Please Remove the Inactivity Timer

[TR_RA]

Common misconceptions

"The Inactivity Timer is meant to stop people owning several plots"

"The Inactivity timer is meant to stop overcrowding"

"Housing is for everyone"
Also wrong. While yes, everyone deserves the right to have a go at housing, not everyone is going to GET a housing plot. The Housing Plots need to remain a finite resource in order to keep a demand. If everyone could get one, then there goes a major gil-sink for the game. It's doing its job. What people seem to enjoy ignoring is the apartments out there for people to own a house.

And before anyone says "Apartments aren't houses" or they're not proper instanced housing? Stop being picky. Yeah, you may not get every system with an apartment, but apartments don't auto-demo, they're permanent and about 3/4 the size of a Small (interior at least). For the price you're asked for its purchase, it's a pretty great deal. For everything else, just join an FC and get permissions to grow / water plants. Boom. There you go. All of the systems at your disposal.

I'm not sure how your brain works, but your conceptions are wrong on all of this. What it is and what it is meant to do, is right there in it's name INACTIVITY TIMER. If you are inactive, you lose. Why should a house plot sit there if the owner never uses it? My game-hubby got a plot, decorated it, but never used the house so it went up for auto-demolish even though he was subbed. That is it's purpose. Sub or no sub, if you aren't using it you should lose it. Plus, the rules on this are fairly easy, "enter your house once every 30 days". I mean, shit if you have a house and have it decorated, you should be using it each time you log in to play... summoning bells alone to pull retainers instead of using one by the MB all the time is reason enough to enter your house at least once. Why would you think for a second, just because got a house and spent the gil for decorating and whatever, that they should rightfully keep it if they are unsubbed or never even enter it for months at a time? How is that fair to anyone else? Also, for you to say "Stop being so picky" means you have a house, at least one. Get permissions to grow/water, boom! Yeah, not that simple or fair/accurate/etc since FCs have multiple members and limited in gardening space.

[Kenky]

I'm not sure how your brain works, but your conceptions are wrong on all of this. What it is and what it is meant to do, is right there in it's name INACTIVITY TIMER. If you are inactive, you lose. Why should a house plot sit there if the owner never uses it? My game-hubby got a plot, decorated it, but never used the house so it went up for auto-demolish even though he was subbed. That is it's purpose. Sub or no sub, if you aren't using it you should lose it. Plus, the rules on this are fairly easy, "enter your house once every 30 days". I mean, shit if you have a house and have it decorated, you should be using it each time you log in to play... summoning bells alone to pull retainers instead of using one by the MB all the time is reason enough to enter your house at least once. Why would you think for a second, just because got a house and spent the gil for decorating and whatever, that they should rightfully keep it if they are unsubbed or never even enter it for months at a time? How is that fair to anyone else? Also, for you to say "Stop being so picky" means you have a house, at least one. Get permissions to grow/water, boom! Yeah, not that simple or fair/accurate/etc since FCs have multiple members and limited in gardening space.

The Inactivity timer is fine. You should probably read the first post and see how the OP claimed the Inactivity Timer were all of the things I listed.

And yes, I have a house. I was one of the lucky ones to get it through the current system, but I assume me admitting that means my words means nothing now? Because you'll warp it into some asinine statement of "Well, they have a house. So they dont know what they're talking about" like some people have done here. Not that simple or fair/accurate to assume FCs would welcome new players and make use of the systems they may not be using?

Well, damn. Guess my assumption that FCs would welcome any new player they get, especially when they use the systems of an FC is factually wrong because this one random player said so. Back to the books for me, I guess!