Restrict Personal Houses to 1 Per Server!

[Niraves]

As someone who owns multiple houses on one server, I can't say I agree with this OP.

I was pretty lucky to get a small personal house for myself when 4.1 dropped. Here we are, a week later, and in my ENTIRE WARD, I am the only house who has more than 40 items. The ONLY one. Only three other houses had more than ten items total, combining the yard and the house interior. Two of the mansions are entirely empty, the third one has three vendors and a summoning bell.

My house on my main and my house on my alt are both item capped. I worked hard to gather and craft everything in both of those houses. How is it fair to me that I should have to lose one of my houses so that someone else can buy it and then never use it? I use both of my homes every day. I put in the time and work to craft and decorate them. I don't see how people like me are the problem, it seems to me like the people who buy a house and then NEVER use it are the issue.

[Penthea]

As someone who owns multiple houses on one server, I can't say I agree with this OP.

I was pretty lucky to get a small personal house for myself when 4.1 dropped. Here we are, a week later, and in my ENTIRE WARD, I am the only house who has more than 40 items. The ONLY one.

What players do with their own house is their own business as long as it's not against the terms of use. A player decorating or not decorating their house is a poor argument to allow them keep it or to take it away. The problem has to do with the amount of houses available to the player population, not the quality of decoration.

The game is designed so that you can do everything on one character and SE do nothing to encourage playing alts save for allowing them to be made. You can't even mail your alts. Alts being able to buy plots is definitely an oversight...unfortunately the housing system is riddled with them, so here we are. If you own more than one personal house and one fc house on a single server, you're part of the problem. Whether you decorated them lovingly or not.

[Niraves]

What players do with their own house is their own business as long as it's not against the terms of use. A player decorating or not decorating their house is a poor argument to allow them keep it or to take it away. The problem has to do with the amount of houses available to the player population, not the quality of decoration.

The game is designed so that you can do everything on one character and SE do nothing to encourage playing alts save for allowing them to be made. You can't even mail your alts. Alts being able to buy plots is definitely an oversight...unfortunately the housing system is riddled with them, so here we are. If you own more than one personal house and one fc house on a single server, you're part of the problem. Whether you decorated them lovingly or not.

What players do with their own house is their own business, you're right. It's not against the ToS, but then again, neither is owning a house on my alt. A player not putting in the time or effort to actually use the house they purchased is no less a poor argument to allow them to keep it than saying that I don't deserve to keep both of my houses because 'there isn't enough to go around'. The problem IS that there aren't enough to go around, but its not MY problem.

The game is designed so that if you put in the time and effort to level an alt, camp the wards and eventually get a little bit lucky you can maybe find a home for your alt. My alt had a house a long time before my main did, and it's not fair to me, or anyone else who managed to get lucky enough to find a plot for their alt, that we should be forced to give up our homes to other players who likely won't even make use of them. If you want a house, do the same thing I did. Camp the wards while you are logged in. Every hour on the hour. For months. For however long it takes.

Taking away other peoples houses just because 'it isn't fair to people who don't have a house!', thats crap. And it even if SE did do this, there STILL wouldn't be enough houses for everyone. All this is going to do is piss off people who put in a lot of effort to get their homes.

[Penthea]

Taking away other peoples houses just because 'it isn't fair to people who don't have a house!', thats crap. And it even if SE did do this, there STILL wouldn't be enough houses for everyone. All this is going to do is piss off people who put in a lot of effort to get their homes.

You know what's more crap? Not having a house. If SE are going to continue this awful system with wards, then they're going to have to do something to make sure it isn't abused by players with alts and more money than they need.

[Niraves]

Snip.

For the record, I agree that the wards are stupid. I don't think SE will change that system though, but I would personally much rather have instanced housing so that everyone could buy a house if they wanted to.

The wards are usually pretty empty anyway, so I don't see why we can't have instanced housing.

[Siniztor]

You know what's more crap? Not having a house. If SE are going to continue this awful system with wards, then they're going to have to do something to make sure it isn't abused by players with alts and more money than they need.

You know whats even more crap..Paying $18 to move to a low pop server cause housing was my #1 priority...Having my 3 houses for a year + watching 200+ empty plots for a year...then people getting a free ride to our server Demanding we give up our houses we had for a year cause now they want a house.. WHEN WE BROKE NO RULES TO GET OUR HOUSES and yet you wanna punish us for not breaking rules. just cause in your opinon now that free transfered happen were greedy when i been sitting like this for a year just fine

[Penthea]

WHEN WE BROKE NO RULES TO GET OUR HOUSES

Healers don't break rules if they don't dps but they risk getting kicked if they don't do it. You can queue for lvl 70 content as a class instead of a job, but you normally would get kicked by a group if you do.

Just because you're able to do something doesn't mean you should, or that you can expect everyone to think it's fair.

[Siniztor]

Healers don't break rules if they don't dps but they risk getting kicked if they don't do it. You can queue for lvl 70 content as a class instead of a job, but you normally would get kicked by a group if you do.

Just because you're able to do something doesn't mean you should, or that you can expect everyone to think it's fair.

Your arguing in game player kicks against people breaking The TOS the DEVS have set... Ok lets break that down shall we. As you said healers don't break any rules not dpsing yet run the risk of getting voke to kicked...those who vote to kick healers for that are guess what Breaking the rules. There is no reason to kick for that. the reasons listed to kick are 1=AFK 2-Offline 3-Harassment 4-Cheating. a healer not dps'ing or not going as a job instead of a class is doing none of them. but the people who kick those people are faslely kicking ,lieing as to why they kicked them because in there personal opinion they don't like there game play...

See the healers not dps'ing and the people who don't do job classes have broke no rules just as the people with multi houses are not breaking the rules.. But the people kicking are lieing as to why there kicking people the Ai to kick has no way to know that so there kicked.

Like i said i have followed SE rules the game makers rules and broke none..your rules don't matter its not your game so just cause you don't like a rule dosn't mean i broke it or cheated.. thats your opinion of the rules.. so your argument breaks down to do what i want or ill break the rules to get what i want

[Keridwyn]

You know whats even more crap..Paying $18 to move to a low pop server cause housing was my #1 priority...Having my 3 houses for a year + watching 200+ empty plots for a year...

Hi, fellow person from Coeurl. We didn't have 200+ empty houses (unless you're talking right after 3.3 when they released more wards). Usually at any given time we had several Goblet smalls available and the occasional Lav Beds small. Now and again a medium or two would pop up and sit for a bit as one was demoed. Mist has been consistently full since about a week after 3.3. Did we have empty housing, yes, but it wasn't nearly as dead or available as you keep telling people it was.


I have nothing against multiple house owners but much like the demo timer getting added restricting the amount of houses a single player can own on any given server is one more way they can work within the existing framework and help more people. You're not getting punished because you didn't do anything wrong, just like folks who had their houses demoed didn't do anything wrong, it's just that change didn't favor you this one time. I do feel for you but you won't be the only one who loses out if this happens. If they could combat the house flippers better or if they would get rid of the broken limited wards system for dynamic wards or if they'd make instanced housing like apartments more attractive then we wouldn't be having this conversation but they keep telling us they can't (won't) fix the wards and add more attractive apartments.

We are working with what we've got and until they tell us significant change is coming this is a small change that will help combat house flipping and get a few more houses to people who don't currently have one.

[Siniztor]

Hi,fellow person from Coeurl. We didn't have 200+ empty houses (unless you're talking right after 3.3 when they released more wards). Usually at any given time we had several Goblet smalls available and the occasional Lav Beds small. Now and again a medium or two would pop up and sit for a bit as one was demoed. Mist has been consistently full since about a week after 3.3. Did we have empty housing, yes, but it wasn't nearly as dead or available as you keep telling people it was.

Hello i hate to tell you yes it was the night before free transfers we had 1 fc mate who wanted a house so we went plot looking i counted all 3 wars 218 empty plots. we were all in discord talking about that number 2 other people recounted and had the same number. yes mist was most full.he ended up buying a plot in the mist that night.
As i said before im fine if they wanna change the rules now as they add more hosuing... im not fine with taking things away from people who did nothing wrong just like anyone else who pays there sub and follows the rules you shouldn't be punished period... like others have said grandfather us in and make it so we cant transfer ..

As for housee flippers many many people have said just put a timer on when the pot goes back up for sale after its been relinquished a random 24-72 house timer or how ever long that way the seller can not quantee the buyer the plot