Ban Service Accounts with more than 1 FC house

[Burmecia]

Also realistically no ones calling for players to get banned

It reads "Ban Service Accounts with more than 1 FC house" there in the title, of this thread of you yourself kinda stsrted...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[neia]

It reads "Ban Service Accounts with more than 1 FC house" there in the title, of this thread of you yourself kinda stsrted...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Honestly you're right. My mistake in assuming housing mains could read into something beyond the title.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Listen you can claim all you want that players were not abusing it the rules are CLEARLY WRITTEN. you can CLAIM all you want they were not abusing it, but they were the RULES ARE CLEAR.
It is very clearly stated in the rules "You many only purchase and MAINTAIN ONE Free Company Plot PER World PER Service ACCOUNT"

Right, and plenty people do have 1 of each per world but people still take issue with that and demand the houses are taken from players like myself. And for those with multiple fc's on one server it's due to inheritance and that is also working as intended as not to punish fc's for the master leaving the game.

So yeah. Nothing bugged, no abuse. K ty.

If you want that to stop remove the motivation behind it, the sub farm. Not that difficult.

[Kitty_Cat]

Square Enix shot themselves in the foot by adding NPC-able (selling item to NPC shop for instantly generated Gil) items to Voyages.

Here is how you fix the problem, and why they won't do it:

Remove all of the *Salvage junk that is only there for the purpose of selling to NPC for Gil.
This will result in many accounts un-subscribing, in turn, many Plots becoming vacant.

Subscription count dwindles.

They added those items on purpose, fully knowing what would happen.

[neia]

This will result in many accounts un-subscribing, in turn, many Plots becoming vacant.
Subscription count dwindles.

Sub counts would be like barely even touched by this happening, other than gold farmers unsubscribing. FC plot hoarders, I assume engage with other systems in the game also. If they don't, well, the game would simply be better off with those service accounts being unsubscribed.

So yeah. Nothing bugged, no abuse. K ty.

Your takes here very clearly rejected by the majority of players who recognize what you're espousing is just factually incorrect, your position inherently greedy & leaves the majority of players worse off.

[Aidorouge]

Honestly you're right. My mistake in assuming housing mains could read into something beyond the title.

To be fair, you DID use the word "ban" in your title, and even your first post mentions "terminating accounts" so its understandable if some people assumed you were asking for full scorched-earth instead of other, lesser punishments for house hoarding. I think you only clarified later that bans would go out to actual botters since they're definitely breaking the ToS.

Admittedly, its easy to believe that all hoarders are botters by default (or they're involved in RMT in general because where else is all that gil going), but there ARE ways to grab up houses without resorting to third-party tools to buy them up and keep them all running, and for all I know these house collectors are blowing the money on golden mounts or something, or how a lot of venues are always doing "raffles" and "gamba" with huge prize pools so that MIGHT be where they funnel all that gil they made.

Though even with bringing it up myself, I have my doubts, and still find any and all house hoarders (including the ones posting here) to be very sketchy and untrustworthy because by their very nature, they act dishonest and underhanded.

[ShionUrabitoFromOce]

The salami lid, aint gonna fit

[FuturePastNow]

You can't fix this system if you grandfather in people who already got theirs. That creates a conflict of the haves vs have-nots, while leaving many house plots forever in the hands of digital landlords. Give them a patch or two of warning time to surrender all but one house, compensate them with the gil value of the plots, whatever. But if this still exists after a "fix":

Here's 2nd Ward, The Goblet on Sophia, Materia. Can clearly see this has 21 wards owned by the same person, probably a gold farmer.

Then it hasn't fixed anything.

[Destroy]

I'm not sure how people can keep defending the stance that the current state of Free Company housing and house hoarding is fair because it is wItHiN tHe RuLeS.

I think the point of the topic is that houses are being hoarded, by the same players, on different characters for nefarious reasons which is a clear issue for us normal players who expect the game to be played fairly.

On my home world Sophia, there was recently a housing lottery for a large house with 61 entries. Given that Sophia is a preffered world with mostly already established legitimate FC's - where are these players coming from?

Since the Materia datacenter was opened to voyagers, this also opened the door zero cost asset transferring between the regions. Once the floodgates were opened, "smarter" players bought up FC plot housing supply in order to supply gil to their mains in other regions, now that they no longer have to pay for a character home world transfer to move the assets back.

[s32ialx]

Right, and plenty people do have 1 of each per world but people still take issue with that and demand the houses are taken from players like myself. And for those with multiple fc's on one server it's due to inheritance and that is also working as intended as not to punish fc's for the master leaving the game.

So yeah. Nothing bugged, no abuse. K ty.

If you want that to stop remove the motivation behind it, the sub farm. Not that difficult.

Actually it's not working as intended.