Suggestion: Do not allow multiple service accounts all own houses.

[LarryButz]

If they're level 1, then it's a FC house. The owner is probably operating airships and submersibles if the house appears to otherwise be unused.

I mean... I guess? Yeah, they are FC houses, I knew that already. Still though, that's a pretty iffy statement, but at least it could be possible. They'd have to buy literally everything though, since the one single character in each FC is level 1. I don't buy it, but it's a better response to everything else here so yeah. I can see it at least.

Said it before, but I'll say it again. The amount of unused houses from players who stopped playing is vastly superior to the amount of grandfathered personal houses/multi-fc house owners out there. If there's a problem with the housing system right now, it's the ridiculously long auto-demolition timer. For every unused house, players have to wait 45 days. Drop the auto-demo timer to 5 days or less if you want more people to have a shot at owning a house.

I mean you can keep saying it, but auto-demo timer isn't what I made this thread about. But since you insist. The auto-demo timer being at 5 days or less would be so incredibly awful lol. Like what? Want to go on a week trip somewhere? Say farewell to your house. Or just don't feel like playing the game for a whole gosh dang five days? Goodbye home. The auto timer is totally fine. Maybe reduce it to 30 days minimum, but anything less is just silly. Even then, taking a single month break happens and losing a house because of it would be an awful feeling. I believe the 45 days is a good number.

[DrWho2010]

I mean... I guess? Yeah, they are FC houses, I knew that already. Still though, that's a pretty iffy statement, but at least it could be possible. They'd have to buy literally everything though, since the one single character in each FC is level 1. I don't buy it, but it's a better response to everything else here so yeah. I can see it at least.

Airship/Subparts are tradeable - master FC makes all the parts and then distributes them to the sub-FC's.

[LarryButz]

Airship/Subparts are tradeable - master FC makes all the parts and then distributes them to the sub-FC's.

Yeah that's true. I still don't see it being the thing that's happening here though. Not that it doesn't happen ever, just not in the situation I'm specifically talking about is all. But who knows besides them I suppose. Regardless though, even if they are actually using the houses only for airships, I still think there should be some limit on houses per person.

Doesn't have to be my personal idea, I know it's not perfect by any means, so if there's a better option then great. It's just dumb situation that can happen, on top of the fact they make their yard ugly as heck on purpose to troll everyone around the area, and the fact that they're using Large/Medium for this. They could easily have bought 4 smalls instead if they were only going to use it for Airships.

[Jojoya]

Yeah that's true. I still don't see it being the thing that's happening here though. Not that it doesn't happen ever, just not in the situation I'm specifically talking about is all. But who knows besides them I suppose. Regardless though, even if they are actually using the houses only for airships, I still think there should be some limit on houses per person.

Doesn't have to be my personal idea, I know it's not perfect by any means, so if there's a better option then great. It's just dumb situation that can happen, on top of the fact they make their yard ugly as heck on purpose to troll everyone around the area, and the fact that they're using Large/Medium for this. They could easily have bought 4 smalls instead if they were only going to use it for Airships.

Trying to restrict things further doesn't solve the core problem - there are not enough available plots to meet demand on many worlds. Enforcing ownership rules in the manner you suggest might open up 5-10% of the housing on each world at best. That's still not going to be enough to meet the demand on the higher population worlds.

They need to come up with a system that will allow every player who wants a house to have one without trying to squeeze everyone into limited wards. Apartments might have been a good solution if players had the ability to choose interiors equal in size to small, medium and large house interiors instead of just a room. I'm still hoping the Ishgard housing they implied in coming will be a new system that is a solution and not just an expansion of the ward system.