Please Implement a Bid/Monthly Maintenance System for Housing

[Amenian]

Yes, it would suck if you lost your house to a monthly maintenance fee, but I'm not talking about several mil - maybe 300,000 gil ~ 500,000gil would be the reasonable pricing.

300k-500k is reasonable? For a month?!? I don't think so. There was a post not too long ago asking people how much gil they had and the vast majority of people were below 1 mil. My house was 1.5m. It was in an old ward in the Goblet. My girlfriend and I pooled our money together to get it and our building permit. When all was said and done I had 10k left and she had 1k left. I play most days, but I don't have the time to dedicate to making gil and still be able to enjoy the game to come up with 300k a month.

[CYoung187]

300,000 gil monthly maintenance? That will just be a pain in the ass, and irritate everyone. Oops forgot to pay my maintenance, guess everything I saved up for is gone. If someone takes a small break from the game for whatever reason, they don't need to lose everything.

[Saigwa]

Well, im not the one with the logistics, just guessing. SE would be the one to do all of that - and I would hope they would be reasonable with the price. Of course, we are also on different servers and from what I've seen, 300k is not a lot for my server. From what it looks like on your server, I would take a guess of 100,000 gil. Again, just guessing since I don't know the statistics. As for the break thing, thats the problem. As I stated, there are more people than land available - there always will be. Perhaps SE could make it so all your items and housing stuff go somewhere if you cant pay up the monthly fee, but it would be more problematic when there are players with months of inactive subscriptions just taking up space someone could use. Now, this sort of system is just a suggestion. SE could do it every other month, or every 3 months - whatever. This is just a simple outlined proposition to fix a problem I can see SE having to deal with in the near future

[Amenian]

Honestly, why does it even need to be that high? If the entire point is to make sure that somebody is still playing then 1 gil or 100k gil still has the same effect. I might be ok with this if it was a very small fee (say 1k-10k gil) and you could pay several months in advance like LotRO allows.

[Kallera]

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I will never get this kind of thinking. We all get gil the same way. Why do the legacy server have to pay more than others? That's not even fake difficulty, its simply unfair.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

SE was already working on a system that if no one in your FC goes to your house for X amount of days you will lose it. The system was pushed back until more adjustments could be made because their first proposal of 30 something days was too short. They never said they abandoned the system so I expect to see it come up again later and be applied to personal housing as well.

[Riepah]

Definite NO to monthly maintenance. They explicitly stated there would be no upkeep required for housing. If they wanted a fee, it would have had to have been there from the start, you can't slap a fee on houses already bought in retrospect, that would be beyond disgusting.

What they could perhaps do, though, is introducing some new houses for rent. Some wards could be rent-based instead of charging millions for land. Perhaps they could even make it so that rent houses all look similiar from the outside and can't have their exterior changed, if that would go easier on their precious resources and allow for more houses to be provided.

[Saigwa]

Honestly, why does it even need to be that high? If the entire point is to make sure that somebody is still playing then 1 gil or 100k gil still has the same effect. I might be ok with this if it was a very small fee (say 1k-10k gil) and you could pay several months in advance like LotRO allows.

It doesn't. My point is that there should just be some sort of currency exchange to prove that you are still an active player and the house does not go back on the market. The problem is inactive players owning land. Which, shuts out old and new players from being able to own said land. In fact, It also really doesnt have to be currency, it's just the only thing I can think of since most mmo's i've played has had the currency check system for housing like this. I just want SE to do SOMETHING about inactive, wasted land others could use.

[Saigwa]

SE was already working on a system that if no one in your FC goes to your house for X amount of days you will lose it. The system was pushed back until more adjustments could be made because their first proposal of 30 something days was too short. They never said they abandoned the system so I expect to see it come up again later and be applied to personal housing as well.

I'm hoping they do something like that then. Last FC I was in, bought land but there was no house, and no one had logged into the game for a while.

[Souljacker]

Can we please stop asking to play an economy mmo?