Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
It doesn't stop them but it does make it pointless to do. Few FCs are going to disband and reform when it means starting from zero, especially when they will no longer have a house and it will be extremely difficult to get one because supply can't meet demand.

As Shibi said, the game can't be designed around try to block RMT when that effectively blocks legitimate players and FCs as well.


This. As long as there is any sort of restriction on supply, RMT will exist to profit from it.

Even if FFXIV went to a LotRO type system where a new ward gets added as all available wards fill up, RMT will continue to exist because the demand for large and medium houses will continue to be greater than the supply.

RMT has no foothold in a fully instanced system where every player can get the exact house of their choice when they want it because RMT won't be able influence supply.
I completely agree about instance houses but SE dosnt want to go down that path it seems.. so we have to work around what we got currently.

I've been around for some older mmos and I know that once measures are in place that make RTM less productive then the cost of doing business in the game they drop out mostly if not completely. Having a system that would stop them from doing business would eventually make them move away and at that point the restrictions could be opened up more.

Again it's not an elegant solution or even a perfect one but it dose stop the problem cold turkey. If SE stood by its policy of houses will never decay or be destroyed over time it wouldn't matter if the FC leader couldn't pass leader around. Locking a house or an FC is about the only way to stop them in the current system, we can talk about what would make the better system and that's great but as for now we need to talk with the systems we currently have.