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

[Mikki]

Those are 4 reasons to have a house though? They're being used. Even if the purpose is because of laziness. Having a house because of status is fine as long as they don't own more then allowed. Just having a house period, never using it for anything other than going inside every 44 days to keep the house alive is totally fine. As long as they only have that one house (Plus FC house technically). Anyway, the purpose of this thread isn't that they're unused. If they were being used and decorated, it'd still be scummy. I've just been saying it's extra scummy in my personal experience with these people that they're purposely making their yards as ugly as possible and hard to see around the Marketboard/Retainer area unless you zoom in almost all the way.

Also I don't know why I have to keep saying this, but I understand fully that there's no rules against having multiple service accounts just to beat the housing limit. What would be the point of making this suggestion if it was a rule? If the people doing this are doing it for airships only, then this is basically a p2w situation. I don't care that they're spending a lot of money or time doing it. That doesn't make it any more acceptable imo.


As a side note, having instanced housing would kind of ruin the whole neighborhood feel of housing. Not a big fan of that idea. There's surely better ways of handling the overall problem of housing besides dismantling half the reason housing is cool and fun.

Honestly, if a house is used "properly" is subjective. There are tons of ways to enjoy housing and some people will feel one way is ok and others won't. Personally, I feel like if you just want a cheap teleport and MB access but don't want to decorate...why not just get an apartment? As far as submarines, gardening and airships go... I feel like this is just an altogether broken aspect of the game in the first place. Most FCs aren't going to share those items with every person in the FC which then leads to people who really want to craft certain things or have access to those items for whatever reason to make their own FC which is super boring if you don't want to manage it. My friend and I have our own FC for this very reason - we want full control over airships, submarines, gardening, buffs, etc. But we have no desire to keep up with an FC so we just keep it locked to our small friend group. Which is sad, honestly, and I wish they would just let anyone do that on their own or at least make it possible to get those items in some other way as well. I'd really like to join an active FC without having to manage it myself but unfortunately, having access to those things is more important to us. Actually, it occurs to me that perhaps some people may just have a second service account for this reason - to be on an active FC on their main but still enjoy those aspects. Hm. Well, in that case I couldn't even blame them for that. Pfft.

I'm fully aware that you know it's not against the rules. But you want to MAKE it against the rules. There's no way to enforce it. SE can't do that without punishing people living together playing the game under one roof and the problem is so small that it's not worth ruining the experience of all the people who share a household. Many, many husband and wives play this game together.

And, no. I don't think there's much of a reasonable way to fix the housing situation without making it instanced in some capacity. Is it POSSIBLE? Yeah, sure. But not practical for SE. They would need to add wards until there are enough for the active player base on each server. But, this would fluctuate and leave sparsely populated wards.

I think the best solution would be as Brynne mentioned where they would make a combination of wards + DECENT instanced housing. But if SE would ever do that, I have my doubts. They could have done it forever ago and I thought that's what apartments would be (and well, they are in a way but not implemented well). So...who knows.

They should just let apartments be upgradeable Animal Crossing style, to maybe the size of a Small house. Maybe even in between Small and Medium. Similar-ish to what someone said here. Could even add a cool patio thing, who knows. Also add more wards of course, more houses = less people not having them. But I feel like this would fix the major issue of housing, a compromise for instanced housing and non-instanced housing. If people really wanted a house and there were no plots open, they could get an apartment and work on upgrading it.

.....Why not just let apartments be able to be as large as large sized housing? I don't see any reason to restrict it. I have seen some very large apartments/condos in real life.