Does this mean if someone doesnt finally claim their house then it will be removed from them? Hopefully freeing up some houses & such???

If a character hasnt been walked into a home in 4-5 yrs then sorry, I feel they should lose it. To me it shows that the player is only doing it to keep another from claiming a spot & that it actually may be used (gasp, shock, horror) by someone else.

It takes all of what, 10 secs to walk in then walk right back out.

So yes, please, please please.

Can it also please be looked into adding some more housing (preferably mid-high) of rural & urban around crossings & up in Zoluren? I know homes between the rivers would be appreciated & many places have been reduced down to 1 home per room where 10 yrs ago they had 3-4 or even more in each room. And no, they are not invisible as I've walked around doing home claim to see, I tried it when I was logging homes to update Elanthipedia within the past couple months.

What I've been doing lately, with my spare time, is monitoring the housing monitor system.

It is very slow. It eats up a lot of time. I've been finding 2-3 homes a day that should have been reclaimed by the system and made available but got hung up for one reason or another. (Account name changes, account names that are too long for the system, characters changing to different accounts, characters being retired.) The monitor is showing me that once I reset them, those homes get snapped up usually within a few hours. (Useful data collection for proposals for new housing.)

We've got one bit of housing in the works but it isn't in my hand to give yet so I won't say more about it.

If someone wants to have a home and not enter it for years, I don't (in theory) have a problem with that except that yes, it does tie up resources that would raise QOL for others. I'm pondering a bit of a solution for this, but it'll need to go through proposals and approvals and such, so again, not a thing I can say "Here it is" about.

But I do know this is a thing - and I would like to make it better. :)

Iocanthe
Doing stuff

I agree with Isharon.

I recently went through epedia on a project and looked at every housing area in the game that is recorded there. There are a LOT of houses still registered to players who haven't been around in forever. I was actually really surprised.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

I would say that if the players account is active, meaning consistent logging in, say once a month, then it's nobodies business whether they have visited their house or not.

I live and hunt on M'Riss and my house is in Hibarnhvidar. As long as so long as someone is an active player it shouldn't matter whether they go visit their home or not.

I know this isn't what you all are primarily talking about, and I agree with the sentiment, but don't make the rules so cut and dry that it precludes people that just don't have time to go home because of their training or RP choices.

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Rhadyn
What I'm talking about is a home thats claimed, then the character has not logged in for several months if not longer.

I also wonder why the code doesnt force your characters name onto the home when its claimed, I want to say a couple did that to me without walking my character in the door but I might be mistaken. Old age & lack of sleep are heck on the memory sometimes :)

If you claimed your home then walked in & right back on out, thats enough to mark the home with the name. I think what irritates most is folks who claim a home mostly around crossings, never enter it so it shows as claimed but not entered with no character name on it. I get RPing, I get RPing a necro who claims a home smack dab in the middle of crossings, thumbing their nose at the hounds & guards, never going into the home & not staying in the area. I dont have to agree with it though.

And I can say that when I starting looking at elanthipedias list umm in nov 2017 there were a lot more no name homes then there are now, between myself & quite a few others updating the lists, its gotten better. For me its just time consuming as I have to look at each home then compare to the lists I hand do it, some I'm told have a script for that. (shrugs)
So I dont think that issue is as all important as getting some of the homes cleaned up like Iocanthe says shes doing, I think it has more to do with Elecs response of homes that folks havent logged into in ages still retaining their homes with possibly inactive accounts.

Anyways, Iocanthe says she has some things possibly in the pipeline, she seems to be of a similar mindset as you, I'm not sweating it. :) I gave my opinion, I'm just happy its being looked into.

There's no deadline. Just, the more people walk into their houses, the more the system seems to find other locked up/broken houses.

:)

Iocanthe
Doing stuff

There's nothing for anyone to apologize for. If you've changed account names, or moved characters around on accounts, it causes some problems, but everything, so far, is fixable one way or another. The system does a pretty remarkable job of reclaiming what needs reclaiming probably 85% or more of the time!

We're dealing with a system written 20 years ago by code-whisperers who aren't around anymore, and so I'm trying to figure out the functions and not-functions while we figure out what might be the best thing to do for the future. :)

Iocanthe
Doing stuff

There have been a few homes that are looking quirky and I've manually updated them. Not sure if your friend's was one of them.

The system itself doesn't formalize home ownership until you go inside. Until then, it is in a limbo that may protect your investment to the exclusion of all else for eternity. (I'm finding at least one home a day that belongs to a character that rerolled/deleted, changed accounts, or closed accounts years ago and because they never went inside, the home doesn't recognize that it needs to reset itself.)

Iocanthe
Doing stuff

<but some of us really want nothing more than to pursue an existence of bleak sullen hermitry in the middle of the desolate wilderness.>

In my case, I would love to be a hermit on Fang Cove, but the housing there is mostly lower class, rural with two middle class and one upper class. I would love, love for some of the unused lower class rural spots to be converted to middle or upper class. I figured with it being Fang Cove that there would be more higher class housing for Estate Holders.

Sure, but with the influx of money from estate holders pouring in, they should be able to throw up some beach front properties.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.

Cool... but I want to live in fang cove. It is extremely convenient. I just don't want a hovel.

Monster Elec

You hear the distant echo of a savage Horde snarling in barbaric disapproval of your deeds.