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

[Illmaeran]

Housing should just have paid wards (which in turn also enables people to buy any size).

I would happily pay $20 US for a medium plot that would be mine until the day the servers are taken down; no matter how long of a break I take. Even if I stop playing the day after buying it and only come back the day the servers go down, it's still there in my name. That would be completely worth it for me. Hell, I might even buy one for my alt too!

Having a single "free" plot (the kind we have now) per account with as many premium plots as one's willing to pay for seems a reasonable option to me.