Getting rid of empty plots suggestion #573

[Elizabeth Gold]

For suggestion #573 we had the following idea to revamp the housing timers:

• 1 ownership or co-ownership per account.
• houses decay is increased by factor x10 (of the existing decay rate).
• If a house has one co-owner, the decay is reduced to factor x5 (of the existing decay rate).
• If a house has two or more co-owners, the decay is reduced to factor x1 (of the existing decay rate).
• Remove skill requirements for co-ownership (should they exist).
• Since people will be bitching about: I need secures!!! -> add a few more levels of expanding your secures.

 

[diminished]

1 co-ownership per an account is a terrible idea. It should decay faster if it's just a plot and if people spend gold on the plot and let it sit decay timers should speed up depending on the time between refreshes.

 

[Elizabeth Gold]

1 co-ownership per an account is a terrible idea. Everything else is alright

I see were you are steering at... problem is you can have 2 'guildmules' coowning every house in the guild. The idea is to limit the number of houses on the shard by discouraging holding on to empty plots.

 

[diminished]

I see were you are steering at... problem is you can have 2 'guildmules' coowning every house in the guild. The idea is to limit the number of houses on the shard by discouraging holding on to empty plots.

From my point of view it's dumb. I have multiple pvp characters and a butler. I don't want to have to set my butler to friend access to use it on all my chrs. Not that I don't trust the people I friend to my house but uo drama happens and people get greedy. What I suggested slightly works. You might have to make it a routine whenever you log in to refresh your houses at that point.

 

[girana]

From my point of view it's dumb. I have multiple pvp characters and a butler. I don't want to have to set my butler to friend access to use it on all my chrs. Not that I don't trust the people I friend to my house but uo drama happens and people get greedy. What I suggested slightly works. You might have to make it a routine whenever you log in to refresh your houses at that point.

fucking butler loot is worth soo much

 

[GluttonySDS]

fucking butler loot is worth soo much

5k each pot
5k each reg

this is worth more to PVPers than any l33t pixels..

 

[diminished]

5k each pot
5k each reg

this is worth more to PVPers than any l33t pixels..

This is stock for a good few weeks.

 

[GluttonySDS]

This is stock for a good few weeks.

I wish.... lasts a few days when you are stocking 828209 members:

 

[girana]

I wish.... lasts a few days when you are stocking 828209 members:

only if they die all day.

since i can throw potbags onto my bulter he is always 4.5k+ each

 

[diminished]

I wish.... lasts a few days when you are stocking 828209 members:

You have to take them off the nipple eventually....

 

[GluttonySDS]

only if they die all day.

since i can throw potbags onto my bulter he is always 4.5k+ each

The potbag change has certainly helped... except when you kill people who dont know what [organizeme is

 

[eppy]

The problem with plots decaying faster is that people will just stick one tile on it and we are back to square one.

 

[diminished]

The problem with plots decaying faster is that people will just stick one tile on it and we are back to square one.

Is there a way to make the decay rate depend on how often they refresh though if this is the case?

 

[girana]

Is there a way to make the decay rate depend on how often they refresh though if this is the case?

dosnt change anything the guys from eqms with 20+ plots just gone replace them



need a GM to check accounts of all plots

 

[MegaHz]

Decay time doesn't really affect it, those who really want to hold the plots will just script logging in to refresh the houses.

What about tieing decay rate to time played in the past two weeks? I realize that this will cause a bunch of players to afk, but it will cut down severely on people who log in for 5 seconds every 7 days and still take up plots.

If they are logged in afk, maybe they will at least look at the program running on thier computer and come play.

 

[MZ3K]

Decay time doesn't really affect it, those who really want to hold the plots will just script logging in to refresh the houses.

A lot of replies (the quoted one, for example) appeal to the fact that someone could do something to get around the fix. That's true, but it doesn't mean that *everyone* can get around them or even that could be bothered dealing with the extra pain in the ass.

The harder it is to hold empty plots, the fewer there will be.

 

[girana]

The harder it is to hold empty plots, the fewer there will be.

no ppl just replace the plot.

only thing that works add a GM that doing nothing but checking plots and BAN accounts

 

[LSDjay]

1 house per ip .
2nd house or empty plot gives you a 50% money back on when you demolish it, so when u dont demolish it u wont get affected.
3rd house gives you 75% cash back on when u demolish the plot.

It wont stop people from placing empty plots all over the place, but people wont place random 7x7
everywhere if it will cost them 45k in doing so.
That way u have to keep in mind that once u place, u better make a profit on it or sell it for the placing cost or u lose money in placing the plot...

 

[girana]

1 house per ip .
2nd house or empty plot gives you a 50% money back on when you demolish it, so when u dont demolish it u wont get affected.
3rd house gives you 75% cash back on when u demolish the plot.

It wont stop people from placing empty plots all over the place, but people wont place random 7x7
everywhere if it will cost them 45k in doing so.
That way u have to keep in mind that once u place, u better make a profit on it or sell it for the placing cost or u lose money in placing the plot...

anything "per ip" dont work because ppl using vpn tunnels for better ping.

 

[LSDjay]

then drop the money u get in return by placing and demolishing by using a house-placement tool all together by 50%.