Auto-demolition needs to be re-enabled immediately.

[Freedom4556]

Housing auto-demolition should be re-enabled immediately. The lottery system will become inoperative within a few cycles if it is not. Patch 6.11a disabled the afk logout, so by the developers' own measures the server queues are stable.

Auto-demo was left off far too long during the pandemic until it became very apparent that it was going to be a long-term issue that the world at large is still dealing with. The "current world situation" as the NA team put it, is showing no signs that it will be any different, tragic as that is.

Leaving auto-demo off for nebulous lengths of time destroys all the hard work that has been put into overhauling the housing system.

Reference: Regarding Automatic Housing Demolition


Edit: I read a proposal on the Japanese side of the forum that demolition be selectively re-enabled for all datacenters except Europe. If technically possible this could be a very useful compromise.

[Eris4494]

They should never disable it more than a month. It should be lowered to 2 weeks not entering your place it gets auto demolition for private housing and 1 month for FC housing.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Glad it is off personally, ofc that is because I have a house.
But being forced to keep a sub up for my house can get annoying when I am taking a break from the game.
prays for instanced housing

[Ascended_Demon]

They should never disable it more than a month. It should be lowered to 2 weeks not entering your place it gets auto demolition for private housing and 1 month for FC housing.

Why would you give FC housing a bigger grace period than personal when FC housing already gets the benefit of any FC member being able to reset the timer by entering the house while for personal housing it has to be the owner of the plot and not tenants? Like what is your justification in this being a good idea? If no one in a free company enters a house long enough for it to be under threat of demo they really aren't using the house enough to warrant being allowed a longer grace period.

[Eraden]

Wow. Seriously, just wow. This is almost sort of like the argument that if you tax the hell out of the rich, there will magically be enough money to give every citizen a comfy life. Include in this the desire for taking away the grandfathered plots of those who, by the rules, had managed to get multiple plots in the early days of this game. What do all of these things have in common? The fact that the resources you free up by doing these things, won't amount to much more than a drop of water added to a lake. The demand for housing is VASTLY greater than the plots that you would free up by turning demolition back on again. Sorry, but cannibalizing others is not going to solve this problem.

[olaplex]

above poster is off the goop guess what thats how it already has been so deal with it! owned

anyway autodemo NEEDS to be turned on yesterday. it's going to be at some ill-defined moment anyway -- ostensibly its off "for the war" in ukraine, but seriously, when can you possibly turn it back on after such a solemn decision? when there's a ceasefire? when the situation has levelled out to a slow-moving frontline? when the donbas belongs to country A or country B? it was a mistake to get caught up with international issues like that... a natural disaster is one thing, because the situation has already gotten as bad as it'll get, and is in a state of repair. but a political situation truly never gets better, and can always get worse. imo they would be wise to just announce it's coming back on with 6.2 and sidestep the entire magpie they walked into.

[Eraden]

You clearly didn't even bother reading my post. The number of plots that would be freed up by turning demolition back on, would NOT come even remotely close to satisfying even a mere fraction of the demand for housing. What you are asking for is NOT going to solve this problem. Adding more housing, a LOT more housing, IS.

[Wolfenrir]

You clearly didn't even bother reading my post. The number of plots that would be freed up by turning demolition back on, would NOT come even remotely close to satisfying even a mere fraction of the demand for housing. What you are asking for is NOT going to solve this problem. Adding more housing, a LOT more housing, IS.

Just auto demo doesn't help, but with the addition of new wards Auto Demo has to be activated so there's at least some sort of rotation or else adding new wards will end up being the exact same thing that's already happening, keep adding wards and keep auto demo on.

[Nuggets]

Well obv turning autodem on isn't gonna give everyone a house, but it does mean there will be at least(hopefully) a few houses available every lottery reset...otherwise after the next there won't be any available houses unless someone server xfers. Hopium is a powerful drug

[Archaell]

The auto-demolition should have never been stopped. I had several houses demolished during the breaks and it's insane for how long was the ownership kept even when not playing for months. The supply is low, the inactive plots have to be recycled as quickly as possible so that new owners get their turn with them.