Lost my House

[Sicno]

It actively shows that you are maybe planning to come back some day. Think of it like a monthly survey sent to inactive players asking "hey, do you intend to keep playing?"

So I still need to pay a full-month subscription to show "I intend to keep playing", even if I'm not playing. Gotcha. Must be nice to live in the 1st world so I can throw money away like it's nothing.

If the inactivity timer didn't exist, how would they tell apart the players who are taking a break from those who are gone for good?

In the current landscape where housing wards are ghost towns, can you tell?

The wards would be full of houses owned by people who haven't logged on for years.

Nice strawman. If we're talking *years* I agree. But I don't think anyone is saying people should go away for THAT long, or completely quit the game and still keep their houses. But maybe make a longer timer. Maybe 3 months. Maybe even 2 *full* months ffs.

Edit: I suppose they could tie it to the subscription instead. Like if your sub ends and you don't renew within a month you lose your house. Someone who has quit likely won't keep paying for their sub either. But maybe the current system catches also cases where an otherwise active player has just lost interest in housing, or frees up space sooner if someone decides to quit one month into their six-month subscription cycle.

Or how about a better idea: Make tennants be counted towards stopping the timer. The way housing currently works we have 2 extremes for ownership: FC and personal.

For FC housing, if NOBODY logs in during the current 45 period time within a FC then I can agree that's a dead place and it could be used by an active FC. People can take breaks, but if you can't coordinate it in such a way that someone keeps it alive then it could go to another group that would make better use of it.

But for personal housing it's harder for a single individual to shackle themselves to the game permanently to keep it alive. But if the whole point of the housing reclamation is so that SOMEONE is making use of that house... Does it matter that it's the person who purchased it? I say the 2 scopes of ownership are too extreme, either be loyal to this FC, probably never touch the decorations and kiss it goodbye when you part ways for whatever reason, or have your own the way you like it but not everybody can have one, so there's a circle of vultures waiting to cash-in on someone else's problems. We need something in-between. Give a bigger incentive for owners to share their house with their friends. I think that could be a nicer meassure to get more people to enjoy housing than flatout stripping people of their own because someone else wants it.