Housing is completely broken...

[True-to-Caesar]

Bots, RMT/house seller experts and rich narcissists would enjoy your bidding system as some of them own not multiple houses but sometimes whole wards.

The easiest solution would be like ESO : add instanced housing and call it a day.
More people would then be interested in housing furnitures and the ones available on the cashshop.

But we got something else instead.

[DaX107]

Bots are already used as i see them daily farming crap.... so thats already in the game

RMT/House sellers are already a issue once again... the house selling is combated with the current way but there is zero reason it needs to last more that 8 hours at most...

And Rich narcissists are already in the game as there's a 50mil large lot so..... yea

Instanced housing sucks because it doesn't get seen by others so there would be no reason to buy decorations as your the only one to see them...

[Jojoya]

Instanced housing sucks because it doesn't get seen by others so there would be no reason to buy decorations as your the only one to see them...

Not true. Instanced housing gets seen all the time in the other games that use it. Players generally can teleport directly to their friends' housing, and there are ways to "advertise" housing and search for housing open to guests. I used to spend hours in RIFT not only working on my own housing Dimensions (I had 11 active Dimensions across my 5 characters) but touring the Dimensions that other players had listed and I was frequently running into other players looking around at the same time I was. I know of players who have had similar experiences with the housing in ESO and in Wildstar (before it was shut down).

In the meantime, ward housing here rarely gets seen by other players unless someone goes out of their way to advertise in shout chat or on Discords despite it not being instanced. I spent several months in the yard of my house grinding out crafting achievements this expansion. How often did I see random players wandering through the ward or stopping by to check out my house? Three times and two of those times they ran away when they found me in my yard.

Instanced housing would be far better for the game. Everyone who wanted a house plot could get one, and other players would be able to freely visit as long as guest access was enabled.

[Almagnus1]

Not true. Instanced housing gets seen all the time in the other games that use it. Players generally can teleport directly to their friends' housing, and there are ways to "advertise" housing and search for housing open to guests. I used to spend hours in RIFT not only working on my own housing Dimensions (I had 11 active Dimensions across my 5 characters) but touring the Dimensions that other players had listed and I was frequently running into other players looking around at the same time I was. I know of players who have had similar experiences with the housing in ESO and in Wildstar (before it was shut down).

In the meantime, ward housing here rarely gets seen by other players unless someone goes out of their way to advertise in shout chat or on Discords despite it not being instanced. I spent several months in the yard of my house grinding out crafting achievements this expansion. How often did I see random players wandering through the ward or stopping by to check out my house? Three times and two of those times they ran away when they found me in my yard.

Instanced housing would be far better for the game. Everyone who wanted a house plot could get one, and other players would be able to freely visit as long as guest access was enabled.

Why not just let us build airships for our squadrons that's functionally a mobile house with most of the housing functionality on it?