House was wrongly flagged for auto-demolition.

[Sotaris]

That exactly is how you cancel auto demo, I think people are finding excuses because they didnt do it on time, in any case, if the house is demo'd, there is nothing the gms can do, they cant put the house back up and make it belong to someone again, best case scenario they'll get a "sorry it might be a bug but we dont see it" response, worst case they'll get ignored, but I am pretty sure we dont have the full story as I have cancelled auto demo a lot of times and never had issues, just by entering and tp'ing away

Yeah, I get the feeling OP maybe was a tenant and not the owner, hence it didn't get canceled.

Apparently, entering the house does NOT always reset the timer (bug?). It’s better to double check if the timer reseted or not.

I've seen people claim this, I never encountered it myself or heard anyone close to me. So I take that with a huge grain of salt.

If that was true, they wouldn't have lost the house.

It SHOULD be enough.
It sometimes IS enough.
For some folks it can be enough.

But it won't be, not always, not for everybody.

Or else the OP wouldn't have lost the house.

Assuming they're the real owner and not just a tenant of it.

[LianaThorne]

Yeah, I get the feeling OP maybe was a tenant and not the owner, hence it didn't get canceled.



I've seen people claim this, I never encountered it myself or heard anyone close to me. So I take that with a huge grain of salt.




Assuming they're the real owner and not just a tenant of it.

I can actually verify the housing bug as someone in my life recently lost theirs after only stepping inside and then leaving again (within the last week or two). Thankfully they were able to get another house fairly quickly but yeah, that bug does exist. I didn't think it did either until it happened to someone I'm shared on.

[JohncarterIx]

i tryed 18times to get a house and i made the ffx14house like the 1 live in now . beh mist 23 plot 12 my little house is set up better then big houses and i got 40 mil sunk in it now to the 200 k fish to the 8mil xmas tree i went nuts lol

[TaleraRistain]

I can actually verify the housing bug as someone in my life recently lost theirs after only stepping inside and then leaving again (within the last week or two). Thankfully they were able to get another house fairly quickly but yeah, that bug does exist. I didn't think it did either until it happened to someone I'm shared on.

Putting on my programmer hat for a second. Question for others who have experienced this. Is it always on a shared house? Maybe that's the pattern. Anytime I've ever had to reset my trigger when it was up for demo I just had to walk in. I've had my house since before prices were equalized across all servers so it's been a lot of years. I can't even remember when they did that. But I have never shared it with anyone and have never had to interact with anything.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Putting on my programmer hat for a second. Question for others who have experienced this. Is it always on a shared house? Maybe that's the pattern. Anytime I've ever had to reset my trigger when it was up for demo I just had to walk in. I've had my house since before prices were equalized across all servers so it's been a lot of years. I can't even remember when they did that. But I have never shared it with anyone and have never had to interact with anything.

Of my friend group, we all have houses. We all have them shared with each other, and no one has lost a house to this "bug." I've only ever seen the demo timer once, when I had to take a break from the game due to an extended vacation out of the country with no access to the game.

[texas_boy]

Putting on my programmer hat for a second. Question for others who have experienced this. Is it always on a shared house? Maybe that's the pattern. Anytime I've ever had to reset my trigger when it was up for demo I just had to walk in. I've had my house since before prices were equalized across all servers so it's been a lot of years. I can't even remember when they did that. But I have never shared it with anyone and have never had to interact with anything.

This happened to me as well on or around March 30th.

This was a shared house. I am/was not the owner, but made an admin. The actual owner of the house is taking a hiatus from the game

I would enter the house once a week or so, but not actually interact with anything in the house.

I entered the house the day it was demolished too. Had gone in, and a few hours later got a popup that the house had been demolished. Spoke with the actual owner and we both chalked it up to not having actually interacted with anything in the house but really have no way of knowing.

[Jojoya]

This happened to me as well on or around March 30th.

This was a shared house. I am/was not the owner, but made an admin. The actual owner of the house is taking a hiatus from the game

I would enter the house once a week or so, but not actually interact with anything in the house.

I entered the house the day it was demolished too. Had gone in, and a few hours later got a popup that the house had been demolished. Spoke with the actual owner and we both chalked it up to not having actually interacted with anything in the house but really have no way of knowing.

If that was a personal house and the owner made you tenant, then it was working as intended. Tenants cannot reset the demolition timer on a personal house. Only the owner can.

If that was a FC house and you were a FC member, then it sounds like the bug.

[texas_boy]

If that was a personal house and the owner made you tenant, then it was working as intended. Tenants cannot reset the demolition timer on a personal house. Only the owner can.

If that was a FC house and you were a FC member, then it sounds like the bug.

Aha! Then the mystery is solved. Good info to have if I ever decide to try and get a house. heheheh

[Stormpeaks]

This happened to me as well on or around March 30th.

This was a shared house. I am/was not the owner, but made an admin. The actual owner of the house is taking a hiatus from the game

I would enter the house once a week or so, but not actually interact with anything in the house.

I entered the house the day it was demolished too. Had gone in, and a few hours later got a popup that the house had been demolished. Spoke with the actual owner and we both chalked it up to not having actually interacted with anything in the house but really have no way of knowing.

It's pretty clear that the owner of the house has to go in, and not a tenant. And is made clear in the page about auto demolition.