Now That The Game Is Getting A Housing Upgrade, When Are The Extra Wards?

[Greyhawk]

Here we are again with this bunk. Noone here is qualitied to really talk about creating a housing system because nobody is willing or wanting to talk about the issues it creates with a pre-existing Ward system unless you turn off the Ward timer.

Sure Apartments fit the exact non demolishable house status you want....But not what people want they want the ability to have a plot without the demo timer, While leaving anyone with a equal sized plot on the demo timer.

All this argument is going to boil down to is players simply trying to redefine where the line of fair is, to draw it in their favor. No, everybody currently follows the same rules as it is and that how it needs to remain. Rather then asking the game to make special carve out for a "Fast Pass" for themselves while leaving everyone else to sit in the normal line.

"Bunk". LO-f'in-L. That just lost your entire credibility.

And the very reason why instanced housing is the answer to the problem of the ever-lasting trash that is the current system:

You don't hold your player-base hostage through a means that takes people sometimes YEARS to obtain, only to have it dissipate after 45 days of not being able to login, or whatever excuse is necessary to not play. There are a lot of reasons people can't login for a duration of time. You implement instanced housing players can obtain and keep a house, there doesn't have to be decay, it's less load on the servers overall (their one and only issue they've ever come up with), and that's just common sense - instancing housing and other assets are modern-day thinking when it comes to massive character gameplay. Why you are so against making a more efficient, healthier system of gameplay and efficiency is beyond me.

And, who said no one is willing to talk about the existing conditions? It's database driven. What's there to discuss? You can literally - quite literally - match database fields and assets that are tied to character assets when changing. And really, all they NEED to hold onto are the plot sizes that have been obtained by character and the housing items that have been obtained. You implement the new system obtained, the character logs in, goes back and picks the same size plot and the worst you have to do is redesign your home. Oh, the humanity of forward thinking. You can't tell me that there is no way possible to change this system. It's severely flawed with hoarders of housing, its server structure is best described as smelly taint, and the thought behind its implementation is amateur. At best. Why? Because older games have done it better.

I'm talking about a system where every player could have a house, while you are trying to justify fairness by fighting against it? Really?

[Solowing]

"Bunk". LO-f'in-L. That just lost your entire credibility.


I'm talking about a system where every player could have a house, while you are trying to justify fairness by fighting against it? Really?

The funny part is some of you don't have any credibility at all , because I actually do the work. I'm standing on business because I actually stand by it. I'm with everyone else carrying that shared burden, having to log in every month.To make sure my house is there because I actually care about enough to make sure I dont lose it for the last 8 years

I vouched for the demolition myself.Prior to them , adding in it in because to obtain a limited supply item necessitated it. I am standing by the very rules.I asked for because I understand the need for them. And I also understand it's unfair.If you set a system up where players have different rule sets for the same thing.

All your arguments are are emotional blackmail, and discrediting, not on facts.But your emotions. You can't even explain how giving one that doesn't have a house one that is the same as someone else's house , except your exempt from all the bills that they have (still) to pay is fair. Cause it's not about addressing the point with logic and consistency , it's about bending the logic so that the ends justify the means to get it there.

Name one rule that isn't consistently applied across the whole game? But that's unfair, because I was a trick question.All rules are applied evenly throughout the whole game. Except this is one rule you're saying.Yeah, we should bend this one for particular people.So we all get the same thing. You are not thinking logically. You don't care about consistency.If you have to applies the rules unevenly in a game without system injustice.that fine as long as you get the end result.

Like me saying I shouldn't have to pay taxes or pay into it.Whatsoever , but I still should receive a tax refund on top of access to all the public roads and services. Its not fair but its equitable.

Everyone having money taken out of their taxes is fair.Because it's a shared burden. We all get screwed EQUALLY

Equality is Equity , but Equity isn't Equality

[Evira]

or have a spot on the island for the house. Plenty of room!

[Asari5]

we need a rent. great way to pull money out of the game and to push down demand!

[Aidorouge]

A lot of people I've ever talked to are absolutely hopeless when it comes to housing. I tell them to make an apartment and/or an FC room, it's cheap and you get it instantly. They say, well that isn't good enough. It doesn't seem to be enough that I point out, almost every property I've ever seen, there's usually only one relevant floor to the place anyway.
So I'd ask what they are bidding for then. They'll often tell me, they are looking at a particular plot of land. Not just any plot. Those good plots of land in the districts they want. Ones that might only open every 10-20 cycles of the lottery. So they barely even try, then when the plot opens - it tends to be one in high demand, because they wanted it, because it's desirable. And it has 50-100 bids, and they lose.

Then I'd tell them, just bid for a small, any small, anywhere, the one with the lowest bids. Because you could just bid for your dream house while you at least own one to start with. You even get a massive refund with all furniture transferred. And they'll tell me "naw, I'm good". or even worse, they tell me they don't even try and bid anymore, because they just assume they've lose.

And then the next day, tell me again how the Housing system needs to be fixed. I mean sure, it would be great if they added a system where everybody could get what they want. But the unwillingness to work with what we *currently have*, most people are their own worst enemy when it comes to housing.

It's not people being their own worst enemy, it's people knowing crap when they see it and refusing to step in it. So I don't blame people for refusing to engage with the game's housing, including apartments and FC rooms which have always been a poor substitute, and are just as finite and easily lost as a house is. (Apartment complexes and FCs DO have upper limits on how many can be made, and an FC room goes into the void the moment you get removed, leave, or the FC house is lost somehow.)

Likewise, I don't blame people for refusing to move to lower population data centers just to get a house. I used to own homes on Maduin and it wasn't worth holding onto them while being stuck on a dead server so I gave them up and moved. At best, it just results in people making housing alts where they grab one on a character they literally never play once they've squatted on what they want, or how the bulk of house owners just end up gil farmers anyway across all data centers. Over 3 years of playing the game and I have never once seen another soul in any ward I've walked through, but there's an endless amount of "starter" model houses with no outdoor furnishings, all locked up, and owned by "Generic Gibberish FC Name #3445".

[Solowing]

It's not people being their own worst enemy, it's people knowing crap when they see it and refusing to step in it. So I don't blame people for refusing to engage with the game's housing, including apartments and FC rooms which have always been a poor substitute, and are just as finite and easily lost as a house is.

So the housing system they wanna partake in is so bad they'd rather not have housing at all.. Over any housing

So it's not really about housing... itself, its the entitlement that people feel they are owed to their house of choice

Usually you'd have to ring the truth out of the people , but that this is honest at least

Its not a game problem, its a creativity problem. The size of your housing doesn't limit your creativity. The players imposed that on themselves. And are saying its a external issue that stops them.

[Yodada]

we need a rent. great way to pull money out of the game and to push down demand!

Go on. More for the rich. Get rid of those poor plebs.

[Greyhawk]

The funny part is some of you don't have any credibility at all , because I actually do the work. I'm standing on business because I actually stand by it. I'm with everyone else carrying that shared burden, having to log in every month.To make sure my house is there because I actually care about enough to make sure I dont lose it for the last 8 years

I vouched for the demolition myself.Prior to them , adding in it in because to obtain a limited supply item necessitated it. I am standing by the very rules.I asked for because I understand the need for them. And I also understand it's unfair.If you set a system up where players have different rule sets for the same thing.

All your arguments are are emotional blackmail, and discrediting, not on facts.But your emotions. You can't even explain how giving one that doesn't have a house one that is the same as someone else's house , except your exempt from all the bills that they have (still) to pay is fair. Cause it's not about addressing the point with logic and consistency , it's about bending the logic so that the ends justify the means to get it there.

Name one rule that isn't consistently applied across the whole game? But that's unfair, because I was a trick question.All rules are applied evenly throughout the whole game. Except this is one rule you're saying.Yeah, we should bend this one for particular people.So we all get the same thing. You are not thinking logically. You don't care about consistency.If you have to applies the rules unevenly in a game without system injustice.that fine as long as you get the end result.

Like me saying I shouldn't have to pay taxes or pay into it.Whatsoever , but I still should receive a tax refund on top of access to all the public roads and services. Its not fair but its equitable.

Everyone having money taken out of their taxes is fair.Because it's a shared burden. We all get screwed EQUALLY

Equality is Equity , but Equity isn't Equality

To put this bluntly, this is complete drivel. It's like you put up a dartboard, and starting tossing darts at sentences you want to use to argue. And no, you aren't making any sense in this comparing to what I said. None of this has anything to do with that I suggested, which was a system that makes common, logical, modern sense. I don't understand at all how what I said is 'emotional blackmail'. This just makes you sound more like a victim of a made-up act than it does an advocate to better the game.

[Solowing]

To put this bluntly, this is complete drivel. It's like you put up a dartboard, and starting tossing darts at sentences you want to use to argue. And no, you aren't making any sense in this comparing to what I said. None of this has anything to do with that I suggested, which was a system that makes common, logical, modern sense. I don't understand at all how what I said is 'emotional blackmail'. This just makes you sound more like a victim of a made-up act than it does an advocate to better the game.

Are we really talking about logic.If you can't apply the rules consistently for all players?

Do\nYou agree that all players should follow the same rules.?

Or do you agree that aome player should be exempt from certain rules , while others stilk have to follow them?

[Greyhawk]

Are we really talking about logic.If you can't apply the rules consistently for all players?

Do\nYou agree that all players should follow the same rules.?

Or do you agree that aome player should be exempt from certain rules , while others stilk have to follow them?

Why are you talking about RULES? What the hell are you even talking about? FFS, back to your dart board.