Rework the housing system

[Cylla]

It no doubt that the current situation of housing is favoring bots, scripts, people with handful of accounts to buy up wards.. and for what? Their idea was to stop flippers when they had created this annoying timer. Has it stopped them? No. Just look at reddit, people found a way around it, and it didn't stop people from buying up wards either.

Currently as I type this, I'm sitting at an empty lot that on a timer. Me and one other person, just standing here watching the other person I can tell their using a bot or macro just by the number of times they click, pause, move slightly, and repeat.

Housing system currently in no way promote healthy behavior. From people not sleeping 20+ hours staring at a screen clicking, people cheating, to just players being ugly to other players.

There two things most of us can agree on when it comes to housing.
Current resale timer is doing no good - in my own opinion should just be removed.
Housing itself needs a huge overhaul that benefit the player base as a whole
Think something along the lines of ESO housing system, where any player who wants a house can have one and if a player wants more than one it allow them that option without causing an issue of not enough housing for everyone.

[Jojoya]

It no doubt that the current situation of housing is favoring bots, scripts, people with handful of accounts to buy up wards.. and for what? Their idea was to stop flippers when they had created this annoying timer. Has it stopped them? No. Just look at reddit, people found a way around it, and it didn't stop people from buying up wards either.

It hasn't stopped it but the average player does have a far better chance of getting a house now than they did prior to the timer's implementation. Those who were around when Shirogane was opened remembered what a mess that was.

It will always remain a problem as long as houses are in limited supply. We can keep coming up with ways to change the purchase system but none of them, outside of solving the supply problem, will fix it. Everything thing has its pros, cons and loopholes to exploit.

[Cylla]

It hasn't stopped it but the average player does have a far better chance of getting a house now than they did prior to the timer's implementation. Those who were around when Shirogane was opened remembered what a mess that was.

It will always remain a problem as long as houses are in limited supply. We can keep coming up with ways to change the purchase system but none of them, outside of solving the supply problem, will fix it. Everything thing has its pros, cons and loopholes to exploit.

That is a sad truth unfortunately.
I do remember Shirogane, though I remember the servers crashing hurt more. Those of us that got stuck in a quote of 200+ never even had a chance at that point. Before I was even able to get back in people were calling out all plots being filled.

I don't know that I could agree though on having a far better chance. For someone like me who works a 7am to 4pm shift, and then switches to 10pm to 7am, I can't stand at a plot and wait passed 5-6 hours. Any plot that goes beyond that, is out of range. Since trying to get one, it feels like fighting an army of bots and macro users. And while yes, I could do the same thing since I have a Corsair K95, I won't because SE consider it against ToS and I'm not looking to get a slap on the wrist or a ban.

You're right though, doesn't matter how many ideas we come up with about how to change the system for purchase, timers, etc. Real problem is the supply and until SE willing to fix the supply problem, it only going to get worse with band aid fixes or remain the same. Which is why I didn't bring up any ideas for either but more looking at the supply and demand for housing. So when I said ESO housing system, theirs of course is instance housing. That really seems to be the only option that would solve this problem as well.

I'm aware that people are for the community feel, but as someone who on Goblin which got over populated quickly, the housing wards are still empty even though everyone house but one right now is sold. Only activity here are people standing at the sign trying to grab up the only open plot at the moment.