Struggling with housing...

[Patrick Brennan]

I'm with OP on this one. I've been playing for about 2 months now and two large plots of land by my small house are completely empty and have been for over a month and half.

What's the point? They're being refreshed however they're not being used at all. I see it exploring all the time, tons of houses and custom plots just sitting there not being used and not for sale.

Also for the amount of people who play compared to how many houses are actually placed, there are definitely people with more than 2 accounts playing this game with placed houses. I don't see how anybody who's spend anytime searching around the world could even claim otherwise without being disingenuous.

 

[Ludwig]

There is plenty of room for stuff up to and around a 10x10. Expecting to place an 18x13 on a server with one facet and the largest private shard population is, frankly, kind of ridiculous. 18x13 is effing huge, dude. That being said, there are indeed way too many houses not being used here and I hope the upcoming changes are helpful. I lucked into a 15x18 for less than a million that I placed an 18x18 over.

Start IDOCing or start raising money. This is a consequence of a popular shard with scarce open land.

 

[Selenus]

There is plenty of room for stuff up to and around a 10x10. Expecting to place an 18x13 on a server with one facet and the largest private shard population is, frankly, kind of ridiculous. 18x13 is effing huge, dude. That being said, there are indeed way too many houses not being used here and I hope the upcoming changes are helpful. I lucked into a 15x18 for less than a million that I placed an 18x18 over.

Start IDOCing or start raising money. This is a consequence of a popular shard with scarce open land.

Therein lies the problem. You have a huge population here, and only one facet. A problem you did not have on live servers. This is what I was trying to get at.

So the question is, what can be done to alleviate this? Faster collapse rate? (1 week?) Owner-only refresh? I don't know.

I guess, some changes have been made, see if that helps.As Brennan rightly mentioned, anyone who spends time around the world can see a countless amount of houses that are completely empty (not even being used for storage-only), and not for sale. I know there will be different views on that, but I think that's unfair, some of us want to have fun customizing a big house down, and we can't because a server this populated has one facet only and a seemingly neverending supply of houses being constantly refreshed.

 

[TheTonyandTeds]

I have a bag full of marked runes to place houses, keeps, towers of all sizes on this shard. You haven't looked enough

 

[halygon]

Therein lies the problem. You have a huge population here, and only one facet. A problem you did not have on live servers. This is what I was trying to get at.

So the question is, what can be done to alleviate this? Faster collapse rate? (1 week?) Owner-only refresh? I don't know.

I guess, some changes have been made, see if that helps.As Brennan rightly mentioned, anyone who spends time around the world can see a countless amount of houses that are completely empty (not even being used for storage-only), and not for sale. I know there will be different views on that, but I think that's unfair, some of us want to have fun customizing a big house down, and we can't because a server this populated has one facet only and a seemingly neverending supply of houses being constantly refreshed.

Why do you feel that all players are entitled to a house? It's an accomplishment that should take time to acquire. I think we on free shards take housing for granted because up to this time in this shard, it's always been available. There are still places open but choices are getting slimmer.

On the other hand. Houses are falling every day.

 

[Patrick Brennan]

I have a bag full of marked runes to place houses, keeps, towers of all sizes on this shard. You haven't looked enough

Says the player who just joined the forum today.

There are plenty of spots for basic housing, if you're claiming to have multiple spots for large towers, you're just lying brotha.

Nobody is saying there isn't spacing available for small houses and nobody is saying they are entitled to a house.

What's being said is there is a serious problem with houses of medium to large sizes simply being refreshed and not used as well as way to many houses placed for every player to simply only be using 2 accounts and 1 house per account.

At least that's been my experience wandering around the world for hours and the opinion of almost every single player I've come across in the game over the past two months.

But hey it's a free server and at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. I just find it extremely disingenuous of anyone whose played on this server for any length of time to come into this thread and try to claim there isn't a problem with unused houses dotting the landscape and people abusing the 2 account per person rule in order to place houses. It's just extremely obvious to me and quite a few people I've talked to it about in the game.