Dead from Plot hunting and I ask YOU a Question

[Yshtola]

I was gonna parrot the popular "just have a housing raffle" idea, but HOLY COW YSHTOLA!
THATS SOME GOOD INFO!
Thanks so much for making such a helpful and informative post. I'd shower likes on you if I could.

Though, if there were a more effective gill dump, wouldn't that increase RMT because people wouldn't have the gil to buy houses?
Wouldn't this just lead to a bigger bot problem?

Also, how did you get all this great information?

The "real" players are the driving force behind RMT. "Real" players always sell gil to resellers or other players. It's impossible to get rid of RMT, but you can drain the pool. More here: https://library.gwu.edu/sites/defaul...%20MMORPGs.pdf

Stats are compiled by myself:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
https://mewfc.com

Does it make sense to consider the primary purpose of housing to be a gil sink/anti-RMT tool? Even if we say that there are three, four, or five times as many players as there are available plots, that also doesn't mean every player is looking for a house either. Instead of drastically increasing the cost-to-entry, doesn't it just make more sense to increase the number of wards, and add new housing locations? When Ishgard is made available, for example, it will presumably come with the same number of wards as all current districts. Beyond that, the only other ways I can see to increase availability would be to either breakup congested servers or force people who own multiple houses to give them up somehow. A gil increase only prevents new players from entering the system, it doesn't do anything to actually make new space.

There's already a mechanic to compensate for poor players, it's called the devaluation timer. I would suggest to read my post.