Quote Originally Posted by Pterois View Post
you can skip around a lot of the BS if a "receipt" is issued to the player who just lost his place. This item would allow the PC to get any plot of land the same size or smaller (and same class or smaller) and would wave the 450k afterwards for the building permit.

After that... i've heard a couple ideas about getting the items back that were in the house but i haven't heard anything, or come up with anything myself that has been a solid plan for this. Maybe thats the hit you'll have to take for not logging in (whether your fault or not)

And i also agree that, even though OPs numbers are way off, this wouldn't fix the issue. Dedicated servers for housing alone seems to be a must at this point if this is gonna work.
Ultima Online did this very thing and it worked to keep housing in check for us who were paying customers.

Over time people left and others replaced them. The people who left had a month of not logging in and refreshing their house. When they didn't, they lost their house plot, and everything in it, boom gone. It kept the housing market up for us real estate agents and kept housing for paying customers. This DID fix the issue with abandonment of homes. The issue is that as well as not enough houses per server to meet the demand. As it is now, if EVERY PLOT was taken by someone who was active and used their homes there still wouldn't be enough to go around. There needs to be an inactive time limit as well as more housing wards and dedicated housing only servers for our wards to meet the demand. If SE did these two things, there would not be a shortage of housing anywhere.