Plots are limited and thats not going to change, so auto-demo needs to occur to clean out plots held by players that have quit/taken a long break.
Alot house owners find themselves in a position of having alot of gil and nothing else to spend it on (but more housing bits). What if there was a tax payment option before auto-demo happened. You could put gil into escro (so it only spends what you allow). Starting on the day auto demo would trigger (day 45 without entering house), it withdraws gil from the account. As long as there is enough gil to make the daily payment, demo is postponed (this also generates an additional email each day you pay demo tax). To prevent rich players from indefinitely locking up a property, the price would dramatically increase over time. Something like this:
Day 45: 100k gil
day 50: 1million gil
day 55: 5million gil
day 60: 20million gil
day 65: 100million gil
Your account would be billed each day, with the unlisted days increasing proportionally (so day 52 might be 2.5 million).
This would provide 2 benefits:
1. People would be have a bit of padding if they miss their auto-demo email. However they couldn't put off demolition indefinitely
2. It creates a serious gil sink for the economy, which would be a good thing.
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Alot house owners find themselves in a position of having alot of gil and nothing else to spend it on (but more housing bits). What if there was a tax payment option before auto-demo happened. You could put gil into escro (so it only spends what you allow). Starting on the day auto demo would trigger (day 45 without entering house), it withdraws gil from the account. As long as there is enough gil to make the daily payment, demo is postponed (this also generates an additional email each day you pay demo tax). To prevent rich players from indefinitely locking up a property, the price would dramatically increase over time. Something like this:
Day 45: 100k gil
day 50: 1million gil
day 55: 5million gil
day 60: 20million gil
day 65: 100million gil
Your account would be billed each day, with the unlisted days increasing proportionally (so day 52 might be 2.5 million).
This would provide 2 benefits:
1. People would be have a bit of padding if they miss their auto-demo email. However they couldn't put off demolition indefinitely
2. It creates a serious gil sink for the economy, which would be a good thing.
Continue reading...