My free company and I have been trying to get a house on Adamantoise for months after returning to the game. We periodically check the boards and rarely find a house up. When we do, there's always people swarming them. We are not picky and will literally take a small house in some alley somewhere, but it doesn't matter.
Here are some of the issues we've had.
We waited for the patch to come out that added new wards. All houses were gone by the time we got up in the morning. The patch times make it easier for certain time zones to get houses. We work so we're not staying up all night or waking up at 5 am to get a house. Even so, I heard that many people just used the new spots to instantly relocate to and put them on a timer. Really? NO ONE thought this would be a problem?
Auto-demolish is off, so even people who no longer play, have been banned (heard of a case of this), etc have a house. I understand that people impacted by COVID should get to keep their house, but demolish the rest! There is an easy way to account for this: have a check-box when people un-sub!
People will have multiple personal houses using alts.
People get houses to sell to other people.
People relocate on to plots that people will have been clicking on a placard there for 5 hours and it doesn't matter.
Housing is a broken system for those who don't already have a house. Free companies of a certain standing should be assured a house. That's it. There are too many selfish people on the server taking all the houses for themselves using alts and other work-arounds. I've seen multiple people botting at placards.
How are we supposed to get a house with all of this going on? I even looked into relocating free companies to other servers and that is somehow not a thing?
Add to this the issue of having to stand by a placard and click it over and over again for the unlikely chance you get a house over multiple bots who have all the time in the world and... yeesh.
Anyway, I am getting really annoyed with this as this has been content I've wanted to explore for a while with our free company. I even went to play another MMO after the patch because this is ridiculous.
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Here are some of the issues we've had.
We waited for the patch to come out that added new wards. All houses were gone by the time we got up in the morning. The patch times make it easier for certain time zones to get houses. We work so we're not staying up all night or waking up at 5 am to get a house. Even so, I heard that many people just used the new spots to instantly relocate to and put them on a timer. Really? NO ONE thought this would be a problem?
Auto-demolish is off, so even people who no longer play, have been banned (heard of a case of this), etc have a house. I understand that people impacted by COVID should get to keep their house, but demolish the rest! There is an easy way to account for this: have a check-box when people un-sub!
People will have multiple personal houses using alts.
People get houses to sell to other people.
People relocate on to plots that people will have been clicking on a placard there for 5 hours and it doesn't matter.
Housing is a broken system for those who don't already have a house. Free companies of a certain standing should be assured a house. That's it. There are too many selfish people on the server taking all the houses for themselves using alts and other work-arounds. I've seen multiple people botting at placards.
How are we supposed to get a house with all of this going on? I even looked into relocating free companies to other servers and that is somehow not a thing?
Add to this the issue of having to stand by a placard and click it over and over again for the unlikely chance you get a house over multiple bots who have all the time in the world and... yeesh.
Anyway, I am getting really annoyed with this as this has been content I've wanted to explore for a while with our free company. I even went to play another MMO after the patch because this is ridiculous.
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