NA Housing Demolition?

[hynaku]

Lots of open housing plots on my world.

[Batbrat]

Just gonna go ahead and say it-no one wants a house on Dynamis because its a nobody empty dead DC that people literally only travel to to tab out at a venue, or because they literally have no other choice via congestion issues everywhere else for like some kind of static activity. Nobody wants to start in Dynamis, let alone move there, and all the people that are in Dynamis constantly DC travel to actually play the game somewhere else. You can have a house there, but if you do, no one is coming to see you and you will never have neighbors ever.

Alright, so now that we have that out of the way,
the housing demolition timer needs to be turned back on ASAP, because at this point they are now failing on two fronts.
1. People that want a house cannot have one because no houses are open = Unsub waiting for demolition to start
2. People that already have a house see no reason to bother logging in now = Unsub because demolition hasn't started
This creates a lose lose situation, and they are no longer in the position to be ok with losing money.

A good solution in my eyes would be to dissolve Dynamis completely. Take its servers, and add them to the lists of the successful DCs. This way tons of houses are now available in Aether, Crystal, and Primal, and everyone who made the mistake of playing in Dynamis now actually has people to play with, and people who actively play the game can have a house.

[Astronema]

Just gonna go ahead and say it-no one wants a house on Dynamis because its a nobody empty dead DC that people literally only travel to to tab out at a venue, or because they literally have no other choice via congestion issues everywhere else for like some kind of static activity. Nobody wants to start in Dynamis, let alone move there, and all the people that are in Dynamis constantly DC travel to actually play the game somewhere else. You can have a house there, but if you do, no one is coming to see you and you will never have neighbors ever.

Alright, so now that we have that out of the way,
the housing demolition timer needs to be turned back on ASAP, because at this point they are now failing on two fronts.
1. People that want a house cannot have one because no houses are open = Unsub waiting for demolition to start
2. People that already have a house see no reason to bother logging in now = Unsub because demolition hasn't started
This creates a lose lose situation, and they are no longer in the position to be ok with losing money.

A good solution in my eyes would be to dissolve Dynamis completely. Take its servers, and add them to the lists of the successful DCs. This way tons of houses are now available in Aether, Crystal, and Primal, and everyone who made the mistake of playing in Dynamis now actually has people to play with, and people who actively play the game can have a house.

https://youtu.be/MNK-JFowBUQ

[hydralus]

https://youtu.be/MNK-JFowBUQ

Perfect starter house for a lalafell family.

[Amarande]

I agree, it's time to unlock the housing timer. If it's stopped for every major disaster in the US, you might as well not have it at all, because the country is non-stop natural disasters.

This.

The system was presumably designed around Japanese natural disasters, which (to my understanding) tend to be tied to earthquakes and volcanism which occur on irregular cycles.

NA disasters, however, are largely weather related, and on a seasonal basis. "Sending our hearts out" basically means hardlocking houses for entire seasonal periods (hurricane season tends to take up the entire autumn, and then there is West Coast wildfire season after that, as now). Climate change has made everything more intense as well, further increasing the odds that an occurrence during a particular season will be bad enough to justify a pause.

In fact, the only time it seems like housing timers are ever going to be on regularly anymore in NA is going to be in the summer (the main destructive weather during this time period is tornadoes, which as a Midwesterner I can note generally have much more limited zones of impact).

And then add in that every other summer is xpac launch season so everyone comes back and gets to reset their timer even if it's on ... So people can get houses during the .3 patch lull and that's it?

This isn't workable.

[Rinoa_353]

Just gonna go ahead and say it-no one wants a house on Dynamis because its a nobody empty dead DC that people literally only travel to to tab out at a venue, or because they literally have no other choice via congestion issues everywhere else for like some kind of static activity. Nobody wants to start in Dynamis, let alone move there, and all the people that are in Dynamis constantly DC travel to actually play the game somewhere else. You can have a house there, but if you do, no one is coming to see you and you will never have neighbors ever.

Alright, so now that we have that out of the way,
the housing demolition timer needs to be turned back on ASAP, because at this point they are now failing on two fronts.
1. People that want a house cannot have one because no houses are open = Unsub waiting for demolition to start
2. People that already have a house see no reason to bother logging in now = Unsub because demolition hasn't started
This creates a lose lose situation, and they are no longer in the position to be ok with losing money.

A good solution in my eyes would be to dissolve Dynamis completely. Take its servers, and add them to the lists of the successful DCs. This way tons of houses are now available in Aether, Crystal, and Primal, and everyone who made the mistake of playing in Dynamis now actually has people to play with, and people who actively play the game can have a house.

Breaking up Dynamis would be great and add so many much needed plots to the big three NA DC. Also force all the submarine shacks to be demolished and only allow one private and one FC plot per world too to get rid of the wards owned by one person with alts and they are just empty eye sores. Since primal is the smallest of the big three NA DC, I suggest sending Seraph, Kraken and Hali there since those are the largest worlds in Dynamis. Then create a new world so that it would be 9 worlds distributed to the big three NA DC. I would love Seraph being in Primal as my OG main is in Exodus and would be great to be in the same DC for my main alt in Seraph :3

[dspguy]

Demolition timer should either be always active or simply abolish it entirely. Or option 3: simply provide enough housing that people aren't afraid to lose their plot in the first place.

I had a hurricane knock out power in my area for weeks. Even though I got power back before my timer ran out, the last thing on my mind was "got to log back in to keep my virtual house." I was happy to keep my actual house. Sure, it would have stunk to have lost my virtual house - but in the greater scheme of things, if are you in an area where the auto-demolition timer is off because SE thinks a player might not be able to log in at all... losing your virtual house is the absolute least of your problems. And by the time you get back on your feet, you likely would still have another 3-6 months before any sense of normalcy returns.

[AvoSturmfaust]

Got a M House which i dont want, but i want my money back so i really really hope the timer will be activated soon again that i can get rid of the house after 40 days

[Kanehon]

Dynamis has plenty of houses, and DC traveling for better or worse is a thing.

Yes let me just Disband a max Rank FC, demolish an apartment, inconvenience myself by moving away from all my friends and having to DC travel to do anything with them and risk getting locked out during high congestion time or make them all travel every time we want to do anything, just so I can have a shot at a house.

[BunnyBrat]

first world problems