Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[Almagnus1]

Oh I've contributed ideas. You just don't pay attention unless it's your ideas.

You've only started a single thread which states a painfully obvious solution (add more wards). You haven't started any further threads, so I'm guessing these "ideas" are basically barbs at other players based on your interactions.

The difference between you and I is I want to make the playing field equal.

The difference here isn't that we want to make the playing field equal (as I have long advocated for that from a policy perspective), the difference is that I'm actually trying to do something about it.

You just want to find a way to get to the small percentage of people who own multiple properties. You don't care how you get that done, so long as it gets done.

Yeah, that's not true. Main thing with this thread is to identify what exactly a shell FC is, how we can separate out the legitimate FCs so we can identify what of the 10,042 to 27,768 properties are actually shell FCs, and which ones are legitimate micro FCs. There needs to be discussion around what metrics identify a smaller FC from a shell FC so that the greedy people that are tying up these homes and locking out a likely 10k+ people from the housing system can stop doing that.

Given that you (and the rest of the Hate Club) have see anything and everything I post as "bad" (whatever that really means), I expect you to be an obstructionist towards any real efforts that I am putting forth to try to better identify and clarify this issue in hopes that SE will take further action to make this situation better.

Your last terrible idea not only failed miserably in combating resellers and flippers (and multi-home owners), it actually created a small, flourishing underground of placard click bots to be developed.

Eh no. Sometimes it's darkest before the dawn...

A lottery system will be implemented for purchasing housing plots. Relocation rules will be adjusted, and there will be designated areas for purchasing plots via lottery, or first come, first served. These are currently in preparation for the release of the housing area in Ishgard.

Players will only be permitted to enter the lottery if they meet the requirements necessary to own housing. A number of features have been prepared to prevent RMT and troublemaking, such as depositing the gil upfront and disallowing participation on Free Trial accounts. Furthermore, there will be a gil penalty for those who do not purchase a plot after being selected in the lottery. Please note that this penalty will be quite strict.

Additionally, certain areas will be reserved for purchase as personal or free company housing. Details regarding this and other housing-related updates will be shared later.