Fix Housing Megathread

[Almagnus1]

People bought houses because they couldn't share them with alts. They still can't.

And that's something that SE should definitely change and allow a port to each personal house on the same account on the same server. I imagine that once that happens, some of the grandfathered in houses would be consolidated - especially if SE gave the houses storage that the alts could share and a way to transfer items (and gil) between the alts and main.

This is something LotRO did from the get-go, and that MMO housing largely worked for the playerbase.

It was allowed at the time and in many cases housing wards sat open with many houses going unclaimed for months.

That was tied to the fact that we had sufficient supply for the population. At the current point in time, we're at the exact opposite issue where there's a housing shortage and the players that have more than one personal house per server per account are now hogging more than their fair share of resources. SE should focus first on incentives to get them to release their houses, then forcibly release the houses because that policy makes sense given the significantly larger population. That said, the shell FCs all need to die, as that's definitely an aggravating factor here.

Current rules also allow users to purchase housing on other servers as well. One FC and one personal house. If those rules were to change later to one house per account those following the rules now shouldn't have to pay or be demonized because they elected to do what is permitted. Changing rules should and will affect future purchases just like now an alt cannot buy a house if there is one character on that account who owns one on that server.

Changing the rules and then enforcing the changes makes everyone equal. We should be striving for housing equality here, should we not?