Giving up your plot should be easy and not be too restrictive

[Reinha]

Now that the lottery prevents that sort of activity (other than selling FC with house outright), it may be a good time for SE to revisit whether someone voluntarily relinquishing a house should get the same 80% back as those who have their house auto-demolished. The current policy of no refund encourages players to hold onto plots they don't want because they've already paid for it, or at the very least hold onto it for the additional 45 days to get the refund instead of getting it back into the supply for the next lottery period.

On the other hand, making it too cheap to buy and demolish a house could lead to people buying one just because it costs them nearly nothing in the end. People get 50% of the cost back if they win the lottery without finalizing, which is a bigger loss than taking the house and waiting 45 days for 80%. In my opinion 50% would be a fair amount for both auto-demolish and manual demolish. Then people wouldn't benefit from buying a house or keeping it for 45 days, but they would still get something back for giving up the house.

Also, Hondurez, if your house was on the Moogle server like your forum avatar is, there is no auto-demolish on EU servers right now.

[Jojoya]

On the other hand, making it too cheap to buy and demolish a house could lead to people buying one just because it costs them nearly nothing in the end. People get 50% of the cost back if they win the lottery without finalizing, which is a bigger loss than taking the house and waiting 45 days for 80%. In my opinion 50% would be a fair amount for both auto-demolish and manual demolish. Then people wouldn't benefit from buying a house or keeping it for 45 days, but they would still get something back for giving up the house.

Also, Hondurez, if your house was on the Moogle server like your forum avatar is, there is no auto-demolish on EU servers right now.

Players are already buying houses because it costs them nearly nothing. It's not going to make things even worse.

If the supply was adequate in the first place, players wouldn't be afraid to give up a house because they could get another later without problem. They also wouldn't be in a rush to buy.