Quote Originally Posted by Arazehl View Post
Regular Joes buy them and resell them outside the game. Smalls from 80 mil to 200mil gil resell value. They are in it for the gil only, not the plot. It's not all rmt but players wanting to earn that much gil in resell value. SE needs to stop the reselling of housing by a player and the price gouging along with it. We'll have to see what effects the lottery will have on the resell market of housing when EW is out.
The issue is that one of those players had houses on 8 alts and one of them hadn't been sold for a year so they are very patient... Nowadays SE has a limit to the amount of houses you can own on the game but the fix would have been far more easy if SE allowed you to share your houses with all your alts on the same accounts. That way a person wouldn't have need for more then 1 house for private use. The issue of that is that there's a workaround where you can invite a friend who then invites your alts one by one. Once thats done you can have someone aquire the house for you using a bot/script and then just make you owner of the fake FC they tied it to. That way you can still get 8 FC houses per account.

I heard someone say "limit FC house to 1 per account" but I do not agree with this since I have 2 FC's on Cerberus, one above 100 and another above 200 active members. I can't just "discriminate" one of my FC's and not get them a house.
So the only alternative here would be allowing my FC's to share the same house... or make rules where one can have more houses for as long as they have a certain amount of active players (where you enter a private house to reset the timer, you could make it so that you'd need 20 different characters logging in at least once a month so you wouldn't lose the FC house).