Giving up your plot should be easy and not be too restrictive

[Hondurez]

Was this plot owned by your character on Moogle...?

You can remove all the furniture before quitting and just leave the house empty. If you happen to resub soon after it's auto-demolished, you get some money back. If you don't, you lose the money you would have lost anyway by manually demolishing.

To sell your plot so you can get 80% of the plot value back

Having to wait 45 days and sub seem excessive no?

[Jojoya]

To sell your plot so you can get 80% of the plot value back

Having to wait 45 days and sub seem excessive no?

That's something I've brought up in the distant past. SE should give players an incentive to voluntarily relinquish a house they are no longer interested in owning to free the plots up for players who are still trying to get a house.

At the time, the typical response was "that would just make things even more profitable for the house flippers" since this was when there was no lottery and relocation bypassed the purchase timer.

Now that the lottery prevents that sort of activity (other than selling FC with house outright), it may be a good time for SE to revisit whether someone voluntarily relinquishing a house should get the same 80% back as those who have their house auto-demolished. The current policy of no refund encourages players to hold onto plots they don't want because they've already paid for it, or at the very least hold onto it for the additional 45 days to get the refund instead of getting it back into the supply for the next lottery period.

[Reinha]

Now that the lottery prevents that sort of activity (other than selling FC with house outright), it may be a good time for SE to revisit whether someone voluntarily relinquishing a house should get the same 80% back as those who have their house auto-demolished. The current policy of no refund encourages players to hold onto plots they don't want because they've already paid for it, or at the very least hold onto it for the additional 45 days to get the refund instead of getting it back into the supply for the next lottery period.

On the other hand, making it too cheap to buy and demolish a house could lead to people buying one just because it costs them nearly nothing in the end. People get 50% of the cost back if they win the lottery without finalizing, which is a bigger loss than taking the house and waiting 45 days for 80%. In my opinion 50% would be a fair amount for both auto-demolish and manual demolish. Then people wouldn't benefit from buying a house or keeping it for 45 days, but they would still get something back for giving up the house.

Also, Hondurez, if your house was on the Moogle server like your forum avatar is, there is no auto-demolish on EU servers right now.

[Jojoya]

On the other hand, making it too cheap to buy and demolish a house could lead to people buying one just because it costs them nearly nothing in the end. People get 50% of the cost back if they win the lottery without finalizing, which is a bigger loss than taking the house and waiting 45 days for 80%. In my opinion 50% would be a fair amount for both auto-demolish and manual demolish. Then people wouldn't benefit from buying a house or keeping it for 45 days, but they would still get something back for giving up the house.

Also, Hondurez, if your house was on the Moogle server like your forum avatar is, there is no auto-demolish on EU servers right now.

Players are already buying houses because it costs them nearly nothing. It's not going to make things even worse.

If the supply was adequate in the first place, players wouldn't be afraid to give up a house because they could get another later without problem. They also wouldn't be in a rush to buy.