Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
i didn't ask if this was a faq, and your provided faq is useless to me and only serves to try and justify why you're doing this. check your holier-than-thou condescension at the door, please.
You didn't ask, you brought it up

Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
an ongoing crisis involving tainted water that affects the health and well-being of an entire city (thus causing the houses to drop in value and making them illegal to even sell) =/= artificial scarcity being taken over by singular groups. it's literally not even close to the same thing and the fact that you keep using that as reasoning is absolutely tasteless and offensive on your part, regardless of my emotions..
I see you didn't even read as you clearly do not understand the context in which the prices changes were brought up. Not surprising.

Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
unused houses are an issue, but that's a 'whataboutism' because guess what, those are still singular houses owned by an fc/a solo player and not a concentrated takeover of multiple plots, as you (and several others) engage in. some are buying plots and not using them because they intend to relocate. it's a waste to decorate if they're planning that. and if you're complaining about unused plots, please feel free to share all the evidence you have for using all the ones you're holding, because you claim to be utilizing them but i see zero evidence outside of your statements..
It doesn't matter if those unused houses are owned by individual players or not. Ever heard of strength in numbers? You are absolving players who do nothing with their house until they relocate. Congratulation, you sunk your own ship. You want me to share evidence, come check out the houses for yourself. They're open for a reason.

Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
if they leave the game, so what? the auto demolition will take care of that issue and those plots will reopen to people who will claim them. if they're camping the plot despite inactivity? well, better than one person doing the same with multiple plots. heck, the great thing about fcs: the other members, so if the owner/lead doesn't log in, someone else can take over the fc and plot! but hey, kudos to you for spending an inordinate amount of time and money holding onto that many plots i guess..
Ah yes, great logic again. 24 people using a house once every 45 days vs a handful every other day.

Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
you can try and claim you're logical about this by spending time making charts and graphs (which only serve to add filler and faux logic to distract from your greed but go off) but there is no logic justifying one group or person taking over entire wards. i honestly hope the people you're trying to buy out in your ward never sell purely to spite you, because (and here's my emotions!) i sure as heck would..
There is logical reasoning behind acquiring these houses, you just can't even understand them. Regarding the neighbors, I honestly couldn't care less and have already talked about it.

Quote Originally Posted by Illy_Peridot View Post
anyway, thanks for providing an example of the tragedy of the commons for the playerbase i guess.
Thanks for attempting to write something coherent I guess.

Quote Originally Posted by CP2833787 View Post
Illustrate it with what? I looked over the charts and graphs and they are nothing but filler built to seem logical and to make the OP seem like they know what they talk about. When in reality they are holding on to a large chunk of housing they don't use and probably never will just because they can. It is nothing more than a form of puffery and a flagrant show of wealth that deprives other players of potential housing in an already cutthroat market.

To top it off they have the audacity to blame SE and other players for this farce they are putting on.

And as for the OP. As a citizen of the West Michigan area I would appreciate it if you not compare an actual disaster borne of personal greed and terrible management to your own petty brand of greed. Not that I would expect any decorum from some one who wastes so much money on making other peoples housing excursions just a little bit harder.
Filler? I dare you to come up with something comparable. Judging by the lack of facts in your post, I might have to wait for the next umbral calamity. I mean come on, you claim I do nothing with the houses. You could have at least shared one activity log from one of these FCs. But you can't.

Quote Originally Posted by Mahrze View Post
I don't get it... Why the burj khalifa of text only to say: "we need more houses, stop grilling me for having what i have"?

Why the use of inflation when gil doesn't have a set value nor is there any other data to give it value outside of "buys certain things that other currencies don't buy"?
I never said we needed more houses, read again.