Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by Awha

Anyone happen to know if they will be removing houses from those currently already own more then one plot per server?

Removing housing from a current paying customer who broke no rules at the point they purchased?

No I think not. The restriction will be on purchase so they can't buy any more and overtime as they either give up or get demolished they'll go back into the system.

Originally Posted by worldofneil

Removing housing from a currently playing customer who broke no rules at the point they purchased?

No I think not :P

You realize that it's rules that they create and they can change it at any time? We'll see more information with that new housing site they was talking about.

Originally Posted by Maoska

You realize that it's rules that they create and they can change it at any time? We'll see more information with that new housing site they was talking about.

Of course, but how exactly could they possibly compensate? The plot price is easy, but the time/effort/money spent on decorating isn't possible to determine and would vary per person (some people craft themselves, others buy from marketboard, etc.) The PR backlash they'd risk, it's not worth it. Considerably easier to just leave be.

Originally Posted by Lissandra

Well, even if someone who has multiple homes is forced to give up some, they won't end up homeless (unlike the Korean server merge fiasco). I would very much like SE to mandate the one personal, one fc house per account to everyone come 4.2. Sure, there might be initial backlash from the hoarders, but the community as a whole will benefit.

I agree with Lissandra. Leaving people with houses at alts and create an limitation for anyone else is even more unfair. That would be create even more bad reaction from players. If they want to be fair in this matter, they should consider everyone to have the same options regarding owning a plot. I more surprised about the limitation in buying personal housing.

Originally Posted by BlackironTarkus

It's just not fair for anyone to own more than 1 person and 1 FC house in a game where there's 72k plots for 300k accounts.

I think your math is a bit wrong there.

30 plots per wards, 2 subdivisions, 18 wards, 4 housing areas, 66 servers.

That's 285,120

4.2 will be adding 95,040 houses.

Originally Posted by Lissandra

Well, even if someone who has multiple homes is forced to give up some, they won't end up homeless (unlike the Korean server merge fiasco). I would very much like SE to mandate the one personal, one fc house per account to everyone come 4.2. Sure, there might be initial backlash from the hoarders, but the community as a whole will benefit.

I would expect them to scream the loudest.

I do like that SE is actually being reasonable here.

Originally Posted by Lissandra

I would very much like SE to mandate the one personal, one fc house per account to everyone come 4.2.

Well we'll see, but that slide was only talking about plot purchasing (which is by far the easiest thing for them to do, check at point of purchase if person is eligible or not).

Reasons I don't think they'll touch existing people:

• Compensation - We already have inflation issues, do they really want to inject more money into the system? And how much for what? How do you compensate for time/effort? Plot price is easy (100%...), time/effort acquiring furniture not so much.
• They'd have to build a system/way for players to select which house/fc house to keep or build in something to compensate people when they relinquish (which wouldn't necessarily work for FC as they'd just transfer ownership).
• Public relations - Although I'm sure the players with multiple houses are in the minority, it still doesn't look good for SE if there's news about taking things away from players who worked hard on them and broke no rules (I'm especially thinking of those people on Mateus!)
• Storage - How does a player with multiple houses even store all the items that they've acquired? Especially since they added in housing storage which itself is holding even more items. Players would be forced to discard items due to the binded nature of them.

It just seems to me one heck of a lot less work/effort to just leave it be and overtime they'll naturally come back into the system.