Relo mechanics are Cancer

[Almagnus1]

About the only serious thing that would make sense (instead of a raffle that the relos have to participate in) is auctioning off the house with the bid paid in full when you make it (relos get a credit for their existing house and the bid is refunded via moogle mail with a delete timer on it if someone gets outbid).

Either way, the relos and first time buyers need to be put on the same playing field so some of the first time buyers have a realistic shot of getting at Ishgard house, otherwise we are going to see history repeat itself yet again.

On the bright side, at least an auction would help to delete a lot of gil from the economy... which wouldn't be a bad thing.

[Catstab]

an auction would help to delete a lot of gil from the economy... which wouldn't be a bad thing.

I mean, I suggested we make housing prices what they used to be. 40 mil smalls, 200m meds, 500m larges. This would be a gil sink of over 30 billion gear a year. Every response was "well then everyone will RMT for housing." So I imagine your auction suggestion will face similar "RMT bait" criticism.

I prefer these larger but fixed prices to your auction idea, since the auction would mean some would get very inexpensive housing and others would pay a great deal. But I do agree a gil sink would be helpful.