Observations and suggestion for impeding bots grabbing FC plots

[Corvus_V]

Not throwing any accusations.

You're justified in throwing accusations. He gets as defensive about the prospect of anything changing enough that you know it's his job, because he certainly couldn't justify that things should stay this way without declaring that he's basically a piss-savant.

[Yuniko]

You're justified in throwing accusations. He gets as defensive about the prospect of anything changing enough that you know it's his job, because he certainly couldn't justify that things should stay this way without declaring that he's basically a piss-savant.

Stormpeaks and AlexiaD?`yeah. best to just leave them to their own devices. :shrug:

[AlexiaD]

You're justified in throwing accusations. He gets as defensive about the prospect of anything changing enough that you know it's his job, because he certainly couldn't justify that things should stay this way without declaring that he's basically a piss-savant.

Dont let facts get in your way of hating multiowners buddy

[Impia]

Dont let facts get in your way of hating multiowners buddy

I can't speak for him, but being that I've made my position known and you and I have regular disagreements, I'd like to clarify that I don't actually hate you. It's clear that you do care about housing, and I've seen you jump in and help others out on other subjects, going as far as to physically visit plots where a dispute had been brought up and sharing screenshots of your findings. That's helpful, it's clear you want to contribute positive things to the community. What I don't agree with is the condescending way you often address people when it comes to the subject of re-evaluating the housing system to make it more equitable and accessable.

For the record, I also don't agree with instanced housing. I love the neighborhood feel of wards, and I'd like to find an equitable way to preserve them. That's part of why I'm frustrated with people who buy up house after house for themselves. It's hardly a neighborhood if it's all owned by one person, and until mediums and larges are plentiful enough to satisfy the demand for them, I'll always find it unethical to hoard them for yourself.

[Mostly_Raxus]

"Regular FC's" move just like Shell FC's move, what does that even mean lol, its RNG, shell FC's dont get bonus point in a bidding cycle.

Also me having a house or multiple houses is not supposed to grow or enrich the game population, that aint what having a house is for, I dont have a house for other people, I have a house for myself, I couldnt care less about the "average players and FC's", I play for myself, not for others.

geeze... calm down blackrock.

[Pashino]

As for the sub farming, I do see a lot of calls for personal plots to have workshops, which I expect will never happen. Should also make Cereleum tanks untradeable (they are already unmarketable), would help trim bulk farming supported by one large guild generating the FC points for the fuel.

[Corvus_V]

I can't speak for him, but being that I've made my position known and you and I have regular disagreements, I'd like to clarify that I don't actually hate you. It's clear that you do care about housing, and I've seen you jump in and help others out on other subjects, going as far as to physically visit plots where a dispute had been brought up and sharing screenshots of your findings. That's helpful, it's clear you want to contribute positive things to the community. What I don't agree with is the condescending way you often address people when it comes to the subject of re-evaluating the housing system to make it more equitable and accessable.

For the record, I also don't agree with instanced housing. I love the neighborhood feel of wards, and I'd like to find an equitable way to preserve them. That's part of why I'm frustrated with people who buy up house after house for themselves. It's hardly a neighborhood if it's all owned by one person, and until mediums and larges are plentiful enough to satisfy the demand for them, I'll always find it unethical to hoard them for yourself.

For what it's worth, I think that instanced housing would work and I also think that the neighborhood setting of a ward is preferable to it not existing and I definitely believe both is possible and I absolutely don't think one should just replace the other; but I think the 'exclusivity' of it is something that has no actual value. What I'm arguing for is that the value of housing being accessible and that people should be able to participate in the way they want, i.e) owning larges and mediums if that's what they want being weighed against what is effectively the sole functionality of the company workshop being exclusive to housing. I don't think that workshops being exclusive to housing, when already circumvented by the same means people buy up houses, is worth keeping everyone else out given that its simply not even the only advantage they have.

In the current system, without what we know as "housing mirage" and without instanced housing, I don't think there will ever really be enough mediums and larges for people without a restructuring of the landscape around wards to make any house work on any plot; and after that, there probably just might not even be enough plots for people. I also just flat out believe that wards would be a bit more populous if people who wanted it for things like hanging out, RPing, etc had houses; where other people might stick to an instance for the security; since wards are already pretty desolate. They're probably occupied mostly by people who simply don't play and are just worried about losing what they have and not being able to get any semblance of it back, and its obviously a pretty valid fear

Like, in theory, the demo system is a way to keep "active people" owning houses, but that's really just not what happens; and it's probably a large reason the neigbhorhood feeling we both actually want just doesn't happen.

[Impia]

Oh man, can you imagine if every size of house could be built on every single plot? Effectively giving every house a large yard space inevitably changing details about the landscape. Something I think many homeowners would lose their minds over.

[Corvus_V]

Oh man, can you imagine if every size of house could be built on every single plot? Effectively giving every house a large yard space inevitably changing details about the landscape. Something I think many homeowners would lose their minds over.

It'd be hilarious. small houses would just have bigger yards lol.

For some people it'd actually probably be an aesthetic choice too (see below). I don't mean like "adaptive" landscape or anything crazy like that either, just all plots have large lawns, so they can accommodate all houses sizes without changing the price of house being built itself, so to speak. It'd require some restructuring of the landscape basically. It's certainly possible, everyone would just have to re-do their outdoor furnishings. It's not as quite as massive as an actual expac zone and obviously doesn't need to be as filled with scenery

I kind of think thats what they should have done from the start personally, maybe people wouldn't feel as griefed about it; but there's still potential for housing to be an issue due to the number of houses simply being exceeded by active players. It was an issue kind of evident in spite of the lottery system, because you'd see people placard clicking anytime a small was available. I think it'd still be that way even in the absence of the lottery without a system free of auto-demo that's adaptive to fall back on.

[Jojoya]

As for the sub farming, I do see a lot of calls for personal plots to have workshops, which I expect will never happen. Should also make Cereleum tanks untradeable (they are already unmarketable), would help trim bulk farming supported by one large guild generating the FC points for the fuel.

YoshiP had mentioned back in 2022 that they were experimenting with a possible personal workshop system. We've got so little information about the new lifestyle content for Dawntrail that it's possible the personal workshops are a part of it. Hard to say until it's released.

Making the ceruleum tanks untradeable probably wouldn't be that effective. Company credits are too easy to get and it doesn't take that much fuel to run the Salvaged Accessories route. SE would need to revise how Company Credits are generated to have a noticeable impact.

Oh man, can you imagine if every size of house could be built on every single plot? Effectively giving every house a large yard space inevitably changing details about the landscape. Something I think many homeowners would lose their minds over.

I would love to have a Cottage on a large sized plot (if the outdoor item limit were also increased from 40 to at least 150). I think about all my housing in RIFT and every single one I'd put more detail into the exterior areas than interior areas.