HOUSING NEEDS TO CHANGE

[CCheshire]

So I've found out from past exp that SE emails are unreliable at best and it's much simpler and easier to write down the start of the break or the last time you 100% visited your old home on a calendar app and then count the days until the next future visit within 45 days limit to be on the safe side.

I have a small private house, and this is what I do when I try to visit it and eat one of the food deco to be sure I interacted with something inside it, and I've had it for several years now.

[Solowing]

So I've found out from past exp that SE emails are unreliable at best and it's much simpler and easier to write down the start of the break or the last time you 100% visited your old home on a calendar app and then count the days until the next future visit within 45 days limit to be on the safe side.

I have a small private house, and this is what I do when I try to visit it and eat one of the food deco to be sure I interacted with something inside it, and I've had it for several years now.

I got a easier way.

Once per subscription lapse, resub, walk into the house and you wont need to check it again, until you get hit with the message "No Active Service account"

[Shistar]

I have a simple monthly reminder, that I then forward to all my friends who have a house as well just in case. I also just check the Timers menu relatively often, but it's not very convenient. I'd love a chat notification or for it to automatically be open when I log in, like the Recommendations menu.

[LaylaTsarra]

I have a simple monthly reminder, that I then forward to all my friends who have a house as well just in case. I also just check the Timers menu relatively often, but it's not very convenient. I'd love a chat notification or for it to automatically be open when I log in, like the Recommendations menu.

Timer menu only works on the DC your character is on. If you own multiple houses on multiple DC's those notifications are not available. And I totally agree any house in danger of demolition should include an in chat warning that it's about to happen and to check your email and timer menu's.

I own houses on multiple DC's and many of my characters are in a semi vacation mode given they've geared and finished patches are simply waiting for new content to become active again. Given the length of the new patch cycles of about 4 months if you're not careful a house could become demolition eligible.

[Shistar]

Timer menu only works on the DC your character is on. If you own multiple houses on multiple DC's those notifications are not available. And I totally agree any house in danger of demolition should include an in chat warning that it's about to happen and to check your email and timer menu's.

I own houses on multiple DC's and many of my characters are in a semi vacation mode given they've geared and finished patches are simply waiting for new content to become active again. Given the length of the new patch cycles of about 4 months if you're not careful a house could become demolition eligible.

Yes, that I why I have a simple monthly reminder on my calendar. On that day, I go through all of my characters who own a house or maintain an FC house and reset all the houses in one fell swoop. Then I can forget about it for the next 30 days ^^ it's the least hassle method if you have more than one character

[Burmecia]

I'm sorry you lost your house op.
If you get into bidding for new one, best o luck to you, and patience.

[Batbrat]

I think a big glaring issue here, is that a lot of people simply do not read the rules of owning a house.
Time after time, we see people come to the forum confused and outraged, because their house that wasn't even theirs to begin with got repo'd. That's not the case here I don't think, but there needs to be more thorough reviews of the rules when people win one. I think they get too excited that they finally won and just zoop past the information menu and click Own Plot, or whatever. So let's review.

1. Being on or near your property is not enough, you must go inside your house at least one time a month.
2. If you are a tenant, you do not own the house. If the owner who is not you does not enter for a month, the house will be demolished. The only exception to this is FC's. If it is a private home and the real owner does not go in, it will be lost.
3. Check your /timers, don't rely on emails. "I'm never on my dc" and that's why you'll lose it, because you aren't even using it anyway, evidenced by you not even being on your own dc enough to be bothered to check.

It's very simple. Did you personally win that house? Ok, go inside it every week to be safe.
Every single week, go inside. Log out in it. Every time you play, before you finish, run into your house and log out-put your character to bed. Foolproof method. "Alright guys, I gotta go home now!" Don't idle in towns forever, logging in and out off the street. What sense does that even make? You own that house, be in it as often as you can. Don't confuse yourself with multiple properties. This happens a lot too. "I know I went into my house!..it was right after visiting my two apartments and shared house #3" No, you're confused. You likely went into a shared plot or apartment, and mistook that in your memory as going into your actually owned house. Don't juggle a bunch of properties to avoid making that mistake. Or if you do, just make sure again, that no matter what, you're in your actual house so often that there's no mistaking it. Make a habit of taking screenshots when you were last in your house as well, if you wander away for days at a time. If you're going to be infrequent, keep track.

As for what else they could do, the pop up menu that they use for the Eternal Bond renewal thing could also be repurposed into housing reminds as well. Also, I think that the beds we get for our houses should allow us to log out from them too-from personally owned plots only to avoid confusion over which property they're logging out from, and ensure that they're preserving their owned house keenly. I'm sure its complicated to implement, but people being able to log from their beds would not only be a tad more immersive, but would also encourage people to go the heck home for the night!!

[Shistar]

Snip for length

Truer words have never been said on this forum.
Also, catch me getting out of my bed on the wrong side, clipping to the void and dying. lmfao
Or the game suddenly deciding my main bed is the one I have glitched on my ceiling to prevent the camera from glitching!

[Burmecia]

I think a big glaring issue here, is that a lot of people simply do not read the rules of owning a house.

That would seem to be the common case in my opinion as well...
One of the worst similar cases I've seen from sideline was stupid situation involving young lady frenemies and one opportunist -- ...last of whom i would call the real badguy.

Girl1 wanted med house real bad when we were on clicking wars era of buying. Then, as you sometimes do, she made friend in Limsa who shared her aspiration for house. G1, for some reason trusted the Limsa guy with her 18mil, who bought them 20mil med. Great right, he was owner and G1 was tenant - until G2, G1's former friend cajoled the Limsa guy to kick G1 out...
Theories you make of this situation, like what the house was used for have high chance of being true.
G1 and her other friend (lets just call her G3) came to bring the news of this situation to myself and my fc co-lead, understanably upset + request to borrow the whole fc treasury (15mil, we were poor lil fc at that point of time ok ) to buy new med.

At this point we learned that G1 had small plot all along.

She got our money after being very slowly explained that she could have simply relocated, by herself, without help from some guy from Limsa she had known for 3 days max.