But increasing the price doesn't just delete the 40 people waiting to buy a plot the moment it goes up for sale, it just narrows the pool of people who can afford to be waiting. That is to say, all 40 of those people still want a house, but then you'll just have the 20 who can afford to endlessly click doing so. The demand hasn't actually changed at all, in fact it's only bottlenecking the supply. And where are these "thousands of empty plots"? Part of the issue is that on some servers plots go up for sale so rarely that competition is massive, and the devaluation timer never even has a chance to kick in because the plot is bought instantly the moment it's actually buyable. And I don't see how adding more wards is just "kicking the can down the road" - Yes player populations are always increasing, but that most often results in adding more servers, while others are hardcapped for the creation of new characters, meaning adding more wards on congested servers isn't just a pointless effort.