So, a lottery system and a divide between FC and solo wards, eh?

[Sotaris]

Throwing some numbers out there, just make all house owners pay upkeep costs of like 50k gil/week for each small personal house, 100k gil/week for a medium personal house, 200k gil/week for a large personal house, or 1M gil/week for a small FC house, 2M gil/week for medium FC house, or 3M gil/week for a large FC house. If they can figure out how to pay those costs for all the houses they own, the can keep them. If they can't, that's their problem.

Just stop. You shouldn't encourage "upkeep", this isn't real life where we have to pay mortgages. It's isn't very cool to punish your players for playing your game.

You have to ask yourself:
"What value does this bring the players?"
Paying an upkeep deliver z e r o value.
It doesn't improve anyone's experience.

We already have a demolition timer in the game, that should be a good enough deturent to keep your house, arguably it could be shorter than 45 days, imo.

But this mindset of yours is mindblowing.

You know I'm pointing at the truth, and you can't handle it, so you're gonna blame me for all of the game's problems instead of facing that truth: You are reacting to almost no information with emotionally driven panic instead of thinking critically about what has been said.

I'll continue to make suggestions, and we'll see how it goes. That's how a growth mindset works.

Can you start making good suggestions in that case?