Housing Availability Issues

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

The number 2 is terrible.

-Players should be allowed to unsub without being take anything from them.
-Forces house owners to sub or feel like they are going to lose something they worked hard to get.
-The problem should be solved by SE, not by players being punished.
-The decay will not solve the housing aviability problem, everything will return as it is now in just a few days after implemented.
-Gives SE an excuse to never solve the issue and see proper upgrades as true instanced personal housing, only added wards each 2 years or so.
-Will hurt house owners since server problem will not be adressed, very needed QoL solutions will be delayed cause of this (the much needed item limit increase on houses for example)
-House owners never were said they will have their houses taken away. (this is very important)

The decay will free just a handful of houses, after that they will get bought in a breeze by active players, and in a week or month depending on server or ward, we will be just at where we begin. Only now, all house owners feeling presured to sub and most of the population out of the housing system and SE very happy to see that they "did as community asked" and that not further fixing is needed.

[JubjubTubs]

Taxes. This game needs more gil-sinks anyway. Weekly, monthly, whatever timeline date that each FC/personal house owner has to pay a fee. Allow to flat out pay or escrow a three month period, if need be. Allow a 3-day warning if a payment is missed, to allow for mistakes. IF time runs out... plot goes up for sale, dump all items in a 'locker' like they do with personal rooms, and people can pick up their stuff IF they come back.

There are too many dead plots... plots that are taken but haven't seen use in over a year. This creates bland looking and boring neighborhoods. SE sure loves to claim they want an immersive feel (their excuse to not do 1v1 dueling, altho set areas like triad exist.....) yet they do nothing about how dead a lot of neighborhoods are. This video game company sure is good at double standards... oh and not listening to the playerbase. Sorry, that last part is wrong. They listen and respond quite well to the JP servers...

[Naunet]

I agree, Alexander. Removing hard-earned houses from people is not the answer. SE needs to own up to the fact that they made a HUGE mistake when they implemented housing and do a revamp on the whole system.

[crc0427]

GMs need to just open their eyes and look at a few issues. Some really inconsiderate FCs have created sub-FCs to buy more than one house. It's 100% obvious when its occurred in some cases.

It's really inconsiderate and rude considering there are people trying to get houses.

[Nicobo]

Actually a FC house is the master's house, a personal house is a degraded house.

IMO make all houses the same so personal houses could do what only FC houses could do now
(ie. sharing access)

[Shirobi]

This! So much.

Right now on Zodiark there is one available land plot (medium) in the Goblet for just shy of 18 million gil. I would expect that from a large plot but medium? No. In fact, my FC has a large manor house and the leaders paid 20 million. It's prices like these that drive people towards gil sellers :/

I do like the idea of revoking housing from inactive accounts though. I've lost count of how many plots in the housing wards that I've seen which have been bought but never used. There's never been a house created... its just an empty plot.

Something seriously needs to be done.

18 mil for a medium plot is cheap!