[SUGGESTION] Adding a "Property Broker" NPC and system

[AnPo]

This will kill housing even more, because rich players will monopolise and sell plots with huge overprice

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

This will kill housing even more, because rich players will monopolise and sell plots with huge overprice

An easy solution to that is limit sale price to what the base price of the plot was (either fully devalued, or starting value).

[Terin]

This will kill housing even more, because rich players will monopolise and sell plots with huge overprice

It's not like things are much better now; if anything, it's even MORE shady, because the "work-around" players have come up with is "buying/selling Free Companies (with house)".

The fact is, this is an MMO, players are ALWAYS going to want things like this. If someone doesn't log into their house for a while, their house would still go up for sale as normal; at least this way, houses could still trade hands, even if house-owners are still active players. And the truth is, gil SHOULD have value, and if you REALLY want a particular house, and you're willing to work hard to acquire it, you at least have the opportunity to OFFER gil for the place.

In doing so, like I said, I'd also make it a pretty significant gold-sink, to hopefully remove some of the disparity between "rich players" and "poor players".

If anything, the current system is more harmful to players, because you really have little to no agency in whether or not you can acquire a house; you have to rely on other players simply QUITTING or NOT CARING about their house. With a Broker NPC, you at least have another avenue available to you, which is trying to wheel-and-deal until you get enough gil to get your first place!

Of course, in doing so, I would probably make tighter restrictions towards buying a house. Eliminate "Free Company houses" altogether (I know for a fact, many players are able to own two houses because they have a Personal AND a Free Company house), I would limit it to owning a single house per account (instead of per server or data center), and maybe you can only buy or sell a house once per 30/60/90 days. I would probably be a little more lax on players who "Trade" or "Exchange" their plots, since they're not having an impact on the market at all, they're simply exchanging gil for locations they prefer. And maybe the account has to be 90 days or older to qualify to purchase a house, AND purchase the current expansion, just to avoid the potential of exploiting free accounts.