Housing relocation needs a timer

[redheadturk]

IMHO what I think would give more people a chance to get a house would be if they'd reverse the grandfathering for people that have multiple houses and force them to relinquish all but one per character per world.

Pay them back for the reliquinshment, of course, but force the freeing up of those plots. More plots in circulation means more chances for people to get houses.

[Azurith]

IMHO what I think would give more people a chance to get a house would be if they'd reverse the grandfathering for people that have multiple houses and force them to relinquish all but one per character per world.

Pay them back for the reliquinshment, of course, but force the freeing up of those plots. More plots in circulation means more chances for people to get houses.

This would do...absolutely nothing. I think you over estimate how much of an issue is. The majority of housing on most servers is single account owned. The houses people only log on once a month to keep and never do anything with them is an even bigger issue. I don't advocate taking things from people who earned them fairly under the old rules. And I don't even advocate for taking the houses from the people who do the bare minimum to keep them. Taking things from other people is not the way to fix this.

[Drkdays]

This would do...absolutely nothing. I think you over estimate how much of an issue is. The majority of housing on most servers is single account owned. The houses people only log on once a month to keep and never do anything with them is an even bigger issue. I don't advocate taking things from people who earned them fairly under the old rules. And I don't even advocate for taking the houses from the people who do the bare minimum to keep them. Taking things from other people is not the way to fix this.

I wouldn't advocate obvious abuse and greed either. The real question is, how many of those characters who own houses are actually active? I'm busy enough with one character... 10 or more? You'd have a full day just checking retainers and doing a single leveling roulette per character. Now, housing might be their only fascination in this game (doubtful, it's a big game), but there lies the greed when these multi-house-owners KNOW there is a demand.

@ such people: Have pity. The devs aren't helping but YOU can! Let a few go...

#altruism

[Azurith]

I wouldn't advocate obvious abuse and greed either. The real question is, how many of those characters who own houses are actually active? I'm busy enough with one character... 10 or more? You'd have a full day just checking retainers and doing a single leveling roulette per character. Now, housing might be their only fascination in this game (doubtful, it's a big game), but there lies the greed when these multi-house-owners KNOW there is a demand.

@ such people: Have pity. The devs aren't helping but YOU can! Let a few go...

#altruism

Actually people who do own multiple house are more active with said houses than your average player. Because generally housing is their end game. Its not greed, or abuse. They earned them the same way everyone else could before the rules changed. And giving up 20 houses (that's not the average that's an extreme case)? That's a drop in the bucket compared to the need that's out there and wouldn't solve *anything*. Those houses would be gone with in a day and we'd be back to square one. Adding more wards (like they've done since the grandfathering came into effect) has done more to help relieve the housing pressure than making someone give up the 2-3 "extra" houses they might have. It still wont really do anything to help someone get their dream plot. Honestly I'd like to see them introduce a dynamic ward system, where when a ward fills, it opens another. Remove the timer, and remove the restriction on alts purchasing houses on a server. Not robbing people who have put the time in effort to buy more than one house.