One free company owns 13 houses in one Empyreum ward on my server.

[SweetEquity]

Obvious scamming aside

You visited the Discord which has a "Housing Enthusiast" section. (cute dog pic on your profile, btw) You were in the Discord with about 250 members listed. (or couldn't you figure out "role selection so you could actually see our very active group?) You were in the ward seeing at least 6 small properties STILL available but they're not good enough for you! You saw this and didn't bring this information here to tell a full story did you? You lied, the properties *mostly* have the same walls, but are not all the same furnishings, and not all the placards were identical. It's your right to come here and whine to the forums, but it's not okay to only tell part of the story while making false accusations. I wish SE would ban your rumor mongering. I will be submitting my harassment complaint to Discord.

[axetastic]

You visited the Discord which has a "Housing Enthusiast" section. (cute dog pic on your profile, btw) You were in the Discord with about 250 members listed. (or couldn't you figure out "role selection so you could actually see our very active group?) You were in the ward seeing at least 6 small properties STILL available but they're not good enough for you! You saw this and didn't bring this information here to tell a full story did you? You lied, the properties *mostly* have the same walls, but are not all the same furnishings, and not all the placards were identical. It's your right to come here and whine to the forums, but it's not okay to only tell part of the story while making false accusations. I wish SE would ban your rumor mongering. I will be submitting my harassment complaint to Discord.

Whoa, whoa. Bro. Lot to unpack here.

You've blatantly admitted to leaving 6 small properties in the ward available for the peons, because your FC owns the rest. I'm not commenting on whether or not those smalls are "good enough" for me. I'm just scanning for mediums to come on sale. I already have a house.

As for the rest of your post, calling me a liar, being insulting, and threatening to report me... It's not a good look. It looks rather defensive.

For the sake of curiousity and discussion, then, if everything you're doing is legit, could you explain to me what you ARE doing with the 13 houses? Your discord page names a single player as the "owner of FC houses." I didn't need to dig any deeper to find this, nor did I want to. It's written there, plain as day.

As many have pointed out, maybe it was too far of me to assume RMT. I'll walk back that accusation. I've been wrong before. But there's got to be something going on with 13 empty houses. Other commenters' workshop theory seems legit so far. So, what is it?

Thanks for the compliment on my dog pic - I assume you're not a terrible human being. But what you're doing is shady. And you can report me for harassment all day long on this one. It's shady to hoard so many houses given the scarcity, especially because you don't seem to be furnishing them/using them for the enjoyment of housing itself. Call me a liar on that if you want, but I saw what I saw.

EDIT: I just realized that you threatened to report me to Discord for clicking on a public link you posted. Dude. C'mon now.

[SweetEquity]

Whoa, whoa. Bro. Lot to unpack here.

You've blatantly admitted to leaving 6 small properties in the ward available for the peons, because your FC owns the rest. ...
As for the rest of your post, calling me a liar, being insulting, and threatening to report me... It's not a good look. It looks rather defensive.

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1) I'm not admitting to leaving anything in the ward, I mean, I don't really have control over how fast they get gobbled up though *we've* certainly made an effort. And that is a *we*
2) You might notice a glaring difference in names and I'm not just talking punctuation. The welcome message is much older than Empy, but thanks for pointing out the need to update.
3) You're concerned about me insulting you after you called us scammers and RMTers? Defensive after you went that low? SURPRISE! You are that offensive so yeah, my response is somewhat on the defense. You did convey things that weren't true as in you painted the picture to suit your grievance. If you really had been to every house and every placard you might have detected that one tag isn't even the same FC name just same tag. Some of the outside deco is very different, and one of our neighbors added the otter walls joining in on our fun. But again, I think you fabricated your visit to every placard and interior.

Something going on with 13 empty houses is that we really like to deco houses. Again, it was already stated that had you looked, you might have found a Housing Enthusiasts section of the Discord. We'll do that *inside* deco (and subs) when we we feel like it and certainly not on your schedule. Maybe we'll get started when we're done accumulating houses in the ward. One is open for you, it has a beautiful chamber; please enjoy. The rest have been locked, the discord address removed - you are no longer welcome.

[Kuroka]

You visited the Discord which has a "Housing Enthusiast" section.

You guys still abused the system and brag about it, not even trying to hide... you can throw as many fancy words as you wish but that wont change the fact...

theirs, I would have been none the wiser.

Edit: Now they've removed the discord, and edited all their tags and changed many of their near-identical guild names. Guys, no need to scramble. If the majority of this thread is to be believed, you're safe in your hoarding. Carry on.

Yes totally clean an nothing shady going on :3

[Jojoya]

Yes totally clean an nothing shady going on :3

Unfortunately there probably wasn't anything shady going on. SE has left plenty of wiggle room in the system for those players who want to own multiple houses at the expense of other players who will then no longer be able to get one due to the limited supply.

"Owned by buyer" is a hula-hoop of a loophole that's easy for anyone to step through if they want to put in the time.

[axetastic]

"Owned by buyer" is a hula-hoop of a loophole that's easy for anyone to step through if they want to put in the time.

Feedback left via the service desk to this effect. I suggested that it might help to place a limit of one FC house per service account - this won't solve all problems, but it's at least one barrier.

Personal housing is a whole 'nother monster, and it's above my pay grade to solve. But the FC limitation seems reasonable to me.