Housing demolition timer need to be changed! Sitting on your property needs to count.

[Edax]

I find statements like these troubling. Its like you are saying he isnt useing his house when clearly... He was. He made the outside look the way he wanted and goes there to relax, that is in no way NOT useing the house...

That's a bit of an oxymoron there. If he was using the house, he would not have been subjected to the demolition timer.

[GetFoesReqd]

After reading over this, I can only have one thought. If you can't be bothered to click a front door once in 45 days, then you're far too lazy and I don't feel bad for you. I have alts that have done nothing more than log in to keep houses on Data Centers I no longer play on for 3 years now. It takes almost none of my time. I don't need a timer to remember that. I don't need in game notifications. I don't need emails. I have managed it for over 1000 days with no trouble. I will say again, if you were too lazy to click your front door for 45 days, or too unconcerned to think that you might need to, then I hope whoever gets your house enjoys it more than you did, cause it sounds like they will. :P

[Kietsu]

The reason they can't have it just reset when you enter your property's exterior is that they don't have a way to detect that you entered your property's exterior. They only have a manual check that you're already on your property, done when you use the Housing menu, for example. This is the same reason that using the Housing menu outside of your property tells you to get inside your property when you use them, rather than just being greyed out when you're not on your property. But it would be easy enough to implement, right? - just cross-reference the location of every player in the ward with the locations of the housing every server tick. Trouble is, this would eat up a ton of processing time, even if they did some sanity checks like discarding players who hadn't moved since the last tick.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

They have yet to answer why it's such a hard thing to click on your house door once a week or once a day like every other routine thing they do in game.

Do you visit gold saucer every week for tickets?
Do you monitor any of your timers?

Why is clicking on a flippin' door every so often so damn hard?

[ForteNightshade]

I find statements like these troubling. Its like you are saying he isnt useing his house when clearly... He was. He made the outside look the way he wanted and goes there to relax, that is in no way NOT useing the house... Just not useing it in a way you would. Maybe he has no interest in crafting or setting up the crafting stations in house or maybe he dosent have the air ship or sub. To be frank, there really isnt much to go into the house outside of those things. Hell, i hate the fact that you cant que for a dungeon and spawn back in your house afterwards, maybe he hates that as well and just chills outside his home. People use their house for many diffrent reasons and peoplr shouldnt judge him for how he uses it by saying things like "well you arent useing it right and someone else would appreciate it more" essentially.

Sitting on the lawn isn't interacting with the house, thus it cannot contribute to resetting the timer. It isn't a question of whether the OP is using their house currently but that they couldn't be bothered to step inside it once in 45 days. There is a very simple solution to this issue.

[GetFoesReqd]

Indeed. Anyone can literally sit on anyone else's lawn. It requires, and contributes, nothing. The OP was probably in clicking distance of the door multiple times in 45 days if he was chilling on his lawn. And not once, did he think "I wonder if I need to go inside for it to count? I wonder if I should at least think about this or look into it. Or just go inside to be safe." Nah. Just shrugged it off like Leo diCaprio and then got mad at the consequences of not taking more responsibility for it.

Also, saying I shouldn't judge someone for not going into their house for 45 days because someone else would appreciate it more than they clearly did, when you can get all the exterior benefits of a home from an FC house, is ridiculous. I do judge. And I will. And I will not feel bad about it. His reasons matter. If his reasons don't include the house itself, then he doesnt NEED the house itself, and someone else WILL appreciate it more. Sorry not sorry.

[HyoMinPark]

I find statements like these troubling. Its like you are saying he isnt useing his house when clearly... He was. He made the outside look the way he wanted and goes there to relax, that is in no way NOT useing the house... Just not useing it in a way you would. Maybe he has no interest in crafting or setting up the crafting stations in house or maybe he dosent have the air ship or sub. To be frank, there really isnt much to go into the house outside of those things. Hell, i hate the fact that you cant que for a dungeon and spawn back in your house afterwards, maybe he hates that as well and just chills outside his home. People use their house for many diffrent reasons and peoplr shouldnt judge him for how he uses it by saying things like "well you arent useing it right and someone else would appreciate it more" essentially.

He was using the yard—not the house itself, which is what is required to actively keep a plot in this game. He checked retainers, interacted with the Armoire, and did anything else one could do in a house in his FC house—not the personal one he lost. If he just wanted a yard to loiter about in, there are plenty of those to go around. But you can’t argue that using the yard = using the house because it’s not actually making use of the house itself. And that’s what the game requires of housing owners: to use the estate proper. Not its yard.

I honestly find it troubling that people defend this type of complaining. At some point, the OP needs to accept personal responsibility for failing to meet the conditions set forth by the game to keep their plot. It doesn’t seem like they are wanting to do that, but instead blame a system that plenty of others seem to keep up with and work within just fine.


For the record, my personal house doesn’t use crafting stations or any of the like—and I’m notoriously bad for keeping up with airships, so a friend does that in my FC. I go into my personal house for retainers and to just listen to music on the orchestrion while I’m idle, talking to friends, or waiting for my queue to pop. Sometimes I do idle in my yard—but I at least take the time to enter my estate every day, unlike what has happened here.

[Prophecy]

If you want to present a decent argument, don’t use clickbaity titles. Simple.



Okay, then I stand corrected if this is true (I don’t own either of these, nor do I feel like going out of my way to confirm this). However, my argument of just go into your house still stands. Just go into your house. If you aren’t going into it, you aren’t actually using it. So let someone else who will actually go into the house once every 45 days use it. You still have your FC house, which you stated that you used for everything anyways. Stick with it and let this thread die—it’s not a very well-worded or well thought out suggestion thread.

You’ll also be waiting a long time for a developer response. They rarely respond directly to threads on NA forums.

Well see. Tag seems to be working ok so far.

[Prophecy]

I agree that the timer isn't visible or annoying enough. They can stick a UI bit on the screen that asks you if you want to teleport but not one to remind you about your house? Ehh. Not a problem for me as I enter my house and FC house daily, but I still find it shocking that the timer is stuck on a tab I'd never seen before.

100% agreed! Thank you !-_-!

[Prophecy]

Also confirmed: Titanic Cragsoul Lamp also is interactive and an outdoor furnishing.

Yea (Owned) too !-_-! Thanks!