Housing afk

[StouterTaru]

Does this math factor new content that will draw a fair amount of people back for at least a week? All it takes is logging in for less than 5 min to reset the 45 day timer and they email you. If most people with houses are holding on to them simply so others can't than I'd imagine they'll re-sub just to keep em.

The 15-30% is based off lodestone FC profiles with housing on my server, and the amount that didn't have a member above level 50 a couple months after HW was released. If an expansion didn't bring people back, I doubt a major patch will. I estimated the abandoned FC houses to be about 15-20%, and assume personal housing will be higher.

[Welsper59]

Does this math factor new content that will draw a fair amount of people back for at least a week? All it takes is logging in for less than 5 min to reset the 45 day timer and they email you. If most people with houses are holding on to them simply so others can't than I'd imagine they'll re-sub just to keep em.

I know someone that would do this, specifically for that reason alone. The guy would resub just for holiday events in other games, even if he never plays them again until the next event.

[Amiaze]

That's awful. I remember there was an FC somewhere that got locked out by their leader, and they couldn't leave since they were unable to enter their house and destroy their rooms. They were basically held hostage by this guy.

I remember reading this. What ever became of that?

And I'm pretty excited about this, I'm going to start looking around at house prices to see how much I'll need. Looks like I finally have something to spend money on besides funding alts.

[SendohJin]

can't get locked out of an FC house if you have a room, not sure if that was a patch thing.

[Dree-Elle]

SE should limit housing to one per account.

Always and forever this. Again, it won't free up enough plots, but it will certainly free up some.

Baby steps, people.

[Sakuraluna]

can't get locked out of an FC house if you have a room, not sure if that was a patch thing.

I think it was eventually changed in a later patch, I remember reading that thread too.

[Niwashi]

My biggest issue with this whole plan is the 35 day limit on how long the Resident Caretaker holds your items. At that point, the plot has already been opened up and you're no longer reserving a limited supply resource, just a really tiny amount of data storage. That should be permanent until the character is deleted or FC is disbanded. That way, people who leave the game for a while are still allowed to come back again. This current plan basically says that if you go, you're never allowed back unless you want to start over from scratch.

It's not uncommon at all for players to leave an MMO for a few months, even a year or more, trying out other games or interests, and then decide they liked their previous game and want to go back to it. That's the whole reason why characters themselves are stored permanently, so that inactive players can come back at some point down the road. Housing should be the same, with the Caretaker's storage as permanent as our characters themselves.

My only complaint about this is that there is too much furniture that is destroyed when picked up. Think SE should get rid of that, or at least allow it to not be destroyed if reclaimed with the system they are implementing.

This is a stupid rule in the first place. All housing items (whether this destroyed when removed type or not) are bound as soon as they're placed, so there's no further reason for destroying them afterward. They should just remove this rule altogether, and allow any housing item to be freely placed and removed at the owner's whim.

But yes, if they keep that silly rule, at the very least make housing reclamation an exception to it, so the Caretaker can give you back your rare furnishings.

[joshdavis271]

I'm a one man FC and I find it simple to exploit the timer, if I so decide to barely play, I can keep the house if I log in once , say every 40 days. Of course I'm not that guy, I actually use my house as a getaway or for the npcs in there. 45 days is more then fair, if you are gonna buy this particular content you should use it, not just sit on it.

[Spellbinder]

Yeah, they email you with all of three days notice before the house is demolished.

Ahem.

Thirty-five days of inactivity
An e-mail will be delivered to the registered e-mail addresses of all free company members, or the owner of a private estate, indicating the estate is being prepared for auto-demolition.

Ten days notice. Not three.

[Niwashi]

Ten days notice. Not three.

Yeah, that part got a little better when they added that second one. (Earlier, the announcement had just said the in-game notification at 30 days, email at 42, then demolition at 45.) I'll edit my post to remove that no-longer-applicable point. Now if only they'd fix the bigger issues with it.