So My Neighbors Quit the Game & Left Behind Their Abandoned FC House

[arctic]

So my FC is at Plot 4, 1st Ward, Mist (Diabolos) and our neighbors at plot 6 are down to one member, and they're not active in the game anymore. There are a few other plots on our Ward that have also been abandoned. I can imagine this is probably going on at other wards too.

It doesn't directly affect us, but just the same it's disappointing that our ward is a bit of a ghost town. The only legitimate complaint about this is that these abandoned FC houses are preventing new and active FC from getting a plot.

I know they said they're adding more Wards, but rather than spending money and resources on these new wards maybe they could solve this issue first?

A Free Company's leadership is handed off to someone after being inactive for so long, but how about an auto FC disband that frees up these plots after the inactive FC leadership can no longer be handed off? It'll free up FC names, some space on the database as well as some plots.

Or maybe just some sort of tax system?

What do you guys think?

[Brine_Gildchaff]

If I remember right, there's already a system in place that will drop a plot of land held by an FC after X amount of time goes by with that plot abandoned.

[TheCurls]

If I remember right, there's already a system in place that will drop a plot of land held by an FC after X amount of time goes by with that plot abandoned.

They scrapped that idea after everyone complained. This is what we asked for.

[Musashidon]

If I remember right, there's already a system in place that will drop a plot of land held by an FC after X amount of time goes by with that plot abandoned.

not yet. they are working on a system that if you don't enter your fc house in so long you lose it. but it's not out yet and is getting change because of another thread.

They scrapped that idea after everyone complained. This is what we asked for.

actually it wasn't scrapped it is getting tweaked but it's still comming.

[arctic]

actually it wasn't scrapped it is getting tweaked but it's still comming.

I don't suppose you could point to where this was mentioned?

[Terminal5]

Housing was doomed to suffer from this at the start. One can only conclude that Square Enix never intended for the wards to become active hubs and hangouts in the first place.

You have your house. It's your own personal instance, for you and your friends' own personal achievements and social gatherings. All other players, and the houses they purchase, are the same in that regard: exclusive and irrelevant to their surroundings. The neighborhood concept that comes with wards just doesn't work beyond the novelty it brings visually, because the possibility of those players coming back after abandoning the game removes the effectiveness of inactivity rules and sweeps. When the time comes that some form of those rules are put into place, it's only going to push the affected players further away from considering a resub.

[kidvideo]

The house should be overgrown with weeds & overrun with vermin. & an abandoned airship in the front yard, on cinder blocks.

[Musashidon]

I don't suppose you could point to where this was mentioned?

Greetings,

Thank you for all the feedback on this.

Based on all of the comments, we’ll be spending a bit more time looking into the automatic removal of land and house feature again, and we expect to implement it sometime after patch 2.4. Once the details have been finalized we will be sure to make an announcement.

here it is.

[arctic]

The house should be overgrown with weeds & overrun with vermin. & an abandoned airship in the front yard, on cinder blocks.

I could get behind this. Of course this means I'll be on the "bad side" of the ward.

here it is.

Thanks, sounds like it's something that's going to be on the back burner for a while. Especially if we're supposed to see new wards before then. So what system do you think would be best to implement this? People just flat out not going into the house for a certain period of time? The FC getting disbanded after a certain amount of inactivity and no longer able to hand off lead? Or Taxes? Something else?

[Musashidon]

the system will be pretty simple. you don't enter your fc house(basically proving to the game you're still there) you lose it.

this also means anyone can enter. meaning even if 100 people are inactive only 1 person needs to step foot into the house to reset the timer.