Housing Plot Instanced

[Avoidy]

This thread's funny to me. Whenever someone suggests just doing away with the system, a chief complaint (seen in this thread even) is "noooo, I need my community vibes, my neighborhood feel!" But OP's suggestion would add to that community. You'd have so many neighbors this way! But then it's "noooo I want to be left alone in solitude!!! I don't want to see people while I'm in my yard!"

So what do you actually want? Do you just want to exist in an empty neighborhood? Would you be okay with instanced wards if your home were the only real home in it, surrounded by fake randomly generated NPC homes? You'd still get a neighborhood, and it'd be as empty and undecorated as the average neighborhood is now. Except it'd be instanced, meaning a lot of other people could also enjoy housing on worlds that aren't dead af. Genuinely curious what some of you actually want because every time I come here it's just people who got theirs defending this garbage ass system from any attempt at change because it'd wreck the "good thing" they have going, aka the ability to sit in a desolate "neighborhood" and print submarine money.

Also OP's idea could work just fine without disturbing anyone. Just make it so that, like, let's say I'm in my house at ward 25 plot 34, and someone else pulls up to plot 34 and they also own a plot there. Make it so that when their house is in render distance on their screen, they stop being visible for players who own that same house. It's like they've already entered it. And now let's say I'm friends with this guy and want him to enjoy my house. BDO handled this part quite well. By clicking the placard, you could simply look up other people's homes who share that instanced plot and then visit. It'd be like the apartment directory. With like an ounce of imagination, OP's idea becomes totally fine without bothering anyone.