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.

[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.

[TR_RA]

Hell, I would even be happy paying $5 USD (real currency) to "reserve" a plot via mogstation, then purchase it in game with the gil cost.

[AmberEarns]

I know you all hate me cause I do have more then one house.
I run an FC and we have a Medium. I own a person Medium house as well.
I fully decorate each and take great pleasure in how they look.

I have an alt sitting with more then enough gil in the new housing area and I plan on buying a Large house.
This is not to say I am Hording it and I would never flip it.
I just want a house in the new Area
plot 7 hopefully. If they made it so all my Alts could share a house that be awesome.
I wish I could mail my alts as well. If you implement one house per account what house do i get to keep?

In the mornings I check the housing before work and there are 2 to 3 house open every week be diligent i am sure you can get one I usually spam my linkshells to let others know that are looking.

[Maku]

I know you all hate me cause I do have more then one house.
I run an FC and we have a Medium. I own a person Medium house as well.
I fully decorate each and take great pleasure in how they look.

I have an alt sitting with more then enough gil in the new housing area and I plan on buying a Large house.
This is not to say I am Hording it and I would never flip it.
I just want a house in the new Area
plot 7 hopefully. If they made it so all my Alts could share a house that be awesome.
I wish I could mail my alts as well. If you implement one house per account what house do i get to keep?

In the mornings I check the housing before work and there are 2 to 3 house open every week be diligent i am sure you can get one I usually spam my linkshells to let others know that are looking.

We don't hate you. You have a FC and one personal house currently. That is the limit that we all want to see.Everyone should be able to have a personal house of their own, while there FC has its own.

I do disagree with you getting a new house in the new area while you hold one personal one in the old ones though. However, We also do agree that if an account restriction of one personal housing was implemented that they would need to make the house accessible to ALL characters on the account.

[Beckett]

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.

That problem, at least, will already be solved thanks to the Moving system. Even if SE were to add measures to discourage selling between players, a Free Company moving from one plot to another shouldn't be effected by them.

[Grimmel]

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.

Except people do manage multiple FC's. I manage two FC's both with houses and both FC's are active. Even if it's rarely done it's still done and this proposal would be destroying big and active FC's due to the loss of their FC estate.

[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.

[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.