Stormblood Housing Request

[Lunaxia]

Can there please be some sort of restriction placed on housing for Stormblood?

Excluding FCs, there is no need for anyone to have more than one house per server, at the absolute most. Housing shortage is already a serious problem, and it doesn't need to be made worse by players with more gil than sense buying up multiple plots to the detriment of everyone else "because they can." I came across someone with seven houses on one server, and their reasoning was "what else am I going to do with the money?"

There should also be some sort of waiting period after buying your house before being able to relinquish it. A few weeks ago I was searching the aetherytes for housing plots to become available; I noted five or six over two weeks, and all but one was put up for sale the next day. Players desperate for housing are ending up having to pay double or triple to buy houses since some people treat them as a source of profit. Maybe have players be unable to manually relinquish land for 45 days, or impose a limit on the number of times a player can buy a plot over a given time period?

If a lack of housing is going to continue to be a problem for some time, it should at least be made less exploitable.

[Penthea]

I like the idea of preventing plot relinquishing for 45 days. It won't stop house flipping but it would discourage it by making it inconvenient. My only problem with this is lets say a fc got a small house and a few days later they spot a medium plot free but they can't get it. That would suck.

Really what SE need to do to make a big difference is have residency shared across all characters on the server. This would mean that if one of your characters buys a house, your alts on the same server have access to it too. On top of that change it so that only one personal house and one fc house can be owned per server.

All this together would mean the most a single player can have on a server is two houses, unless they have multiple accounts. One fc house per server may seem harsh on paper, but really it's incredibly rare for a player to be managing multiple active fcs.

[Big_Panda]

Well, the one plot per account has been brought up before and SE has never responded as far as I know.

Your idea simply delays the sale storm by 45 days. The plots will be sold out within hours if not minutes on day 1 anyway. Then instead of flipping, they have to wait a bit, so what? It is a seller's market. They will sit on it as long as they have to.

[Dustytome]

There should also be some sort of waiting period after buying your house before being able to relinquish it. A few weeks ago I was searching the aetherytes for housing plots to become available; I noted five or six over two weeks, and all but one was put up for sale the next day. Players desperate for housing are ending up having to pay double or triple to buy houses since some people treat them as a source of profit. Maybe have players be unable to manually relinquish land for 45 days, or impose a limit on the number of times a player can buy a plot over a given time period?

We've had what seems to be a couple people on Sargatanas flipping plots near constantly recently. If/when the house moving feature is usable by both fcs and individuals I would love to have both a relinquish timer and a rebuy timer. Once the plot is relinquished, you have a 10-20 day period in which you cannot purchase another plot. Maybe negate the timer if the server swallows your plot on its own.

[Lunaxia]

Well, the one plot per account has been brought up before and SE has never responded as far as I know.

Your idea simply delays the sale storm by 45 days. The plots will be sold out within hours if not minutes on day 1 anyway. Then instead of flipping, they have to wait a bit, so what? It is a seller's market. They will sit on it as long as they have to.

Admittedly it's not an ideal solution for the initial rush period, but it should at least prevent the constant flipping of houses affected by the auto-demolition timer. Ideally there would be no possible way for players to sell housing to one another, and home-owners could just sell back their house to the game for its original price to open it up for someone else.

[Sprinkle]

A lot of the people that own multiple homes also don't care for them. Neglected Chocobo staples in poor condition. Seeds that have died in plots. The inside a decorating nightmare not giving any thought or pride of ownership. I for one have been looking a while and really hope they will take a better look at this horrific housing issue and resolve all said issues.

[Acilith]

Less exploitable doesn't mean not exploitable. I think the only way to get rid of this issue is to add more wards.

[Penthea]

Less exploitable doesn't mean not exploitable. I think the only way to get rid of this issue is to add more wards.

I really think just adding more wards isn't enough. On some servers even if they add ten wards tomorrow they will fill up before the week is done. There needs to be much more than just this.

Only real changes can bring about an actual remedy. Increase the amount of tenancy slots in houses. Bring in tenancy for apartments. Limit the amount of houses a single account can own per server. Stuff like this. Restrict things for players who game the system to do house flipping, while increasing residency slots and options so more players have access to housing even if the number of wards doesn't increase.

[Acilith]

Nobody will flip houses if they're not worth flipping. One per account seems reasonable for really packed servers, but seems like a silly restriction for servers where there's still empty plots. And the issue of fc leaders being unable to get houses is still there. The biggest issue is going to be too many small houses, not enough medium/large houses. Instanced housing I think is the best solution available but they like their wards.

[TR_RA]

Really what SE need to do to make a big difference is have residency shared across all characters on the server. This would mean that if one of your characters buys a house, your alts on the same server have access to it too. On top of that change it so that only one personal house and one fc house can be owned per server. One fc house per server may seem harsh on paper, but really it's incredibly rare for a player to be managing multiple active fcs.

That, is pure and total GENIUS b/c the people who have more than one house, do so already because they put those houses on ALTs be it an FC or personal. If you take her idea and link housing on each server to SQ ENIX IDs, rather than character names, you'd eliminate the problem of one person owning 8 houses, even w/alts. If you can make mounts/items account bound or character bound, you should be able to do the same for housing.