Quote Originally Posted by Sakuraluna View Post
From what I’m seeing, wards are a lot more active than they used to be. I don’t think we need another purge as housing reclamation effectively keeps plots in the hands of those who want and will use them. What you’re asking for is for SE to forcefully take plots from those who have an excess, which has nothing to do with the original purge tbh. The purge was meant to correct a situation where players would buy houses and quit the game, turning wards into ghost towns and making an already limited resource even scarcer, and was actually a side effect of SE introducing the reclamation mechanic. It happened because so many timers ran out at once, not because SE took any plots away.
No it wasn't. If wards were turned into a ghost town, people would buy those houses gladly once they were reclaimed. SE didn't change the rules regarding this, other than a freeze on reclamation due to natural disasters effecting a large number of players.

The change in rules was regarding specifically the issue addressed, that each players can have one personal house, and that each FC can have one house, while supplies last. It specifically states that any attempts to skirt around these rules are also against the rules, which we can see here. Further changes are being made to make personal houses available for the entire account, further cementing that a personal house is for 1 player, and not for 1 character.

Additional changes were so that FC housing would be reclaimed if the FC had not enough members to consider it legitimate. What we see however is that these FC's are made up of the same people with alternate characters. You only need 4 players to own 16 houses.

What we see here is an obviously violation of the rules, and SE should crack down on it.