Quote Originally Posted by Kaurhz View Post
Well, it certainly in part defeats the entire purpose of the changes they've made thus far considering to a good degree the damage has already been done long before they even introduced the system- So I feel grandfathering people just in part defeats it. I don't mind the shortage as much as I do mind the simple fact many people are sat on multiple houses with very negligent usage of them. An entire ward whilst far and few; still comes up as greedy and taking away from those that would genuinely use the house. Not sure what the person was thinking when they thought invisible and randomized timers was a good idea, anything that delays the initial purchase window even with a fixed timer.

The last paragraph is precisely why they just need to be more relentless and delve closer into scorched earth. Make it so there's a payment over-time. Be it with Gil or grand company seals for personal housing, or company (FC) credits for houses registered as an FC. At least then there's an upkeep requirement, which wouldn't make it very pragmatic for those that are excessive or negligent to housing in general. I know there's 1 person on Spriggan that has an entire Goblet ward to themselves. Have yet to see them doing anything significant with it in the past 12 months, which is why I'm very annoyed by this topic because there are players and FCs who would genuinely benefit from a medium/large house. Smalls still available on Spriggan but that doesn't preclude the point that it's downright greedy and unnecessary, especially when there's going to be an inevitable upsurge of active players as we delve closer to 6.0. But alas the latter part of this is just my ramblings.
Problem with the gil approach once again only negatively impacts those less fortunate. Since personally for me to use it the cost would have to be insane for me to even feel it. Just one of my alts has 400 mil.

Also how do we define negligence? I own multiple large plots I do not decorate any of my plots I just use it for gardening and workshops. I am using them but by the standards of those on my server I do not because my houses are barren.

Scorched earth methods hardly ever truly negatively impact those they are aimed at it. It mostly impacts everyone else.