House Auto Demo'd when I've entered Recently

[Ravenblade1979]

Housing demolition is a stupid thing anyways. If you have a house and a paid subscription, there should be no worries about losing your housing plot.

Auto demolition should only be used for account that have ended their subscription or been banned.

No just no. It's yours as long as you pay your sub. You know the risk otherwise yes. There needs to be no change. People just jot be so attached to virtual property is all. Auto demo is there to recycle the plot back into rotation for others to get a shot at.

Instead we got lots of multi owners or people who only sub to keep a plot and not play. We need more restrictions..especially on the latter. If you only paying to keep a plot but not actively play...then why lol

[Ravenblade1979]

There are bugs in the auto demo. I remember way back logged out inside my house then login the next day to find it gone. SE just gives auto help response back and never helps you get lost houses back. All you can do is hope to win another plot in the lottery.

Oh yeah there are bugs but I think I'm waiting to see who actually owned the plot op was talking about. If it wasn't theirs then the plot would have been gone due to the wife not going in it.

[Khryseis_Astra]

What situation?

We know his wife was involved so there's a 50% chance shes the owner and this is a non issue. We also know from previous bugs and exploits that this community is very good at finding proof of the bugs existence and the source condition of the bugs, yet nobody has found any proof of this one beyond "because I said so". Which is more likely; that there's a bug out there with no proof of its existence or his wife failed to maintain the house?

Just to add more speculation to the discussion, if OP is the same person who also wrote a very similar post to Reddit, he and his wife (still unclear who is the owner) were both inside the house a couple weeks ago. She was showing him some decorations and he said he had screenshots from that, but I never saw any posted. If he really does have screenshots, those could show they were both inside the property within the date range to save it from demoing. But who would think to look at the Timers section and screenshot that, when they didn’t think there was any danger of demo?

What I’m thinking is that he is the owner and the wife is the tenant. She’s probably in it all the time decorating, him maybe not so much. Maybe he hadn’t entered it for long enough for the demo process to begin. But assuming he actually was in there a week before the house was demoed, there’s two options: either his memory is faulty or there’s a bug.

At this point, unfortunately, there’s probably nothing he can do, unless he submits the screenshots he claims to have and SE actually does something before this Saturday when someone else wins the house. I’ve never heard of them reinstating an auto-demo before, but I know that once someone else wins it, there’s zero chance they’ll give it back.

But I’ll second the idea that the info in the Timers menu should be more detailed, if only to help troubleshoot whether or not a bug exists. I’ve heard way too many accounts of weirdness surrounding the timer. I’m in my house multiple times a day, so I’d heartbroken if something like this happened to me and there was no way other than my gposes to prove I was there.

[dspguy]

I lost my house years ago. It was during the initial purge, if I recall. I was away on business and received an email that I had 5 days left. I got home with 1 day to spare. House was already gone. I posted here or reddit or something screen shots of the email with the auto-demo time while standing at lost plot (now owned by someone else since it was FCFS back then) along with a screenshot of my local PC time which clearly showed it was before the scheduled auto-demo time.

At the time I was upset, but I realized that I wasn't playing the game, so my house should go to another player.

The current auto-demo notice we get explicitly states that auto-demo cannot happen before the stated time. I don't know if the 2015(?) version of that email stated that or not.

I didn't learn my lesson necessarily. I did manage to get another house afterwards (FCFS, no lockout). When I'm somewhat dormant from the game, I do login every 44th day to reopen the house. And I haven't had the problem since. I probably shouldn't wait until the 44th day of course. Given that housing is only via lottery, that's not a gamble I want to take anymore. So, like much of the server population, I'll hold onto my house now even if I'm not playing the game as much.

[Stormfur]

I saw a Reddit post not too long ago that someone wrote that they lost their house because although they spent a lot of time tending their garden, they didn't actually go inside all that much, and as a result, the demolition timer expired. It surprised me that interacting with your garden wouldn't reset it.

[SieyaM]

I understand it can be frustrating to lose something like an estate that you've spent a lot of hours on, but you have to understand why they can't just give everyone that complains about a glitch whatever they want. What is to stop me from saying that I totally completed TOP and my weapon and achievement just disappeared from a glitch.

[CVXIV]

I've been told you needed to interact with anything inside your house, and that never made sense to me because not every item can be interacted with, so it's completely possible to have a situation where someone uses their allotment and does not have anything to interact with. What then? I've never had any issues when all I do is enter my home and then go back to what I was doing prior.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I've been told you needed to interact with anything inside your house, and that never made sense to me because not every item can be interacted with, so it's completely possible to have a situation where someone uses their allotment and does not have anything to interact with. What then? I've never had any issues when all I do is enter my home and then go back to what I was doing prior.

Because that's not true. All you need to do is enter. Loading the instance is what triggers the "visited" flag.
It's why just being in the garden doesn't work, that's always loaded.