Questions about housing

[Isanien]

Hello!

I have a couple of questions about housing in 2.0.

If land rights can be bought/sold/traded from players, and players can own multiple houses, does this not open the possibility of small groups monopolizing housing areas and then reselling them? I guess this would be more likely to happen on 1.0 -player servers.
It could also open a window for other forms of RMT beyond cash for gil.
Will there be measures in place to prevent these?

I know housing is meant to be a long-term goal (I know I'll be putting all my gil in my piggy bank... or MOOGLEY BANK!), but it would be nice if servers didn't run into an Ultima Online-like issue where there was never any space to build.

The game is looking fantastic I can't wait to play it!

P.S: someone totally needs to photoshop a moustached lalafell on a Monopoly game picture lol

[chococo]

Which also makes me think whether available land will be limited. If it's not limited, then there's no reason for people to play the 'land developer' and try to monopolize.

[Isanien]

Which also makes me think whether available land will be limited. If it's not limited, then there's no reason for people to play the 'land developer' and try to monopolize.

I can't remember... I think it was 2 letters ago they said that they would put a limited number of spots per instance, and that they may add instances, but they never elaborated on that point I don't think.

[Niqote]

I like the idea that you can run in, buy 5 pieces of land to 'hold it' for your friends, and just sell to them at the bought price (no profit) so they can be your neighbours...

But hopefully they will have a system where you can 'reserve' a spot for say 15 minutes, so that you can all get online and try being the same instance.

[Mjollnir]

If it's anything like LotRO, as soon as an instance is full (or one 'size' of plots is sold out), a new empty one will automatically generate. I think that's the best way to go about it.

[Isanien]

If it's anything like LotRO, as soon as an instance is full (or one 'size' of plots is sold out), a new empty one will automatically generate. I think that's the best way to go about it.

Oooh I didn't know about that! That sounds sensible ^-^

[Pwnagraphic]

If it's anything like LotRO, as soon as an instance is full (or one 'size' of plots is sold out), a new empty one will automatically generate. I think that's the best way to go about it.

Didn't even know LotRO had housing. I like how that works though. Hell, I'd just be happy with having a mog house again xD

[ZakarnRosewood]

Did they say that land could be sold from player to player? I thought you could only sell it back to an NPC.

[Mjollnir]

Did they say that land could be sold from player to player? I thought you could only sell it back to an NPC.

Q2: Will you be able to buy and sell the rights to the land for housing in your bazaar?

A2: Yes. You will also be able to trade them.

/tenchars.

[Hulan]

Did they say that land could be sold from player to player? I thought you could only sell it back to an NPC.

As per Mjollnir's answer to this, I do wonder if it's going to be a seperate market style system, or if we will have a physics Deed item that we can sell and trade using the built in game functions. The latter would certainly be easier to manage for us. Hard to say without knowing more which would be easier for them.