Gil sinks

[Vahlnir]

Please tell me this is trolling. Are you seriously suggesting rent should be somewhere between one third to one half of the price of the house, per month?

If this is a serious suggestion then just forget about it because it will never happen, can you imagine the outcry from people who have spent years making their house just right only to get hit with a bill every month like that? Ridiculous.

I'm hoping it's trolling as well, but it's truly hard to say anymore. Anarchy reigns supreme in General Discussion.

[linayar]

Please tell me this is trolling. Are you seriously suggesting rent should be somewhere between one third to one half of the price of the house, per month?

If this is a serious suggestion then just forget about it because it will never happen, can you imagine the outcry from people who have spent years making their house just right only to get hit with a bill every month like that? Ridiculous.

Not trolling, but as I said, I don't see the need for gil sink in the first place.

That said, for many people, the issue isn't having gil to have a house, but having a house available. So if we're talking about gil sink, this is at least one way of handling both. People will either have the means to buy and keep a house or they won't. And if they don't, there might be others who would.

[Vahlnir]

Not trolling

That's arguably worse than the idea itself.

[Artemiz]

Not trolling, but as I said, I don't see the need for gil sink in the first place.

That said, for many people, the issue isn't having gil to have a house, but having a house available. So if we're talking about gil sink, this is at least one way of handling both. People will either have the means to buy and keep a house or they won't. And if they don't, there might be others who would.

If they did this there would be about 3 taken plots on each server. Which FC exactly do you think is going to lay 50 million a month down just for the house? I dont have a house either but this will in no way solve anything.
Even then if they could get that money out of their members, those members would also have to pay for their own houses as well. How on earth is that even close to fair to people who have invested years into their houses?

[ItMe]

25 million gil/month rent for a large house
10 million gil/month rent for a medium house
1.5 million gil/month rent for a small house

I pay my sub to play the game, not to spend my time on upkeep.
How am I supposed to make this kind of money if I'm mainly a raider? Or if I'm mainly here for the story?
All this'll do is encourage more RMTing.

[Lauren]

I pay my sub to play the game, not to spend my time on upkeep.
How am I supposed to make this kind of money if I'm mainly a raider? Or if I'm mainly here for the story?
All this'll do is encourage more RMTing.

Yeah, I think having a small fee (like 100k a month max) would be manageable for a lot of people but for those who play more casually and spent a long time getting their house.. it feels like punishment.

[Jojoya]

I don't see the need for a gil sink, but if they want one, then it should be for housing.

That's too cheap.

25 million gil/month rent for a large house
10 million gil/month rent for a medium house
1.5 million gil/month rent for a small house

Double it for FC house.

Housing doesn't work well as a gil sink when there are a limited number of houses available.

Your suggested rents are far too high. Most players wouldn't be able to afford that at all, pricing them out of the housing market and thus removing the effectiveness as a gil sink. And most FCs make far less gil than individual players do.

Good gil sinks soak up much of the excess gil getting into the system while leaving the player some gil to spend on other things they want to have. While I'm in favor of having a monthly fee for houses as a gil sink, your suggested amounts are nowhere close to reasonable.

Lmao it was a joke

Apologies! Jokes and sarcasm don't always come across in text when you don't know the person well.

[Wolwosh]

Gil sinks are nice, but if you already have that money from years of playing you just buy them and forget it exists again.
Like a lot of things in this game that they are adding to late or with minimal effort..

[Infindox]

it's just the gil sinks need to be something more unique esp where mounts/minions are concerned. recolors/copies of existing mounts make them less desirable/have diminishing returns. however they are "easier" to program/develop.

I'm fine with recolors or copies if the thing it is copying is hard/rare to get. An example of this recently is the Construct VI-S mount; I don't mind doing Frontlines but I hate the map that's associated with, so I gladly went and got that version.

[DrWho2010]

I'm fine with recolors or copies if the thing it is copying is hard/rare to get. An example of this recently is the Construct VI-S mount; I don't mind doing Frontlines but I hate the map that's associated with, so I gladly went and got that version.

no no no, then people will know you just got that instead of putting in the effort to get the original.