One House Per Account.

[DixieBellOCE]

You heard it here folks.

Remove the ability to buy houses on alternate characters, and refund the base cost of all houses people are holding onto with alts and free them up for the general public.

You don't need 10 houses.

You don't need 2 houses.

Eliminate the small percentage of players that refuse to relinquish their 'stockpile' of houses and force them to choose a single plot.


I own a house, i'm just putting this here for the people that cant get one.

[Curisu]

Agree, not much to add here.
It should not be possible for a single player to hoard a limited resource.

[Shibi]

I own a house, i'm just putting this here for the people that cant get one.

Now I'm confused.

On Tonberry or in Materia? Dixie Bell had one on Materia before you took her back didn't she? She would have given that up for the move, but did you on your Visperia alt buy one in Materia, or did you have it before she moved back? Or does Dixie Bell have one on Tonberry now and you don't have one on Materia?

[LaylaTsarra]

Let us know when you get a position with SE and can make that decision cause until then it's not going to happen. People following the rules outlined by SE will not be penalized because you think they should.

[Nepentha]

How about: No.

[TabrisOmbrelame]

You heard it here folks.

Remove the ability to buy houses on alternate characters, and refund the base cost of all houses people are holding onto with alts and free them up for the general public.

You don't need 10 houses.

You don't need 2 houses.

Eliminate the small percentage of players that refuse to relinquish their 'stockpile' of houses and force them to choose a single plot.


I own a house, i'm just putting this here for the people that cant get one.

It's already the case. You can't buy more than one house per account.

You are limited to 1 FC house and 1 Personnal house per account and per world.

Some people love to get more house just for personnal gain by using alternate FC etc etc.... And I agree, this is complete garbage, just one guy need to pay up 10€ per month per house ! One guy with 10 house will literraly pay 100€ per month just to keep them. I'm pretty sure some of them must have found some abuse here in order to get all the FC house on the same account.

Square Enix need to punish those abuser. Only leaving one house on the account of the abuser, erasing all other house without refund (because abuse) and ban this guy for a limited time afterward.

[Jojoya]

It's already the case. You can't buy more than one house per account.

You are limited to 1 FC house and 1 Personnal house per account and per world.

Unfortunately, not true. You're already contradicting your first statement in your second statement (which is still not true).

One house per account should mean exactly that - one house per service account.

With your second statement, that increases from one house per account to 80 houses per account. Players can have up to 40 characters, each on a different world if they want, and each of those characters could have both personal and FC houses.

But the reality of the rules is that it is one personal house and one FC house where the character that purchased the FC house remains in that FC. Easy enough to get around that - remove the character that purchased the house from the FC. That frees up the account to purchase another FC house on that world. Rinse and repeat. With multiple service accounts involved (whether all owned by the same player or different players) you can get up to 8 FC houses on the same world with characters on the same service account.

SE has opted to go the route of automated enforcements in so far as they can program the game to prevent additional purchases without disrupting the ability of players to get a first personal or FC house. They seem to have no desire to use human oversight to make certain players are abiding by a more strict rule set such as one personal and one FC house.

This will always be a problem as long as wards are always the only source of houses. There will always be ways to get around the system for players to own multiple houses per world, shutting out other players from the ability to get a house due to lack of supply. It's why many of us would like to see SE stop spending resources on expanding the ward system and implement an instanced system for houses. With an instanced system, it wouldn't matter how many characters a player has or how many houses each character has. No one gets locked out.

[Knot_D]

Now I'm confused.

On Tonberry or in Materia? Dixie Bell had one on Materia before you took her back didn't she? She would have given that up for the move, but did you on your Visperia alt buy one in Materia, or did you have it before she moved back? Or does Dixie Bell have one on Tonberry now and you don't have one on Materia?

Damn did you just exposed her?

[Shibi]

Damn did you just exposed her?

It's not a secret, for sure.

Dixie Bell was one of the great complainers about how dead Materia was, and how impossible it was to do content on Materia, and how she was happy to move back to Tonberry as soon as her 90 days were up.

When a thread like this pops up on an alt on a server she no longer plays on (where empty plots are plentiful) asking specifically "refund the base cost of all houses people are holding onto with alts" but hiding it amongst a Martin-ism, it's not hard to be confused about her current house holdings.

[NanaWiloh]

Unfortunately, not true. You're already contradicting your first statement in your second statement (which is still not true).

One house per account should mean exactly that - one house per service account.

With your second statement, that increases from one house per account to 80 houses per account. Players can have up to 40 characters, each on a different world if they want, and each of those characters could have both personal and FC houses.

But the reality of the rules is that it is one personal house and one FC house where the character that purchased the FC house remains in that FC. Easy enough to get around that - remove the character that purchased the house from the FC. That frees up the account to purchase another FC house on that world. Rinse and repeat. With multiple service accounts involved (whether all owned by the same player or different players) you can get up to 8 FC houses on the same world with characters on the same service account.

SE has opted to go the route of automated enforcements in so far as they can program the game to prevent additional purchases without disrupting the ability of players to get a first personal or FC house. They seem to have no desire to use human oversight to make certain players are abiding by a more strict rule set such as one personal and one FC house.

This will always be a problem as long as wards are always the only source of houses. There will always be ways to get around the system for players to own multiple houses per world, shutting out other players from the ability to get a house due to lack of supply. It's why many of us would like to see SE stop spending resources on expanding the ward system and implement an instanced system for houses. With an instanced system, it wouldn't matter how many characters a player has or how many houses each character has. No one gets locked out.

Short version: You can own/purchase: 1 personal house per world You can: Purchase 1 FC house per world and Own 8 FC houses per world. Now I am not going to explain why FC ownership is that way. If I do will scream bloody Hell spawned murder from explaining it so much!!