Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
No, but it makes it harder (mechanically) to maintain the ward of FCs, while largely being invisible to the average person. There's plenty of other MMOs that have housing systems that don't screw over the players this badly that have rent. Given how badly SE has screwed up housing, maybe it's time to start bringing in some of the mechanics that people on this forum hate (likely because it would be invisible to the average player but screw them over) because those mechanics may actually help solve the issue.
Harder for who? Not for the housing hoarders. They'll make back whatever they pay in rent easily, and then some. How would it make them stand out? Because the rest of the playerbase would be unable to keep up with it so anyone who actually has a house and can pay the rent is some mythical unicorn suddenly?

I don't care that other games are charging rent fees (and the only ones I know of are LotRO and EQ, none of the current big name MMOs do). This is FFXIV, not them.

Your ideas are never thought out. Your grandiose solution to a problem is taking a sledge hammer to it, no matter who gets hurt when it comes down. Placard clicking is an example of this. Your wonderful idea turned out to be a nightmare by turning players into rats in a variable ratio experiment and helping a growing placard bot underground to flourish. And those people you thought it would hurt? Laughed the whole time all the way to the gil bank.

Think before you type. Rather than grind your teeth at the idea of some housing hoarder or reseller getting away with owning their houses, consider how useful a solution really is. Sticking it to a marginal group of people should not be greater than the desire to actually come up with lasting, beneficial change.