Turn Housing Demolition on

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Apts are actually decent alternatives, but because its not house sized players refuse to accept it.

Apartments are very limited in terms of decoration. Once You’ve covered the ugly default walls and added some windows, you are left with only a small amount of slots and an even smaller room to decorate. They are not a proper and sufficient alternative to housing.

An apartment twice the size of the current ones wouldn’t stop most people from wanting a house as it is not the same: they have zero utility and no outdoors. I am pretty sure that no one would give
their house away to get one if they had to chose (because you can have a house AND an apartment so your argument about apartments owners being privileged if they are made bigger doesn’t hold).

Personally, I wouldn’t care if my rooms were being demolished after 45 days of me not entering them and/or being unsubbed and away from the game. However, they could make that period 2-3 months . If someone doesn’t care about the game for so long, there is no reason to maintain privileges which end up locking content away from active and new players. Look at the server population in NA: the inactive (6+ months) population is about 8-10 times more than the active population depending on the server. A lot more housing would be required if they had never turned demolition on. Atm there is a demand for about 1500 more houses on my server based on the bids placed in the past two rounds and if Empyreum would have been released at the same time as patch 6.0, the housing shortage would be even worse as the active player population was higher and more would have placed bids.

Apartments are also full on at least one server. Housing is advertised as a feature for all and it should ‘t come down to a 1 in 100+ chance to access that content. It’s probably going to be closer to 1 in 1000 in the next round, assuming there is even one small house to bid on. SE should fix their ridiculous and inadequate housing system because even auto demolition is not a fix. It would just make very few houses available per month.