Quote Originally Posted by Giruvegan View Post
Honestly, it seems like the demolition timer is just a small nuisance to a large scale problem. I'm not sure I'm really following for why housing HAS to be limited either. I think that's apart of the problem to begin with. While we do have apartments now and that lessens the issue, I think that if FCs or individuals wants certain things that only people with houses have that it doesn't solve things completely. I'm not really sure what to suggest that hasn't been suggested already. I just think the demo timer should go. After reading some of the posts here, with housing the way it is right now however, I can see why others would be against it.
I believe their idea was that instead of having everyone sit in their little instances somewhere in the Void they wanted to create a "neighbourhood"-feel - now, I dont want to discuss if that worked out or was a good idea, I can just assume based on some stuff they said that thats what they wanted to achieve.

You might recall that housing orginally used to be FC-only - and that came with two problems:
1) People wanted their own houses
2) Wards didnt sell out - specially the small plots basically stayed empty.
So, neighbourhoodfeel wasnt achieved that way. They opened the plots for personal purchase and... voila, thats where we are now. They cant remove the wards at this point - people would most likely be furious if they'd lose their homes like that (bit less if the houses would be transfered into instances as they are now - seriously, decorating our FC-house took me like 40 hours and its not even that elaborate) - and just adding large apartments or instanced housing seems to be more difficult than we imagine...

Back to the demolition timer: As I said already: Its needed to prevent them wards from turning even more into ghost towns. I dont - or didnt - want it so people would lose their houses so I could have a chance at getting one (I have my house, I'm happy), but to at least try to keep the wards alive - instead of filled with houses bought by people who left months or maybe even years ago. As long as we have the wards, we need such a timer. Maybe more than 45 days, but at somepoint people who left the game for a long period of time need to lose their house.