Thread: 4.2 changes & monthly fee

The players owning more than one house or fc per service account don't need to be punished for doing what was allowed in the game prior to 4.2 rule change by taking their things away or making them pay more. They grandfathered it and moved on, over time these plots will slowly be lost anyways. Many of these plots were bought on dead servers(some exceptions) or bought on servers like mine when players either left them game in mass or transferred to the raid servers between HW launch up to the start of 3.2.The part that was the real issue was the house flipping. The randomized clock for when a plot can come back up for sale allows the players on the server to know in advance which plots will be up for sale in the near future. down side, you will have to camp them on some servers. The new randomized clock will work well to stop flipping but they went a step more by going to a 1 house/ 1 fc per account doubles up on that in case any loop holes are found. In my opinion one reason this got out of hand was the rapid drop in housing prices and the clock that devalued a plot. Those two items changed housing from a major investment when gil was very tight for the first year or so of the game. Low plot prices plus inflation made the cost of a plot go from a large out lay of gil to pocket change sadly.

To give a bit of an idea, I mostly craft and gather. The first FC I started in April 2014 took around 5 months of crafting and gathering to save up the 20m to buy it. I was the first plot bought in ward 3 Goblet as I recall and it was a while before any other plots were bought in that ward. At that time botting was all over the server and the price of most items were very low plus the server had slowed down a lot do to sticker shock on the housing release plus relic not being any fun or rewarding at that time. Back then stacks of 9999 shards or crystals were 1 to 5 gil each. Even gold and dark steel ore had almost no value.

On the housing website, one change that would be healthy to see would be the ability to leave a plot and get 80% to 100% of your gil back. Before they gave gil back I demolished one plot and gave a shout that it was open with no owner. The second one I did wait the 45 days on auto demolish to get some of my gil back. That should be changed to if I am not going to use it, I can turn it in today and get 80% of my gil back. No reason to keep it off the market for 45 days to get 80% of my gil back.

Can I have a link to this housing website? I didn't even know it was a thing until now.

Originally Posted by Odstarva

Can I have a link to this housing website? I didn't even know it was a thing until now.

It's not a thing, yet. It's getting launched on or around Jan. 30 or possibly Feb 6.