Time to Restart Housing Demolition

[Silverbane]

There are not thousands of houses that would be released if demolition was reinstated.

On what basis do you claim this? What's the source of your information?
You obviously didn't read the post I mentioned (which is in this thread) because according to it, there were indeed thousands of houses released the last time housing reclamation was un-paused.

[Eraden]

On what basis do you claim this? What's the source of your information?
You obviously didn't read the post I mentioned (which is in this thread) because according to it, there were indeed thousands of houses released the last time housing reclamation was un-paused.

I saw that post. On my world there was only 250 houses released. Still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Lottery entries that were made when Ishgard was opened up. I ran around checking all of the wards in each city while I was looking for a house and was astounded by the number of bids being placed. Some as high as 100-200 on a single plot. I saw one at around 260. While I didn't bother to get an exact tally, I am pretty sure that the total numbers easily exceeded 2000. Again, I reiterate, the only real solution to this problem is to make more and better housing. Your canibalistic attitude will only serve to divert SE's attention from the real solution.

[Elevin]

I saw that post. On my world there was only 250 houses released. Still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Lottery entries that were made when Ishgard was opened up. I ran around checking all of the wards in each city while I was looking for a house and was astounded by the number of bids being placed. Some as high as 100-200 on a single plot. I saw one at around 260. While I didn't bother to get an exact tally, I am pretty sure that the total numbers easily exceeded 2000. Again, I reiterate, the only real solution to this problem is to make more and better housing. Your canibalistic attitude will only serve to divert SE's attention from the real solution.

Late to the party, on my world most smalls had 4-5 bids on them. Only the mediums and larges had 10 or more bids.

Even freeing up 200 houses from (ex) players with auto demo is 200 houses available to people actually playing the game. Having a turn over of houses means that people that are genuinely interested in housing and still playing the game may eventually be able to get a house. Especially if/when more wards are added. Having an active turn over with tens of thousands of houses will mean there will always be a supply of housing.

It certainly won't fix the issue on higher populated realms (hence why new realms and DCs are being added) but on lower population realms like mine, it will go a long way to solving the housing crisis.