Fix Housing Megathread

[Catstab]

Running the math on this, if you have four service accounts, with 8 characters each, they would only be able to tie up 12 houses between the accounts assuming you had 32 characters rolled and ready to go.

My math says 29 FC houses for 4 accounts. 4 accounts x 8 characters = 32, minus 3 to float from one FC to the next. You join the 3 floaters into a different FC for each day of the month, keeps the grace period rolling. This only has to be done from day 1-29, from day 30-45 you can just focus subs.

And you could always run all 32, provided you have a friend willing to run 3 alts for you.

Unless the system is sophisticated enough to avoid being exploited in this manner, it wouldnt be effective.

[Almagnus1]

My math says 29 FC houses for 4 accounts. 4 accounts x 8 characters = 32, minus 3 to float from one FC to the next. You join the 3 floaters into a different FC for each day of the month, keeps the grace period rolling. This only has to be done from day 1-29, from day 30-45 you can just focus subs.

And you could always run all 32, provided you have a friend willing to run 3 alts for you.

Unless the system is sophisticated enough to avoid being exploited in this manner, it wouldnt be effective.

It'd be a pointless system with a timer reset when they hit four subs as the system can be gamed as you're describing.

The system would need to have something like a time debt that was accrued if you were below 4 subs in the FC, and the time debt was paid off at the same rate regardless how high you were above four subs, and if the debt ever hit a specific threshold (like say, 45 days) the house was released immediately when the threshold was met. TBH, it'd make sense if the debt threshold was lower than 45 days, as a lower threshold would force players to be a bit more proactive with the FC management.

I wouldn't be opposed to just outright disbanding the FC if it was below 4 members... but there needs to be more of the above laundry list of features in play before that makes sense as a game mechanic.