Quote Originally Posted by Callback View Post
The system is fine in terms of timing, but they need a furniture reclaim feature.

Add a tab of "reclaimed furniture" to the furnishings menu. Let players respawn furniture from lost houses this way. Now there's nothing to complain about. If you lose your plot, you can get a new one later and redecorate with all your same stuff.
The thing is that they already have the foundation for that. They just implemented it horribly. If your house is foreclosed on (or you're dropped from an FC while you have a personal room), then at least some of your items get stored with the resident caretaker, where you have another month to pick them up before they're permanently deleted. SE would only have needed two changes to make this a reasonable system:

(1) They need to preserve all items, getting rid of this ridiculous rule about some items becoming irretrievable.
And (2) they need to make that caretaker storage permanent, just like our characters themselves.

With those two changes, then even if your house was lost to this reclamation process, when you get back you could try and get another house to replace it. Lack of availability would still be an issue, so it might take a while, but a player who managed to get another plot could be back to where they left off, without having to start over from scratch.

Once the plot has been reclaimed for use by other players, caretaker storage isn't a limited asset that needs another time limit. That's no different than if they decided to start deleting people's inventory or retainer storage whenever they didn't play for a while. It would guarantee that anyone who leaves for a bit stays gone permanently, as they wouldn't have much to come back to.