Ideas to free up more plots

[AlanJust]

So after losing a 1 in 3 to a guy who got lucky and bid last minute on a plot that was close to my friend's house I thought of possible solutions to free up more plots in general.

1 House per account, not per world, not per character, but per subscription.
People who have more than one house are given the option to forfeit and obviously get refunded 100% of their money used to buy said house.

Increase the price of buying a house. Hate this one all you want but if you can't get a few mils you probably aren't playing this game consistently, aka. they will unsub eventually.

Continue the auto-demolition for NA at the very least. I understand the morality of stopping auto-demolition but I don't see why it's in NA. So many say that people in Ukraine have accounts in NA servers but that is in the extreme minority and Ukrainians
who have a house playing on NA servers are a much smaller minority in that bunch.

Increasing the requirements to buy a house. I feel like finishing the MSQ should be a requirement, this will mostly be done to prevent and slow down bots from overwhelming the market.

Your own additions are welcomed.

PS: I already own a medium, I want my friends to get a good chance at getting a house too.

[galbsadi]

I'm not sure the guy got lucky as much as it appears to be how the system actually works.

Granted, I only checked a dozen or so plots on Halicarnassus, but EVERY.SINGLE.ONE went to the last bidder.

[AlanJust]

Wouldn't surprise me, since their recent 0 winning no. mess up

[Nepentha]

So after losing a 1 in 3 to a guy who got lucky and bid last minute on a plot that was close to my friend's house I thought of possible solutions to free up more plots in general.

1 House per account, not per world, not per character, but per subscription.
People who have more than one house are given the option to forfeit and obviously get refunded 100% of their money used to buy said house.

Increase the price of buying a house. Hate this one all you want but if you can't get a few mils you probably aren't playing this game consistently, aka. they will unsub eventually.

Continue the auto-demolition for NA at the very least. I understand the morality of stopping auto-demolition but I don't see why it's in NA. So many say that people in Ukraine have accounts in NA servers but that is in the extreme minority and Ukrainians
who have a house playing on NA servers are a much smaller minority in that bunch.

Increasing the requirements to buy a house. I feel like finishing the MSQ should be a requirement, this will mostly be done to prevent and slow down bots from overwhelming the market.

Your own additions are welcomed.

PS: I already own a medium, I want my friends to get a good chance at getting a house too.

1 house per account isn't feasible, when we can't access the house on our alts. And many people play on more than one server/DC. I'd rather they simply figure out how to provide enough housing for everyone. Also grandfathering is a thing, and there simply aren't a lot of people who own more than one personal home anymore, and since it is now impossible to own more than one personal per server, the number is slowly dwindling anyway.

Here's a few more reasonable ideas:

Instanced housing. Everyone gets a house on every character after certain criteria are met. Make it part of the MSQ if you want, or make it part of Island Sanctuary. Make it an actual house, not a breadbox apartment.

Allow alts on the same server to access a ward style personal house. Not a part of the tenant system, just alts on the same account as the owner can access and use the house as if they were the owner. Tenants are unrelated accounts allowed to have access.

For free companies, close the loopholes on bidding. A character bidding on an FC house must meet the same requirements as someone buying a personal house. Must be lvl 50, 2nd Lieutenant with their GC. (And maybe if transferring FC leader, the new leader must meet the same requirements or else the transfer can't be made.)

[Axious]

Someone on the forums did the math for server cost per person to maintain a house monthly. $13 USD or something.

I wouldn’t mind paying an extra $13 monthly for a house personally.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Make a Ward only for people of a certain PVP rank.

"Welcome to Crystal Ward"

[Yodada]

rest of nonsense

We should move Balmung over to Dynamis (you got it, despair and so on) and enforce a split into additional Worlds called Almung, Balmung, Calmung and Dahlmung. Problem solved.

[Jojoya]

We should move Balmung over to Dynamis (you got it, despair and so on) and enforce a split into additional Worlds called Almung, Balmung, Calmung and Dahlmung. Problem solved.

We already have Balmung on Dynamis. It's called Seraph and their personal plots just sold out.

Still plenty available on the other 3 worlds, though. The next lottery period will be a good time to pick up a personal house - most already on the Dynamis worlds will be entering for their FC houses (first lottery that FCs can bid if they were created the first week the worlds opened).

[Shibi]

We should move Balmung over to Dynamis (you got it, despair and so on) and enforce a split into additional Worlds called Almung, Balmung, Calmung and Dahlmung. Problem solved.

I do like this idea! The forced influx of B'ungians might liven up Deadamis a lot. Plus they would all be guaranteed homes as there are still so many empty.

[VerdeLuck]

Instanced housing. Everyone gets a house on every character after certain criteria are met. Make it part of the MSQ if you want, or make it part of Island Sanctuary. Make it an actual house, not a breadbox apartment.

1 House per service account is more feasible than instanced housing. Even if technically possible, there is no way to get people to use instanced houses without pissing off people who have ward houses. If you give everyone an instanced house, including those with a ward house, that's incredibly unfair to the people who can't get a house otherwise. If you make Instanced houses worse than ward houses, no one will use them, if you make them better, those with ward houses will be upset. There is no solution to this without making someone mad, it's better to just limit ownership than try to thread the needle on how good to make instanced housing so no one gets mad or has an unfair advantage.