About Plot selling

[Niwashi]

• The 80% refund and your stuff being reclaimable should apply when you relinquish a house, without needing to wait for the 45 day automatic version.
• When you relinquish a house, there should be a random interval (perhaps anywhere between 1 and 72 hours) before the plot goes back up on the market. This lowers the value of information about relinquishing it, discouraging the type of "selling" currently leading to hoarding problems.
• Resident Caretaker should store stuff indefinitely. There's no reason for that to be a limited time feature, and limiting it just encourages people to keep houses they're no longer using because otherwise they'd need to find a place to put their housing stuff until they're ready to buy another.
• The furnishings etc. that you get back should include all items from the house without that stupid rule about some not being reclaimable. (Again, not only is it more fair that way and allow for things like redecorating, but loss of them encourages people keeping houses they aren't using.)
• When you buy a personal house, it should become the personal house of all alts on that account on that server. All alts would have full ownership privileges, but be unable to buy other personal houses without relinquishing the first one. (This would change who can have a house. I'd propose that the current rule about needing to be level 50 and 2nd Lt apply just to the character who makes the purchase, but not be needed for other alts using it. Another alternative would be that other alts only gain full ownership rights (decorating, use of gardens, stables, etc.) once they, too, meet the requirements.)

That last one (though it would have been a good rule to set in the first place) would be the hardest to add at this point, just because they'd need a way to deal with all the accounts that currently have multiple houses. There's no obvious way to determine which of them the player would keep as their account-wide personal house. All the other changes listed should be relatively straightforward to add, though, and would be helpful even without that last one.

[Solarra]

• The 80% refund and your stuff being reclaimable should apply when you relinquish a house, without needing to wait for the 45 day automatic version.
• When you relinquish a house, there should be a random interval (perhaps anywhere between 1 and 72 hours) before the plot goes back up on the market. This lowers the value of information about relinquishing it, discouraging the type of "selling" currently leading to hoarding problems.
• Resident Caretaker should store stuff indefinitely. There's no reason for that to be a limited time feature, and limiting it just encourages people to keep houses they're no longer using because otherwise they'd need to find a place to put their housing stuff until they're ready to buy another.
• The furnishings etc. that you get back should include all items from the house without that stupid rule about some not being reclaimable. (Again, not only is it more fair that way and allow for things like redecorating, but loss of them encourages people keeping houses they aren't using.)
• When you buy a personal house, it should become the personal house of all alts on that account on that server. All alts would have full ownership privileges, but be unable to buy other personal houses without relinquishing the first one....

These suggestions would go a long way to making housing more fair for everyone. The first one especially would make people think twice before paying someone to tell them when they are relinquishing a plot.

I don't have any sympathy for people who bought a house/houses they didn't want and who now feel aggrieved that gouging other players is seen as breaking ToS. Common sense alone should be enough to tell them that their actions are having a negative effect on others. Buying a plot from the game and then forcing others to pay twice is clearly not the way housing was meant to work, it's an exploit.
Issuing warnings is a step in the right direction but unless Square take further measures to prevent it, buying multiple plots and 'reselling' them at an obscene profit is going to continue, even when they release new wards in Ishguard.