Fix Housing Megathread

[Nepentha]

That's why acquisition method is changing because the original problem that SE was trying to solve was people selling the house for real world currency (whether it's crypto or otherwise), which started us down this walk through hell.

You can thank the shell FCs for that one, as they are basically hiding amongst the micro FCs and it's going to force SE to do something no one likes (again) in an attempt to curtail behavior they likely never intended with the housing system, which likely means more house purchase/transfer restrictions along with a few more situations where SE determines that the house should be released beyond the AFK timer. I can understand SE holding the cards close on this one as the best way to screw over the shell FCs is to give them very little warning so the shell FC owners don't have time to react to whatever punitive stuff SE may decide to do - assuming they would ever do that.

Don't speak for SE, please. They've never taken housing away from people in the past, they're not likely going to do so now, shell FC or no. My FC currently has 3 active members in it, including me. The rest either quit the game or are taking a break until the next expansion. You'd see us lose our housing because you're on your same crusade to get to them thar Duke boys-- I mean those one percenters.

The shell FCs are less of a problem than the housing flippers bot clicking their way to homes and selling them for 20 to 70x the placard price (or RMT!). Stay on target.