A Better Way for Houses Up For Grabs

[Sindele]

The notion that house flippers are a scourge to be stopped is why we now have a bunch of houses being held by people that don't want them, hoping to relocate into their dream plots and neglecting the houses they do have, while house sales still happen at significant increase from the prices they used to command. It also means that you can't just be diligent with your ward scanning and get lucky - every find is one you're going to have to contest, often against bots and the very same flippers and rich people you're afraid of. *It's already a lottery*, and one more biased against you than you think.

The people using houses as a money-making apparatus aren't stopped by the difference between 3m and 30m, and the flippers are only stopped from cutting small profits at the very direct cost of you now having *literally zero option* to get a personal house other than playing the placard luck game or engaging in Housing Savage when new wards are released.

[Jojoya]

The notion that house flippers are a scourge to be stopped is why we now have a bunch of houses being held by people that don't want them

Flippers are a scourge that needs to be stopped because all they do is buy up what's available for personal profit instead of allowing those houses to go directly to players that would use them.

No one is being prevented from giving up a house they don't want. You simply clear the furnishings from the house, remove the estate hall then relinquish the plot.

If they aren't relinquishing it, then clearly they want it for some reason and generally that something comes down to wanting gil for giving it up. After all, there's no cost for keeping it.

Nothing will stop the flippers as long as there is a limited number of houses that's less than the number of players and FCs that wish to own them. That is why SE needs to improve the housing system so supply of houses will always meet demand and that means focusing on an instanced system that's more comprehensive than just apartments. The existing wards can remain but stop throwing more resources into creating more wards when that's not solving the problem.