Housing Auto Demo question--

[Magus4]

So with 5.4 they turned back on atuo demolition right? So it came out December 8th, so 45 days later is the 22nd but when will houses auto demo? what time? anyone have a general idea of this?

Will it be 45 days from servers going live or did they turn on the auto demo some time during maintenance? I'm willing to camp for 24hrs but would rather have some sort of educated guess so i didnt have to XD

[Seraphor]

In some cases they've already started. Unless the owner (or FC member) entered the house during the suspension period, auto demolition was paused, which means if someone was 1 day away from demolition when the pause was implemented, then they were 1 day from demolition on December 8th.

For players who have entered their estate at least once during the suspension period:
The auto-demolition timer will be reset for free company estates that have been entered by a leader or member at least once, and private estates that have been entered by the owner at least once.

The count for days of inactivity for the aforementioned estates will begin again with the release of Patch 5.4.

For players who have not entered their estate during the suspension period:
The auto-demolition timer will resume from the time that was remaining as of Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 8:10 p.m. (PDT).

Please be advised that the timer will resume immediately after patch data is made available for download during the scheduled maintenance for Patch 5.4. Because of this, there is a possibility the auto-demolition timer may expire for certain estates before maintenance has ended.

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[MsMisato]

already seen some houses get auto demo'ed on malboro. You are going to have to check at random times throughout the day.

[Jojoya]

As MsMisato said, some houses already demo'd if their demo timer was already active when the suspension when into effect. There should be a small surge later this week when we reach the 45 day point since the timer was reactivated

[LaylaTsarra]

It is my understanting that demolition normally takes place at the top of each hour. The 22nd will be when many houses go up in smoke. I remember this happening on Balmung during the last restart and most houses went up for demo at the same time. I was able to transfer to a poolside in the goblet when that happened. There were quite a few houses in all the wards and housing districts. They'll all be on timer unless you transfer but there will certainly be a lot fewer people at each house.