With regards to the possible upcoming housing relinquishments. . . . .

[Azrael_Ajora]

Is there a way to predetermine which houses will most likely be relinquished due to inactivity, etc? Or will each relinquishment just basically involve a situation in which we have to wait for the update that includes this change, forcing potential interested buyers to scramble around looking within each ward on a race to get to the free company house that would like to purchase the most before anyone else does?

My apologies in advance, I have yet to own a house, so I am not very knowledgeable of the specifics with regards to such things. Any and all information that could help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[AnnietheCat]

I doubt there will be any indication before the house just *poofs* away. I'm sure that would create some sort of problem, and creating a social problem is definitely on the list of things they want to avoid. You just have to look at the ward lists daily and hope you spot something. The best bet, though, is to count the days from the launch of 3.1 and check back in however many days the inactivity timer determines. There should be tons of plots available(based on server population, granted), so there shouldn't be /too/ much scrambling hopefully. Also, the transfer system should help open up a bunch of plots too, since people will be able to leave their 2nd and 3rd choices for their original 1st choice without penalty(presumably). I hope this helps, though I doubt it because I have zero clue about how this will work ^__^

[JeniLinsky]

The bottom line is, we don't have enough information on how they're going to implement this to answer the question.

[Blitzace]

just wondering, Lets say people paid 50-60M+ for a house and due them not being able to play or just want a break from the game they are removing their houses? Am i getting this right

[Syrehn]

just wondering, Lets say people paid 50-60M+ for a house and due them not being able to play or just want a break from the game they are removing their houses? Am i getting this right

Essentially, yes this is correct unless SE implements a refund tactic (doubtful). However, we have no idea what the timer/rules for this removal system are going to be. We don't know if it's 30 days, 60 days, half a year etc. We also don't know if it will affect current subs that are "inactive" not logging in or just un-subs or if you have to step foot inside your house in x amount of days. We also don't know if they're going to backdate the decay timer (if it is a decay timer at all). We'rejust going to have to wait for SE to release more info as anything we put here is just speculation.

[ZodiacSoldier]

just wondering, Lets say people paid 50-60M+ for a house and due them not being able to play or just want a break from the game they are removing their houses? Am i getting this right

I agree they have to implement some sort of check on this. I have a friend who has a in game house but he is on active military duty and won't be able to log in for 6 months. It would suck for him to lose his house just cause he is not able to log on.

[Ayerinn]

I agree they have to implement some sort of check on this. I have a friend who has a in game house but he is on active military duty and won't be able to log in for 6 months. It would suck for him to lose his house just cause he is not able to log on.

Requiring a log in would not be good. Requiring an active subscription? yes. Disallowing the same character from owning multiple plots? Yes. Limiting the number of plots owned by an account on a server basis? Yes. There is someone on my server that owns 5 plots next to each other...that should not be allowed if housing is limited.

[ZodiacSoldier]

Requiring a log in would not be good. Requiring an active subscription? yes. Disallowing the same character from owning multiple plots? Yes. Limiting the number of plots owned by an account on a server basis? Yes. There is someone on my server that owns 5 plots next to each other...that should not be allowed if housing is limited.

Yea I agree, it should be subscription based, and I think they really need to implement a system so that one house is shared between all your characters. I know there are a few people on my server that bought multiple houses for resale / different characters.

[Nymeria2x]

I agree they have to implement some sort of check on this. I have a friend who has a in game house but he is on active military duty and won't be able to log in for 6 months. It would suck for him to lose his house just cause he is not able to log on.

This right here is exactly why SE should not be doing the reclaim system. There are just too many variables they aren't taking into account or just plain not caring about. People have lives outside of the game and sometimes crap happens. People get deployed, get sick, injured, have unexpected expenses forcing them to do without internet, or just plain get burnt out for awhile and need to take a break. I know several people who take breaks from the game while in school so they only log in for holidays and summer. The houses are really expensive and with barely over 1000 per server they are a rare commodity. If someone spends the gil they worked their butts off for on a house and then they can't log in for whatever reason, they shouldn't be punished. Imagine if you were hospitalized for a couple months or deployed and when you came home and you're finally able to play your game, you log in to find all your stuff has been reset because according to the devs you were obviously not using it. You'd loose your mind on SE if they did that. Well reclaiming a house that costs millions of gil is about the same as yanking someone's progress. We worked hard for that house and because of real life we're punished by having that work stripped from us. Honestly the only time I could understand reclaiming a house is if the toon or FC was deleted. Just inactive is not a good enough excuse for taking away someone's stuff, especially when you don't even know why they're inactive. SE should have thought it through before implementing the player housing. They purposefully made it so only about 1% of the player base can get a house and now its backfiring. The steps they are taking won't fix it, this is only going to blow up in their faces as a PR nightmare. I really hope a Dev reads this and relays it back to the rest of SE.

[Naunet]

good stuff

All of this, exactly. I can understand why reclaiming houses may seem appealing, but it's going to cause more upset than it's worth. And it won't make a real dent in the housing system as it is.