Housing Scarcity is manufactured

[kaynide]

Okay sure, but no matter how you dress it up, *45 days* is pretty blatantly "don't you dare unsub to take a break or you'll lose your house!" territory. I'll give you your hyperbolic example of 3 years and 5 houses (still waiting to hear how someone has five houses, I legit want to find out how this is possible if this is something people can actually do) might be a bit much to hold on to a house if you're not playing, but defending 45 day timers is ridiculous when we know if SE wanted to they could easily fix the situation.

So:
1) You need 2 accounts, (friend or family, whatever); This friend/family should not be a FC leader with a house.
2) Make 4 new characters between the 2 accounts (2:2, 1:3, whatever)
3) Start a new FC, have the 4 characters join up with FRIEND as leader
4) Level the FC to where it can own a house.
5) Get House (I know, not easy)
6) Pass leadership to your character.
7) Boot 3 non-leader characters, including friend.
8) Make a new 4th character on your account.
9) Go to Step 3, rinse repeat.

The key point is you can't purchase a FC house if your account already has a FC house. there is nothing preventing you from taking control of a FC that already has a house.

[Zebraoracle]

So:
1) You need 2 accounts, (friend or family, whatever); This friend/family should not be a FC leader with a house.
2) Make 4 new characters between the 2 accounts (2:2, 1:3, whatever)
3) Start a new FC, have the 4 characters join up with FRIEND as leader
4) Level the FC to where it can own a house.
5) Get House (I know, not easy)
6) Pass leadership to your character.
7) Boot 3 non-leader characters, including friend.
8) Make a new 4th character on your account.
9) Go to Step 3, rinse repeat.

The key point is you can't purchase a FC house if your account already has a FC house. there is nothing preventing you from taking control of a FC that already has a house.

Wow that sounds like a massive oversight on SE's part. I'd say I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed, buuut here we are with several busted things in the game already, so...

[Shinkuno]

Wow that sounds like a massive oversight on SE's part. I'd say I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed, buuut here we are with several busted things in the game already, so...

Because they dont care who has a house, as long as it binds people to the game its good enough for them. And 5 houses might bind you even harder - what does suck more, losing 1 house or 5?

[Zebraoracle]

Because they dont care who has a house, as long as it binds people to the game its good enough for them. And 5 houses might bind you even harder - what does suck more, losing 1 house or 5?

Oh no I agree, which is why it's wild to me that people either defend the system or say stuff with the gist of "well it's what we got we gotta deal with it" like we can't speak out against the devs' decisions. Which, you know, is how changes are made.