Quote Originally Posted by Sairys View Post

Forcing those who have extra homes to relinquish them would free up more wards in the patch that it happens. This helps ensure that not every house will sell out during the FC only stage so there are some left when private ownership is opened.

This is an action that can be taken right now to alleviate the issue, it won't solve it but it would buy some more goodwill with those players who are still stuck outside the housing system trying to get in while they work up to more wards. Also, the more unique individuals you have in the housing the more chances there are someone will go inactivate and get auto demo'd.


Regarding the outcome of the patch... personally, I expect that the houses will likely sell out before private ownership opens up. Not being able to get a FC house seems to be a fairly consistent complaint and there are ways houseflippers could work even with the restrictions.

Also, if every FC without a house wants one, the number of wards being released wouldn't be enough on the random servers I'm searching. They wouldn't even be enough if half of them wanted one.
I will address the comments I put in bold. Removing houses from multi-house owners will not ensure anything but a PR nightmare and loss of subscriptions. There are many people who are fundamentally against the idea of removing homes from people who have them under completely legitimate means.

Second this "goodwill" isn't being very honest. People will be upset if they lost their homes and people who don't have multiple homes also will be upset. There are many people that have said this both on the forums and reddit. There will be some that are happy, but from what I have read on the forums, go ahead and look back a few pages there are some very vindictive people who are getting extremely upset at the idea of grandfathering people. Reddit had even more and harsher comments but I can't quote those on the official forum.

Lastly if you randomly search the servers are you being specific with your search? Did you choose FC's currently without an estate or plot? Did you add number of active members to that search? Because then you get much closer to the accurate count. For example on Ultros there are 2770 FCs out of that there are 1919 FCs without a house/plot. Then after checking active members there are 355 FCs that don't have 4 or more members so 1919-355 = 1564. They are adding 1440 more plots for 4.2 so only 124 FCs would not get a house if every FC on Ultros purchased a house. I would say that is more than half, and I also did random searches and this is similar across other servers. This does not account for the houses that will explode because of auto demos and I would also not assume that every FC on each server are planning on buying a house.

I ask again why is it necessary to remove houses from multi-owners? They will continue to add housing and apartments and as of 4.2 most of the FC's will have houses. It took me a year and a half to get my personal house, yes it takes a while to get but if you watch the wards you can get it much faster than I did. Let's also keep in mind not everyone wants a house or apartment. I said this before but I think if they had enough houses for 80% of the server population everyone that wants houses will have a house.