"Housing is Pain", or "Why We Can't Have Nice (Instanced) Things"

[Midareyukki]

Okay, so... if the alternative isn't viable, but they don't think it's a good system... why not try to go for an "option C"? Like, Instanced Housing won't really happen because, well, read above. And housing is borked. So why not make a new version instead?

I know it's probably an ignoramous-level question, but I am one and I am also legitimately curious.

[Packetdancer]

Okay, so... if the alternative isn't viable, but they don't think it's a good system... why not try to go for an "option C"? Like, Instanced Housing won't really happen because, well, read above. And housing is borked. So why not make a new version instead?

I know it's probably an ignoramous-level question, but I am one and I am also legitimately curious.

Unfortunately, I'm guessing the reason is simply that no one has figured out what a viable option C is.

If you have an infinite amount of houses... you've got instanced housing, in one form or another.

If you have a limited number of houses... you functionally have the same issue we have now, where it's a finite resource, and it's possible there are no houses left to have.

The only possible quantity of houses other than "a finite number" and "an infinite number" is "none at all". And if option C were "just nuke the housing system from orbit, salt the earth, and walk away" I suspect that there's a lot of people who wouldn't really like that option, either.