Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Midareyukki]

^^;; Spriggan's actually pretty average in numbers though... compared to most others I mean.

That was his claim.

Ye I know

It was empty when we transfered and filled up after. You know, like everywhere else. It's not like it stayed empty, but keep trying to use that or comparing to new data centers.

To be fair, you did say "just checked". As in, in the present. Bringing up the past now is irrelevant because those houses might have once housed FC's who've since relocated.

Either way. Going through your posts is chaotic guys, jeez...

Regardless, you are right in saying that the system they started out with was very inferior and prone to abuse. Which is exactly what happened. Even if it was "legitimate", it was scummy and led to entire wards being taken over by one individual. Since then, they did implement measures to keep people from buying new houses. They deemed that players with multiple houses could keep them, they just couldn't buy any more. Right now you can only have access to 1 personal house, 1 apartment, 1 FC house and be a tenant in up to 3 other private houses you do not own (obviously). Those are the measures that are in place currently. And I'm pretty sure they were when Spriggan was implemented? I could be wrong tho, I'll leave that up to Corvus to fact check

As Corvus said. The Neighbourhood thing sounds lovely in paper, but it's horrible to execute. Logistical issues, network issues, you name it. There's a lot going into the assets required to making our current iteration of housing into a proper neighbourhood that can meet the demands of (for argument's sake) everyone. Even if they waited, I doubt they could prime it any better. Features we currently have would likely not be implemented. Chances are that what we'd get would look very, very differently. And that's not getting to costs and approval, because simply making this is very demanding. Especially in a growing fanbase they didn't realize would grow this much, nor in the span of time that it did! The moment you drop this concept on the table, the guys above you will ask how much it costs to develop it, and at that point they'll say it's not sustainable.

Not saying that this system is sustainable either. I mean... QED: Threads upon threads whenever housing becomes available!

What I am saying is that at some point we need to draw a line. And unfortunately, this was the line SE drew. It is possible they could have gone further. But they didn't. And this is what's led to. Past that, it's really just a matter of restrictions and implementing fair systems, which so far attempts have yielded negative results either way. Either because it was exploitable, either because it promoted an unhealthy playstyle or because it was just unfair.