Another housing delay, imagine that.

[Shibi]

So far as I remember they suspended it for the hurricanes and flooding in America, the Tsunami in Japan, The launch of EW and now the conflict in Ukraine. I know I must be missing a few.

Yep, Tokai Tsunami was ~07/2/2016 until 26/9/2016 (patch 3.4)
US Hurricane Harvey was ~02/9/2017 until 29/1/2018 (patch 4.2)
Endwalker was 6/12/2021 until now, with the current world situation merged into it.

So, 16 months out of about 96.

(I am using d/m/y dates)

[Krotoan]

Yep, Tokai Tsunami was ~07/2/2016 until 26/9/2016 (patch 3.4)
US Hurricane Harvey was ~02/9/2017 until 29/1/2018 (patch 4.2)
Endwalker was 6/12/2021 until now, with the current world situation merged into it.

So, 16 months out of about 96.

(I am using d/m/y dates)

So.. that'd be FARRR less time out of demolition than with it enabled. Which is what it felt like really.

[VirusOnline]

Yep, Tokai Tsunami was ~07/2/2016 until 26/9/2016 (patch 3.4)
US Hurricane Harvey was ~02/9/2017 until 29/1/2018 (patch 4.2)
Endwalker was 6/12/2021 until now, with the current world situation merged into it.

So, 16 months out of about 96.

(I am using d/m/y dates)

Since housing was created, housing demolition has been paused for 17% of the time due to some global disaster (but not all *big think*)


Dating back to 2014:
43% of the time housing has been FFA/auctionable outside of the game. At least persons with no house had a chance to "buy" a house but SE dubbed it against ToS (IIRC)
57% of the time housing has had RNG timers along with relocation still being auctionable outside of the game. This only served to alienate persons with no house at all and allow people with houses free reign to sell/buy.

Since I started playing back in 2015 on Excalibur:
Housing was completely inaccessible nearly 99.9% of the time, plots filled, sold only to friends, quite literally grinded 24/7 for demo'd houses, or auctioned on external websites.
This was the case for most popular servers and since population boom in SB through ShB, it's only gotten worse.

Side rant:

YoshiP wants this "community like housing area", well guess what YoshiP ain't no body at they house, because they afk dancing in limsoland.

You know what would be great.
If we could have instanced housing where we get to pick our choice of background. Mine would be Mare Lamentum, Radz-at-Han, Sylphland Forests, or Ultima Thule and my house would be nestled in that scenery.

And you know what - I used to think that housing is an "extra feature", "not a core gameplay".
You know that flying chair mount that you can only get materials for if you had a house ?
Not core gameplay my buttermilk biscuits.

You can't make housing a limited supply which is accessible to unique features which then are profitable on the market.
Imagine if treasure maps were like this, where there could only be a certain amount of portals active at one time on a world.
Housing at this point is just .... a gross display of bots, money, monopoly, and empty wards.
I've given up on it.

Demolitions help NO ONE. Break down the wards and make instanced housing. Nearly all of the problems will be solved.