Quote Originally Posted by Coletergeist View Post
I don't think you see a flaw in your own response here; this wouldn't fix a thing - the auction idea that is. If folks could bid whatever price they wanted for a house, folks would be bidding at exceedingly high prices. Auction idea = no bueno.
Wouldn't fix a thing for the situation at all, and folks would constantly be in the dark over what the price of that house would potentially be, then. Could be as low as 500k to something as high as 500+ mil, because people do be swimming in gil I assure you.
Poor players would never really stand a chance, particularly on high populated worlds.
I would point out that you've supported an idea on pricing people out so poor players would never really stand a chance on any world heh, also the og pricing idea would see even higher prices on large plots.

With auctions at least, people swimming in gil participating in the auctions would, in theory, taper off over time because they'd get houses using that gil, they might pop in again to upgrade to better plots but that just means that bunch of gil sunk out of the economy. Auctions typically also have a reserve price which could be set at the current value of the plot so they couldn't go below that.