Quote Originally Posted by Yshtola_Cat View Post
Even though I believe introducing some sort of tax would be irrelevant given how much gil is in circulation, it would be better than having a "gil sink" that ends up reimbursing nearly the entire amount of gil that was originally spent when a house is ultimately being auto demolished. Reinstating devaluation and dusting off the 2.1 housing price sheet is the only meaningful solution.

But good luck talking about economics with the people in here. Yet alone have them understand that the so-called supply issue is not caused by a lack of supply, but by prices that have yet to be adjusted in nearly 6 years.
The problem with talking about the economics of ff14 housing is that the supply is completely arbitrary and fake. SE could redesign the system to get rid of supply issues if they wanted to dedicate their dev resources towards that, but they currently refuse to do so because of an outdated idea on how their housing should work. If they added a tax to housing, what would it accomplish? It would probably alienate more people from the game and anger a larger portion of the player base because now people with houses are being retroactively punished for having a house and new players are going to be even more punished over wanting a house.