Houses and relocating

[Adrestia]

Random hidden timer ok but don't make it to riddiculus amounts like up to 24 hours. Don't encourage people to sit in front of the game that long just to get a house.
Also as I mentioned. I can sit there for many hours just to see someone relocating. It's a very bad system.
With previous system, when people where flipping houses at least I was able to get one without spending hours, days and months trying to get a house. Now it's super hard and creates unhealthy competition between players.

They should just go whole hog with the UO/ArcheAge approach since they use those games’ demolition concept too.

You can see a rough timer of when a house is in danger of collapsing from being abandoned, and form up with your friends to kill any player who tries to get in range of the plot before it actually becomes available. If your team is the only group alive in purchase range, you’re guaranteed to win the land.

It’s a delicious bloodbath.

[Caitlinzulu]

They should just go whole hog with the UO/ArcheAge approach since they use those games’ demolition concept too.

You can see a rough timer of when a house is in danger of collapsing from being abandoned, and form up with your friends to kill any player who tries to get in range of the plot before it actually becomes available. If your team is the only group alive in purchase range, you’re guaranteed to win the land.

It’s a delicious bloodbath.

No, just no and no again. That would be zero fair. Whats to keep people from "hiring" a group to kill everybody in sight. Also would make houseflipping viable again. Only this time with groups (raid?). Can you imagine two 24 or more groups clashing over a small house?
And trying to relax at your house next door to that stuff?

[Adrestia]

No, just no and no again. That would be zero fair. Whats to keep people from "hiring" a group to kill everybody in sight. Also would make houseflipping viable again. Only this time with groups (raid?). Can you imagine two 24 or more groups clashing over a small house?
And trying to relax at your house next door to that stuff?

I mean I guess that depends on how you define fair :P All the negatives you describe sound like positives with the right mindset. (Yes, I know most people wouldn't want this and the days of UO are long behind us. I was kind-of-mostly-but-secretly-not-really kidding. They would never do this here.).

And uh . . . Relaxation is hardly a desired outcome of that system, lol.

[SannaR]

If you're trying right now I think at least for NA servers the whole system is frozen at the moment as I haven't heard or seen anything about the timers being reinstated. I'm not sure if the suspension of the Auto Demo also effects the timers for when plots become available or not.

[hynaku]

Don't see any full wards on my server. Last time I checked the goblet there was over 70 open plots. Don't see no shortage on plots.

[Final-Fantasy]

Don't see any full wards on my server. Last time I checked the goblet there was over 70 open plots. Don't see no shortage on plots.

That is because there is plenty of plots, but the OP is on an overpopulated world and would rather moan about it than move.

[DamianTenbe]

Hey to your info. I moved to be with my friends. So hold your horses. I got the house for my fc as well. I'm not moaning just pointing out the bad.

[Maero]

Instanced housing is something they should have looked into by now really..
The person that mentioned larger apartments that could also be of help. Like a penthouse suite and such or larger

[Barraind]

That is because there is plenty of plots, but the OP is on an overpopulated world and would rather moan about it than move

As someone on a small-ish server, while its not a fight for the first open space of land, you're not going to get anything you "want". Unless you like the smalls furthest away from market boards and notable features in their respective district. We've got ~25 or 30 of those now that people started transferring away from crystal-bound servers.

I can imagine its getting worse on Aehter servers who arent moving. The shrinking populations of every Crystal sever are going somewhere!

[Final-Fantasy]

You wont get a plot you want, but you can get a plot of some kind at least, and with a plot you have a chance at relocating to a better one on a lower population world than none on a higher population world.