Time to Restart Housing Demolition

[Yukimin]

Do not turn the demolition timer back on. Think of the Russian and Ukrainian players that will lose their house because of the current event. Do not turn it on please.

[Jojoya]

Yoshi P wants the neighbourhood feel, and I agree. It's far from perfect on most wards, but that's likely down to the fact that people aren't playing the game, hence why you need auto demolition. I myself at 2 of my houses have really nice and friendly neighbours I interact with quite often, actually friends with a few of them and have been since I moved in.

People not playing the game at all but still having a house due to demolition suspension has little to do with it.

People playing the game but being online at different times of the day and doing things other than standing in the yards of their houses does. Not everyone has a stereotypical 9-5 lifestyle. Even those that do live in different time zones.

Not once have I seen my neighbor since they bought their house over a year ago. I know they're online occasionally - they've redecorated their yard a few times. But because the times they're online and in their yard don't match the times I'm online and in my yard, we never see each other.

That is what it is like for most players. You evidently got lucky by having neighbors at their house the same time you're at yours and your houses are close enough together to be seen. I wouldn't be surprised if those neighbors of yours are part of fairly large active FCs because that increases the chance that you will see at least someone if not the same someone every time.

Not everyone is lucky enough to own a house next to a large active FC.

Then there are those players who would prefer not having neighbors, especially if it means not having to stare at one of the housing skins they dislike every time they go to their house.

Most of us don't want the wards removed. We understand there are players who enjoy the wards. What we want is for SE to stop pouring money into wards that will never be able to accommodate every player that wants a house and start putting money into enhancing the instanced housing system so instanced house plots are included, or at the very least apartment interiors that match the size of house interiors.

We know instanced housing can be more than a breadbox of a room. We see it in other MMOs. Those games lack the housing drama we have here because everyone can get what they want regardless of how many other players already have the same thing. A few of those games have a superior housing system not just when it comes to access but when it comes to features. SE probably wouldn't duplicate any of those systems in their entirety but certainly there is room to learn from them and improve what we have here.

As per your argument about auto demolition being introduced post housing, then I present you this argument. Housing should be restricted to Free Companies only as it was for FCs only at the start.

That's not an argument. That's a statement of opinion. If you want it to be an argument, you need to present your reasoning why it should be FC only.

Keep in mind that making it FC only would solve nothing. Players would simply turn to making shell FCs to get their house even as many have resorted doing now with the shortage.

[Siniztor]

Do not turn the demolition timer back on. Think of the Russian and Ukrainian players that will lose their house because of the current event. Do not turn it on please.

100% this theres a war going on right now.... I'd love to hear Zeplas response to this and im sure some of you are fans of hers and know she barley made it out

[Catstab]

But you just can't help making stuff up out of whole cloth, can you?
Whether something is true, or even has the slightest bit of evidentiary support, seems pathetically irrelevant to you.

I'm not sure that saying "having your house demolished is a negative experience that players displaced by conflict should not be subjected to" can be equivocated with "making stuff up out of whole cloth."

I think you're confusing what I wrote here with something else entirely that you read elsewhere. I can't imagine what. I wish you luck.

[Silverbane]

What is wrong with you? Like, seriously, what is wrong with you?

MMOs are social games. These people deserve to have something to return to that brings them joy after everything they've been through.

"Half my family is dead or missing and the rest are homeless, but at least I have my small plot in the Firmament!"
Yeah, right.

How many people in North America do you think stopped paying for their subscriptions who otherwise wouldn't have, because they knew their house was safe for the moment? That's who you're protecting, isn't it?

[LaylaTsarra]

I think 6 months is more that fair. You can't hold houses hostage to a calamity that could last years. Doesn't affect me directly although I have a couple friends who have stopped playing and who might have come back had the chance of losing their house factored into the picture.

Does it free up a lot of houses? Probably not a lot in the short term but if you're ever participated in a restart of demolition there are a surprisingly significant number of houses that become available.

[Kitsu]

Please re-enable auto-demolition.

[VerdeLuck]

It needs to be turned back on, there's no houses left to bid on after this last lottery and people are just sitting inactive holding onto houses not being used.

[ValkyriaCrystalis]

And since we can’t edit on mobile and I’m about to go to work, one last point.

You don’t know we, neither my life.
I spent 32 years of my life “socialising”, at some point I never had a quiet evening at home. At 32 years old I said “stop” to all of this because it was exhausting. I will turn 40 next year this was definitely my better choice. I still got 2 really good friends in Switzerland and that’s ok. Quality over quantity.
Don’t assume people need the same things as you or function like you.

[Croweyes]

As of writing this.
It has been 224 since demolition was suspended.
Turn it back on.