Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
Point here is to add in a gil sink to the game where one isn't already existing. With as low as it is on apartments, it sets precedent to do the same for houses, where it can be much higher (especially on the FC houses). If the FC house rent is a lot higher than the house rent (and both higher than the apartment rent) it makes owning and operating a shell FC house that much harder to do because you've got to deal with the rent. Right now, with such a trivial amount on apartments, it basically serves to introduce the gil sink, make apartments a lot easier to get into (lower GC rank and 100k vs 500k initial cost) so (in essence) it's opening them up.

And just because you disagree with the idea doesn't make it a troll thread =)
You're missing the key factor though - gil sinks can't be too cheap. So it makes ZERO sense to tie it into something already cheap and entrylevel. They need to target the hoarders, and they need to be VOLUNTARY - and tied to something they'll want. Custom mounts (not recolors), minions, barding, glamours, and hair. Otherwise they're not going to work. Apartments are used so little as it is (because they're so small and most people see them as useless (which- they're not? Unless you're crossbreeding.)). Tying it to a gil sink is just going to turn people away even more. With the 10k per week gilsink, apartments would end up being 660k in the first year - a full 160k above where they are right now. Wow... such a gil sink. That's definitely more than a drop in a bucket. /s

You keep coming at this thinking that gil sinks targeting the poorer players are going to work. It's not.