Restrict Personal Houses to 1 Per Server!

[Niraves]

Absolutely not.

I'm a minimalist with design and decoration, and this would screw over my design sensibilities because (IMO) you don't need to have the house anywhere near cap to have it look good. This rule is completely asinine.

Just because you're a packrat, doesn't mean you should make everyone else a packrat or else.

I wasn't being serious, obviously. I don't think its reasonable to expect people to spend every minute of every day logged into their house. I don't care how people decorate their houses either, as long as they actually do SOMETHING with them. I'm just a little irritated with all these people demanding houses be taken away from alts and then wandering through my ward in Shirogane and seeing every other house totally empty.

Taking away alt houses isn't going to fix housing, its not even going to make a dent in the issue. I own one house on my main and one house on my alt, I use both daily. Why should I lose a house so someone who probably will ignore it 28 days a month can have it? I didn't violate any terms of service to get my second house. Why should I be punished?

Taking houses away from people isn't the answer, and people need to stop acting like its going to make any difference except to piss off players that put in the time and effort to get a second house.

I do honestly think the demo timer should be shorter than it currently is. I think 14 days would be reasonable. If you want to go on a vacation, or take a break from the game or whatever it may be, thats on you. You can either log in to keep your house, or don't. If you don't, it obviously wasn't that important to you. (And for the record, I don't think the occasionally demo relinquished house makes any real difference in the housing situation either, but we work with what we have.)

What we really need are dynamic wards or instanced houses. SE can keep trying to throw band-aids on this, but its like trying to stop an avalanche with a paper plate.