Quote Originally Posted by Kenky View Post
So you're saying the ONLY people who deserve housing are the richest players? While that would raise the plot value (which is generally a good thing. More of a gil sink so people aren't walking around with 4B+) it comes with far more outcry than I think you'd be aware of.
This is a logical fallacy you're committing. Not only the richest players are out for houses but the basic rule and honestly the most fair system regardless of how you want to frame it is the person who is willing to throw more money at it should get it. Eventually when all the rich players have their houses, and as it stands most of them already do, it will fall back to the people who don't have money. Houses will go up for sale, people move, people quit.

If I really wanted a house and threw 10 million at a small for example, then someone threw 11 million at it, I wouldn't be mad that I lost it. They clearly wanted it more than I did and were willing to offer more. That isn't "Muh evil Capitalism just favors the rich" line of thinking you're subtly trying to work into the discussion, that's just basic reality. If someone has one item to sell and multiple people want it, it always defaults to who will offer them more.

People need to start understanding that there is no such thing as fairness in this world, there are only the most fair of the options which are still always going to be inherently unfair in some capacity for some reason or another. Draw names from a hat? Not entirely fair to the person who has been trying for months and gets shafted by RNG every single time. Leave it up for silent auction? Not fair to people who don't have the gil to compete until you get down to the point where the only people still seeking houses are all generally poor and playing with roughly the same range of money. It isn't going to default to being like you're just the poor little soul with four million gil to their name praying desperately for a house but everyone else has billions of gil to throw at a house. It'll be more like you have four million, someone might have 8 million. As long as they don't know what your limitations are they're likely going to overpay to assure the house which keeps gil inflation low.

About the only way leaving it to a silent auction isn't the least unfair means available is if someone drops 50 dollars and buys a ton of gil. At which point they're risking a permaban for a house so they REALLY want it.

But I grew up with this stuff. I remember working my arse off on Ultima Online desperately to get the gold so I could buy a house. And that was a game where houses took place in the physical world where there was finite space, not much different than the old order of things with housing here. So this misconception people have that everyone should have a house and that it must be in the most convenient way possible requiring the least from them is very lost on me.