Let's talk about bot housing business

[Reddyo]

Sagittarius has 2583 houses open for purchase (not even including the still locked wards). Who would buy a house for thousands of dollars there? How would it help if GMs spent time cleaning up Sagittarius wards when that's not a populated server with limited housing?

Hi, this isn't only problem on Sagi, as the houses are being sold also on other servers ^^

[Stormpeaks]

Hi, this isn't only problem on Sagi, as the houses are being sold also on other servers ^^

You are on Sagittarius, not sure why you care about other worlds

as for your friend, you can tell them to bid on a small goblet, they'll get a house in a single round ; ) but something tells me they dont want goblet and they'd rather have nothing at all while bidding on houses with bids instead of bidding on one with 0 to at least have something

[DragonFlyy]

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So what proof do you have that they are bots? Any at all? Or are you just assuming and hoping SE will just ... ban an entire FC because ... reasons?

[Miracle_Diva]

SE won't do anything about it because it's not against ToS. One house per one FC. They are not owned by one person and you can't prove those are bot FCs.

[Reinha]

Hi, this isn't only problem on Sagi, as the houses are being sold also on other servers ^^

Well you made this thread about Sagittarius. If you see housing being sold on servers that have no housing left, you are welcome to report it.

However, Sagittarius is on life support and has free housing for miles. I could post an ad selling my left sock for a thousand dollars, doesn't mean anyone is going to buy it.

And what would be the point of using a bot program here? What task would it be doing? You don't need a bot to own a house.

[Reddyo]

Well you made this thread about Sagittarius. If you see housing being sold on servers that have no housing left, you are welcome to report it.

However, Sagittarius is on life support and has free housing for miles. I could post an ad selling my left sock for a thousand dollars, doesn't mean anyone is going to buy it.

And what would be the point of using a bot program here? What task would it be doing? You don't need a bot to own a house.

So doing something bad is fine because this server is still not in thirst for housing? Hmm.
The way I see it these bot guilds are gathering housing and are gonna sell when the need for housing comes, eventually.

[Reinha]

So doing something bad is fine because this server is still not in thirst for housing? Hmm.
The way I see it these bot guilds are gathering housing and are gonna sell when the need for housing comes, eventually.

Do you know what a bot is?

It's not fine, I just don't believe it happens on empty servers. You didn't post any screenshots of house ads and then went straight to talking about servers with a housing shortage. My guess is those ads you saw were for houses on populated servers, not Sagittarius.

[ameliaw]

So doing something bad is fine because this server is still not in thirst for housing? Hmm.
The way I see it these bot guilds are gathering housing and are gonna sell when the need for housing comes, eventually.

Why do you think they're bots in the first place? You can claim a house with a lvl 2 alt. There's no need for botting and it isn't against TOS.

[Archeron]

So doing something bad is fine because this server is still not in thirst for housing? Hmm.
The way I see it these bot guilds are gathering housing and are gonna sell when the need for housing comes, eventually.

My friend you have poked the hornets nest of Submarine bots, and housing sellers.

It's clear what the Submarine farmers are doing. I've seen their schemes countless times. They buy the plot, they farm gil from the submarines, and when the plot becomes desirable they flip it for either RMT or a ridiculous sum of gil. It takes little effort for them to start their operations back up again on another plot they can accquire elsewhere. Don't even try explaining it to some of the people here, who have secondary interests and argue in bad faith.

[Nebelheim]

I find this is more of an issue on bigger servers like my mains server leviathan and other big servers where people have multiple homes like this when bigger servers have actual housing supply problems. but on dynamis oceania and the 4 recent EU servers where there are still a couple thousand houses available why complain about a ward when you can easily go to any ward and buy a house.