Quote Originally Posted by TurtlesAWD View Post
Do you believe the intent of the housing system is to require players to click for upwards of 12 hours in a row in order to be able to buy a house?
I think the intent of the housing system was to avoid people reselling houses by having large sums of money exchange hands, then abandoning their plot at a set time while the purchaser sat outside to immediately click on the placard.

I think the effect is to require players to click for anywhere between 45 minutes and 12 hours in order to be able to buy a house.

I think the system is horribly broken as a result, as I said, so I'm not going to hold people being tempted to cheat against them. I'm not going to call for them to be strung up or pilloried in the metaphorical village square, even if I think it's a Bad Idea. (But sitting there clicking on a placard for 14 hours isn't a great idea either, I grant.)

But if the cheaty methods lead to having your gil drained, I'm also not going to have a lot of sympathy; saying "it should be okay for me to break the rules when it benefits me, but this person whose rule-breaking harmed me should be punished and the damage undone" feels a little hypocritical. (Especially since dropping a retainer at the front of your house with expensive junk listed for sale is, so far as I know, not against any particular clause of the ToS, even if it is demonstrably exploiting the way the system works for personal gain.)