if it's going to be random anyways..

[Kenky]

You may want to check yourself, as the comment I stated has no real sway towards any capitalist or communist (since its considered the opposite) hint. On top of that, the "eventually all the rich players will have houses, so they won't need to do it anymore" doesn't work.

You are aware there are people that own entire wards, purely for the e-peen factor, correct? If they can make other people annoyed, they will more than likely do so. Even if it means alternate accounts and FCs to keep the trend going.

While I agree with you that people need to start understanding that the systems in place are not MEANT to be fair, I feel more pity or empathy to the people who are genuinely trying their hardest to get a plot, only for someone to take the cheap way out and Bot. Being one who lost plenty of plots to bots who just 'showed up' to spam-grab the plots. It's pretty disheartening. Though I now own a small in the Goblet through perseverance. The system in place definitely needs a rework, but there are more important things that need to be fixed before housing can be put under the metaphorical microscope.

Housing should remain finite and a demand must remain, otherwise if everyone simply "gets a house" then there'd be no point in bothering. No more showing status or proving ones skill (or the weight of their wallet, sadly). It'd just be another system that hardly anyone uses.

[JennytheJester]

You may want to check yourself, as the comment I stated has no real sway towards any capitalist or communist (since its considered the opposite) hint. On top of that, the "eventually all the rich players will have houses, so they won't need to do it anymore" doesn't work.

You are aware there are people that own entire wards, purely for the e-peen factor, correct? If they can make other people annoyed, they will more than likely do so. Even if it means alternate accounts and FCs to keep the trend going.

While I agree with you that people need to start understanding that the systems in place are not MEANT to be fair, I feel more pity or empathy to the people who are genuinely trying their hardest to get a plot, only for someone to take the cheap way out and Bot. Being one who lost plenty of plots to bots who just 'showed up' to spam-grab the plots. It's pretty disheartening. Though I now own a small in the Goblet through perseverance. The system in place definitely needs a rework, but there are more important things that need to be fixed before housing can be put under the metaphorical microscope.

Housing should remain finite and a demand must remain, otherwise if everyone simply "gets a house" then there'd be no point in bothering. No more showing status or proving ones skill (or the weight of their wallet, sadly). It'd just be another system that hardly anyone uses.

I can detect the undertones and it's not that hard to draw from how you're framing your argument.

Also, they cant buy out entire wards anymore unless they feel like buying a bunch of accounts in order to do that. Do you have any idea just how much in real life money and in gil that costs them to do? 30 * 15. 450 a month JUST IN SUB FEES ALONE, not counting how much it costs to actually buy the game for these accounts, as well as requiring that the houses already be open for sale which is impossible, then the absurdly high gil cost of which that will require to buy those houses.

The only reason there's the TWO PEOPLE who have this is because they did it BEFORE the account changes and got grandfathered in because it wouldn't be fair to just revoke their houses. Now they just have to keep refreshing them so they don't go up for sale.

Don't tell me you're actually ridiculous enough to believe this would be a problem.

[Dustytome]

Also, they cant buy out entire wards anymore unless they feel like buying a bunch of accounts in order to do that. Do you have any idea just how much in real life money and in gil that costs them to do? 30 * 15. 450 a month JUST IN SUB FEES ALONE, not counting how much it costs to actually buy the game for these accounts, as well as requiring that the houses already be open for sale which is impossible, then the absurdly high gil cost of which that will require to buy those houses.

If they were to start right now, they can own 1 personal house and 8 fc houses per server per account. For 30 houses they would need a total of 4 accounts at $52-60 a month (depending on how much they pre-pay and even less if any of the accounts are legacy).