Quote Originally Posted by Claviusnex View Post
No need to buyout and force existing owners to start over. You will lose the neighborhood feel but that can be managed as well. Just make the current housing entry areas like the various lands/cities and allow all users access. If you keep the beaches, shops and other things like that as a communal area it should be more vibrant than the currently empty wards you see on many servers. Add a gate that lets you pick whose house you go to and it is complete.
Offering housing to all players would bring a ton of player activity to neighborhoods. I think that's a big part of why it's a ghost town right now; everything is spread out across 12 wards and I'm guessing a good portion of the houses are owned by people and FCs who are mostly inactive or never visit them. Giving everyone access to instanced housing with non-instanced neighborhood hangouts would immediately breathe life back into all of these empty areas.