Why on Earth is there a timer for retrieving items after being demolished?

[Solarra]

I don't know why this is a thing, but I have always felt it was wrong. I can't think of any other game (still running) that deletes player assets even when a subscription is still being paid. If that's a 'public service', imo it's a pretty lousy one.

I don't think it's asking too much for furnishing items to be saved along with your gear, minions, food, out-of-date event tokens, fireworks etc. If there's room to save all that, there should be room to save your furniture. I'd hazard a guess that the way they set up the timer and refund of purchase price has meant your furnishings are tied up with that. I would definitely like to see it changed though.
In the meantime, best to store any seasonal items on your retainer or in your apartment when they aren't in use.

[Vidu]

I don't know why this is a thing, but I have always felt it was wrong. I can't think of any other game (still running) that deletes player assets even when a subscription is still being paid. If that's a 'public service', imo it's a pretty lousy one.

I don't think it's asking too much for furnishing items to be saved along with your gear, minions, food, out-of-date event tokens, fireworks etc. If there's room to save all that, there should be room to save your furniture. I'd hazard a guess that the way they set up the timer and refund of purchase price has meant your furnishings are tied up with that. I would definitely like to see it changed though.
In the meantime, best to store any seasonal items on your retainer or in your apartment when they aren't in use.

The maximum amount of furniture that the NPC should need to hold onto would be 880 items - that would from a mansion with full indoor and outdoor storage, aswell as all itemsslots taken (400 items placed inside + 400 items inside storage + 40 items placed outside + 40 items outside storage). Even a small one would create up to 440 items.
Thats a bit more than 6 retainers can hold (or 3 for a small). Seeing how much trouble it is to give us more inventory space, I do see this being a problem - storing all the furniture of a small house is about the amount of "non specific inventory" you get ( 2 retainer + your own inventory should reach about that amount). Creating that storage for a person who might not even come back to use it ever again seems kinda wasteful to me...
The thing really is: There is no extra room to store that many extra things. If you're holding on to out-of-date event tokens, you're giving up some of your precious and limited inventory space for that!

And, as I explained, that furniture is not tied to your character, its tied to the plot of land - thats why anyone in an FC (if they have certain permissions) can reclaim the items from a demolished FC-house. And to make sure that there arent any mix ups when another house on that plot of land gets demolished, the "demolition inventory" has to be cleared out.