Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
If a player has a house on a dead server and a popular server and has to delete one of them, they are going to give up the one on a dead server. Here's a recent example of this player mentality. When players are forced to make a choice, most players will choose to own a house on a big server, and the minority who don't, already have a house on a dead server and you don't want them to own more. All this restriction would do is free up houses that no one wants to buy.

Why would it matter if a house people don't want to buy and decorate is taken by someone who uses it for their own gain in a way that doesn't impact you? It's pointless to ask I guess. No one ever answers that question in good faith and neither will you.
I do agree that the rules can be relaxed on emptier wards. Owning a house on a mostly-vacant ward should, reasonably, suspend enforcement of the Housing Exclusion Principle.