it was meant to stop.

No but it definitely did reduce it. The pool of players who can engage in house flipping has been greatly reduced because you either need to buy a fc or be able to relocate to purchase a house from another player. That's a tiny amount of people compared to before.

Please call it the failed experiment that it is and go back to letting the first person to show up to the house be the person who is able to buy it.

If it reduced RMT that's a win in SE's eyes.

But like...SE could remove almost all housing-based RMT and housing-based player unhappiness by giving us instanced housing ><

/tears hair out because the answer has been obvious for far too many years

[MizArai]

No but it definitely did reduce it. The pool of players who can engage in house flipping has been greatly reduced because you either need to buy a fc or be able to relocate to purchase a house from another player. That's a tiny amount of people compared to before.

If it reduced RMT that's a win in SE's eyes.

But like...SE could remove almost all housing-based RMT and housing-based player unhappiness by giving us instanced housing ><

/tears hair out because the answer has been obvious for far too many years

But, the house flipping market is just as active if not more so than it was before. How was it reduced?

The people I've known who bought gil never bought a house with it. The people I know who spend ridiculous amounts of gil on housing have plenty of gil on their own and would never think of buying gil to get a house (because they normally don't even know what to do with all the gil they have). I really don't understand why people assume that just because you bought a house from a flipper that RMT was involved somehow.

I would love to have instanced housing so I could have something better than an apartment for my alts.