Housing crisis is incentivizing RMT

[Morlach]

Well, you have a viable way to get a house now, you just choose not to take it. If you resort to RMT, that's on you.

Sorry but thats utterly ridiculous way to justify the system. Making people move servers is not a viable system.

[Edax]

Sorry but thats utterly ridiculous way to justify the system. Making people move servers is not a viable system.

Why is not viable?

vi·a·ble
/ˈvīəb(ə)l/

adjective
capable of working successfully; feasible.

[RikuShieran]

Why is not viable?

vi·a·ble
/ˈvīəb(ə)l/

adjective
capable of working successfully; feasible.

God, I was trying to be cordial but you are just being insufferable at this point.

Yes, it's linguistically feasible. Just like it's feasible for me to get a teleport hack, or a script that autoclicks the board for me every 0.004 seconds, or buy RMT. Less hassle, even. This is not a good justification.

But judging by your pattern of responses on this board regarding this topic, you'd probably say those are all perfectly viable options, too.

[ForteNightshade]

Why is not viable?

vi·a·ble
/ˈvīəb(ə)l/

adjective
capable of working successfully; feasible.

You're omitting context. Is it viable under the technical definition? Sure. But a system that requires someone to give up their social circle, FC and pay 24$ isn't much of a solution. It only serves to highlight how horrendously mishandled housing is, and it's about time SE did something to fix it.

[Edax]

You're omitting context. Is it viable under the technical definition? Sure. But a system that requires someone to give up their social circle, FC and pay 24$ isn't much of a solution. It only serves to highlight how horrendously mishandled housing is, and it's about time SE did something to fix it.

Still viable. Would I give up my social circle and FC and pay $24 to get a house? The answer is yes. With Discord and World Visit, I would never truly be gone from my social circle anyway.
And this maybe a controversial opinion, but this is the best housing system in an MMO I've ever played. It's riddled with problems and there might be better systems out there, but so far this is the best I've had.

[Solarra]

I think we're getting off the point. It's not really about whether it is reasonable or practical to expect entire FCs to move server if they want to access housing (though really for any FC above 5-6 members, it isn't). The point is that the shortage of housing is encouraging RMT. As the OP mentioned in their first post there is a site where people looking to buy a plot can go and pay either cash or gil for it, usually huge sums. We also have people buying properties on all servers not because they intend to use them but in order to sell them for profit.

And a housing system that locks most players out from anything but the most basic properties, really can't be considered a success. FCs are in the worst position as they need a plot; at least players have the option of buying an apartment.