Housing Timer why x.x

[Baxcel]

Who hasn't been banned from the forums anyway lol. Earning those 6 digits irl was more important in the past 2 months than telling people on here how they should stop complaining and spend their time achieving what they want instead.



Yes, hire someone to look out for the sub 0.1% of houses that are owned by the same players. Great idea!!!

Were looking at more then that.. If we low ball it with 60 houses owned by one group per housing per server... We're looking at over 300 houses owned by people who already have a house.. And that's giving a low guess on it.. There's some servers that multiple wards are owned by the same person or group. So no.. It's not .1% of houses..its probably more in the 10% at the minimum

[MizArai]

Were looking at more then that.. If we low ball it with 60 houses owned by one group per housing per server... We're looking at over 300 houses owned by people who already have a house.. And that's giving a low guess on it.. There's some servers that multiple wards are owned by the same person or group. So no.. It's not .1% of houses..its probably more in the 10% at the minimum

I think I need some help with your math. If you're saying about 60 houses per housing district per server, that would be about 240 houses per server. I doubt that enough houses are own by multiple owners to fill up a whole ward per housing area, but we can go with this for math's sake. If 240 houses of the 4320 available per server are owned by multiple house owners, that's still only 5.56% of houses. Even your bad math (4x60 equaling over 300) only brings us to about 7% of houses being owned by multiple house owners (no where near the over 10% you state). When the 1 personal/ 1 FC house rule was added, it was estimated that it would probably be closer to about 100 houses per server in most cases, with a few well known over collecting exceptions. 100 houses would give you a whole 2.31% owned by multiple house owners. So, while .1% of housing owners is probably too low, over 10% is also greatly exaggerated.

And if we're looking into FC houses being purchased beyond what the 1/1 rule "allows", then I only know of about 4 servers that have a problem like that. It's definitely not worth hiring one person to look into full time.

[Yshtola]

So first he talks about FCs with more than 1 houses. Then he decides to combine grandfathered personal houses, players with both a FC house and a personal house and FCs with more than 1 house . You have to make up your mind when you want to throw numbers out. As mentioned above, very few servers have prominent house owners.

Now, I can admit that 0.1% was too low if you look at the amount of houses owned. But 0.1% is very relevant if you want to talk about the percentage of players that own more than 2 FC houses (or any combination of houses).

That being said, 60 is more or less the amount of FC houses owned by the same people on my server out of 4320 available... that's 1.4%

Wow. Big deal. Take me out of the picture and that drops to 0.8%. But sure, let's hire someone to watch over the 15 people on my server who manage more than 1 FC house

[FoxyAreku]

I really don't understand what's wrong with first come first serve. That's how I got my house multiple years ago, and it sure beats forcing players to stare at a placard for hours on end hoping the option will appear. That's just poor design.

[Yshtola]

I really don't understand what's wrong with first come first serve. That's how I got my house multiple years ago, and it sure beats forcing players to stare at a placard for hours on end hoping the option will appear. That's just poor design.

Because people can't make the difference between equal opportunities and equal outcomes. Nothing beats the free market.

[Sitallik]

Owning more then one personal house is unfair and selfish! Give me a good reason why a player would need more than one personal house?

Couldn't agree more. And if SE is that afraid of the scorn of those few who own such a large number of houses why don't they offer them to keep those houses if they pay increased subscription fees? Like we would have to pay if we opened that many accounts to get such a number of houses? Then it would be fair... and the added income could be used to create resources to offer more housing to all. That would be fair.

[Penthea]

Couldn't agree more. And if SE is that afraid of the scorn of those few who own such a large number of houses why don't they offer them to keep those houses if they pay increased subscription fees? Like we would have to pay if we opened that many accounts to get such a number of houses? Then it would be fair... and the added income could be used to create resources to offer more housing to all. That would be fair.

What makes you think the added income could go towards housing? SE's reasons for not adding a better housing system or more housing isn't due to lack of funding. They just think they have better things to be spending that money on. SE is not poor. They're just choosing to not concentrate much on housing. Which adds to the frustration of players,

[MizArai]

Couldn't agree more. And if SE is that afraid of the scorn of those few who own such a large number of houses why don't they offer them to keep those houses if they pay increased subscription fees? Like we would have to pay if we opened that many accounts to get such a number of houses? Then it would be fair... and the added income could be used to create resources to offer more housing to all. That would be fair.

If you have more than 1 house, then you already pay an increased subscription. (There's an option for subscriptions for 1 character per server and another for upto 8 characters per server. The second does cost more.) And as Penthea points out, added fees probably wouldn't go towards housing. It would go towards developing whatever SE thinks is most important. (maybe giving us 2 dungeons each patch again, maybe more cross game events, maybe new events, etc.)

[Azurith]

Everyone got their house by working out it, whether they have 1 or ten. For some people housing is all they do. Just cuz it frustrates you doesn't mean its wrong. It takes a lot of time and gil to buy and decorate a house. If someone wants to put their resources into it, let them.

[Penthea]

Everyone got their house by working out it, whether they have 1 or ten. For some people housing is all they do. Just cuz it frustrates you doesn't mean its wrong.

And just because it's not against the ToS doesn't make it right. I'd rather not take houses away from people, but SE don't seem to want to give us a solution that would be equally fair to everyone (instanced housing) so then obviously people are going to look at those who are making a well-known problem worse.

It takes a lot of time and gil to buy and decorate a house. If someone wants to put their resources into it, let them.

Eh not everyone who has a house, whether they have one or ten, take the time to decorate it. There is a player in my fc's ward who owns seven or eight houses and only one of them looks like any care went into the decor. The rest either have almost none or nothing aside from gardening patches. And they have remained unchanged for well over a year at the very least. For all I know they have been like this since years before my fc got a plot there.

So lets not bring in decor effort into the conversation because frankly a lot of people, be they hoarders or not, just don't freaking bother.