Housing Issues

[van_arn]

The problem is you're making large amounts of Gil necessary. People will BUY the gil from farmers, facilitating RMT.

Also you're unfairly giving buying power to those who stockpile gil. most players hover at sub medium house price levels of gil on any given character, how would a new player ever hope to compete with someone who's been in game from day one playing the markets?

Not everyone should have a house. Those that stockpile gil should be rewarded, and those that RMT should be banned.

Housing affords SE a fantastic honeypot to lure people into a large purchase that they can track the source of. If it's legitimate, then welcome to your new house. Otherwise, the plot's open again.

At the very least, housing is too cheap with all of the people I see camping at placards. Even if an auction system is not added, the starting prices do need to be raised substantially to discourage this unhealthy camping. Camping which is only as popular as it is because too many people can participate in it.