Fix Housing Megathread

[TroySoFab]

Number 2 is not as simple as you think there is something your failing to address.



Here is a picture of my FC house placard. Take a good look at the owner, cause thats not my characters name or anyone elses..

If your FC house isn't owned by a member of your FC or anyone on your server, then maybe you need a GM to help you out with that. Not even sure how that can happen, unless there are some interesting exploits I'm not aware of.
Outside of this I think my point still stands. 1 personal home, and one fc home ownership. It could be modified with an additional restriction of one FC ownership per account, for those extra creative players.

That might have been the intent. It wasn't the result.

Neighborhoods feel like neighborhoods because you see people doing things, not because you see houses. We're stuck only seeing the houses because there's little reason for players to be in the wards themselves. If they're at their house, they're far more likely to be in it than outside but we're got no way of knowing they're in it from what we see on the outside.

Player behavior when in the wards goes far in showing how players don't really want neighborhoods. There have been a few occasions when I've been at my house or our FC house and someone randomly comes by. Greet them and they almost always run away if they were caught doing something wrong. Clearly they're interested in how others have decorated their houses but they aren't looking to be a neighbor.

Its not the result because most wards are owned by a few players with no interest in actually doing anything with the home other than reselling it, or inactive players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oPC4D-rHqg

I've linked this in other housing threads before, but I think its a good example of what can be done in wards when people who actually care about having a home and decorating it, have said homes. As apposed to people who only hold on to them for "other reasons".